Health Programs

Community Health Evangelism Program

Community Health Evangelism (CHE) is a strategy that integrates evangelism, discipleship and church planting with disease prevention and community-based development. The program in Mairowa is comprised of the indigenous training team of individuals from Mairowa and Imara Ministry, the local Mairowa CHE committee and the Mairowa community health evangelists (CHEs). This program equips indigenous leaders who will train local Mairowa villagers (CHEs) to address the needs of the whole person, physically, spiritually, emotionally and socially. The CHE strategy is carried out in such a way that one trained person teaches another person and so on, resulting in multiplied numbers of workers reaching throughout the community and into neighboring communities.

The CHE program is owned by the Mairowa community and empowers people to take responsibility, under God’s leadership and direction, for their own well-being. CHE lessons incorporate a spiritual principle and teach the people to identify their own needs and find ways to solve their problems using local resources. CHE results in sustainable change: lives and communities changed from the inside out. Short-term teams from Scottsdale Bible participate in the ongoing CHE training and equipping of indigenous trainers.

Medical Program

The people in both Kondoa and Mairowa face many health challenges. Tropical diseases such as Malaria, dysentery, parasites, tuberculosis, and AIDS are common, and local medical facilities are sometimes very limited.

Scottsdale Bible has sent four short term mission teams of over 20 health professionals to provided basic medical and dental clinics to our villages. In 2005 and 2006 we visited the Maasai village of Mairowa and demonstrated our concern for the health of their community during a debilitating drought. In 2007 and 2008 our medical and dental teams focused on the health of the sponsored children in the Maasai village and in the school in Kondoa. In 2007 over 400 children were examined in Mairowa. In 2008, 123 students at Kondoa Integrity School experienced a thorough health exam and vision exam.

Future Short Term Health teams will likely continue to focus on maintaining the health of the over 500 children now sponsored in both villages, and responding to needs and requests from the pastors and village committees we work with in Tanzania.