Grace Touches

CHSC LINK: Grace Touches

PDF Version: AWA Weekly 200725.PDF

Venues and a Voucher

Some gifts shimmer with God's glory. We regularly experience such grace touches. Debbie recently spent hours online and on the phone, to get a voucher for our return trip(s) to Africa. We annulled the second leg of our expected August travel with no fee since COVID-19 responses canceled a flight. For now, we leave our return date(s) open. We see two tripwires to schedule it. One, we understand that every supporting individual or group must have an occasion to hear from us in person. Effective partnerships require personal exchanges. Two, either the monthly ministry shortfall of $1,100 per month, or a surplus $20,000 cash balance (>$45,000 operating cash), needs are reached so we can reside in Cote d'Ivoire for 3½ or more years. Helping educators fan to flame movements that worship God in truth will likely fail otherwise. Since the university training is rescheduled for 2021, we expect this choice to shift only if the Lord communicates that another integral Bible school, agricultural effort, or other ministries that influence medical and educational professionals require our present input. Thankfully, airline flights in and out of Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana have resumed. Restrictions and "jumping through hoops" apply, but venues open for ministry continue to expand.

Some of our time with beloved,
retired missionary friends

Other gifts came from the grace-touched hearts of Christian brothers and sisters. During our 16 days of travel in east Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, our expenses only included two nights in a hotel. Individuals and churches gave extra donations, knowing these are difficult days in ministry. Another friend provided a violin (a dream to acquire a new skill) and pampering supplies to Debbie that girls enjoy. Many friends helped smooth the way with travel tips, information to reconnect with lost contacts, and delicious meals and conversations. Just as crucial, we heard over and over that people pray, or will now begin to pray, regularly for us and the work in Cote d'Ivoire. What more could we ask? Thank you, everyone!

Virtues and Visits

Some virtues brightly glimmer with God's glory. The grace touches we observed in visiting dear friends are the patience and love needed to care for aging parents at home as long as possible. You know who you are! Thank you for loving despite months of sleep-deprived nights and times when your family member does not recognize you. Few acts demonstrate so magnificently as this an example to the world that believers honor their parents while helping them carry on with dignity until the end of their natural lives. May our heavenly Father's pleasure and strength sustain you!

Prayer and Praise

• Thank the Lord with us for the voucher for our airline tickets.
• We also give thanks that our daughter Cara was accepted into the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. She intends to improve her nursing management skills and opportunities to serve the Lord. Keep praying for the best choice for our granddaughter's schooling this fall, and other families in similar circumstances.
• Pray for continued safe travels and good health, as we regroup at home for a short time, complete financial reporting, and then continue visits to ministry partners.

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 provide support as we maintain 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: Wind 's a Blowin'- 200718.PDF
Prior ministry Video: Hidden Treasure
          - 200509 PDF

2020 Q1 Report: Does God Propose?
          -  AWA Report 20_06_06 PDF

2020 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2020- Budget.pdf

Something to ask? Write updates@verlindeb.org

AWA represents
Andersons Witness in Africa.
It is also a brand of bottled water in Cote d'Ivoire where we serve.

GIVEONLINE to support these ministries
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Blowing Winds

CHSC LINK: Wind 's a Blowin'

PDF Version: AWA Weekly 200718.PDF

Winds of Kindness

When you receive this update, we will have been on the road in east Tennessee and North Carolina for 11 days.

Some pacific Atlantic winds help pleasant
tidings of the Creator rule in our spirits.

Supportive winds of kindness have swirled around us throughout the journey. The best ministry partners in the world have fed us, lodged us, and encouraged us in many ways. We give thanks for the venues that have been creatively adjusted and offered where we shared the great news from Cote d'Ivoire. The pictures depict the peaceful seashore, and an idyllic canine friend found during our visit to Davis on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

An idyllic canine joined
our seashore walk.

