The Good Goodbyes
The issue with maintaining a blog is trying to decide what in the minute is inspiring you enough to write about. As someone who isn’t a writer and not often able to articulate moments very well it is...
View ArticleStepping into Development
PDF Version: Anderson_WEEKLY_190720 Stepping Faith Stepping by faith to make life-altering changes in ministry or personal behavior is not easy! When we write of many who now decide to practice...
View ArticleLeaky gut, feeble feeling. Healthy innards, vibrant outlook.
Leaky Gut We read a diet book in 2005 before our move to Bondoukou. Despite six to ten hours of weekly aerobic and weight-training exercise, excess pounds and inflammatory foot pain would not leave...
View ArticleNourishing the Neediest
Furaha is a special little 1.5 year old girl that we met in unfortunate circumstances. Read More The post Nourishing the Neediest appeared first on Christian Health Service Corps.
View ArticleProfit and Loss
Understanding Terms Profit and Loss are realities that we who follow Christ must accept to be competent witnesses. They derive from faith. Jesus spoke in such terms when He talked of counting the cost...
View ArticleGiving Up, In, or Out?
Give Up Debbie had an adventure returning to Cote d’Ivoire. As she waited at the gate in Nashville to fly to Newark, all flights going to the northeast were delayed and then canceled because of a...
View ArticleWhen the ordinary is difficult. Part 1
Moving down to Honduras and working in a mission hospital has been one of my dreams for so long. I knew that things would be difficult when working overseas but I’m not sure I knew how losing patients...
View ArticleI would like a donut.
I love apple fritters personally over most donuts, but down here in Honduras the kind of donut that I really wanted was the “magic donut” aka a CT scanner. One day in the ER, this 17 year old walked in...
View ArticleOwning It
Who could imagine when we came that the premier university of Cote d’Ivoire would promote and expand Community Health Engagement.. Read More The post Owning It appeared first on Christian Health...
View ArticleWhat does poverty look like?
I have never really understood how poverty can have tiers but I am beginning to think that it does. Read More The post What does poverty look like? appeared first on Christian Health Service Corps.
View ArticleChantal
Little Chantal was admitted to the hospital in August, at the beginning of the Ebola epidemic. She had signs of malaria and sepsis. Read More The post Chantal appeared first on Christian Health...
View ArticleStory Power
AWA LINK: Story Power PDF Version: AWA_Update_190824.PDF A Narrative Our family takes pleasure in the renaissance of storytelling arts in our lifetimes. Whether from Scripture, mythology, American or...
View ArticleLegacy
AWA LINK: Legacy PDF Version: Anderson_Report_190831.PDF A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which...
View ArticleSummer and Visa Update
You know now that we are moving to Zambia, that we have left Fort Worth – our home of 10 years – and that we have left our employer of most of those years – John Peter Smith Hospital. We spent four...
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View ArticleHallmark
AWA LINK: Hallmark PDF Version: AWA_Update_190907.PDF Good goals A vision which establishes good goals yields results and witnesses which endure. The good goal of the Scientific Congress was to let...
View ArticleServants Leading
AWA LINK: Servants Leading PDF Version: Anderson_Update_190914.PDF Serving at Work We praise the Lord for the seventh successful year of Community Health Engagement (CHE) training that we completed at...
View ArticleLife-Giving Blood
Last week we walked to church through the woods, passing a small cemetery covered by the graves of all the newborns who die at our hospital… Read More The post Life-Giving Blood appeared first on...
View ArticleEbola Update from Coopers at Nyankunde Hospital
We have had two Ebola cases at Nyankunde Hospital this past week. They arrived in the middle of the night, and it seems that they intentionally deceived the staff. They lied about the town they came...
View ArticleWhen Strivings Cease
If I am being honest the last several weeks have been hard. They have been good and I am learning but they have been hard. I am learning to truly listen to what the Lord is saying. I have spent the...
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