The Andersons' primary ministry focuses on the start of Community Health Evangelism ministries in the variety of Cote d'Ivoire contexts. Community Health Evangelism, or CHE (pronounced ‘chay'), trains God's people to bring the Gospel and its application to homes in their community. People learn concomitantly to attribute to God all the glory for the resultant blessings. A successful beginning of CHE yields new churches where there were none before, or strengthens existing churches by increasing the practice of witness and discipleship. All participants focus on allowing God to change their lives, modeling those changes in witness to others, and then multiplying those same changes in the lives of yet others by leading them to experience how Christ transformed them. The Andersons' goal is to provide churches with a means of expanding their outreach and ministry without dependence on outside resources, apart from those locally provided by God. They came to Cote d'Ivoire believing that God plans to use CHE to produce and strengthen indigenous church planting movements in West Africa. In these later years of ministry, that is being accomplished as CHE variations of Community Health Education or Community Health Engagement are also introduced to widen the ongoing cultural transformations taking place.

While each CHE program is unique in its application and development, every initiative consists of trainers, community committees, and community health evangelists (CHEs). A team of 2 to 4 trainers, each with a different skill, enters from outside the prospective community to evaluate and seek God's vision for that community among its members. They introduce the key concepts of God's perspective on community, Jesus and man's need, and reliance upon God's provision through local resources. Good health is not defined as the absence of handicap or disease, but rather as the harmony resulting from men being reconciled with God, themselves, others, and the creation.

As members of the community respond to the trainers, they are brought to a realization of their responsibility to take action for themselves and for those in their community. This is accomplished through a school health screening or a community-generated project that corrects a highly visible need and can be accomplished in a single day. From the encouragement and momentum generated, community members are appointed by vote to be trained as committee members. These leaders will manage the community's local CHE program and keep it attentive to local needs.

As their training is completed, the committee members choose and introduce to the community the CHEs, who will teach from home to home the lessons selected according to the community's needs. Every lesson contains spiritual and physical components. Man's essential needs are not solely physical nor spiritual, but both—good health is harmony with God, men, self, and creation. As members of the committee and the community respond to God's call of salvation, the initial spiritual follow-up is completed and new believers are organized into growth group Bible studies, which are led by the CHEs. These groups then become part of a local church of believers, or are formed together into a church and a pastor is called. The CHEs are evaluated by the committee based upon their capacity to multiply their physical and spiritual teachings through others.

This development process is intense and demanding as God brings change to the lives of all participating. It demands highly motivated commitment with well-prepared hearts and lessons. While the program has flourished around the world in countries strongly influenced by the English language, it has been a team observation that the lack of ready French material has slowed progress in French-speaking West Africa . As a result, the mission CHE team (the Andersons, the Kenneth Eagletons, and later Alice Smith), made a tactical decision in 2001 to focus on material translation while also working initially with two of the most promising FWB church communities. While three regions showed significant interest, God affirmed through much hardship and exposure that the team at Goumere was where this work was to begin through our team.

The three displacements from the field that the team has suffered due to civil conflict each came at critical moments of training, and necessitated the re-teaching of foundational work upon each return. After the first in 2002, the mission CHE team changed. Kenneth & Rejane Eagleton assumed new leadership training roles in Brazil and Alice Smith affirmed her calling. The displacements and changes significantly slowed the initial phase, originally planned to finish by mid-2003. But God's timing is perfect and His perspective is greater by far than that anyone else's. Since then, the Goumere church has established self-funding mechanisms to support their ministry. Also, other trainers from other West African programs have been introduced to support them. It is now anticipated that the third and final phase of their 40-hour trainings will be completed in 2008. The Goumere team's work in the region of Karako will probably reach its greatest intensity between 2008 and 2011. It is very likely that they will desire the mission team's nearby presence during that time.

In the meantime, great progress has been and is being made in lesson translation and preparation. The Andersons and the Eagletons began in 2001 having to prepare every lesson for every teaching session. Now, because of what God has been doing through others apart from them, the Andersons and Alice Smith are in the position of having most of the training lessons completed before they're needed. Other groups are translating key CHE lessons such as the HIV/AIDS intervention program. The mission CHE team and Ivorian church members are now rapidly closing on the initial computer entry of nearly 500 core lessons for the CHEs, the needed Bible studies, and the CHE Operations Guide. They hope to have the main translation process completed in 2009 (if not mid-2008). As a result, they've begun persuasively sharing the vision with other Christian groups in Cote d'Ivoire , knowing that many of the initially needed lessons are now complete. This will multiply the effort and further refine it for other community works (3 programs in French speaking West Africa in 1997 became more than 20 by 2008 - these became more than 130 by May 2013 following the May 2008 distribution of lessons we'd translated).

In the latter years, as their presence has encouraged various teams to enact what they have been called to accomplish, the Andersons have seen God moving many to act in West Africa . This has had the effect of continuously confirming God's call in their spirits. Some have been called to work in regions that they had once targeted; others are demonstrating Divine love in regions that the Andersons did not see themselves attaining for another 10 to 15 years. God is demonstrating His intent to use CHE to plant a strong, vibrant, and indigenously financed community of the redeemed in Cote d'Ivoire. They pray that he has a place for you to participate with them, and ask that you pray earnestly for laborers to be sent into this harvest. Please come if He should call you. There is no greater joy than seeing God change lives that will change those of generations to come!