Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is a plan developed by Lifewind International for individual and community development through physical and spiritual teaching. LifeWind International does not do development. Instead we teach CHE to local trainers, who teach CHE to their own people in some of the poorest places in the world. These people do development for themselves.Local people do it for themselves by:
- Choosing their own people to be in charge
- Choosing their own priorities of what to change
- Choosing their own people to be trained to teach house to house
- Finding their own resources, and
- Accomplishing their own goals when and where they choose.
Local people own and manage their CHE plans. We just train their teachers. Often the plans villagers choose employ low-tech, low-cost solutions. These plans build on established relationships, and focus on preventing problems, as well as promoting spiritual growth. Local people sustain their own CHE successes. LifeWind trains their trainers, cheers for them, and tells their stories to others. It does not cost a lot, but the demand is overwhelming.
We teach by:
- Telling stories – stories from the Bible and stories of what other people have done
- Triggering participation from the learners
- Asking the right questions
- Asking, “What if …?”
- And their trainers write down their answers.
What if they want us to do something for them instead of doing it for themselves?
- We wait.
- We look for a local champion to step out and say, “I am tired of things being the way they are. Let’s do something for ourselves.”
- Or we go somewhere else. Past experience with handouts makes some villages unready for CHE.
Does CHE work? You decide.
- Malnutrition and death in young children has frequently been cut in half through CHE.
- In some places, average local incomes have more than doubled.
- Hundreds of thousands of people in thousands of places are growing to know Jesus well – personally.
- Through prayer and CHE, thousands of churches have been planted, or have grown dramatically. They have learned to serve their neighbors in ways that make a huge difference.
- CHE is working in 105 countries around the world that we know of – maybe more.
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