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Verlin arrived home safely Friday evening after driving past 2,396 marked kilometers in Ghana over eleven days. In addition to the training he facilitated and meeting of friends at the West African CHE Internship site, he also visited three other Christian Health Service Corps missionaries at their places of service. The Lord is using them all. One family lovingly works among rescued children while developing a clinic, and the others serve the Lord and their neighbors in hospital settings. All envision means to integrate or implement CHE.
The trip included 24 separate meetings with individuals or teams from more than 10 unrelated Christian organizations. Conversations centered on Community Health Evangelism (CHE) and/or Disciple Making Movements (DMM) and how those principles could be applied to ministry. (We can name 51 new contacts.) Several have already expressed their intents or purposes in person to pursue further interaction with us or others in the coming months. Most have some targeted dates for follow-up. In one case, it will be 3 years! (He is a forward planner like all the Bible translators we know. 😊) A great need seems to be mutual encouragement and common knowledge to facilitate greater coordination with others who already knowledgeably implement CHE without creating feelings of being overwhelmed. This is a primary objective of the annual CHE Internship training to which the Ivorian CHE Association regularly sends self-sacrificing students (an administrator, who formerly taught school, was sent this year).
Next week we will set mile markers spinning as Debbie takes a flight from Abidjan to the U.S.A. on Saturday, March 30. Since October, when our Rottweiler playfully sideswiped her knee, she has regressed in recovery from her replacement surgery. Having followed the advice of her surgeon’s correspondence and sensed no improvement, she plans to follow his recommendation to have an exploratory scope to see what is going on. We feel this is the best decision for her to try to regain better mobility. She has her first appointment on April 3, and the time for surgery will be discussed then. We will keep you informed as we know more.
Prayer and Praise
- Thank the Lord for Verlin’s trip to Ghana and the encouragements many people in various ways have already expressed. Pray for the growing number of teams who are at various stages of implementing CHE or CHE-DMM ministries to boldly advance as God leads.
- Pray for Debbie as she begins another medical journey related to her knee. Ask the Lord to grant her wisdom and safety as she boards an Ethiopian Airlines flight on Saturday. Though the airline grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 that has had two crashes in the last 6 months, it is likely that passengers will be more stressed than usual.
- A printing error resulted in some of our donors recently receiving a prior quarterly report by mail rather than the new one that we prepared to have sent. Sorry if you, or someone you know, had that experience! Pray that this issue is quickly resolved.
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).
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