LifeWind International operates around the world in eight distinct regions each of which is overseen by a Regional Coordinator. The Regional Coordinator is supported by a network of Area Coordinators, Community Health Evangelist Coordinators (CHE's) and CHE Volunteers. There are more than 17,000 trained volunteers spread around the globe.
There are six primary steps in the process of Community Health Evangelism that the LifeWind organization oversees in a village.Step 1: Casting a Vision for Holistic Ministry
CHE Coordinators lead vision seminars with leaders from area churches, missions, faith based organizations, and governments. Alliances are formed, plans made, workers recruited and funding secured.
Step 2: Equipping the CHE Team
CHE Coordinators train a team of three or four national Christians, equipping them to implement Community Health Evangelism programs in multiple communities. CHE Coordinators visit the teams they train periodically and continue to mentor and coach the teams through the course of the development process.
Step 3: Community Awareness and Organization
The CHE team works with leaders in the community to raise awareness of needs and opportunities, and to unite the community with a common vision for a better quality of life. The community elects representatives to serve on a development committee.
Step 4: Training and Mobilizing Volunteers
The CHE team trains the development committee and equips these elected representatives to manage the development process in their village. Volunteers are recruited from the community and trained by the CHE team to visit homes sharing God's Word while meeting felt needs. These volunteers may teach about immunization and then escort the families to a clinic to get their children immunized, or teach about good nutrition and help the families dig kitchen gardens, or teach about the importance of clean water and help families with ways sanitize their drinking water. An infrastructure of relationships is established through which information can flow. Changes are introduced one topic at a time.
Step 5: Capacity Building and Church Planting
The CHE team continues to mentor and coach the committee, assisting them in a continual process of identifying problems, researching solutions, finding resources, making plans, recruiting volunteers, and evaluating results. Self help groups are formed for livelihood, economic, and agricultural development. People who come to Christ are discipled in new life groups and churches are established with a vision and plan for holistic ministry. Church and community work together for holistic development and the church is recognized as a transforming agent in its community.
Step 6: Multiplication
The CHE team moves to another community to repeat the process in nearby communities. The CHE team multiplies itself by equipping selected committee members and volunteers as trainers. These volunteers join with a member of the original CHE team in reaching out to a neighboring community.
