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06/05/2026

She used to sit in the back.
Not because there wasn't room up front. Because speaking meant being seen, and being seen felt like a risk she wasn't ready to take.
RN joined a community health program in Southeast Asia in 2016. She was quiet. Uncertain. She didn't know how to plan, how to network, or how to stand in front of a room and say something worth hearing.
The program ended in 2021.
Five years later, a survey team knocked on her door.
She is now a contracted government health educator, working at the sub-district level on maternal and child health. She coordinates across sectors. She leads teams. She shows up.
When they asked her about the program, she didn't reach for a polished answer.
"Sometimes I miss gathering together," she said. "I'm grateful to have joined because through the past program, I learned to speak in public and became who I am today."
She learned to speak in public.
And became who she is today.

05/15/2026

Remember the woman we told you about on Thursday?
The one who left with two daughters and nowhere to go. Who got up at 5:30am and worked until 10pm. Who went quiet when anyone mentioned God.
Here's the rest of the story.
A CHE worker showed Jane a photo of a cooking stove they had seen in South Sudan. Jane went home and built one herself. Then she tried to teach her neighbors to do the same.
They told her it was too much work.
Jane leads the business committee of her savings group now. She grows vegetables, onions, eggplant, soybeans. She bundles firewood and stores it in the rafters of her kitchen so her daughters always have a meal even when it rains. Her cousins visit. She smiles.
And when the CHE team comes by, Jane asks them to pray for her. For strength to get through the hardships.
The woman who once didn't want to hear God's name now asks for prayer.
This past Mother's Day, we were thinking about mothers like Jane. The ones who kept showing up when there was very little reason to believe it would get easier.
It did.

05/13/2026

Jane had been sitting in the trainings for months, carrying everything, before she asked to speak with someone privately.
She sat down and told the whole story. Tears in her eyes, a heaviness in her heart. The uncle. The in-laws. The years alone. And the anger at God, who she felt had abandoned her and let all of it happen to her and her children.
They prayed with her. Then they asked her one thing.
Consider forgiving the people who hurt you. Not for them. For yourself.
Jane went home and sat with that.
Then one day she made a decision. She traveled back to her home area, sat down with her family, and told them how she had been hurt. All of it. Her uncle, the man who had spearheaded taking her father's property and sending her away, was there.
She asked for forgiveness. They did the same.
They reconciled.
"I felt like a load had been lifted off me."
She went home to her daughters.

05/12/2026

In northern Uganda, there is a woman named Jane.
She has a vegetable garden, soybean crops, and a cooking stove she built herself from a photo someone showed her. She leads the business committee of her savings group. Her cousins come to visit now.
But that's not where the story starts.
It starts the day her father died, and her uncle decided to sell the property and send her away.
She had nowhere to go back to. Her mother had died years earlier. So when she got pregnant, she stayed with her in-laws instead of going to her parents as custom required. They didn't believe she had no family to go to. They concluded she was lying.
They sent her away with her two daughters and an accusation she couldn't defend herself against.
She used the small share of her father's property she'd been given, moved to a new community, and started over.
Her neighbors saw a woman living alone as a bad omen. She got up at 5:30am, worked until 10pm, and did every job herself because there was no one else.
She started showing up to a community health training nearby. Sat through the sessions. Listened.
When God came up, she went quiet in a different way.

04/15/2026

After COVID, they had tried everything.
Community programs. New initiatives. Meetings that led to more meetings. Nothing seemed to stick. The discouragement was real.
CHE learning sessions brought this group of men in Indonesia back together. Not with a new program to follow, but with a different question: what could they build themselves?
They wrote a proposal for a goat-raising program, a partnership model where the work and the profit would be shared among themselves. Funding didn't come right away. So they kept farming. And it was that faithfulness, showing up and working while they waited, that carried them to the moment they'd been planning for.
When the time came to buy the first goats, the group made a decision: everyone would go to the market together to choose them. Not one person. Not a committee. Everyone.
Five goats. Shared responsibility. A group savings fund they built themselves to buy more.

