Lausanne World Pulse – Perspectives Articles – HIV/AIDS: An Open Door to the Gospel

By Dan Hitzhusen
February 2009

An Evangelistic Cube
In the year 2000, God gave an idea to e3 Partners Ministry of using a cube (an idea taken from the world of advertising) to share the gospel. No one at e3 Partners had any idea of the impact this simple tool would have. Frankly, most of us had been sharing our faith for decades and were not looking for another tool.

The EvangeCube and the HIV Hope Cube have been used by God to draw many to wholeness.

Nine years later, Christians throughout the world are employing this very simple pictorial cube, called the EvangeCube, to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. (EvangeCube: www.simplysharejesus.com, Instruction sheet: www.e3resources.org/Download/E_CubeInsert.pdf)

We have been astounded at the effectiveness of this simple Rubiks Cube-sized device. Since it has no words, it can be used in any culture, especially oral cultures.

We have seen thousands of people make professions of faith and thousands of churches planted as volunteers share their faith one-on-one or in small groups using this little puzzle. These wonderful results are then multiplied many times over by new believers who take it to their own friends and countrymen.

Manasseh Wandera, a Rwandan leader, recently emailed: “EvangeCube is the simplest and yet most effective tool to share the gospel of Jesus Christ I have ever seen. Its pictorial appearance and coherent, clear message of salvation is too attractive, capturing, appealing, and powerful to be ignored. We had three thousand confessions of faith in Nyabihu and eight new churches in June 2008 in just five days by use of this anointed cube. We had over two thousand people accepting Christ in Gahini and ten new churches in May 2008.”

Dan Hitzhusen is vice president of e3 Partners Ministry and serves as e3’s African continent director. He has been doing cross-cultural ministry around the world for the last twenty-four years and serves on the Lausanne Strategy Working Group.