Ezra Wimberly, lead pastor of creative arts at Grace Church, Bath Campus, a Grace Brethren church in Akron, Ohio (Jeff Bogue, senior pastor), was interviewed on Fox and Friends this morning regarding the Ebola scare in Akron, Ohio. He is the father of two children who attend the elementary school which was shut down this week after the mother of a student came in contact with a nurse infected with the virus. A portion of the story appears below. Click here to read the complete article or watch the news clip below.
Ezra Wimberly, who has two children attending the school, said on “Fox and Friends” this morning that he’s happy that officials are exercising an abundance of caution.
He was asked whether he felt anger toward Vinson, as some other parents have expressed.
“We’re a family of faith. When we got the news, yeah, we were scared, we were surprised. The emotion of fear was there, but we don’t let our lives be driven by fear,” he said, adding that his fifth-grader and kindergartner have handled the news well.