Christian Community Health and Development organizers need to be thinking beyond the implementation of projects scattered here and there in targeted communities, to movements that sweep the whole country. There are keys to mobilizing medical volunteers and leveraging community. To achieve this, greater attention must be given to mobilizing volunteers who participate in their own development and work together to sustain and build on their successes. In this workshop we will learn keys to mobilizing community volunteers who transfer what they have experienced and learned from person to person and community to community, taking the Gospel with them as they go.
The recent research on HIV reported in the past year
has been characterized by leaders in the field as ‘game changing.’ There are new approaches to prevention
and treatment that have the potential for major changes
in the way the disease is approached. This breakout session will not only discuss these developments, but it will also be an opportunity for you to be involved in discussions about how the developments can best be utilized and the complex issues surrounding implementation, funding, and cultural issues.
Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is a breakthrough mission strategy that seamlessly integrates evangelism and discipleship with disease prevention and community-based development. Through these ministries people become followers of Jesus, churches are planted, and entire communities are lifted out
of cycles of poverty and disease. Terry Dalrymple
has been instrumental in guiding the expansion of a worldwide CHE movement that now involves more than 400 organizations in 105 countries. In this workshop, Terry will outline key principles of integrated community health and development ministry, describe how to implement a CHE program, define indicators used to measure success, and identify resources and potential partners to help you get CHE started in your target community.
When people in the developing world want someone to teach about health issues like
HIV, they look to medical people. Thus, whether you are going for a short- or long-term trip, you may well be asked, “Are you ready?” Unless you specialize in infectious disease, how much do you really know about the disease? What is your goal
in teaching? What do people really need to know? Perhaps the most important question is how do you communicate the facts about disease to
an audience that has very little, if any, understanding of science. In fact, many have
a deep distrust of science. This breakout session is based on more than 26
years of experience teaching about HIV around the world. The interactive discussion will help you think through the questions above as the facilitator shares with you the stories God has given him that communicate the important concepts in ways that are easily understood and applied by audiences in cultures
that are very different from our own.
