The 4 Pillars

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It is very inspiring and comforting to know that we are not alone as we serve the Lord. In addition to the Holy Spirit living within us, we belong to a Body at work that God has formed around the world, and we can learn and draw strength from one another. This week’s five minute or less video was produced by the Global CHE Network. It briefly explains how thousands of CHE (Community Health Evangelism) trainers around the world in more than 116 countries share the gospel in a wholistic way. Indeed, we are not alone!

 Prayer and Praise

  • Verlin leaves for Africa next Friday, March 4, at 1:30 pm. Ask the Lord for strength to finish several projects, and hopefully still get some sleep! Saying goodbye to family for two to four years is never easy, no matter how many times you do it. This will be our first experience to leave behind a grandchild.
  • Verlin’s mother, Elsie Anderson, has come to stay with us through next week. She manages our donor database and mails our quarterly updates from back home in Michigan. Here she works tirelessly all day long helping in many ways. What a blessing that at age 80, she can still travel independently, and can truly work circles around some people 60 years younger!
  • Ask for continued opportunities to witness to people in the daily busyness of life, here and as we travel. The Lord often has some wonderful “divine appointments” on airplane flights.

Your partners in the gospel,

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). Verlin and Debbie accept donor partners to contribute as led to maintain support as we resume residential ministry to expand CHE ministries in Cote d'Ivoire under the auspices of the 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 (0% fee).

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Last video: Flowering Life - Anderson WEEKLY 160130 
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Precious Word

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Do you ever thank the Lord for the wonderful privilege of being able to pick up the entire Bible and read any portion of it in your own language? How blessed we are! According to the Wycliffe Bible Translators’ site, the full Bible is available in 554 languages. That means that there are still 1,800 translations needed, in addition to the more than 2,267 active projects going on right now around the world.

We were so pleased this week to Skype with a friend from Wycliffe serving in Cote d’Ivoire. Laurel was in our home town of Bondoukou getting ready for a meeting with church leaders from many denominations. SIL (Wycliffe) is moving forward with their plan to translate the Bible into Koulango, the native language of many of our Ivorian friends. Her role is to unite believers to support the project through prayer, funds, and translation efforts. Finding Koulangos to champion the project who agree to work cooperatively will significantly speed the process. She was pleased with this initial meeting. We rejoice to think of the lives that will be touched by having God’s Word in their heart language. Learn more about worldwide translation efforts at https://www.wycliffe.org.uk/wycliffe/about/vision-whatwedo.html.

Prayer and Praise


  • Pray for the many Bible translation works occurring worldwide, especially the Koulango project that will soon be under way.
  • The update of our will and trust is almost complete. We devoted many hours to that process in the past 10 days, and we appreciate the law office that has expedited the process since Verlin is leaving soon.
  • Continue asking the Lord to prepare the way for Verlin to find the vehicle suited to our ministry needs. One Ivorian car mechanic is checking out options even now.

Your partners in the gospel,

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). Verlin and Debbie accept donor partners to contribute as led to maintain support as we resume residential ministry to expand CHE ministries in Cote d'Ivoire under the auspices of the 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 (0% fee).

Last Written: Onward and Upward - Anderson WEEKLY 160213
Last video: Flowering Life - Anderson WEEKLY 160130
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Onward and Upward

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Verlin's flight from Nashville is only 20 days away! He is landing in Burkina Faso first, instead of Cote d'Ivoire, because of a Global CHE Network initiative. Ivorian Community Health Evangelism (CHE) trainers will also travel north to participate in the three-day seminar. It is a great blessing to partner with other Christians worldwide who plan and pray to reach one million villages with the gospel by using CHE strategies.

When the meetings finish in Burkina Faso, Verlin will travel by bus south to Cote d'Ivoire, drop off luggage at our house in Bondoukou, and continue on public transport to Abidjan. There he will apply for residency papers and look at vehicle purchase options. He hopes to find one before Debbie arrives on April 10.
 
