Dream Destinations

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Tuesday we visited missionary friends who live near us. Daniel and Françoise Dossmann served the Lord in Abidjan with Reach Beyond/HCJB before the

Ivorian political crisis caused them to return home to France. They eventually settled in Tennessee, close to their son and his family. Daniel, an exceptional classical guitarist, took time to give Cason and other MK boys lessons before the conflict scattered us. For years their son Oliver dreamed, planned, and brought to fruition the development of a beautiful retreat center. It was built with missionaries in mind, but is available to others. Living up to its name, EdenRidge is tucked in a remote and peaceful setting of Middle Tennessee with gorgeous accommodations. If you know someone who needs a spiritual or physical retreat, have them look at this dream destination.

Similarly, the Shalom Retreat Center at BailiTeal Farm (headquarters for our mission, Christian Health Service Corps) also offers a wonderful retreat option in northeastern Texas. They host many groups throughout the year. These retreats assist with administrative costs for the mission. Guest staying there help keep each CHSC missionary’s monthly admin fees lower than average. Not only would you receive an extremely warm welcome in a beautiful setting, but you would also help touch the unreached and underserved peoples of the world.

Verlin returns to Cote d’Ivoire on Monday—our current dream destination because it is the Lord’s place for us to serve! He has meetings in Abidjan for a few days and then will head west, instead of home, to further work on details for the Million Village Challenge conference coming in November. There are several Community Health Evangelism (CHE) workers in that region to encourage and mentor, as well.

Prayer & Praise:

• Pray for our missionary friend, Daniel Dossmann. He is battling melanoma, and was referred to Vanderbilt this week to see another oncologist.
• Ask for Verlin to have a good trip back to Cote d’Ivoire on Monday, and safe travels as he meets people in Abidjan and elsewhere immediately.
• Pray for the family and friends of veteran FWB missionaries Archie and Sarah Mayhew. Sarah joined her husband in heaven this week—our ultimate and real dream destination! This couple’s faithful work still impacts our part of Cote d’Ivoire today, decades later, and we have learned much from their example.

Your partners in the Gospel,
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).

Prior: Quests 180519.PDF
Last Video: Backwards Bicycle Link(s)
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2017 Q4 Report: All "Fixed" up
          -  Anderson Report 180127 PDF

2018 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2018-Budget.pdf

GIVE ONLINE to support these ministries: www.che4a.org

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Quests

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This has been quite a month of quests in ministry and in the lives of people we love. Today is graduation day at Union University. Today, Corbin, our youngest child, will walk the stage as an upcoming summer graduate. After one final class in June and July, he will complete the quest for a degree in engineering! We are very proud of his perseverance through hard times that led him to this place, especially as he worked most of the time, as well. Our niece, Lydia, marries today in quest of living an exemplary marriage. Chelsea, our granddaughter, graduates from Mama Lere Hearing School at Vanderbilt on Wednesday. Next is the quest to mainstream her into a regular kindergarten class in the fall. Happy days!

Verlin pursued important contacts made at the International Wholistic Missions Conference (IWMC). One contact has potential in the quest to get a university degree based upon CHE principles operational at the university in Abidjan in combination with a distance learning program. Other coordination related to the Million Village Challenge (MVC) that the Ivorian CHE network will host in November this year. Several new people have committed to come to the conference which purposes to bring Abundant Life to the unengaged, unreached people groups in our country. On Friday, we learned that the Disciple Making Movement (DMM) - trained layman who teaches neighborhood children outdoors in Bondoukou had 60 young ones in attendance on Saturday! He is now on a quest to find another adult to train and help him. He also said that the neighborhood adult Discovery Studies are growing.

As we train Ivorians to lead Bible studies in their homes in the spiritual component of Community Health Evangelism (CHE), we have been thrilled in our short time in the States to learn of American churches on a quest to get members actively involved similarly in studying and applying God’s Word. A worldwide problem that churches must address is the lack of believers who know they personally hear from the Lord through Scripture study, prayer, and mutual accountability. You, as ministry partners, play a critical role in helping provide solutions and training to resolve this crisis in Cote d’Ivoire. We are so grateful!

Prayer & Praise:

• Pray for Corbin as he finishes his degree this summer and seeks work.
• Ask for a willing and capable assistant for the children’s Bible class.
• Pray for an Ivorian pastor who is on a quest to help his wife recover from serious health issues that she has suffered since having a miscarriage several years ago. Ask for wisdom to help them find the source of the problem, and a solution.

Your partners in the Gospel,
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).

