The Community Health Programme of  Church of North India, The Synodical Board of Health Services found its roots in the consultations that took place in the early nineties, which led to the 1994 document “Vision 2000: The Church in the Healing Ministry”. This direct involvement with vulnerable communities would help re-focus the hospitals and place the healing ministry of the Church in the heart of need.

The Community Health Programme was intended to create a paradigm shift in the thinking, from the era where the Healing Ministry of the Church was thought to be synonymous with the running of mission hospitals, a technical task that is the prerogative of health professionals - to an understanding that it is the Healing Ministry of the Church, integral to the understanding of what the Church is and what it signifies – the mandate of all church members and church leaders.

The Community Health Programme today is a community based Peoples Programme reaching out to the most vulnerable communities at the grass roots with main focus on women and children. 

The Community Health Programme is successfully going on in various States of India such as Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Punjab focusing on different health aspects of the marginalised and vulnerable communities at the grass roots. A transformation in the health status of the marginalised and poor communities residing in these villages can be felt. The Income Generation Programmes have also grown. The Communities are taking a keen interest as far as health and hygiene is concerned. Many Self Help Groups (SHGs) have been formed in the respective project areas.