Heather Bellamy spoke with Dr Kent and Amber Brantly about their time in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak.

This last year and a half has been a unique time in our lives. We've gone from living in Liberia and serving people with a great need, to meeting with the President of the United States and testifying to the United States Congress. We've also written a book, sharing our life story with people all over the world. Those are all things we never anticipated when we picked up our little family and moved to Liberia to serve in a life of quiet, anonymous service.

Heather: What was it like meeting the President?

Kent: It was an incredible honour to meet with President Obama and to sit down with him in the Oval office and express to him this sense of urgency for the international response. This was back in September of 2014. It was an incredible honour and not one I ever anticipated when I chose to go to medical school and became a medical missionary.

Heather: What has the response to your book been?

Kent: We continue to be dumbfounded by the responses from people, who share with us how much our story has impacted their lives. How God has worked in their lives through the hearing of our story, or the challenge that they hear, when they read about God's call on our lives. That's really why we wrote the book, to share our story so that God might use it to impact people's lives and encourage and challenge people. We're seeing that lived out in unexpected ways and unexpected places.

Heather: Finally what are your hopes for the future?

Kent: In some ways we would very much like to return to our quiet, anonymous life of service in some out of the way place. But I think our hope for the future is that we will be faithful with the opportunities that God places in front of us. And our hope for the future is that the people of West Africa would show great resilience as they recover from this tragedy that has gone on for more than two years. Ultimately our hope is that the world would come to know a loving God whose love is so great that nothing can separate us from it.