Another very important CHE event is under way right now in Kotokor, Ghana.
Every year, under the leadership of Medical Ambassadors International and CHE Africa, a six-week-long CHE internship is offered. The CHE trainer president of the Ivorian Association of CHE, with whom we regularly partner, is attending. Participants' lives are radically affected by what they experience during the internship, as they learn in class, have practicums, and visits sites where CHE is flourishing. Two men we sent in 2013 returned with very effective outreach methods and a contagious zeal that has not waned. We are sorry not to be able to participate and serve during this session, but may have opportunity to do so in upcoming years.
 
Prayer and Praise
 
  • Burkina Faso is the West African nation where jihadists recently bombed a tourist hangout, killing 31 people (including missionaries), and injuring many others. Pray for peace in Christ to sweep over West African lands and eliminate such incidents.
  • M., a sociologist whom we trained in CHE a few years ago and who works as a national development planner, is teaching CHE to a group of missionaries this week. Pray for fruitful training.
  • We are SO grateful for friends who go "above and beyond" in helping us get ready to leave. Ladies in Michigan are checking for some household needs, and others are sewing and knitting items for kits used in the Women's Cycle of Life training. Church friends have agreed to assist our children with legal issues, should we die. A kind automobile shop owner provided hours of labor and a starter free to us while repairing the van we will leave for Corbin. Thank you, Lord!
Your partners in the gospel,
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). Verlin and Debbie accept donor partners to contribute as led to maintain support as we resume residential ministry to expand CHE ministries in Cote d'Ivoire under the auspices of the 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 (0% fee).

Last Written: Breathe Deeply - Anderson WEEKLY 160213
Last video: Flowering Life - Anderson WEEKLY 160130
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Breathe Deeply

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 Do you ever wonder what missionaries have to do as they get ready to leave the States? Here is a small sample from our house:
  • Complete physicals before leaving your doctors for 2 to 4 years. Endure all the extra tests given to 50+ year olds, especially if you will live seven hours from a fully-equipped hospital. Check.
  • Update immunizations. Check.
  • Renew passports. Apply for 3 different visas from 3 different embassies in Washington D.C. because they are cheaper from here and may be granted for longer periods. Verlin, Check; Debbie, Semi-Check.
  • Sign paperwork that releases your mission from responsibility if you are kidnapped or killed. Apply for medical evacuation insurance. Check.
  • Update your will/family trust to ease the path for your children should you die.
  • Prepare your first reimbursement sheet and verify with mission staff that it is correct. Check.
  • Get major repairs done on the old vehicle you will leave for your son in college. Semi-Check.
  • Purchase supplies you want to take. Some items on the list are not available there, like certain prescriptions, Pepto-Bismol, multi-vitamins, Mrs. Dash, and CPAP machine supplies. Other items are too costly, like contact lens multi-purpose solution: Walmart = $3; Cote d’Ivoire = $22.
  • Instruct and prepare the people who will handle your mail, investments, banking, supporter database, newsletters, and property while you are gone. Semi-Check.
  • Ask Ivorians to get your rented house cleaned; arrange for someone to pick you up at the airport; reserve a room at a mission guest house; have people look for a vehicle to buy. Semi-Check.
  • Finish taxes so that the paperwork won’t eat up your luggage space.
  • Spend as much time with family and friends as you can possibly cram in.
  • Breathe deeply and trust the Lord to arrange your circumstances.
 
Thanks for praying this week for the items left on our list, and for grace to handle all the unexpected emergencies that always pop up.
 
Your partners in the gospel,
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). Verlin and Debbie accept donor partners to contribute as led to maintain support as we resume residential ministry to expand CHE ministries in Cote d'Ivoire under the auspices of the 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 (0% fee).

Last Written: Ongoing Gift - Anderson WEEKLY 160123
Last video: Flowering Life - Anderson WEEKLY 160130
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