Soldiering on

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Taste and See (Psalm 34:8)

Soldiering on will take on a new context for the group of Ivorians with us this week as the CHE university events get underway. The university will host its third related Scientific Congress on Thursday and Friday using the theme “Determinants of Health and Community Development” (French Website Link). This event lets CHE practitioners report and publish how their soldiering on efforts in using Community Health Engagement throughout the country impact themselves and their neighbors. Some CHE ministries in remote places and many medical professionals using CHE activities will be represented.

Black Soldier Fly

A second event will occur on Saturday, September 2, at the Christian marriage center of Arc-en-Christ (translates to Alliance for the Restoration of Marital Happiness in Christ). The ministry has effectively saved marriages for nearly 30 years and was founded by Professor Luc Kouadio and his wife, Deborah. Volunteers who they trained have hosted and served the CHE trainers since 2015. This year, they will also sponsor an all-day seminar on raising Black Soldier Flies (BSF) as a protein feed that diminishes costs while improving the resulting animal product(s). Tope Obaweya, a dear Nigerian friend, will lead the seminar. Using BSF for feed is a remarkable, cost-saving method that improves several forms of animal husbandry. Ivorians involved in CHE are eager to learn the BSF method of soldiering on (yes, pun intended!) to improve poultry, chicken, and pork production.

During the third event, composed of five Training of Trainers (TOT) classes, Tope’s husband, Dayo, will again oversee the Level 3 Micro-Enterprise Development (MED) course for the CHE training Sept. 4-8 at the UFHB Science Center. Dayo has been a good friend for years and serves as president of the Global CHE Network advisory council and regional CHE leader serving with Medical Ambassadors International.

Come and See (Psalm 66:5)

Verlin has been soldiering on with his slow-to-heal foot as carefully as possible despite days full of lesson revisions, calls, activities, and meetings. The foot is bearable and better but not healed. Taking three days off of it slowed set-up operations but let him drive by Thursday. On Wednesday, we will move from a missionary guest house to be lodged by our Ivorian hosts for two weeks.

Please join with us in praying for the upcoming events listed below:

• • August 31–September 1: CHE Scientific Congress at the university
  
  
• • September 2: Black Soldier Fly seminar at Arc-en-Christ
  
  
• • September 2: Political elections in Cote d’Ivoire (mayoral and regional councils)
  
  
• • Sept. 4-8: 5-day CHE training at the University FHB (2 or 3 classes of TOT1, one TOT 2, plus a CHE MED TOT). We await some trainers to confirm if 18 or 20 will lead the lessons.
  
  

Prayer & Praise

• 🙏 Pray for the Scientific Congress this coming Thursday and Friday at the UFHB Science Center, where people using the CHE strategy give reports of their successes and challenges. Pray for good attendance at the Saturday CHE seminar on using the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) as animal and fish protein feed, too.
  
  
• 🙏 Give thanks for lodging graciously provided during the training by the Christian marriage ministry of people we thankfully know as friends, Luc and Deborah. They and those volunteering serve all the CHE trainers with humility, generosity, and excellence. (Most of the leaders have been CHE trained.)
  
  
• 🙏 Debbie’s mom, Sandra Payne, will have a cancer spot removed from her face this week. Pray for a smooth Moh's procedure on Tuesday and no recurrence of the basal cell carcinoma.
   

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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