Community Health Evangelism
Clean water and the gospel.
What does clean water have to do with preaching the gospel? ReachGlobal staff in Asia sees a connection as they do evangelism through teaching hygiene and sanitation. In certain areas, nationals have been trained to set up a dried fruit export business. These and many other situations, which have opened doors and ears for evangelism and church planting around the world, are examples of a strategy known as "Community Health Evangelism/Education" or CHE.
The main purpose of CHE is to integrate evangelism, discipleship and church planting with training in basic community health. In just one central Asia location, more than 200 have been trained in CHE, opening up a whole network of villages to the gospel.
There is a vital difference, between "doing things for people to empowering people to do things for themselves." This reflects a foundational principle of the CHE approach: multiplying through empowering the people, then releasing them to help their own.
Read the Philosophy of Health Care to learn more.
