Saturday, March 24, 2012

Missionary Education Part 1 C.H.E (Community Health Evangelism)


This week I have been attending full day classes with Equip Intl. learning the basics of mission work. The class was taught from 8:00am - 5:00pm.  Each hour was a different lesson. It is very difficult to put a class like this into words. Topics were always open for discussion and the multiple solutions for problems were what we as a group of 10 evangelists could think of. Every answer was written on a board, no matter how well thought. The class was arrayed in a circle with no tables or podiums. Our leaders, Harold Bracken II and his wife Brenda, sat in different seating arrangements every day to keep us from a feeling of their authority. The whole process Harold and Brenda were modeling is a teaching strategy to use in other cultures. We learned as much or more from each of the missionaries' experiences as we did from the curriculum. This made the assimilation of mass quantities of knowledge easy. I took several pages of notes that earned a special place in my black journal. I used pictures I drew alongside the notes for further retention; scrolls were for verses of valuable scripture that I needed to memorize. Spider webs were networks I can use and such like that. I learned how easy it is to hurt when you want to help. When we sent shoes to Haiti, we put the local cobbler out of business and the same with food and clothing handouts. I learned that you need to assimilate with the culture and learn the language (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11bxy9bSYG4 ß a funny demonstration of why). It would take two weeks to post all the knowledge and experiences I had in one week of CHE. Definitely the best education I have ever received! The classes at Equip are so on key with what is practical in the field. We need a delicate balance of meeting peoples' physical needs: water, medicine, food, and sanitation and their spiritual needs: evangelism, follow up, and discipleship. Equips' main focus is to meet God where he is working. Their main goal is Christ’s Kingdom. Thank you, Lord, for sending me to this place! In a few weeks I plan to pick up a missionary trade to take to the field. I am hoping for Pumping water tech taught by Keith Larrimore, and if I have the funds at that time, a well drilling class will be added. But in all this I must remember "A man may plan his ways, but the Lord prepares his steps". I need to spend time in prayer to see if this is the direction of the Lord our God.http://chenetwork.org/index.php

Prov 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps. – NIV

In Christ,
David Greene

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