| As well as concentrating on CHE and fulfilling their Field duties, opportunities abound for the Andersons in personal witnessing and ministry. Below are some
of the ways their days are filled with efforts to help people at their point
of need.
Verlin
- Many hours spent counseling neighbors, friends, church members, and our
pastors, regarding Bible truth, finances, family life, medical advice,
handling conflict, and help with computers
- Baptizing and performing marriages for FWB pastors who are not yet ordained
- Preaching in villages with no pastor and filling in for pastors when they travel
- Providing a loan library of Christian books for FWB pastors
- Selling Bibles in Bondoukou (the only location with Bibles available)
- Prison outreach and help with the prison garden
- Assisting fellow-missionaries in whatever way possible
Debbie
- Home-schooling the children every week day
- Showing hospitality regularly to friends, pastors, and people passing through
- Counseling, especially youth and women
- Team teaching with Cara the English/Bible class for teen girls
- Assisting in prison ministry
- Preparing Sunday School and Bible memory materials & mentoring workers
- Assisting fellow-missionaries in whatever way possible
Cason
- Witnessing to his African friends
- Formatting, translating, and correcting materials for CHE
- Repairing many computer problems
- Creating and setting up this web site
- Teaching an English class for friends
- Taking photographs for the family and ministry
Cara
- Co-teaching Bible/English class for teen girls with Mom
- Sharing Christ by life and deed with her friends
- Helping cook and show hospitality to our many guests
- Helping with family correspondence
Corbin
- Obeying his parents
- Showing his Muslim and Catholic friends how a Christian boy should act
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