FAME IS A LEADER IN THE CHE NETWORK

Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is a plan for individual and community development through physical and spiritual teaching.

Members of the CHE Network do 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. CHE is big on ownership!Often the plans communities 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. 360 Transformation 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 questions that lead to good answers known by participants
  • Asking, “What if …?”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 communities 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 more than 100 countries around the world.

 

EXAMPLES OF CHE LESSONS

CHE Training Sessions

No CHE trainings have been scheduled at this time. Check the Global CHE network website for trainings near you.

www.chenetwork.org

“Whether you are a missionary, missions pastor, missions team member, going on a missions trip or just simply want to be more of an ‘informed’ giver, I highly recommend CHE training. It can be used for planting churches or for community development…rural or urban…open or closed country. That’s the beauty of it….it’s moldable and flexible so that no two CHE plants look the same”

Judy Fish, Team Expansion, Holistic Development Facilitator

What is Training Of Trainers 1 (TOT 1) Training?

This phase of training is aimed at understanding the Biblical basis for CHE and basic principles of holistic community-based development. Participants learn steps for implementation, how to choose a target community and strategies for entering the community. Participants learn basic skills for raising awareness, organizing, and mobilizing the community for cooperative action.

Learning is facilitated in a participatory style through a process of guided self-discovery using large and small group discussions, various hands-on activities, and methods that can be replicated to the village setting. From start to finish, locals are the decision makers in the CHE process. This ensures that programs are sustainable and contextualized.

About Judy Fish, CHE Facilitator

“After 18 years in holistic development ministry, I joined the Team Expansion International Services staff in June of 2017 as Holistic Development Facilitator. During those years I had the joy of witnessing the transformation brought to families and whole communities through the developmental strategy of CHE (Community Health Evangelism).

Within each of those families and communities there lie’s a story that reflects the greater story of redemption we read in Scripture…through the unfathomable love of Jesus.  It’s a story of a people dearly loved and created in the image of their Father. It’s the story of disobedience, rebellion and rejection of their Creator. It’s the story of a Rescuer who made a way to bring them back and restore them to their Father. It’s the story of love and loss, sin and redemption, brokenness and healing.  This is my heart of ministry, evangelism and restoration.”

Judy now is the Director of Training for Emerge Global. www.emergeglobal.net