Flooded part 2

CHSC LINK: Flooded Part2
PDF Version: AWA Weekly 220730 PDF

Come and See (Psalm 34:8)

Last week we shared how flooded areas of Abidjan have displaced more than 25,000 people. The events also affect our food and lodging situation for the upcoming September university Community Health Evangelism (CHE) training. While destructive physical floods hinder development, emotional and personal flooding can hinder advancement, just as much.

Sentinel work of Emotionally
Focused Therapy (EFT)

As a couple, we have probably read over thirty marriage books separately while together during our 38 years of marriage, learning more about how to love one another despite inevitable differences. Learning to identify symptoms like being flooded, triggers, and processes enables us to employ simple techniques for better interaction. The learning helps us evade verbally striking one another and keep emotional flood waters at bay. However, somehow we missed the development of Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT) since the turn of the century. Currently, we read a book by the mind which put together how childhood attachment needs find new expressions when we become adults. The approach teaches us to analyze what piques 'emotional flooding' that separates loved ones into silos of private hurt. It seems more effective than any other approach to help couples advance into deeper mutual appreciation. The imago Dei can then surface above the destructive floods due to the strengthened relationship between a man and a woman. More than anything else, good marriages preserve children in their search for identity.

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

More frequent in our lives, though, are the occasions of being flooded with joy. Such was the case this weekend as Verlin's mother, Elsie, and sister Vicki joined us in Tennessee to attend the Anderson family reunion. Having much of our nuclear family together in one room is exhilarating! The heritage of our families' trust in the Lord significantly impacts our lives even now. It brings to mind a song each of us sang in church growing up, Heavenly Sunlight-Gaither (Hymnary electronic piano with sheet music). Truly the Lord's daily presence floods our souls with strength and joy for life's journey—even in hard times.

Shadows around me, shadows above me,

Never conceal my Savior and Guide;

He is the light, in Him is no darkness;

Ever I'm walking close to His side.

Refrain:

Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight,

Flooding my soul with glory divine;

Hallelujah, I am rejoicing,>

Singing His praises, Jesus is mine!

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Praise the Lord that His presence is discernible even in seasons of unwanted floods!

• 🙏 Corbin pursues one engineering job possibility in Tennessee next week. Pray that the right situation opens soon. Having him at home for a few weeks floods our hearts with thanksgiving.

• 🙏 Our heartfelt thanks to several ministry partners who purchased numerous supplies this month that support our health and improve our ability to offer hospitality in Cote d’Ivoire!

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: Flooded
        - 220723 PDF
Prior Videos: The Great Story
        - Lasting Footrints

2022 1Q Report: The Persevering
  -  2022 1Q Anderson Report 220521 PDF

2022 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2022-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

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Flooded

CHSC LINK: Flooded

PDF Version: AWA Weekly 220723 PDF

Come and See (Psalm 34:8)

Flooded. Areas of Abidjan where shelter, food, and transport get provided to visiting CHE trainers from national and international locations each September have again been touched by floods. From March to July, especially mid-May, much of Abidjan becomes a killing zone. It is a historical and current problem, despite huge investments. Torrential rains turn over cars, wash people away, and wreak destruction. The waters traumatize certain residents with loss. Due to the inundations, the government insists that 4,000 households of more than 25,000 people move permanently. Our closest university connection and confidant has seen his home submerged several times in past years. In a recent communication via WhatsApp, he confided that their personal preparations of getting things high let them preserve most goods and valuables from flood waters. Theirs is a beautiful example that getting flooded does not mean being overcome by life's events. On numerous occasions, they have lived the reality of God's presence and help when they "passed through the waters." (see Isaiah 43:2-3) Next week we will explore other such flooding issues.

 

This year's flooding experience undoubtedly again complicated organizing the annual September university trainings. They inconvenienced meetings, communications, and getting invitations legalized when all the plans and connections were not completed before April's end. Adding that to our typical July in the U.S. being flooded by annual maintenance activities, calls, and visits, we find ourselves overstretched again. We even missed publishing last week's update! We count upon the Lord to empower our working this and other, more severe complications to stay above the "floods."

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

Simple CHE Tippy-
Tap for MK use

In Texas, Debbie and Dr. Jody Collinge flooded the Christian Health Service Corps missionary kids (MKs) from ages 6 to 13 with Bible stories, songs, crafts, activities, missionary accounts, geography, Community Health Evangelism kid's activities, and food and information from five different continents and six nations. Keeping these special, high-energy children and youth busy while their parents completed orientation from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. was an exhausting privilege! The picture shows a modified Tippy Tap (no foot pedal as we use in most Cote d'Ivoire locations). Making it demonstrated a valuable tool while encouraging the MKs to think of how to wash hands if water was scarce. Debbie continues to evaluate materials that hopefully can be used with new missionary kids every year. She returned home on Wednesday. Now both of us are noses barely above water with a flood of "to-do" lists before our departure to Cote d'Ivoire.

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Pray for the Lord to quickly provide a new ministry location for our CHE friends' marriage ministry, now displaced due to rain and roof damage in Abidjan. Also, ask that an affordable place be found to provide lodging and food for the CHE trainers invited to annual September trainings.

• 🙏 Pray with us for new housing situations for the 25,000 who were told to permanently evacuate their homes. Pray the government helps them find new places to live.

• 🙏 Debbie's mother, Sandra Payne, had cardioversion this week to get her heart beating normally. Praise the Lord that so far, it seems to be working! Debbie expects to spend some time with her parents next week while Verlin attends some FWB National meetings.

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: New Faces
        - 220709 PDF
Prior Videos: The Great Story
        - Lasting Footrints

2022 1Q Report: The Persevering
  -  2022 1Q Anderson Report 220521 PDF

2022 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2022-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

New Faces

CHSC LINK: New Faces
PDF Version: AWA Weekly 220709 PDF

Come and See (Psalm 34:8)

Learning to ride a bike!

