The Dominican Evangelical Church (IED) and Community Health Evangelism

January-July 2018: A roundup review of the CHE work in southwestern Dominican Republic: Blog #7 As many of you know, Jenny and I are mission workers with the Presbyterian Church (USA), working for their international mission outreach agency, World Mission ( PC(USA) World Mission ).  We have been stationed in the Dominican Republic since 2012, helping promote, support and develop the Community Health Evangelism outreach program of our partner here, the Dominican Evangelical Church (IED--Iglesia Evangélica Dominicana). 2018 has been an an exciting year, with three of the four communities where we work taking on a number of new challenges.  This blog is part of a series of eleven short presentations of the work that has been developing.  I am posting them in reverse order so that the images from January will be at the "beginning." This also represents a commitment on my part to fully complete my blog ambitions. Clean up Day in Batey 7 (Blog #7) Just three days after the &

January-July 2018: A roundup review of the CHE work in southwestern Dominican Republic: Blog #8 As many of you know, Jenny and I are mission workers with the Presbyterian Church (USA), working for their international mission outreach agency, World Mission ( PC(USA) World Mission ).  We have been stationed in the Dominican Republic since 2012, helping promote, support and develop the Community Health Evangelism outreach program of our partner here, the Dominican Evangelical Church (IED--Iglesia Evangélica Dominicana). 2018 has been an an exciting year, with three of the four communities where we work taking on a number of new challenges.  This blog is part of a series of eleven short presentations of the work that has been developing.  I am posting them in reverse order so that the images from January will be at the "beginning." This also represents a commitment on my part to fully complete my blog ambitions. A Trip to Haiti: Yard Gardens and CHE As many of you

January-July 2018: A roundup review of the CHE work in southwestern Dominican Republic: Blog #9 As many of you know, Jenny and I are mission workers with the Presbyterian Church (USA), working for their international mission outreach agency, World Mission ( PC(USA) World Mission ).  We have been stationed in the Dominican Republic since 2012, helping promote, support and develop the Community Health Evangelism outreach program of our partner here, the Dominican Evangelical Church (IED--Iglesia Evangélica Dominicana). 2018 has been an an exciting year, with three of the four communities where we work taking on a number of new challenges.  This blog is part of a series of eleven short presentations of the work that has been developing.  I am posting them in reverse order so that the images from January will be at the "beginning." This also represents a commitment on my part to fully complete my blog ambitions. Domestic Violence: A CHE lesson in Casandra For a number

Young women of Batey 7 imagine what they hope for their community January-July 2018: A roundup review of the CHE work in southwestern Dominican Republic: Blog #10 As many of you know, Jenny and I are mission workers with the Presbyterian Church (USA), working for their international mission outreach agency, World Mission ( PC(USA) World Mission ).  We have been stationed in the Dominican Republic since 2012, helping promote, support and develop the Community Health Evangelism outreach program of our partner here, the Dominican Evangelical Church (IED--Iglesia Evangélica Dominicana). 2018 has been an an exciting year, with three of the four communities where we work taking on a number of new challenges. This blog is part of a series of eleven short presentations of the work that has been developing. I am posting them in reverse order so that the images from January will be at the "beginning." This is also represents a commitment on my part to fully complete my blog a

January-July 2018: A roundup review of the CHE work in southwestern Dominican Republic: Blog #11 As many of you know, Jenny and I are mission workers with the Presbyterian Church (USA), working for their international mission outreach agency, World Mission ( PC(USA) World Mission ). We have been stationed in the Dominican Republic since 2012, helping promote, support and develop the Community Health Evangelism outreach program of our partner here, the Dominican Evangelical Church (IED--Iglesia Evangélica Dominicana). Since 2012, our community work has been focused on the area near where we live in the southwestern corner of the Dominican Republic. There have been many difficult times as we have struggled to learn what CHE is all about and to apply it with integrity and transparency. While we understand that real transformation comes through the actions of the Holy Spirit and not ours, we also believe that there should be real and measurable improvements in the lives of the commun

Bellanira, a Community Health Evangelism (CHE) facilitator in the Casandra community  in Barahona prepares a newsprint with information that her group discovered as they explored the  community of Boca Canasta using their five senses. Boca Canasta is a neighborhood in the southern part of Baní where the IED training center is located. This was one of the exercises during the three day workshop that we  (Mark and Jenny) expect participants to take back and use in their own communities or neighborhoods where they are implementing the practice of CHE. NOTE: I am posting as is, but will return and add photos. A New Phase for Us Last week Jenny and I started a new phase in our work with the Community Health Evangelism initiative of the Dominican Evangelical Church (IED--Iglesia Evangélica Dominicana). We held our very first full-blown training course at the IED's retreat and training center in Bani. Since we had not yet led any CHE workshops, of course we started with the sec