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Every year we host a missions conference in Phoenix aimed at connecting, educating, and equipping believers for word and deed ministries that transform lives, families, and communities. This year the conference will be held in the arena at Grand Canyon University, May 4-7. CHE workers from around the world will gather along with mission leaders, pastors, and believers who want to use their vocations for the advance of the Kingdom of God. The conference this year features 112 workshops in 12 tracks, along with five keynote speakers.

Register today and come as our guest.

Representatives from 11 European nations gathered in Paris last week

Terry had the privilege of helping to plan and to participate in the first annual Urban Wholistic Development Conference in Europe. We are praying that this will be the beginning of a movement by the church in Europe to reach the cities of Europe with word and deed ministries that transform lives, families, and communities. We all went away with a strong sense that God was beginning to do something new among us. Committees were formed to provide training and catalyze the work in the different parts of Europe. The next conference is scheduled for Brussels, Belgium, April 26-28, 2017.

Pray with us!

• Pray that all who come to the conference in Phoenix will leave better equipped for the task God has called them to do.
• Pray for the newly formed committees who will advance the work in different parts of Europe.
• Pray that the Gospel will go forth in power in post Christian Europe, that people will come to faith in Christ, and communities will be transformed.
• Pray that God will supply the needed funds to complete the work he has called us to do.

Praise with us!

• Praise God for keeping Terry safe as he traveled in creative access areas.
• Praise God for national ministries inside the 10/40 window that have adopted 16,000 unreached villages at the first five Million Village Challenge consultations.
• Praise God for open doors to mobilize for the Kingdom among unreached peoples.
• Praise God for new partners who have pledged to our support in the last month.
• Take a look at our heat map and see what God is doing globally by a short visit to our website.
• Get day to day reports about work around the world by following the Global CHE Network on Facebook.
• Follow us personally be friending Terry on Facebook.

April 2016 Prayer Letter

Last month I was reminded of God’s faithfulness as we received word that Risen Lord Christian Fellowship, a church we planted in the Philippines, celebrated its 27th anniversary in November. One of the elders of the church, Attorney Pablo Roces Nava III (shown with his family below), is now a congressman in the Philippines as well as a leader in the church. He and the APPEND party he heads have championed micro-finance for the poor throughout the country, empowering tens of thousands of families to work their way out of chronic poverty, transforming their lives, their children’s futures, and their communities. Attorney Nava and his wife, Gilda, are dear friends and co-workers who brought us great encouragement as we served together in the city of Iloilo.

Last Saturday, I had the privilege of speaking at “boot camp” to 350 students from Grand Canyon University that are preparing to go on mission trips during spring break or summer vacation. It was encouraging to be in the presence of so many young people who love the Lord and want to serve. Pray with me that God will use them to bring salvation and blessing to people around the world, and shape them personally in the process for His glory.

Open doors

On February 21, I leave for four weeks in West Africa to train in a CHE internship in Ghana, and then help facilitate mobilization conferences for the Million Village Challenge in Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Our goal for this journey is to mobilize 100 organizations to take up the Million Village Challenge, adopting unreached villages in North Africa and committing to reach them with the Good News of the Gospel.

Pray with us!

• Pray for courage and safety for Terry and those he travels with in creative access areas.
• Pray that 50 organizations will gather in Northern Nigeria, and 50 more in Burkina Faso.
• Pray that each organization will take up the Million Village Challenge and mobilize for ministry to unreached villages in North Africa.
• Pray for champions among the three unreached and unengaged people groups being targeted.
• Pray that the Gospel will go forth in power, that people will come to faith in Christ, and communities will be transformed.
• Pray for the interns from all over Africa who will finish out their internship with Terry and then return to their home countries to train and equip others for CHE work.
• Pray that God will supply the needed funds to complete the work he has called us to do.

Praise with us!

• Praise God for Risen Lord Christian Fellowship, and 27 years of faithful ministry in the city of Iloilo.
• Praise God for open doors to mobilize for the Kingdom among unreached peoples.
• Praise God for new partners who have pledged to our support in the last month.
• Take a look at our heat map and see what God is doing globally by a short visit to our website.
• Get day to day reports about work around the world by following the Global CHE Network on Facebook.
• Follow us personally be friending Terry on Facebook.

February 2016 Prayer Letter

What God did at the first Million Village Challenge Mobilization Conference in South Asia was beyond all expectations. More than fifty organizations gathered in the State of Jharkhand in India, targeting 22 districts and three unengaged people groups using the Community Health Evangelism (CHE) strategy. Initial reports indicate that nearly 14,000 villages were adopted by the organizations that gathered. CHE training has already been scheduled for several groups with more on the way.

