The CHE program – Community Health Evangelism – works according to the following process:

• People take responsibility for their own physical and spiritual health.  The main goal is transformed individual lives which will in turn affect others’ lives, who will in turn affect others.  In this way the community is progressively transformed from the inside out.

The training team initiates the program and usually comes from outside the area.  Each training team consists of two to four people with a combination of vocational skills.  Through training, this team comes to the community to do the following:

• Awaken a vision in the community for holistic ministry.
• Help the community identify their needs and problems.
• Assist the community to do something about their needs and problems. 

2.  The community then selects a committee of leaders who represent the community and will supervise the work. 
3.  The training team trains the committee about its role and helps them to decide how they will supervise the program. 
4.  The committee then chooses Community Health Evangelists, or CHEs, people who are capable of communicating and transferring what they learn. 
5.  The training team trains the committee and then the CHEs about physical and spiritual topics.  The training topics include evangelism, discipleship, agriculture, water purification, disease prevention, building latrines, first aid, micro-enterprise, etc.  In each lesson the physical topics are tied to spiritual topics to achieve a true understanding of the good news.  The CHEs visit homes in the community under the supervision of the committee and are occasionally accompanied by a member of the training team. 
6.  The committee or local leadership supervises the daily work of the CHEs.  The responsibility and the initiative come from the local people, not from the trainers from the outside.  
7.  The CHEs visit between 25 – 50 homes, sharing what they have learned on physical and spiritual topics. 
8.  Community projects are initiated by the committee, mobilizing the community and the CHEs who provide technical supervision.  The trainers also participate in this process to help obtain items which may be lacking, but the goal for the project to come from the community itself.  This provides a feeling of ownership and builds the self-esteem of the local people as they see that they are capable of solving their own problems.
9.  The training team then leaves the area after working in the community for three to five years, but the program continues since it is owned by the community and not an outside group.