The Hope of Community Transformation...

Community Health Evangelism (CHE)


We are seeing glimmers of what can happen when people are empowered to minister in their own community. We have 24 Community Health Evangelists(CHE's), ministering in over 250 homes, touching close to 1,500 lives. The CHE's are equipped to meet physical needs, assisting people who are ill, helping to prevent disease (especially HIV/AIDS), but they are also equipped to minister spiritually.

Here's how it works:

1) A Training Team of four or five people, made up of nationals and internationals, enters a community and finds a church or community group to host them. They then work together to raise up a Committee that will oversee the work. The nationals on the Training Team are paid and the internationals usually raise support from individuals or churches.

2) The Committee members serve as volunteers and are trained by the Training Team. The Committee then recruits CHE's (Community Health Evangelists).

3) The CHE's are trained by the Training Team to minister holistically (emotional, mental, social, physical and spiritual) in homes throughout the community. They are volunteers who spend 4-5 hours per week visiting between 15-30 homes per month.
The CHE's will each care for approximately 180 people each, so when you multiply this out in the community over 5 years, a single community has the potential to be touching 50,000 people through a single training team. Think of the implications of this kind of multiplication physically, emotionally, mentally, socially and spiritually!

Now that you know a little bit about what CHE is, please read the following blog to see how this program is working in the community of Philippi and how you can be praying...