Pray with us now for mobilization conferences in February and March in Myanmar, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso. Conferences are also being scheduled for the fall for the Middle East and North Africa.

The Million Village Challenge

Using proven strategies for transformational community development, partners who accept the challenge will come alongside villagers living in extreme poverty empowering them to find solutions to six key areas contributing to cyclical poverty – clean, accessible water; renewable, nutritious food source; habits for healthy existence and wellness; education for all children; income source for families; and world-views  In the community development process, relationships are developed that lead to faith and fellowships. For more information about the Million Village Challenge, click here.

Praise report!

• Praise that more than 50 organizations gathered and the majority took up the challenge.
• Praise that CHE ministries will be initiated in almost all 22 districts.
• Praise for four champions to serve as coordinators leading the charge.

Pray with us!

• Pray that those being trained will be truly equipped for the challenge, especially among the unengaged and unreached.
• Pray for wisdom and perseverance for the four champions as they cast vision, mobilize and equip.
• Pray that the Gospel will go forth in power, that people will come to faith in Christ, and communities will be transformed.
• Pray for travel funds and personal support to enable Terry to continue his work at future mobilization conferences in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

January 2016 Prayer Letter

Testimony of Hilary Njovo, CHE Trainer, Zambia

At first, when I did not know CHE, I had no knowledge of health issues… I lost my two children – one died of Kwashiorkor (malnourishment), and one died of a boil that was mishandled (not cleaned well which led to infection). If I had known about CHE earlier, I would not have lost my two children. There are a lot of preventable diseases that kill people every day, and when we bring information about health education, many lives are being saved. I am now able to keep my family healthy.

The CHE program is very, very important. I use CHE in my home, with my relatives, and in the community. CHE is very good to use personally. It has helped me a lot. When I started CHE, I was only grade 9. As I received CHE training, and I saw the need for improvement in my education. So I went back to school, while still working and supporting the family, and finished grade 12.

(Spiritually), I was a baby, not mature enough when I joined CHE. After receiving CHE training, I had the opportunity to study the Word of God and keep myself in prayer, and that helped me grow spiritually.

What I have in mind in my heart for the CHE program is supporting people in need. I am planning to reach out my hand to the poor. I was once in a condition of need in which I could not help myself. I encountered a number of problems. Now, since I am grown up, I am able to help my family. But there are others who still need help.

I have acquired a piece of land within Lusaka rural. I took some time to see if my vision can be realized. If I am to bring my vision into reality, I have to take the first step and build a training structure and a school. Empowerment must be incorporated with education. This center will serve as an example for many other centers that need to be built across the country with community participation in the same way the first one will be built.

Meet the founder of CHE Zambia

Lovemore Zulu, the founder of CHE Zambia, has built a nationwide ministry using public transport and with little access to outside resources. His ministry is touching the lives of nearly 200,000 people.

While we were together, Lovemore casually mentioned that 350 Muslims had come to Christ in the east of the country. I asked him to tell me the story. He spent 2 weeks in dialogue with the Imam in a Muslim community, teaching him using CHE moral values lessons. The Imam did not come to Christ, but opened the door for Lovemore and his team to work in the community. Lovemore spent two more weeks in the community instructing the people and went home to Lusaka. Three days after his arrival in Lusaka, he received word from his trainer that the headman had come to Christ, and with him 350 members of the community. Pray for wisdom and strength as his team seeks to follow up this people movement and disciple those who professed faith in Christ.

Prayer requests

• Pray for 493 unengaged unreached people groups with populations of 10,000 or more, that God will use our network to establish CHE ministries in those places.
• Pray for the expansion of the work in Zambia throughout South Africa.
• Pray for Risen Lord Christian Fellowship in Iloilo, that God will continue to use them to multiply churches throughout their region.

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December 2015 Prayer Letter

Leaders from Christian ministries in 21 countries gathered in Albania to discuss CHE as a possible strategy for ministry to Roma Gypsies in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Those who attended the conference are now doing follow up training in 10 countries.

Our long range goal is to help facilitate conferences like this one in every country inside the 10/40 window as part of a Million Village Challenge aimed at mobilizing the global church for integrated ministry in a million unreached villages.

Large gathering at CHE conference

More than 550 gathered in Phoenix for a week of training and networking hosted by the Global CHE Network. The event featured 3 training seminars, 9 pre conferences, and 64 workshops – all aimed at equipping for word and deed ministries that transform lives and communities.

