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On Wednesday night, two of our family who lived most of their childhoods in Africa, Corbin and Debbie, watched the International Space Station (ISS) pass over our homestead in Cookeville. It was only visible to the human eye for two minutes, and then passed out of sight. How mind-boggling that the Lord has gifted scientists with knowledge to construct such a space station. How amazing is the know-how to plot an orbit over locations on earth to the specific degree and minute. Humans on earth miss it entirely if they do not look up at the right angle and at the right minute.
This fascinating example reminds us of a much grander, complex, and beautiful design set into motion by The LORD, our God. The ISS is child’s play compared to His master plan for our planet and His desire that each inhabitant know Him intimately. Wonder of wonders—He uses us, His children, to participate in that plan! We have learned that to do so, we must not be so consumed daily with our self, our work or entertainment, that we become oblivious to the intersecting coordinates that Jesus puts in our path. From experience we can say that a simple conversation in a bank line, or hiring a young man to teach a child French, can lead to hundreds of lives being touched by the Gospel. This is the Lord’s way, if we stay focused on looking to Him for direction, hearing from His Word, and watching for opportunities at the right approach and minute to serve, moreso than forcing them.
Despite a third-world-growing-pain water shortage due to a week of intermittent electrical supply, Verlin kept enough clothes clean to spend a day helping a village plan the training of a Community Health Evangelism (CHE) committee. They prayed 
over setting up a church-based committee or a community committee in order to propagate witness of the Lord shown in roadside clearing, well digging, and facilitating public education. (They provided lodging for a school teacher.) This church has gone from a 30 year average of 15 – 25 in weekly attendance to over 100 meeting, not counting another 200+ meeting weekly in 4 satellite locations now because of the pastor initiating CHE approaches in the area. Verlin also advised them on prepping for the UFHB Scientific Congress (Inscription Link). He got to hear some excited teens sharing of local Disciple Bible Study developments in Bondoukou too.
over setting up a church-based committee or a community committee in order to propagate witness of the Lord shown in roadside clearing, well digging, and facilitating public education. (They provided lodging for a school teacher.) This church has gone from a 30 year average of 15 – 25 in weekly attendance to over 100 meeting, not counting another 200+ meeting weekly in 4 satellite locations now because of the pastor initiating CHE approaches in the area. Verlin also advised them on prepping for the UFHB Scientific Congress (Inscription Link). He got to hear some excited teens sharing of local Disciple Bible Study developments in Bondoukou too.
Prayer and Praise
- Please pray for the village planning a CHE committee training. Ask that they be fully engaged to do the training so that many more come to Christ in this rural setting of about 2000 souls. We’re aiming for 100% community conversion in several locations here. This location is one.
- It has been a difficult 10 days of a water shortage in Bondoukou. Verlin rationed his water and shared rations with neighbors until service resumed in our neighborhood on Thursday. Pray the infrastructure projects developing rural electricity and water delivery are completed rapidly with less corruption. An Ivorian recently shared with Verlin that government employees are selfishly dipping into public funds and accepting bribes beyond salary unlike anything known heretofore.
- Pray for an Ivorian CHE trainer, R., who moves to the east coast of Cote d’Ivoire to be closer to CHE village developments that he supervises. He and a nurse with whom Verlin shared CHE have open doors to begin in two towns as well. Pray that many new people will discover Kingdom shalom in this region, having peace with God, themselves, their neighbors and the Creation.
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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