Transitions

We serve with the Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC).
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or see http://www.verlindeb.org/Links/links.htm

You can give online here to our CHSC ministry, or provide
Designated Giving via the TDF or The Global Foundation

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We’re glad January is behind us. It's been a month of transitions as we've shifted missions. Nursing license renewal and updating Verlin’s knowledge took more than 70 hours, not counting some time dedicated to exploring some Nashville volunteer opportunities to sharpen the RN skill set. We visited some local FWB conferences, figured out a new way to keep our ordination status in good standing, and called to get some other state and association meeting schedules.  We await a second car coming free while getting materials and presentations together before we begin wide ranging travels.

In the meantime, we finally finished signing-up for health insurance in TN via healthcare.gov January 30. It’s about time! Corbin appears to have detached his ACL during the month (it’s a good thing Verlin was not on the road and was able to refresh some sports care nursing ). The insurance process took an entire day speaking with local insurance agents, a couple more getting agency and legal and community and tax advice, and another of 4 online attempts. In the end, the Blue Cross / Blue Shield policy selected will serve all of us well. We selected a plan of premiums that are less than half of what was formerly paid, even if there is no tax subsidy provided - a real risk as our eventual income for 2014 remains uncertain right now. Should we successfully budget our living and ministry expenses and income to retain the entire subsidy, the premium will be $1,344 FOR THE YEAR ! That budget concern depends on support continuing via the Christian Health Service Corps and successfully returning quickly to our need of $8000 monthly support and a $25,000 cash balance. For the time being, we live off some ‘rainy day’ savings in order to build the account and hasten our return.

By the way, you may be able to double your giving. Many employers now match any gift given directly to our ministry. The Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC) donor page was updated this month to share possibilities (http://www.healthservicecorps.org/moto/#./page-47) .

In the meantime, we stay busy this month . . .
• completing formal and informal visits with local supporters in the Nashville area;
• recovering lost computer files for access and preparing presentations;
• arranging corrections to a last will & testament for three kids older than 18 years;
• prepping finances for Corbin’s coming college studies;
• renewing Basic Life Support & Advanced Cardiac Life Support certifications (Verlin);
• setting up personal accountability network(s) for weekly check-in(s);
• developing Deb’s teaching credentials;
• formatting new communication tools for newsletters, web reports, and scheduling;
• keeping touch with ministry partners on the ground in Cote d’Ivoire via Skype;
• trying to connect people wanting to do Community Health Evangelism with others there while we’re here as the new SEC Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast CHE) national committee forms.
Any travel out of Nashville will most likely happen by bus ‘til transport options improve.

Pray for several Community Health Evangelism/ Education/Engagement developments. Our next update reviews 2013, and will show our January CHSC financial position. Thereafter, we’ll share developments in both Cote d’Ivoire and here. There are stories of provision being made for our return to live among and walk with the poor, finding solutions that breed long-lasting solutions. We’re about modeling dependency upon God.

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