03/25/2026

Humans make idols.
That thought came to Moray Naro and wouldn't leave.
Her family had worshipped idols for as long as she could remember. They organized their home around them, appealed to them, trusted them. Her husband sold goods from the street to keep the household going. Life was what it was.
Then a neighbor began sharing stories about a living God.
Not arguments. Not confrontations. Stories.
Moray Naro listened. She thought. She brought the question to her husband.
If people made the idols, how could they be God?
They talked. They decided. They acted.
Then they broke the idol.
"I became very happy and felt peace and comfort in my heart. I completely trust and believe in Jesus."
Her husband still sells goods from the street. The home is the same home.
But what stood in the center of it has changed.
"Now we believe in the living God only."
Name changed for security.

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03/23/2026

For most of his life, Aarón was easy to overlook.
He has Chiari Malformation, a condition that affects his balance, coordination, and speech. When his mother died and his father couldn't care for him, his aunt and uncle took him in. He found a seat in the back of church and stayed there.
Then the music started.
From his bench, slowly, he began to follow the rhythm on his tambourine. Then he added to it.
The church moved him to the front, to the place where he felt valued, standing with the other musicians.
Little by little, people he had never met started finding him after the service. "You were such a blessing to me," they would tell him. His estranged father came one Sunday, watched him play, and gave his life to Christ.
Aarón is taking drum lessons now. He arrives at church and takes his place at the front, with the other musicians.
The Kingdom of God needs many more drummers for Jesus, like Aarón.
Story originally shared in Healing Lives Magazine, Fall 2022.

03/21/2026

People with disabilities aren’t burdens to be managed. They’re neighbors, contributors, and image-bearers with gifts the rest of the community needs.
That’s something Community Health Evangelism works to make real. CHE training helps communities see who they’ve been overlooking, and why it matters. The mothers who learned to advocate for their children. The community health workers who started making home visits to families they used to avoid. The church leaders who began asking: who in our village is missing, and why?
Change at that level doesn’t make headlines. But it’s real, and it lasts.
On World Down Syndrome Day, we’re grateful for every community learning to see differently.

Photos courtesy of Healing Lives Magazine, Fall 2022.

03/18/2026

In 2015, fifteen women in Metro Manila received a grant to buy sewing machines.
The report describes them only as mothers who had been “deprived of livelihood.” They started slowly. Church uniforms. Rugs. Doormats. Getting orders from larger stores was hard. Some women stayed. Others didn’t.
Then 2020 arrived. Like everyone else, the work stopped. The machines sat quiet for almost two years.
When the sewing picked up again in late 2021, the group that came back was held together by something that had been growing alongside the work all along: weekly Bible studies led by a pastor who had completed CHE training.
They had been studying women who worked with their hands and changed the world doing it.
Dorcas, who spent her life sewing garments for widows and the poor, and whose death stopped an entire community cold. Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth who became the first person in Europe to follow Christ, and who immediately opened her home to the church.
Ten years after that original grant, the group is still running.
And this Christmas, the women who were once deprived of livelihood sat together at those machines and sewed clothes for poor children in their community’s gift-giving program.
They had become the story they used to study.

03/16/2026

Her family had tried everything.
Doctors. Herbal medicines. Fortune tellers. Monks. Witchcraft. When Srey Nuch’s health kept declining, her parents kept searching and kept spending. Fruits and offerings for the spirits. Fees for the fortune tellers. Year after year.
Nothing worked.
With no options left, a CHE volunteer introduced them to Pastor Chheng Nan. She told Srey Nuch: “Jesus is the Lord of Lords and Doctor of Doctors, and nothing is impossible for Him.”
Three days later, Srey Nuch’s health improved. On January 22, 2025, she gave her life to Christ. Today, she and her parents attend church and CHE trainings together. And the change she keeps coming back to isn’t the one you’d expect:
“I can save a lot of money by not buying the different fruits and things to offer to the demon, and I no longer have to bow before the evil spirit.”
The searching is over.

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