Ministry Update from 3/1/07

Dear Friends and Ministry Partners,

The past month has been dizzy with activity; the next few weeks hold a
similar promise. We need continued strength and wisdom for upcoming
endeavors, so thank you for praying with us.

1. Verlin and Cason traveled to Abidjan February 15 to welcome Brian
Ellison and Victor Albright from Nashville. You see the fruit their labor through Impulse DVDs available at International Missions. It was time for Impulse to come to Cote d’Ivoire, so be sure to get your copies in months to come!

Verlin showed Brian and Victor FWB ministries in northern Cote d’Ivoire for 8 days, and then they spent their last 6 days with the Pinkertons in Abidjan. Thank the Lord for safe travel, good health, and good footage.
We appreciate their work, especially how they create visual stories that enable us all to pray more clearly for FWB ministries around the world.

2. The Trainer of Trainers II seminar is scheduled March 6-15 for our
Goumere CHE training team. We are delighted that Daniel Kpowbie is coming from Togo to help us. He is a LifeWind International trainer (the new name of Medical Ambassadors International) who has been involved in successful CHE ministry in Togo, as well as helped train workers all around West Africa. It will be a huge blessing to have a French-speaking African who has seen Community Health Evangelism at all phases to encourage our team, and help train them. We look forward to exciting, although intensive, meetings together.

3. Cote d’Ivoire FWB missionaries and Clint Morgan, our Regional Director,
meet with leaders of the Ivorian Church on Saturday morning, March 3. Our African brothers and sisters face huge challenges, and some crucial issues will be addressed that day. We cannot emphasize enough how everyone present will need the guidance and illumination only the Lord can give.

4. Following that meeting, the national pastor’s retreat will convene to
continue through March 6. Ask the Lord to refresh our pastors and give
them tools for ministry.

5. Cara and Debbie had their fourth English/Bible class with teen girls
this week. There are 7 girls participating. Mai, the recently saved teen from a Muslim family, has attended twice. Although her mother still refuses to let her go to church, she has come to the class at our home.
We praise God for this, but we are concerned that she did not attend this week, after coming last week and giving her testimony on video. Pray for special strength as she faces daily opposition. Last week her Bible was taken from her room. She found it and took it back. This kind of pressure is continual.

6. The 40-member Hanna Project, Save a Life II team ate lunch with us on
Tuesday, February 13, and Wednesday, February 21, going to and from Doropo. Thank God with us for the many people touched spiritually and physically by their love shown in Jesus’ name.

In summary, would you please note the following dates and intercede for all these needs?

-March 3: Meeting with African leadership and missionaries -March 3-6: National pastor’s retreat -March 6-14: CHE training seminar in Goumere with guest trainer from Togo, Daniel -Wednesdays, 3:00 pm: Cara and Debbie’s weekly English/Bible class -Mai and the struggle with her Muslim family

Thank you for your part in sharing the gospel here. Knowing we have ministry partners like you is a constant encouragement to us!

May Jesus alone receive the glory in all these things,
Verlin, Debbie, Cason, Cara, and Corbin Anderson