Ebola Prevention

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Community Health Evangelism (CHE) teams are staying active in Cote d’Ivoire. One of their recent coordinated outreaches was to provide training on how to prevent Ebola. Some Free Will Baptist, Christian Missionary Alliance, and Christian Church congregations now participate in spreading the news. Ladies also became involved in the Women’s Cycle of Life training to bring better quality of life for women, whose needs are often ignored.

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On consecutive Fridays, Verlin spoke with others who bring short-term teams to expand the good work of CHE programs. Heartbeat for Africa is sending a medical team to equip and participate with Ivorians doing school health screenings. They will also do work in Ghana, and could still use some medical personnel. The director of the ReSCOF which serves in France, Africa, and Asia, connected with Verlin through Skype so they could catch-up with one another concerning the development of the Ivorian Association of CHE.

While we are thrilled to know of all this work going on, it makes us hungry to get back! Other groups from our area of ministry anticipate our return to expand the trainings being done.

Thank you for the wonderful, encouraging reception in Michigan the past three weeks! Our travels will take us south during April. God willing, we will return to Michigan in May.

Blessed to call you partners and friends,
Verlin and Debbie Anderson

The 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). Unless rescinded, the network includes FWBIM. See Wholistic Missions for timely and timeless missional topics to be addressed at the next interagency conference in the U.S. If you attend, you may find that God has ways that you can do similar good works contextualized for the U.S.

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Family Blessings

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Spring has not completely “sprung” yet here in Michigan! Nevertheless, we are enjoying speaking in churches for three weekends, visiting individuals during the week, and spending time with Verlin’s family. The Lord is moving in hearts to partner with us, and we are thankful.

We would appreciate your prayers for . . .

• The adoption process to proceed smoothly. Cason (our older son) and his wife Suzanne will hopefully have this precious two-year-old permanently living with them by the end of April. Barring any problem, she will officially be an Anderson 6 months later. Hurrah for “grandparenthood!”
• Cara to continually mature in her walk with Christ and place of ministry.

  

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  She stays extremely busy serving the Lord as a nurse and through her church in Middle Tennessee.
• Corbin, our youngest, regularly requests prayer for stamina, to understand the material, to make quiet time with the Lord a priority, and for enough job hours to meet his financial needs. He is doing well this first year in engineering at Union University.              
• Discernment to equip Corbin for our return to Cote d’Ivoire in hopefully just a few months. Leaving our children for a 4-year term is difficult, but the first time is especially painful. Thankfully, our children love the Lord, live close to one another, and have godly grandparents and church family who provide stability and influence.
• The Holy Spirit to motivate and empower His people to whom we minister, that they will share Christ as Lord and see their families saved, as well as those of their friends and neighbors. May the encouragement of how God works through Community Health Evangelism overseas encourage faithfulness here. Four Michigan churches have asked that we pray for the Lord to provide pastors.

Despite days of travel, we REJOICE to invite people as partners in gathering the very ripe harvest in West Africa. “. . .let us not be weary in well doing:  for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” (Gal. 6:9) 
Thank you for pressing on with us.

Co-workers in the harvest,
Verlin and Debbie Anderson 

The 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).  Unless rescinded, the network includes FWBIM.  See http://wholisticmissions.com/workshops.php for timely and timeless missional topics to be addressed at the next inter-agency conference in the U.S.  If you attend, you may find that God has ways that you can do similar good works contextualized for the U.S.

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Guilty Verdict

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We rarely mention Ivorian politics, but some recent news should spur us on to continually pray for lasting peace in Cote d’Ivoire.

This week the former First Lady of Cote d’Ivoire, Simone Gbagbo, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for“undermining state security” during post-election violence.  Her husband, Laurent Gbagbo, still awaits the completion of his trial in The Hague in Europe. This decision to single out Mrs. Gbagbo for punishment does not bode well for future peace. Many people remember the rapes, beatings, burnings, and blocked voting sites perpetrated by the other side that prevented them from expressing their democratic right to vote. One Christian lawyer friend in Abidjan that we know watched her husband murdered before her own eyes (their children were also present) by those who forcibly brought the current president into power. Atrocities were committed by both sides over the years, as BBC news reported, and power struggles are on-going.

All of this hinders the spread of the gospel, thwarts the progress of the country, and motivates future retaliation. Only people submissive to the lordship of Christ can bring true reconciliation and peace to any situation.

It was a pleasure to see friends at the Wolverine District meeting today here in Michigan, and to continue in the area for the next ten days in meetings and services.

Co-laboring with you in His Kingdom,
Verlin and Debbie Anderson

The 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).  Unless rescinded, the network includes FWBIM.  See http://wholisticmissions.com/workshops.php for timely and timeless missional topics to be addressed at the next inter-agency conference in the U.S.  If you attend, you may find that God has ways that you can do similar good works contextualized for the U.S.

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Latrine Evangelism

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Now and then, we want to tell you about the wonderful Ivorians that we have the privilege of working with in Community Health Evangelism/Education/Engagement (CHE).  One pastor who came to a 35-hour CHE training session in Bondoukou, a Training of Trainers 1 (TOT 1), was seeking a way for his small village church to penetrate unevangelized villages around them. For the previous few decades, his church had run between 15 and 30 people.

About a year later he sat at our table eating supper, his young face glowing, and shared some results from putting into practice what he learned during the TOT 1. He and a few members of his church had been able to make inroads in two nearby villages. Their initial plan was helping them learn to build latrines. The villagers were touched by their acts of service. One village already had a small group of believers meeting, and the second was receiving his church’s input in ways he had not imagined. They were witnessing to the village chief, a witch doctor who had been sick for a long time. They were planning to go work in the his fields, since he was so ill, and continue to increasingly share the gospel while demonstrating new techniques to increase corn production. At the pastor's church, the congregation had grown to regularly have between 70 and 90 people. Verlin visited and over 100 came with some standing outside the doors and windows to hear the messages of hope. Praise the Lord, like so many other leaders elsewhere, this pastor gained concrete ways to renew growth and ministry through Community Health Evangelism .

After speaking in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee this upcoming week, we will drive to Michigan for meetings. Thank you for praying with us for safe travels and Spirit-directed services. We look forward to getting back to share what's happened in that village, to either fan the flame or stir-up the embers.

Gratefully in mutual service,
Verlin and Debbie

The Christian Health Service Corps is a mission of dedicated medical professionals that participates 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). Unless rescinded, the network includes FWBIM. See http://wholisticmissions.com/workshops.php for timely and timeless missional topics to be addressed at the next interagency conference in the U.S. If you attend, you may find that God has ways that you can do similar good works contextualized for the U.S.

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A CHSC ministry: Financial Support Link
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If you want to help, write us: updates@verlindeb.org