Ebola Survivor on DTS Campus This Week

The Writebols were on the DTS campus this week, speaking in chapel and telling about their experience with Ebola. Nancy, who contracted the virus in Liberia and was taken to Emory for treatment, was among the group of Ebola fighters named TIME magazine's Person of the Year. Her husband, David, told of how he had to break the news to her that Dr. Kent Brantly had Ebola—and that she did, too. She challenged those in attendance to memorize Scripture, because we never know when we will be unable to access it. She told of how Ebola affected her vision, making it difficult if not impossible, for her to read. Being in isolation meant lying alone at night, crying out to God and wondering if she would survive. She was unable even to hold the hand of her husband. In those moments, she said, the words of Scripture she had memorized ministered to her—phrases such as "even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, You are with me...."