Verlin held services, or shared during mission conferences, within the area several times, but this was Debbie's first visit. Some of the people seen have known us since college days. Others are new friends. Bill and Lanora Morris, who develop Graham's Place to provide food and lodging for traveling Christian pastors and leaders, are silver friends introduced by golden ones. There is nothing like the kindness and generosity of God's people! So far, we have seen eleven current individual and church partners, and encouraged at least five others who were past supporters, with the knowledge of how God’s blessings on their offerings saves souls. If all goes well, we will see friends in South Carolina and Georgia before returning to Cookeville and reorganizing ourselves to get on the road again.

Winds of Change

Other winds bring tidings of not so pleasant news. The Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire, Amadou Coulibaly, died on July 8. Losing a leader is never easy, but this loss is complicated by the fact that he was one of the presidential candidates for Ivorian elections this fall. Pray that this situation does not deteriorate into destructive violence of any kind. Also, educational winds of change affect millions of children in the U.S. These include our granddaughter Chelsea. Join us in prayer for teachers and parents who must make difficult decisions about the challenges they navigate. Change does not have to be detrimental, but many people find that their educational options are not palatable or promising.

Prayer and Praise

• Pray that Cote d’Ivoire does not spiral into political violence primed by the Prime Minister’s death.
• Pray for families who make decisions about the education of their children that have become difficult. Ask that teachers and administrators find creative solutions to their challenging educational circumstances.
• Thank the Lord that He continues to touch the hearts of ministry partners while calling new ones to share the load of this ministry’s budget needs. Pray we gain the ~$1100 of additional monthly financial support to confidently resume residing in Cote d'Ivoire to minister. The next 4-year term of service portends the extension of witness to our Lord through public educational venues. We praise Him for the many partners who give and continue to provide extra gifts that assist all during this time when travel and group meetings present new challenges that must be overcome by good faith.

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 provide support as we maintain 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: Travel Tips to Trust- 200711.PDF
Prior ministry Video: Hidden Treasure
          - 200509 PDF

2020 Q1 Report: Does God Propose?
          -  AWA Report 20_06_06 PDF

2020 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2020- Budget.pdf

Something to ask? Write updates@verlindeb.org

AWA represents
Andersons Witness in Africa.
It is also a brand of bottled water in Cote d'Ivoire where we serve.

GIVEONLINE to support these ministries
                                   www.che4a.org

Debbie's Facebook Page

Verlin's Facebook Page

Travel Tips to Trust

CHSC LINK: Travel Tips to Trust

PDF Version: AWA Weekly 200711.PDF

Travel and Tips

Our travels in the past month allowed us to visit family and supporters in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, and now North Carolina. As always, we find it excellent and pleasant to meet with those partnering with us.

Make new friends, but keep the old.
One is silver, and the other gold.

It is interest-ing to observe how fears decrease with a fuller under-standing of the COVID-19 disease. Frequently when we share with others, confidence grows that God develops a shared understanding to overcome the pandemic. We learn together that the Creation structured by His Word obligates those with the breath of life to manage our relationships with Him, ourselves, neighbors, and nature to thrive. Some ministry partners we meet in the open air—others we inform indoors during lightly attended services that honor varying degrees of social distancing. We greet more by phone. In most cases, sharing current knowledge of the viral process helps all readjust lifestyles so that we each reflect the power, love, and sound mind of Christ rather than fear. We encourage some to incorporate the occasional use of chlorhexidine gluconate (Hibiclens®). This adds to our counsel shared in March. It is yet another tool that inhibits bacterial and viral transmission when we shop or greet others. Overcoming this crisis requires faithful people to double-down on their trust in a loving Creator. He is the one who gives us the Wisdom to face the unknown rather than mortals who tend to gossip fearmongering. As shared in our 03/14/2020 update, stressing out about things we cannot individually control only WEAKENS our human immune systems over time.

