Community Health Evangelism, or CHE (pronounced “chay”), is a grass-roots movement that has revolutionized the way global missions is done around the world. It promotes Christ-centered holistic development through empowerment strategies that avoid unhealthy dependencies. CHE concentrates efforts on long-term solutions that break the cycle of poverty and disease. CHE workers train, equip, and empower people to do for themselves. IDM or Integral Disciple Making merges CHE with the effective practices of Disciple-Making Movement strategies.
CHE & IDM
Community Health Evangelism
& Integral Disciple Making
A holistic missions strategy addressing the physical, social, and spiritual needs.
An Incredible Strategy That Addresses Our Need for Restoration and Reconciliation
- God created the earth and all that is in it is His.
- God created man with purpose, to live in relation with Him and others to bring Him glory.
- Because of man’s disobedience to God, those relations are no longer at peace.
- But God so desires to right those broken relationships that He sent His Son to die for our sins.
- God desires for us a full and abundant life in Him, through faith in His Son.
CHE is an incredible strategy to address these very issues of restoration and reconciliation. CHE is committed to complete obedience to all that Jesus commanded, including compassion for the physical needs of people as well as evangelism and discipleship.
What if you could meet the spiritual and physical needs of a community without creating unhealthy dependencies?
Become a CHE/IDM Trainer
Become a CHE/IDM trainer and learn how to educate, equip, and empower communities around the block and around the world.
Duration: 4 Days
Suggested for mission pastors, church outreach teams, missionaries, and those desiring to meet people where they are – walking alongside as the salt and light of Jesus.
Using CHE, the local people own and initiate sustainable programs.
Ownership and initiative are demonstrated through volunteerism and strengthened through capacity building. CHE trainers take time in communities to participate with the people in assessing their needs, identifying resources, and assisting them in organizing for action through training and consultation. CHE believes people must be active participants in their own development.
The aim is not merely projects, but movements. This is facilitated by training people to train others using transferable concepts that are contextualized and culturally appropriate for successful multiplication.
CHE emphasizes the use of local resources and appropriate technologies so that solutions can be passed along neighbor to neighbor. CHE builds cooperation and vision at a community level. CHE works collaboratively with faith and community-based organizations, local and international relief and development agencies, churches and missions, as well as governments, to facilitate the transformation of communities and nations.
What is IDM?
Integral Disciple Making (IDM) merges both the proclamation (words) and demonstration (deeds) of the gospel. It is a marriage of the methodology found in DMM and the strategy of CHE.
Throughout the Gospels there are numerous examples of Jesus’ integrated approach in ministry; addressing physical ailments or material needs as a segue into the spiritual nature and salvation of man. So how can our life and ministry today reflect that same holistic discipleship? What does it look like to integrate the development of CHE within a group while being obedient to making disciples who make disciples?