Our ministry network partners were among almost 30 participants in a CHE training at Quisqueya Chapel in Port-au-Prince. CHE is short for "Community Health Evangelism" and is a method of holistic health care / community transformation that puts an emphasis on ministering to people body, soul and spirit. First developed by Stan Roland and Campus Crusade back in the eighties, today CHE is being utilized around the world to mobilize believers in underdeveloped countries to reach out to their communities with both practical health training and spiritual training. We were very privileged to host the CHE training team from Northern Haiti for a full week course called TOT1 (Training of Trainers 1). Pictured from left to right (top) is Evelyn, Osse, and American missionary Dr. Liz Flemming. This dynamic trio kept us on our toes utilizing large group presentation, small group discussions, group problem solving, role playing and team presentations to help participants learn how to interact and think in a way that will help them work with community leaders. The next step is for participants to choose a neighborhood they feel CHE could make a good impact and then begin working with people in each community to form committees that will define important needs and recruit and train CHE's. (Community Health Evangelists) It is the CHE's who will begin to go door to door visiting their neighbors and ministering to them holistically. Lord willing, once these initial steps have been completed, there will be another one week course that will give us more details on how to begin training the committees and CHE's in each community. We and our partners are very excited and are beginning to investigate several communities where we think the Lord would enable us to use CHE as an effective ministry tool.

For a more detailed description of CHE please visit the following web site:

http://chenetwork.org/whatische.php