Trust

This week, Verlin re-posted a report of Henry Ford Medical Center's research on his Facebook page. Renewed trust revitalizes the use of hydroxychloroquine to diminish COVID-19 morbidity. Early in the pandemic, clinicians discovered the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine. Reporters of lesser understanding manipulated opinion to discredit clinical results for lack of researched confirmation. Confidence in healing protocols that are provided by research typically lags reasoned clinical solutions. However, dearths of research change over time. This Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC) newsletter PDF is linked to Greg Seager's compilation of current research that shares current knowledge. We better understand this medication in hand now as dexamethasone, Prazosin, Remdesivir prove their usefulness, and many await vaccines to develop herd immunities. The excerpt shares accumulated research about the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. CHSC newsletters let ministry partners better perceive the scope of CHSC services provided by obedient believers. Together, all can rejoice knowing how co-laboring medical missionaries spread the Gospel through medical care while aware of the sustainable health principles promoted in Community Health Evangelism (CHE).

Prayer and Praise

• As of July 9, 2020, the Ivoirian Ministry of Health confirmed a total of 11,750 COVID-19 cases in the country, including 79 deaths and 5,752 recoveries, leaving 5,919 active cases.
• Our Ivorian pastor's wife in Bondoukou has had a setback in her health. She seemed to be recovering well from a mini-stroke last year, but the family has taken her to Abidjan for evaluation.

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 provide support as we maintain 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: Wring or Ring Freedom- 200704.PDF
Prior ministry Video: Hidden Treasure
          - 200509 PDF

2020 Q1 Report: Does God Propose?
          -  AWA Report 20_06_06 PDF

2020 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2020- Budget.pdf

Something to ask? Write updates@verlindeb.org

AWA represents
Andersons Witness in Africa.
It is also a brand of bottled water in Cote d'Ivoire where we serve.

GIVEONLINE to support these ministries
                                   www.che4a.org

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Wring or Ring Freedom?

CHSC LINK: Wring or Ring Freedom?

PDF Version: AWA Weekly 200704.PDF

In Their Words

Liberty Bell -
To wring or ring freedom?

Instead of wringing hands figuratively in despair as opposing opinions bicker to wrest power within our nation, let our voices ring with others in prayers united in repentance, trust, and obedience. May our hearts echo corporately the prayers of two American presidents spaced over 200 years apart as we meet. Both proclaimed that this national union rests upon citizens that choose to obey the one true God. God delights to display true unions of diversity that exists in Jesus-Christ. Our nation of individual voices can again learn to chime harmoniously and share an oneness. May the remedies of 2 Chronicles 7:14 be applied. The healing of nations starts in the hearts of believers. Happy 4th!

A FOUNDING FATHER:

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Devine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. Amen. — ( June 8, 1783, prayer by George Washington read aloud daily at Mt. Vernon's public wreath-laying ceremony)

A LATE PRESIDENT:

My first act as President is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads.
Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to heed and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: "Use power to help people." For we are given power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it, Lord.

The Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may He not leave us or forsake us; so that He may incline our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways... that all peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other. — ( January 20, 1989, George H.W. Bush, inaugural address)

Prayer and Praise

• We join these and other prior presidents in praying that the Lord help us to live holy, fruitful lives, so we jointly heal our divided country. We pray that real freedom rings from our hearts to identify sin and wring them from our beloved nation! May prayers uttered in united supplication join US and encourage other countries to obey the Creator by the example of our fellowship.

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 provide support as we maintain 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: Below Surface- 200627.PDF
Prior ministry Video: Hidden Treasure
          - 200509 PDF

2020 Q1 Report: Does God Propose?
          -  AWA Report 20_06_06 PDF

2020 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2020- Budget.pdf

Something to ask? Write updates@verlindeb.org

AWA represents
Andersons Witness in Africa.
It is also a brand of bottled water in Cote d'Ivoire where we serve.

GIVEONLINE to support these ministries
                                   www.che4a.org

Debbie's Facebook Page

Verlin's Facebook Page