CHE, Community Health Evangelism

We had a very exciting week of co-leading a class in CHE or Community Health Evangelism at Equip headquarters and training center in Marion, NC.  (www.equipinternational.com)

CHE is an integrated approach that works with a community through practical helps and Biblical discipleship.  The goal is always to share the Word that some may come to a saving knowledge of Jesus.

This was a very special class for us as one of the couples has recently joined Equip and will be serving with us in Honduras, and our daughter, Kelly, was taking the class as well.

Each morning started bright and early with a breakfast at 7:00 followed by a devotion/sermonette by the Equip founder and former director, Barrie Flitcroft.

Sitting to the left of Ellen (your left) is Harold and Brenda Bracken who were the class leaders and who originally lead our first CHE class in 2008.

Kelly is the third person in from the right and seated to her right (your left) is our friend from Honduras, Ena.

The CHE method is participatory learning.  Ellen is leading this session but she is seated like everyone else and the woman writing on the newsprint board is the "scribe" for the session.

CHE is community based and owned.  Pictured above is a method a community could use to vote on a project.  People had placed items to symbolize things they would like worked on and then each community member had four leaves to vote on the projects.

Training is through a path of discovery.  Here the class had been broken up into four groups and each group prioritized the cards they were given.

Then all the cards were laid out together and the order was discussed.

Sometimes lessons are started with a short skit to help identify the theme.  Afterwards the attendees were asked what did they see, what was happenings, etc, and finally, does this happen in your community.

Our class was diverse with people not only working in many different countries but even coming from as far away as Nigeria.  Above is Daniel, he and his wife are Equip missionaries, and they serve in the largest home for disabled children in Nigeria.

Here is our new "Team Honduras" with Harold and Brenda!  We had a fantastic week of training and look forward to what the Lord has planned for us to do!!  The new couple, Greg and Janet Brewster, are looking to be based about 25 minutes from us and will be exploring exactly where the Lord wants them when they return to Honduras.  Kelly is coming to Honduras for about three months to explore possibilities to serve as a midwife while helping us in our CHE ministry.  Ena lives in Honduras and will be assisting us, and we her, in many areas of ministry!  All in all, we are so incredibly excited for the team of folks the Lord has brought together to encourage one another, to seek His face, and to work to expand the Kingdom to God's glory!!

For we are God’s handiwork, 

created in Christ Jesus to do good works, 

which God prepared in advance for us to do. 

Eph 2:10