{"id":4676,"date":"2014-11-17T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T14:21:48","slug":"bishop-lifts-up-united-methodist-doctor-who-died-of-ebola-111614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4676","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Lifts up United Methodist Doctor Who Died of Ebola (11\/16\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bishop John Schol (Greater NJ Annual Conference) recently sent the following message regarding Dr. Martin Salia.\u00a0 Dr. Salia was a United Methodist and a doctor in Sierra Leone.\u00a0 Dr. Salia contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was recently flown to the United States for treatment.\u00a0 But his disease was too far advanced for him to be healed, and Dr. Salia passed away this morning (Monday 11\/17)&#8230;<\/span><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p>Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BishopSchol2013-11-17_IMG_1077.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-288 \" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BishopSchol2013-11-17_IMG_1077-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"GNJAC Bishop John Schol speaking at PUMC on 11\/17\/13)\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BishopSchol2013-11-17_IMG_1077-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BishopSchol2013-11-17_IMG_1077-178x178.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BishopSchol2013-11-17_IMG_1077-184x184.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a>When people hurt, United Methodists help. I have been using this phrase because as a life-long United Methodist I have witnessed\u00a0it\u00a0over and over again. The full impact never fully registered for me until I heard the story of Dr. Martin Salia, a United Methodist and\u00a0the\u00a0chief medical officer and surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in one of the poorest sections of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Dr. Salia contracted Ebola and died this Monday morning after being flown to the United States for treatment at a hospital in Nebraska.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Doctor says God called him to Sierra Leone - Dr. Martin Salia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VfAKd7V_tcE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I strongly believe that God brought me here to fix whatever comes to my doorway,&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Dr. Martin Salia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When people hurt, United Methodists help.<\/p>\n<p>I invite you to pray for Dr. Salia\u2019s family and to pray for all who are serving in the\u00a0affected West African nations. These are troubling times and I am grateful for United Methodists who are serving around the world treating people with Ebola, HIV AIDS, malaria or any other disease. Jesus was a healer and Dr. Salia and other United Methodists serving in hospitals and communities have been the body of Christ to those who need Christ the most.<\/p>\n<p>The United Methodist Great Plains Conference is raising funds to help the family with travel and medical expenses.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatplainsumc.org\/newsdetail\/drsalia-489355\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click here for the Great Plains giving link<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Together let us continue to be a witness in our communities that when people hurt, United Methodists help.<\/p>\n<p>Keep the faith!<\/p>\n<p>John Schol, Bishop<br \/>\nThe United Methodist Church<br \/>\nGreater New Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop John Schol (Greater NJ Annual Conference) recently sent the following message regarding Dr. Martin Salia.\u00a0 Dr. Salia was a United Methodist and a doctor in Sierra Leone.\u00a0 Dr. Salia contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and was recently flown to the United States for treatment.\u00a0 But his disease was too far advanced for him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evrpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}