Comparing Crisis

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Taste and See (Psalm 34:8)

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Trust the process and don’t compare yourself to others. That is some of the most helpful advice Debbie received when first arriving at the TrueNorth Health Center for days of fasting. Each person comes with a different set of goals and at a different point in their health journey. Some struggle against inoperable liver cancer, breast lumps, prostate problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, or addictions to food. Others without chronic health issues focus on maximizing their daily health. All have questions and wonder about certain symptoms that pop up randomly. Each must learn to trust a process that over 25,000 people have experienced before them—many experience setbacks along the way. Debbie finishes the fasting part of her stay on Tuesday or Wednesday to begin the ten-day refeeding process—teaching her body to accept food again safely.

The experience led Debbie to reflect this week upon how the Lord interacts with His children. He has led men and women through every life experience for millennia, yet we tend to think our circumstances are unique and more difficult than others’. If we did not know better, it would seem that He must grow weary of assuring us to trust Him, trust the process, and not compare ourselves to others (2 Cor. 10:12, 17). Graciously, He is patient. (2 Peter 3:9; Psalm 103:8)

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

Verlin chose to delay the trip by a week to verify conditions for moving the brick-press. The chosen transporter, who will accompany him to advise on trucking service needs, needs to participate in family funeral rites. (Funerals are not prepaid or paid by insurance proceeds here. Families settle debts and make arrangements for possessions, heirs, and childcare in the weeks surrounding interment.) Travel has been reset for November 17. Correspondence about outreach growing pains also required hours recently. Members of a university on another continent have informally expressed interest in training so they can reform their public health approaches using Community Health Engagement within their public health system, using what we do with the UFHB and Ivorian partners as a model. While it is early to know what this means for us, it testifies that the impact of what happens in Côte d’Ivoire to address health issues physically and spiritually continues to gain international attention.

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Continue to pray for Debbie as she transitions to food next week. May the Lord give her wisdom to integrate what she has learned into daily life and to help others.
   
• 🙏 Pray that the Lord of the Harvest keeps those He helps us train to be ever-increasing numbers of laborers He sends where needed to see His will done on earth as in heaven.
  

Your partners in the Gospel,
Verlin & Debbie

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Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC) is a mission of dedicated medical professionals who participate in the CHE Global Network. Together, in a loose affiliation of individuals, churches, denominational, and nondenominational agencies, we share God's Light and Truth through Community Health Evangelism (CHE). Verlin and Debbie accept donor partners to contribute as led to provide support as we maintain residential ministry to expand CHE ministries in Cote d'Ivoire under the auspices of CHSC & Ivorian partners. Tax-deductible contributions by check are to be made payable to the CHSC with Andersons #0118 written on the memo line. Mail to CHSC - PO Box 132 - Fruitvale, TX 75127. Give online via the CHSC @ www.che4a.org (3% fee) or TDF - specifying Verlin and Debbie Anderson in the optional Memo.

 

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