Join us in 2016 at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.

New website launched

If you want to know more about CHE, or find out how you can get involved, check us out at www.chenetwork.org. Our new website is an interactive space where CHE workers around the world will promote their ministries, connect with each other, exchange ideas, and collaborate strategically for greater impact. Watch the map darken and the numbers grow as more and more members fill out their profiles and report what God is doing through their work.

Prayer requests

• 70 leaders from around the globe are gathering in Korea to discuss the Million Village Challenge. Pray for volunteers from this meeting to host mobilization conferences in strategic countries.
• We are selling our home and scaling down. Pray for the right buyer and a smaller home that will meet our changing needs.

September 2015 Prayer Letter

As I look at the manger in Bethlehem, I am struck with the humility of our Savior who identified Himself with the poor. This Christmas, I would like to invite you to pray with me that God will raise up an army to flood the poor in villages and slums around the world with the good news of the kingdom.

Since 1996, your gifts and prayers have enabled us to be part of a group of believers who have been called to train and equip the global church for ministry to the village poor using the strategy of Community Health Evangelism (CHE).

In 2009, we established the Global CHE Network as an association of individuals and organizations bound together by common values and a shared strategy, committed to strengthening each other’s ministries and expanding the CHE movement. Trained members of the Global CHE Network (GCN) now represent more than 650 organizations in 120 countries.

Through these ministries hundreds of thousands have come to Christ and whole villages have been lifted out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Ministry highlights in 2014

January-February: Assisted in the formation of the Haiti CHE Network. Representatives from 13 different organizations attended the first meeting. Mapped 23 active CHE ministries in 90 villages throughout the country.

March-April: Coordinated the second annual International Wholistic Missions Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, aimed at equipping for word and deed ministries that transform lives and communities through the power of the Gospel. The conference included 64 workshops, 10 plenary speakers, 3 training events, and 8 pre-conferences. Will hold the third annual conference in April 2015.

May-June: Traveled to South Africa to train global leaders with Healthcare Christian Fellowship International for leadership in their movement to establish 100,000 CHE ministries in 100 different countries by 2020. Also did a consultation visit with a nationwide CHE program in Zambia with ministries in 64 communities in 10 different provinces. They report 1461 Community Health Evangelists are visiting close to 29,000 homes or 175,320 people every month.

July: Attended Transform World’s Leadership Summit together with evangelical leaders from around the globe and began preparation for the launch of a “Million Village Challenge” from our conference in Phoenix in April. Also visited partners in France and worked out an agreement for a French CHE Network.

August-September: Began work with Central European CHE Network on a major conference in Albania. The conference will be to bring together leaders from more than 10 different countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans with the goal of mobilizing them for CHE ministries and the Million Village Challenge.

October:November: Held a CHE Network meeting in Kentucky. Facilitated nine workshops in two major mission conferences.

We will not stop until every village is flooded with the Good News of the Kingdom.

We are grateful to be in the position to be able to leverage what we have learned for the advance of the kingdom by giving it away to others and providing them with tools to do the work God has called them to do among the poor. Thank you for standing with us.

If you would like to make a year-end contribution, please make checks payable to Alliance for Transformational Ministry (ATM). Note on the memo line Terry Dalrymple GCN-01 and send to 727 E Bethany Home Dr., Suite D-122, Phoenix, AZ, 85014. You may also give online, here.

May your Christmas be filled with his peace and the hope of his return!

“Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests.” -Luke 2:14

December 2014 Prayer Letter

Today is my 55th birthday. Jeannie says I am now her “human coupon”. She wants to take me with her shopping because I am now eligible for senior discounts. On this day, I am sitting down to write to you out of gratitude for the life God has give me and the partners who have journeyed with me in it.

About five years ago, God laid it on my heart to spearhead a European Initiative and mobilize for CHE work in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, there are new programs in Hungary, Serbia, Romania, and Croatia, a French Network headquartered in France, and six different organizations collaborating together to expand the work into Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Jeannie and I have been studying the book of Acts with our men’s and women’s Bible study and Galatians with our home group. In the process we have done some tracing of the Apostle Paul’s missionary journeys. I took a look at my calendar for next year and suddenly realized that God is sending me next year to catalyze work in the same part of the world where the Apostle Paul journeyed (more about that in a minute).

