Patience

Although one CHE training session was postponed this week, a second one did occur and went well. It was held to train 22 members of the Healthcare Christian Fellowship International (HCFI). The Ivorian chapter is engaged to start 200 clinics in underserved areas of Cote d’Ivoire using CHE. On our way up north to Bondoukou last week, we toured one of the HCFI clinics. What a joy to see Ivorians motivated to serve their fellow Ivorians with wholistic Christian care—and committed to multiply nationwide. It will be our privilege to assist with some of their CHE training needs in future months.
This has been a week to cultivate the fruit of patience in our lives! Almost every piece of wooden storage or furniture that needed to be brought into the house had to be repaired first. When our worker Koffi supervised the moving of our belongings, the movers did not heed his pleas to be careful. The carpenter who normally helps us has developed a gambling addiction from lottery participation and did not show up to work, so Verlin completed most of the repairs. Debbie selected the furniture to be used, its placement, and emptied 8 barrels, many boxes, our luggage from the States, and around 30 bags of linens and clothes while waiting for each piece of glued furniture to dry or set. All the linens and dishes needed to be washed. And of course, if water came on for a few hours, everyone dropped their immediate task, and raced to fill up buckets, other containers, and do ONE load of laundry while the 3000 L tank filled.
Besides helping Debbie set up house and working on two months of financial reports, Verlin blessed one Muslim with great relief by following-up on his ulcer treatment. A Christian brother was greatly helped too as Verlin taught him how to handle the effects of Bell’s palsy and stroke. What a privilege to have knowledge that can diminish physical suffering. Debbie was glad to meet and thank Jerome, a Gideon representative, whose family fed Verlin several times when she was absent.
Prayer Points:Debbie is fully recovered from a bout with malaria this week. She thanks the Lord that early treatment enabled her to only need one day of complete rest.Our Internet service is not consistent daily, although speedy when it does work. The provider is working on it. This affects our ability to get work done, including sending out this weekly update.We will be sending out a quarterly report soon. Thank you for your patience as our move overseas, health issues, and computer problems have slowed us down.
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 need 6 additional donor partners at $100 per month per our calculations as we resume residential ministry to expand and mature CHE ministries in Cote d'Ivoire under the auspices of the CHSC and Ivorian partners.

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Overflow

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Surviving or thriving in Christian ministry? So much depends on the mindset we use. If we are distraught or angry when our carefully crafted plans for the day (or year) do not come true, have we not substituted our desires for God's will? How much better to think of ministry as overflow:  Jesus blesses us to be a blessing, in the ways and places HE chooses. So, if renewing your driver's licenses takes 8 1/2 hours on two days (as it did Monday and Tuesday), encourage an Ivorian navy man to trust the Lord and pray with a government worker who seeks your time. And if getting the three vehicle papers and insurance turns into a three-day marathon to various offices across town, proclaim the Savior's kingdom values to the five Muslim men involved. Our desired check-off lists may have looked woefully small, but the lives impacted were on Jesus' agenda for the week!

Verlin was able to share this perspective with the pastor who called to cancel next week's CHE training in Abidjan. His hosting team did not have enough time to coordinate everything so quickly. He had been advised April 9th that the timeline looked very pressed, but they thought it could be done. He was relieved
that we were not upset, as Verlin explained that the delay actually blessed us. We did arrive safely to Bondoukou late Wednesday night to a house, veranda, and store room full of boxes, barrels, and broken furniture. Three days later, it is beginning to feel like home. Thank you for praying, giving, and sending us to this place to overflow the Lord's truth and blessings on people who need Him.


Prayer Points:
  • After his bout with a kidney stone last week, Verlin has had no more pain or other side effects!
  • The road from Abidjan to Bondoukou is much improved. The trip that used to take 10+ hours by public transport, 7+ hours by private vehicle, took us 5 1/4 hours this week. It felt like a dream to Debbie.
  • There are water shortages all over the eastern side of Cote d'Ivoire, including Bondoukou. Our neighborhood receives water two times a week, on Wednesday and then Saturday night through Sunday morning. People often stay up all night to collect enough to last a few days. We are extremely grateful for a 3,000 liter plastic cistern and pump that provide water to our house. Still, the laundry is piled feet high on a spare bed, since most of our linens have not been washed or used in three years. Pray that the recently dug wells will be functional soon to relieve this hardship for many people.
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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Detours

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Debbie arrived safely in Cote d'Ivoire on Sunday night with no problems. From that time on, though, this week was filled with many unexpected detours and delays, but all to God's glory and for our good.

The wire transfer for our vehicle came on Monday, so Verlin arranged to buy the truck we chose the day after. When he arrived Tuesday to close, the seller had sold the truck to another person because the boss thought we were misleading him about the money delay. Verlin met with the boss, and in the midst of negotiating for another truck of the same model, he began to have severe pain in his right side. Missionary friends took us to a hospital ER in Abidjan that
evening where Verlin was admitted and passed a kidney stone Wednesday morning. He stayed in the hospital until Thursday, at the doctor's request, to flush the kidneys with fluids and antibiotics. He tried to finalize the truck sale while in the hospital, but the meeting turned into a heated debate between our Christian legal counsel and the seller over a missing legal document. That night we thought the deal had fallen through. Instead, by Thursday noon, the parties had worked things out, and the seller threw in some bonuses for our trouble. Praise the Lord for His many blessings at the end of convoluted detours!

