| dc.description.abstract | Chinese Indonesians are courteously called Tionghoa, an upper-class and
urbanized community in Indonesia where the majority are engaged in the economic
sector (Indonesia, 2010). Recently their population has gone up to about 10 million
(Suryadinata, Arifin, & Ananti, 2003). Religiously, they respect all deities, worship the
ancestors, and believe in life after death (Ro & Albrect, 1988; Thompson, 1979).
In 2017, a health ministry called Klub Hidup Sehat Bandung (KHSB) was
established (KHSB, 2017, p. 1). The aim of this ministry was to reach the Tionghoa in
Bandung. Although Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missions have been operating in
Bandung since 1916, only 2 Tionghoa SDA Churches were established with a meager
membership of approximately 150 people (Hua An SDA Church, 2016; Sinaga,
Yonathan, & Reinaldi, 2016).
To address this challenge, this study aims to describe the health ministry of Elisha
to Naaman and the writings of Ellen G. White regarding health ministry in order to
explore how to evangelize the affluent society. It also seeks to define the context of the
Tionghoa, investigate the effectiveness of the KHSB in reaching out to the Tionghoa, and
recommend effective principles in evangelizing them.
Based on the outcomes of this research, there are 6 major factors that effectively
contributed to the KHSB ministry. These are healthy grocery shops, Saturday completely
healthy lifestyle program, health seminar, health check-up, cooking class, and health
expo. The result is about 1000 Tionghoas attended the program, and in 2019 there are 15
of them attended Sabbath worship program. | en_US |