Prior: Mundane 180512.PDF
Last Video: Backwards Bicycle Link(s)
                         - Backwards Bike PDF
2017 Q4 Report: All "Fixed" up
          -  Anderson Report 180127 PDF

2018 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2018-Budget.pdf

GIVE ONLINE to support these ministries: www.che4a.org

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Mundane

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At times it is hard to decide how personal to get in these updates. We want you, as ministry and prayer partners, to know our challenges and victories in ministry, and to perhaps grow in understanding the challenges that confront those doing long-term international work. Do we mention this particular trial, or would that be whining? Can we share a specific person’s spiritual journey, or will it abuse privacy or lead them into temptation? And then there is the stark reality that much of our life is not exciting, but totally mundane. Get the Internet going, work hours through red tape for residency papers, bleach the vegetables, find a natural mosquito repellent that really works, and so on. Bright spots of answered prayer and significant advancement in the Kingdom punctuate the long stretches of pressing on through daily routines.

We arrived home in Cookeville to a water leak, two vehicles to upkeep for safe travel, a fallen tree to be removed, and a few drip strips ripped from our home’s roof in stormy weather. Both vehicles are in the shop as we write, but the water is running again, and we progress on the other tasks. In the midst of mundane activities that pile up because we are in the States infrequently, the Lord continues to open doors and bless. Verlin had a personal and in depth spiritual conversation with an auto technician. Another shop’s owner repaired an exhaust problem for free saying it was the least he could do to help others who assist others. Debbie learned from her surgeon of a cost-saving option for medical care in the future, should our insurance change. “Mundane” life truly is the hallowed ground that our Father orchestrates to connect people and accomplish His will through us all.

Prayer & Praise:

• Pray for the technician at the car repair shop who heard the Gospel clearly.
• Pray for people in certain areas of Abidjan where serious flooding occurred.
• Ask for resolutions to needed repairs before Verlin returns to Africa on May 28.
• Pray that we, and you, never lose sight of the Lord at work through the mundane.

Your partners in the Gospel,
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).

Prior: Away with UUPGs! 180505.PDF
Last Video: Backwards Bicycle Link(s)
                         - Backwards Bike PDF
2017 Q4 Report: All "Fixed" up
          -  Anderson Report 180127 PDF

2018 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2018-Budget.pdf

GIVE ONLINE to support these ministries: www.che4a.org

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Away with UUPGs!

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Any ethnic or ethnolinguistic nation without enough Christians to evangelize the rest of that group is an unreached people group (UPG). If no group of disciples of Jesus-Christ has committed to sharing the hope of Christ with that group, they are considered an unengaged UPG (UUPG). By evaluating the UUPG list and the multidimensional poverty index, we understand that 95% of these UUPG, some 1.3 billion souls of today’s world, live in villages about the world. A strategy that brings the saving message of Christ to the poor can change this situation.

Terry Dalrymple, leader of the Global CHE Network service team, reported to attending members Friday that The Community Heath Evangelism (CHE) Movement now spontaneously multiplies ministries from village to village, and country to country, while making disciples and lifting communities out of cycles of poverty and disease. Tens of thousands of villages are estimated to be reaching millions of households, but the networks’ reporting can no longer account for all that is happening. (Here’s what was from the portion of 992 members who reported this year : 623 organizations – 129 countries – 3,519 communities – 3,942 trainers – 21,575 volunteers – 113,612 Households engaged – 763 Churches planted.) As a network of voluntarily collaborating missions and missionaries, the visionary belief cast for all was that our joint effort is uniquely placed of God to mobilize the Church to engage the last of the UUPG. So it is.

What will we do with this knowledge added to our own? Personally, we plan to take the advice of one main session speaker and keep doing as led: Ask God what to do, obey, and challenge others to do the same. We give thanks to each and all helping us to see His will done, that all be saved (1Ti.2.4). Ivorian team objectives for November’s Million Village Challenge, September’s University training, and intern plans were achieved thanks to the Holy Spirit’s person-to-person contact made possible by the meeting that your prayerful support enabled.

Prayer & Praise:

• Ask God what to do to show love to your neighbor.
• Pray for worldwide believers engaged to share the Gospel with UPGs and UUPGs (links to lists), including our teams in Cote d’Ivoire. Ask that our vision be clear and our obedience unwavering.
• Thank the Lord that Debbie made progress on the medical end. Her scan is done and the surgery scheduled for June 14 at St. Thomas Midtown in Nashville.

Your partners in the Gospel,
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).

Prior: Summer, Already? 180428.PDF
Last Video: Backwards Bicycle Link(s)
                         - Backwards Bike PDF
2017 Q4 Report: All "Fixed" up
          -  Anderson Report 180127 PDF

2018 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2018-Budget.pdf

GIVE ONLINE to support these ministries: www.che4a.org

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