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| The Health & Temperance Department promotes healthful living to help people have happier, healthier lives and be better prepared for heaven. They provide a variety of materials to assist churches with organizing health-related programs such as cooking schools and Breathe-Free—a Plan to Stop Smoking. They also promote healthful living in the following ways:
Health Professionals' Retreat—Each year health professionals (doctors, dentists, optometrists, and other health professionals) are invited to a weekend of spiritual and educational growth at Camp Au Sable.
Resource Materials (see Health Temperance and Lifestyle Matters Resource Folders) We want to encourage churches to use the materials available to witness to others and win souls for Jesus.
Lifestyle Matters is a powerful, practical health evangelism program designed to allow any church to do effective health community outreach as an integral part of their evangelism cycle. With several innovative, cutting-edge, plug-and-play modules, Lifestyle Matters provides a wealth of materials that meet community needs and help you make friends in your community. Whether you have a health professional in your church or not, you can use the Lifestyle Matters modules in your outreach plan. Lifestyle Matters is being used in churches all over North America with excellent results. And coupled with the powerful new Balance magazine series, no one offers you more flexibility and ease-of-use than the Lifestyle Matters Health Intervention Series. Lifestyle Matters. Changing Lives...for Good! Call 866-624-5433 or 517-316-1588 to order or see www.lifestylematters.com for more information. Lifestyle Matters products are also available at the Michigan ABC ( 800-876-9222). |
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| June 17-21, 2013 |
Michigan Camp Meeting
Join us as we offer you 4 different Health Ministry seminars! Info at link below. See you there!
Taste and See’ Supper Club Cookout
9:30 - 10:45, Cedar Lake Fellowship Hall
Monday - Friday
Come, taste samples & see what our supper clubs around Michigan are doing -
come aways with plenty of ideas to start your own!
The Art of Health Ministry: Following in Jesus’ Footsteps
9:30 - 10:45, Room 108
Monday - Friday
Chris VanDenburgh, MSN, RN, Faith Community Nurse
This 5-day seminar explores the exciting possibilities and fundamentals of a church-based Health Ministry Program as it continues the healing ministry of Jesus both inside and outside the church walls. You will come away inspired and equipped to run a full church health ministry!
Monday Serving Jesus Barefoot (Called to serve)
Tuesday Healing Care (Guarding your heart)
Wednesday Beginning a Health Ministry (“Nuts & Bolts”)
Thursday Spirituality and Healing (An exciting and new area of research)
Friday Faith Community Nursing (Not just a nurse in a church)
Run and Not Be Weary
2:00 - 3:15, Commons
Monday – Friday
Fred Hardinge, RD, DrPH, Associate Director, Health Ministries, General Conference of SDA
The health message God has given to our church is much more than diet. This 5-day seminar will explore some of the often neglected areas of healthful living, as well as update the attendees on the current science which supports the value and importance of healthful living.
False Prophets of Health Reform
3:30 – 4:45, Commons
Monday – Thursday
Fred Hardinge, RD, DrPH, Associate Director, Health Ministries, General Conference of SDA
The Seventh-day Adventist health message is a wonderful blessing to the church and the community. However, as with all good gifts, the devil seeks to counteract them by bringing confusion and misunderstanding. In doing so, he removes their benefits. This series will look some of the ways the devil is doing this with our precious health message.
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