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Please enjoy the linked 2’35” video rather than taking time today to read and reflect. The YouTube facilitated video likely communicates our hearts’ intents this day better and more efficiently than the words of Written Message below in this Christmas Day update.
We spend the day in Bondoukou worshipping, relaxing, and re-ordering our home after a week of some travel and sharing. We took special time in familial worship to sing hymns and carols after reading Luke 1-2.40 yesterday and Matthew 1 – 2 today. God bless each and all who celebrate the coming of Emmanuel with us today. May God keep blessing those under His influence who still have not recognized the power of our once and future King. So many souls have yet to join God’s movement! May they gain His peace and goodwill and come to faith thanks to believers’ acts of obedience during our days on earth.
Written Message
Please only read if there's time for reflection
and inability to view the easier to follow, more informative video.)
Like angels of old, today we share tidings of great joy: a Savior has been born to us. Peace and goodwill to all!
Like prophets of old, contemporaries of Jesus’ time, and Christians through the centuries until now, we share the angel’s command to Jesus’ family and friends at birth: have no fear, God is here!
We recognize today that the only real threat to abundant and fulfilled living is the choice of whom each of us serves. COVID does not threaten our making good decisions to embrace life. No disease can. Earth-bound powers seeking more than God-defined control of information or who attempt to force changes of human behavior by intimidation are proven ineffective against the powers given to humanity by the Savior-King Jesus. We live life more fully when joint choices made in communion and community to obediently collaborate or submit determine group actions. Ostensibly, elections confer what power others called leaders can exert. There is but one true leader of each and all we can elect to serve: the Savior-King whose birth and life we choose to recognize this season.
We each choose the good upon which to concentrate. By faith, we use our influence within circles of family, friends, and fellow workers to do good. We can bind ourselves together in many ways to ask the Lord’s blessing for overcoming any of life’s challenges. Chaos only exists where God’s defined world order fails to get recognized as reigning. (God’s Word determines the sun’s place in space, defines the limits of joy-filled human relations, and remains solely capable of describing reality’s wholeness and oneness adequately.) Grace and Truth recognized in praise and obedience structure organization out of confusion. Choose together to see Jesus’ orders reign. Let’s help all find shalom, the peace on earth, and goodwill foretold. Reality is as a favorite president of my grandparents once communicated: ‘We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.’ Knowing Jesus by faith makes courage possible. Fear stimulated by deception shuts us down. Such fears alone empower Satan in the world God created and designed by His Word made flesh. Only a good and reformed conscience effectively resists fearmongering, Satanic deceptions. Jesus overcame. His people overcome. Though not easy and without risk, God dwells here amidst us, by the power of His Holy Spirit, who presently fashions believers’ hearts and minds. Jesus-Christ is Truth. He always lights each of our ways through dark times like a flashlight, letting us unite again in brighter days.
May each find their joy of life in thankfulness today, celebrating what we have with childlike gratefulness. For Verlin and Debbie, the greatest gift remains Him who’s continuous giving cannot get exhausted. The gift remains the hope that the angels announced: a Savior has been born to us. We need not live in fear. In that light of Christmas, as Charles Dickens enjoined us through the seemingly immortal character of Tiny Tim, we wish ‘A Merry Christmas to all; God bless us every one!’
Prayer & Praise
- 🙏 See Season’s Reasons for our Holiday Season concerns.
- 🙏 Exceptionally, our local pastor’s wife suffers a reoccurrence of her ulcers. See Gems of Grace. Symptoms returned during our September through October absence. Unfortunately, aggressive resumption of nutritional interventions did not resume until weeks after we returned.
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).
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2021 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2021-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
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2021-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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