God continues to open doors for our ministry. We are humbled and grateful to be called to places where God is already at work – and so thankful for you who send us. Since my last email letter, we conducted our second wholistic missions conference with more than 600 in attendance, equipped more than 100 people for CHE ministry, visited key CHE partners in Southern Africa including a team in Zambia reaching 69 communities. (The Zambia team has active community health evangelists reaching tens of thousands of homes everyday). In South Africa we trained key leaders from around the globe with Healthcare Christian Fellowship International to help them toward their stated vision of 100,000 CHE programs in the 100+ countries where they have ministry. I traveled to France to draft a partnership with an experienced CHE team that has set up a French CHE Network. I traveled to Switzerland for collaboration with evangelical leaders from around the World at the Transform World Leadership Summit. In addition to the above, we are growing a network service team, now with seven partners, and are preparing for the launch of a new website that will map CHE world and serve as a connecting point for CHE workers everywhere.

In the coming year, I have three major trips scheduled: Ephesus in Turkey, Durres in Albania, and Barcelona in Spain. Paul ministered in Ephesus on his second and third journeys, and in Albania (the region along the east coast of the Aegean Sea, then known as Dalmatia) on his third journey. Paul expressed his desire to go on to Spain after visiting in Rome, but we are uncertain he ever made it there (Romans 15:23-28).

In Ephesus in March, evangelical leaders from around the world will come together to launch a million village challenge aimed at mobilizing and equipping the church for wholistic ministry in a million villages with a special focus on the unreached. I will co-chair this meeting, and Community Health Evangelism will be the primary strategy.

In Albania in April, mission leaders from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans will come together under the banner of the CHE Network with the goal of identifying their portion of Million Village Challenge and launching CHE programs in 14 countries in the region.

In Barcelona, I will gather with other network leaders to study strategies for developing high impact mission networks.

Please accept my sincere thanks for your faithful partnership. I trust all is well with you and yours.

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September 2014 Prayer Letter

Forgive me for being tardy in getting out this first quarter report. In a few hours, about 140 people from more than 40 different countries will be gathered in groups of about 30 for training in the strategy of Community Health Evangelism. One of the exciting things for me is that I am not doing the training, but have been able to turn the teaching over to team members God has raised up in the last few years to serve with me in this harvest.

Tomorrow is a bigger day. The above training events are leading into a one of a kind major missions conference that we are hosting here in Phoenix. Tomorrow, almost 600 people from across the country and around the globe will gather in pursuit of ministries that plant churches while at the same time caring for the physical and social needs of people. For a closer look, click here.

Grateful for what God is doing

In the first four months of this year, I have been blessed to have a part in the following:

1. Building a team of people to serve alongside me in the work of the Global CHE Network. I am no longer working alone, but have 6 others working alongside me to strengthen existing CHE ministries, and to impact whole nations by facilitating collaboration between network members from more than 625 organizations in 126 countries.
2. Facilitating a CHE Network meeting in Haiti. Network members from all over Haiti gathered in February to exchange ideas and collaborate. In the process, we mapped CHE work in Haiti and discovered that there are now CHE programs in 8 of 11 states in that country. I visited one program in one state and have attached a report from that trip. The report is an inspiring snapshot of what God is doing through our ministry in one specific location.
3. Working with a team from the Assemblies of God based in Springfield, MO, to incorporate CHE training into curricula for their Bible colleges and universities worldwide and make the curricula available to other denominations as well.
4. Coordinating, planning, and preparing for the International Wholistic Missions Conference.

Looking forward to what is ahead

• On Monday, May 5, Jeannie and I will board a plane headed to South Africa where we will train key leaders with Healthcare Christian Fellowship International (HCFI). They have set a goal of 100,000 CHE programs in nine different language groups and 100 countries in 10 years.
• On May 16, we will fly from South Africa to Zambia for a consultation visit with a nationwide CHE program in that country.
• Then on May 20, we will fly to Cape Town in South Africa to visit a CHE program in the slums.
• We are going to post updates from this trip on Facebook if you would like to follow along.

A simple action you can take to track with us day to day

I have been told that a good prayer letter is short and sweet and focuses on one thing that readers can do as a result. By those standards, I write lousy prayer letters – and I have for years. Please forgive me.

There is one thing, however, I would like to ask you to do today. Please click this link and follow the Global CHE Network on Facebook. Reports of CHE activity around the world are posted there every day, and it is a great way for you to track with what God is doing through your sacrifice, giving, and prayer. Click here and follow us on Facebook to get daily updates of what God is doing through our ministry.

Thank you for your part in bringing salvation and blessing to people all across the globe.

May 2014 Prayer Letter