B-b-b-blessings

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Red Barn at CHSC HQ

What a week of b-b-b-blessings we have enjoyed during our first days back in the States! Bush-hogging completed on our Tennessee property just before our arrival made getting around our rural home easy. In addition, the brakes on the fuel-efficient Toyota sedan were fixed just in time to leave for Texas. The picturesque red barn visible in the photo is our home until the end of May at the Shalom Retreat Center, the Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC) headquarters in Grand Saline, Texas. The lodging on the bottom floor of the building with easy access will greatly help Verlin’s post-surgery recovery.

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

Verlin post-surgery

The team at the Baylor Scott & White hospital in Plano took excellent care of Verlin on Friday during his hernia repair operation. (The hernia developed after his March 2021 appendectomy and started slowing us down in Cote d’Ivoire last July.) Everything went smoothly. The nursing team especially went beyond the basics to assist us. An attentive charge nurse even had a prescription delivered to the recovery room, so Debbie did not have to leave the hospital to get Verlin’s pain medication! A nurse of Nigerian origin expressed interest in Community Health Evangelism (CHE), as Verlin shared about ministry in Cote d’Ivoire. She has family members who work in Tanzania doing similar spiritual/physical integration as they train Africans to share the Gospel. What she described as her uncle’s activities with farming, health, and church planting ministry matches what we know of other organizations using CHE to transform Tanzania for God’s Glory. (Tanzanian examples of CHE abound from Assembly of God, Christian (CMFI), Evangelical Free (Reach Global) and Lutheran Churches, the government NIH funded researchers, non-denominational organizations like Tearfund, the AICHM, and Emmanuel International, and yet others.) Their efforts buttress the examples we use to encourage the diverse Ivorian efforts initiated with the denominational, UFHB and AISEC outreaches that we help coordinate in Cote d’Ivoire. Perhaps more Kingdom workers will be equipped because of the conversations held during travels this week!

Another enormous benediction was the gracious hospitality of friends associated with CHSC and Dallas Theological Seminary. Tim and Lisa welcomed us into their home for three days so that we could be closer to the hospital before and after surgery. How grateful we are for these numerous b-b-b-blessings poured out and the prayers you faithfully offer! Thank you for following with us, even when our witness continues in ways other than we envisioned 15 months ago due to the slowdown. It has been a busy, blessed time 'b'-ing witnesses to our Lord's grace. 😀

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Rejoice with us that Verlin’s surgery transpired with no complications! Pray for his complete healing and for us to find a healthy balance of rest and work during our next two weeks in Texas.
  
  

• 🙏 Ivoirian high school students in their senior year have begun exams to see if they will graduate and qualify for proceeding to college. Testing continues for weeks, with varied schedules for students with different foci of study. Pray the young who profess Christ and who also get very stressed will be able to think clearly, and that their test results will not be impacted by bribery demands.

• 🙏 Pray for more laborers in our Father’s Kingdom. CHE workers are needed in Cote d’Ivoire. Many of our CHSC fellow missionaries also have urgent needs for medical workers in hospitals and for teachers to help homeschool their children. No doubt you know the need for Christian workers in your local church.

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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