New faces and new friends consistently bless us. After Verlin left Debbie at the airport for travel, he took Chelsea to McDonald’s®. While waiting for their order, he struck up a conversation with a couple and an employee of like age whose mutual frustration with the electronic ordering system created camaraderie. The couple completed their order and then sat nearby to behold an entertaining dynamic between Grandpa and grand-girl. The new friends watched the lively give-and-take during conversations that touched on personal hygiene, keeping spaces clean for others, eating to evade disease, and ways to exercise politeness. Touched by the dynamic, the new couple of acquaintances donated two Wet Wipes® packets to add to the instruction. The employee, also a believer, shared on our departure that she took encouragement in seeing a missionary witness here.

Next week, we hope to hear that the brother who watches our home and dogs during absences from Cote d’Ivoire added a third child to his nuclear family and kept his wife. After two boys, they anticipate a daughter. We look to meet that new face in mid-August. We know from witnessing ourselves that each child increases his family’s testimony of God’s goodness.

There is yet other good news from an Ivorian pastor using CHE in Cote d’Ivoire that Verlin visited in April. Again, he encounters new faces, having recently begun ministry in a new village. The location represents a fourth added to three others where worship of the King of Kings has been established. Progress in his region always adds to our joy since much of the population adheres to another major religion. Pray he again establishes significant inroads using new acquaintances and friendships in the village while doing an initial CHE seed project by building latrines in collaboration.

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

Debbie looks forward to getting to know many new faces in Texas this week. She assists our mission, the Christian Health Service Corps (CHSC), during ten days of new missionary orientation. In addition, it will be a privilege to team-teach missionary kids in elementary and middle school as their parents receive preparatory training for the field.

Verlin hopes to correct and complete some lesson completion and assignment for September while affirming that all invitations have been received. It may not sound like much, but the sounds can deceive. One invitation is extended to the pastor mentioned above who establishes his eighth preaching point or area of Discovery Bible Studies expected to become a church. He was once a new face we blessed by example that he replicates today.

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Pray for R., the Ivoirian CHE pastor, making efforts to penetrate a new village with the Gospel. Ask for open hearts, removal of spiritual strongholds, and much fruit for his labor.

• 🙏 Lift up the orientation of new CHSC missionaries. Pray for Debbie and Jody to have exceptional energy and wisdom as they minister to the children.

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: Touchable
        - 220702 PDF
Prior Videos: The Great Story
        - Lasting Footrints

2022 1Q Report: The Persevering
  -  2022 1Q Anderson Report 220521 PDF

2022 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2022-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

Touchable

CHSC LINK: Touchable
PDF Version: AWA Weekly 220702 PDF

Come and See (Psalm 34:8)

As American citizens take the weekend to celebrate freedom from a bygone money-motivated monarch, citizen-led interventions act to help lepers in Cote d’Ivoire become free and “touchable.” About five years ago, the Ivoirian overseeing leprosy treatment programs was exposed to CHE at the UFHB (university). When the Raoul Follereau Foundation learned of CHE approaches, the director supported adopting CHE for the national organization. In the next 12 days, the Ivoirian CHE Network (AISEC) president, Emmanuel, will accompany Ivorian and other leaders to meet with local authorities. They coordinate to launch volunteer community efforts in sixty villages. Between July 4th and 14th, US and French Independence days, communities targeted for leprosy treatment will be visited.

Later, two Ivoirian CHE trainers of AISEC will train community leaders, foundation-affiliated members, and believers from various churches. These CHE-trained teams expect to coordinate with regional government leaders and organizations to bring lepers to shalom, God’s healing peace. As Jesus did with the ten in His day, we anticipate “untouchable” lepers being transformed by His touch to become “touchable.”

Today, leprosy is curable. Like another mycobacterial infection, tuberculosis, drugs freely provided through the World Health Organization treat the disease. However, the ill need community follow-up to see progress in conquering the disfiguring illness(es). Service to others in Jesus’ name helps the infected gain hope during treatments and eventually reintegrate into old and new communities. Praise God for setting the stage so that CHE may be effectively used among leprous Ivoirians!

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

This week Verlin had a minor setback on one dental repair. Still, we both made significant progress on other projects that we want to complete before returning to Africa. Verlin did some video-conference coordination with RESCoF partners in CHE, whom God used to connect the Raoul Follereau Foundation for the above-mentioned good work. Deb spent over 30 hours prepping orientation materials for our mission and handling medical issues. On weekends, we visit Cookeville area churches that, past or present, pray and give so we can extend CHE ministries in Cote d’Ivoire. Another joy this week will be our granddaughter’s literal, touchable visit to our home!

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Pray for CHE Disabilities training to be potentiated over the next twelve days in Cote d’Ivoire. Ask our Father to call many people to CHE understandings which can bring salvation and physical relief to help suffering lepers find right relations with God, themselves, others, and the creation.

• 🙏 Pray with us that the wife of the Bondoukou Children’s DBS leader experiences no complications in childbirth. Her baby is a week overdue. Services at the local hospital in Bondoukou are minimal.

• 🙏 Income to our mission account this June was better than June of 2021. However, the totals remain lower YTD than last year, causing us to pause and pray more about answering increased ministry requests for our presence and counsel. Continue to pray for more ministry partners. Praise the Lord, one new couple engaged to partner financially this week!

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: Heartbeats
        - 220625 PDF
Prior Videos: The Great Story
        - Lasting Footrints

2022 1Q Report: The Persevering
  -  2022 1Q Anderson Report 220521 PDF

2022 Budget Info:
CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2022-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