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Taste and See (Psalm 34:8)

We tasted and saw the Lord at work this week while training missionaries from several W. African nations who dedicate themselves to sharing Jesus, the Bread of Life. More than twenty of each session of students (some involved visitors) dedicate their lives to sharing the Good News of God’s love. They intend to tell citizens of West Africa what many do not yet know: God Himself died for them. The goal remains to help individuals escape living under Satanic deceptions prevalent around them, then live abundantly in community to transform all about them for God’s Glory. Here are five of more than 250 feedback comments we read (italicized words fill-in form question assumptions):

Verlin points out an
example to imitate.

• What I liked about this training is that it touched on many of the unfortunate facts of society and, at the same time, gave strategies to solve them.
  
  
• The trainer must consider reforming his behavior and character before training others.
  
  
• What I liked about this training was learning how to evangelize a village or community through the community health evangelism strategy.
  
  
• The most valuable lessons to me were multiplication and selecting the best community for starting a ministry.
  
  
• I learned the value of submitting to God in all areas of life.

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)



West Africans trained to reach
their unreached neighbors.

We met over lunch today with one of the Ivorian trainers who led the training with us over the last six days and nights. In discussions of life purpose and conviction, he expressed his reasons for quitting two good-paying jobs that gave him ‘bread’ over the last four years. He experiences a growing conviction that he must increasingly align his life purposes to spreading the Gospel while promoting the uses of CHE. Having worked in the contexts of several NGOs and a university project over the last decade while exploring CHE applications, his conviction deepens that, to realize the first objective, he must achieve a second: create reliable means in the family to manage life’s expenses. He has learned a good salary does not suffice to live peaceably and truly effect lasting change.


While we trained these missionaries to be sent, R. slept on their small campus among them. Several evening conversations focused on how these servants going to unreached peoples would gain bread to eat. R’s experiences over the last sixteen years have been with and apart from us as he has learned to walk with Jesus. He learns to cling to Jesus Christ above all other worldly distractions. It’s been hard, but his lessons learned encouraged several trained in the week to use CHE strategies. The newly trained now sense they have a workable plan to plant new churches rather than an unclear mandate to ‘go’ and ‘evangelize.’ They now understand themselves as having received from God some proven, sustainable means to live lives of ministry while bringing others near to hear from Jesus, the ‘Bread of Life.'

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Thank the Lord for what now appears to have been an exceptional week of Community Health Evangelism (CHE) training. The students of this missionary school in Abidjan were hungry to learn. They rejoiced to have what they called really practical tools to use in their ministries.
  
  
• 🙏 Pray the causes of one experienced and two new trainers suffering from some physical health challenges are revealed so adequate interventions are recommended.
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 - specifying Verlin and Debbie Anderson in the optional Memo.


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