Prayer Points:
  • We rejoice that Verlin's kidney stone did not happen in Bondoukou, seven hours north!
  • Our Toyota Hilux truck is truly an "ooh and aah" blessing at 2/3 to 1/2 the cost at the dealer new, yet with fewer than 3,000 miles on it. It is the same model used by police, utility companies, government agencies, etc., and so parts should be readily available for years. The Lord showed us favor. It is that simple.
  • The national CHE Association meets today at Abengourou. We are missing it because of truck paperwork to finish on Monday and a doctor's follow-up visit for Verlin.
  • The last week of April, Verlin is scheduled to provide TOT1 CHE training to a group of leaders from three denominational churches, an inter-denominational NGO, and other non-affiliated Christians in the Abidjan area.
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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A Gospel ABCD 4 Cattle

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In 19th century America, western lands needed development for the advancement of democracy and abundant life.  ‘Cattle wars’ involving grazing rights, wild cattle drives, and fence cutting stemmed from social pressures that oft’ erupted into violent confrontation. The past weekend of Easter, some of the same pressures erupted in Bouna, Cote d’Ivoire. While the campus of the Free Will Baptist church and Bible Institute was remote to the violence, the leaders there have been near a solution to it mentally for some years now. Christ has been active. 

Verlin met three individuals of separate organizations using Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) this week; one charged FWB leadership to do something in Bouna to address the underpinnings of the violence. ABCD is a foundation-shaping tool used in the introduction Community Health Evangelism (CHE). It is the kind of committed citizenship organization that is a hallmark of belief in Baptist Congregational governance which transformed the U.S.: God affirms his will clearest through his united people’s ‘amen’, not the strident few, or powerful one, from among us. This has been no small part of ‘the shot heard round the world’ echoing the Gospel and calling all men to good will and peace.
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The image linked video exposes how ABCD is now being used in the U.S. I did not know at first if the organization was Christian or not, but knew from the video it lives currently the ideals that our Baptist and Christian heritage offer the world. Believers using Neighborhood Transformation in the U.S. have ABCD in their tool set to influence and win their neighbors to the discovery again that Christ and His body IS  ‘the answer’  to every serious question concerning the human condition, including the violence at Bouna.

Prayer Points:

  • The meeting of CHE trainers was displaced to this coming Saturday of April 16. Pray the sense of collaborative growth among believers in diverse meetings gets transmitted. Pray that two will be convicted of the Holy Spirit to pursue development of a moringa farming network. Besides nutrition, a corollary goal of establishing cattle trails or beef shipping exists to limit future land conflicts and violence. Forces of international mining interests, national development, and others change thousands of years of African land management and impact soil fertility too (see ECHO development notes 131, p.6).
  • Debbie arrives Sunday evening. Wire transfer problems related to banking regulations to counter terrorism and revolt conspired to slowed purchase of a new vehicle and Verlin’s phone ceased charging overnight Friday. Pray that Deb sails through customs and that the arrangements for our airport pick-up go smoothly.
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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New Ministries

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Verlin met Saturday with a third group of civic or church leaders during 40 hours
in Abidjan. This one sees God using the strategy of Community Health Evangelism (CHE) to plant churches and see a specific community transformed from trash-pit of despair to a beacon of hope. If they continue, they will either become the second or third launch of an interdenominational coalition of church and civic leaders who desire to reach a single community and let those saved and discipled select their initial and subsequent houses of worship. The first of two trainings of trainers is scheduled for April 26-30.
 
Joint ventures to plant churches have not been a common outworking of God’s Spirit here for years. It reflects the depth of discipleship CHE potentiates and a response to Islam. These assembled from their recent attendance at the Million Village Challenge (see No Regrets or Trials and Triumphs). A few others were trainers who have not found ready and willing church partners after being trained in church or university settings between 2012 and 2015. Other cooperative efforts are taking form in the north. All came to be because historic Free Will Baptist governance provides for cooperative yet autonomous local churches. This, in turn, permits the creation of flexible, yet fervent and faithful affiliations of God’s people who bind together to accomplish a vision in given local areas. Then they freely turn their communal focus elsewhere without fearing judgment beyond that of their local assembly, or perhaps continue in the addition of common ties with other ventures. Others can and do use the idea. Very Jeffersonian (1 of 50 selected Core U.S. docs). Very FWB (see pp.37-38).
 
Similarly, other ventures spring up that need tending. The two other meetings of Friday were University led groups: one department and one student union. Thursday one FWB church and a group of other Northern Baptists began coordinating their calendars with us for a training.
 
Thank you for faithfully praying and giving to plant hope in Christ. Deb travels through Brussels next week to arrive April 10; Verlin will join the semi-annual reunion of CHE trainers before picking her up the next day.
 
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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