APRIL IS HEALTH MONTH
We are promoting HEATH this month with the theme:
"RESTORATION through AWARENESS AND EDUCATION"
Featuring : C.R.E.A.T.I.O.N. Health
The Health & Temperance Ministry in cooperation with the Sabbath
School and Personal Ministries will be featuring Health Issues and Health
Matters during their time. Our church family will have a wonderful time
exploring health in several dimensions - physical, mental,
emotional, social, financial and of course, spiritual!
We will also be using the April Sabbath Afternoon Programs to train and
prepare our church members for Health Evangelism using our health message.
Watch out for two upcoming Health Expos:
May 3, 2009 - Local Church Health Expo
June 14, 2009 - Community Health Expo
On May 16 -19, 2007 - The FFSDANJ Church board sent 2 official delegates
to attend the CHIP Leadership Seminar in Columbia Union College, Takoma
Park, Maryland. CHIP is an acronym for Coronary Health Improvement
Project. CHIP is a four-week, community based, lifestyle health education
program in which Dr. Hans Diehl, founder and director, is the principal
speaker in the video presentations.
The gist of the CHIP seminar was echoed back to the church and to the
church board. The church at large warmly received the purpose of the CHIP.
In fact it was recommended that it be promoted to our church members and
be used as an outreach health ministry to our community and friends.
However, in order to conduct CHIP, the church needs a team that will
plan and implement the program. They are to go through a series of
training themselves to gather information and conform to a CHIP
lifestyle to promote the program. At the time of writing, the
microCHIP team started the first of its series of training. There
are 15 members and friends who signed up for the microCHIP team building
project.
In forming the microCHIP team, we have began the first phase of having a
CHIP program in our church. The second phase is to choose a CHIP director
and officially register the church with International Nutrition Research
Foundation (INRF) which will provide the program license and the
scientific video lectures of Dr Hans Diehl. The third phase would be to
plan and lay out program for the full-scale CHIP program along with the
team. These may take several months to accomplish. The fourth phase
would finally be to launch the program to our church, community and
friends.
Continue to pray for this program to be used in our church health
ministry, the right arm of the gospel news.
