Community Health Programs as Evangelistic Entry Points

Executive summary

The Adventist health message has functioned as the "right arm of the gospel" since Ellen White first articulated this strategy in the 19th century. Community health programmes — CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Program), cooking schools, health expos, stop-smoking clinics, and health screening events — represent the denomination's most distinctive evangelistic entry point, backed by over 35 published scientific papers documenting CHIP's clinical effectiveness in chronic disease prevention and r...