Thanksliving

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Taste and See (Psalm 34:8)

Thanksgiving really should be thanksliving—a way of life—morning, noon and night—continually, forever giving thanks to the Lord.—Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

It was an unusual Thanksgiving week for us—no American meal and busy days in Abidjan offices. Instead, our family holiday participation consisted of sitting on the side of the road where available Internet service let us speak with children and Debbie’s parents on Friday for an hour. Perhaps next week, we will eat the orange-gourd-based substitute pumpkin pie! Situations like these remind us that the actual Biblical imperative is for daily thanksliving, not just celebrating a Thanksgiving holiday one day a year, though it is a beloved holiday in our family.

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

Several necessities caused us to delay traveling home for another week. (We finally made it after midnight Friday night.) Verlin fulfilled promises to provide some resource ideas and made one more visit to the missionaries finishing their training and preparing to go to their places of service.

In addition, our Ivorian identity cards expire in December and January. So imagine our surprise that a five-year card has jumped in price from around $65.00 to about $525.00 each. Yet another moment to practice the discipline of thanksliving!! Thankfully, several workers at the government office helped us expedite getting a criminal record check and residence certificates. With their assistance, we quickly turned in all the necessary paperwork. Finding all seven puppies alive when we arrived home was also fun! (White, the runt of 7, pictured with a sweet visitor whom Verlin counseled for a persistent cough today. She’s the daughter of a local Gideon & evangelist who sends reports using our ADSL Internet connection.)

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Thank the Lord for His mercies that never end and get renewed every morning! Praise Him for help with paperwork processing and safe travels.
  

• 🙏 Pray for a woman nearing death from kidney failure. She needs to make her peace with Jesus. She is the sister-in-law of a close Ivorian friend for whom dialysis and transplant are unavailable.
  

• 🙏 We thank you and the Lord for some extra gifts given to our mission account in November! Join us in praying for abundant provision through December, so ministry here continues unhindered.

• 🙏 Pray for Christian Health Service Corps missionary colleagues. They get forced to leave a place of service at the mission hospital they initiated for a denominational ministry in another African nation. The situation is stressful, grief-filled, and a logistical nightmare.

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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CHSC-0118_ANDERSON-2022-Budget.pdf
 
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