To Go or Not? Missionaries Avoiding Ebola-Stricken Areas

The Ebola crisis is causing Christian groups to reconsider missions work in West Africa.

Real Impact Missions usually brings 400 high school students on short-term trips to the region, but its director said they'll probably go to India this year.
    
Youth Vision International has told its leaders not to hold meetings in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.

Tulsa-based Blessings International, which sends medical supplies to missionaries, also said they are seeing fewer people travel to the region this year. The group is in contact with a pastor in Sierra Leone who has lost five church members to Ebola.

So how should churches and missions group evaluate the risks of sending workers to a potentially dangerous situation?

William Vanderbloemen, president of the Vanderbloeven Search Group and former pastor and a consultant to several megachurches, answered this question and more on CBN News.