Some weeks are such a muddle of activities that it is hard to center on one or two thoughts. So this time, we simply ‘bullet point’ a few events.
- What we thought would be a week-long Community Health Evangelism (CHE) training in Abidjan morphed into a one-day session that focused on Discovery Bible Group training. The death of a faithful church member and Easter travels led us as a group to decide to seek a later date when all who wanted to participate could attend.
The change of schedule allowed us to invest time in the CHE university ministry. This proved helpful on several fronts. We rejoiced to see Deborah Kouadio’s growing bio-agricultural project.
In just over three years, while adding to her prior knowledge, she has developed a garden, a fish pond, and profitably raises chickens, ducks, turkeys, and guinea fowl to demonstrate CHE techniques. Her energy described in Proverbs 31 is boundless as she supervises 5 workers there.- We arrived to our home-office late Wednesday, after three weeks away, to see the sad reality that our Rottweiler/Boerboel puppy had died. Believing himself helpful, a local “vet” gave her twice the dosages needed of several medications that her body could not handle.
- Friday night was the first of what we and others here plan to be many joint gatherings of local evangelical churches to pray that Bondoukou be saved. (See Verlin’s FB for more).
- Dr. Terry Dwelle sent us documents to begin integrating Community Health Engagement into the university curriculum via a remote training system. We are so grateful for this man’s many hours of work, expertise, and willingness to develop material for this endeavor and its use in the U.S. and elsewhere. We anticipate through prayer that the university will become a model approach so that other West African national training institutions can copy it in coming years.
Prayer & Praise:
- Pray for the family of local pastor Daniel Manzan. His mother died on Wednesday.
- The yearly FWB pastors’ retreat will take place next week. Ask for a time of learning and refreshment for the approximately 40 pastors enrolled.
- Pray for an upcoming CHE TOT1 training further north April 15-20. Verlin will spend much of next week confirming and completing the organizing of it.
- We will begin training a second local church in leading Discovery Bible Studies this Sunday. Ask for insight in how to set up the sessions for this particular group.
Your partners in the Gospel,
Verlin and Debbie
Verlin and Debbie
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 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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