Principles & Practice of Health Evangelism
Appendix B:
Proposed Audit Tool
Textbook pages 284-293
The suggested form for evaluating a health evangelism program that is being conducted (or has been suggested for use) in a local Seventh-day Adventist church is linked below. You may use this form as a guide in your own evaluation of health evangelism programs, and/or you may suggest changes/additions to it in an effort to further develop its usefulness and validity for SDA Health Ministries.
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The OptiHealth Institute has plans to serve as a reviewing organization for SDA health evangelism programs by developing a Review Committee composed of volunteer representatives from the Health Ministry department of church administration at the local Conference level, medical experts, psychologists, health educators, evangelists, and statisticians, as well as certified health evangelists.
Two evaluators will visit in person or teleconference with the program’s author or the corporate headquarters and conduct an interview to obtain the needed information. As an alternative, an evaluator may attend a program directly while it is being conducted.
For the sake of fairness and transparency, the same audit tool will be used to evaluate every health evangelism program. In this way, each program will be judged using the same criteria. Also, a standardized report of the final evaluation will be made available to ensure that direct comparisons of different programs is both efficient and valid.
Two evaluators will visit in person or teleconference with the program’s author or the corporate headquarters and conduct an interview to obtain the needed information. As an alternative, an evaluator may attend a program directly while it is being conducted.
For the sake of fairness and transparency, the same audit tool will be used to evaluate every health evangelism program. In this way, each program will be judged using the same criteria. Also, a standardized report of the final evaluation will be made available to ensure that direct comparisons of different programs is both efficient and valid.