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G.C. Health MinistriesAllan Handysides Fred HardingeKathleen Kuntaraf Peter LandlessRae Lee Cooper Doyle NickDaniel Giang Gary HopkinsCraig Jackson Patricia JonesTricia Penniecook Stoy ProctorGilbert Burnham Carlos FayardLowell Meister Quintes Nicola

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Health Ministries Department

• True Godliness will be personified in a true Christ-likeness that will impact our behaviors.

• “It doesn’t take much of a man to be a Christian … it takes all of him.”

-Dawson Trotman

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Every Church a Community Health Center | Every

Member a Health Minister• Recognizing diversity, we encourage

a unity in service.• The health needs of the world’s

communities are so varied that no one health solution will meet them all.

• The need for a glimpse of Jesus is a universal one.

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Church-Based Ministry• One of the problems facing the

Church is the short attention span and constant fascination with the novel.

• The time it takes for a concept to permeate globally, to the congregational level, is measured in years.

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Church-Based Ministries• CELEBRATIONS®• CHARTERS®• The 8 Weeks to

Wellness• NEWSTART• CHIP program• CREATION• Balanced Living

• Depression seminars

• Birthing Companions

• Vegetarian Cuisine Cooking Schools

• Breathe Free® Stop Smoking Programs

• Stress Beyond Coping

Are a few examples…

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Health Education for Pastors

• 80 lectures; part of the MA program offered by the Adventist University of Africa (AUA) in an abbreviated format was utilized in LLUSPH’s program in Russia for the MPH.

• Liaison with Ministerial is being explored.

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Health Education for Pastors

• There is a shortened form of this program taught at Division Health Summits.

• GC/HM is open to teaching this course at Adventist Universities and Colleges, wherever future pastors are being trained.

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Online Health Ministry Education and Certification• The German Union’s health ministry

education program.• Currently, there are three websites

under construction:– One for the ICPA;–HealthMinistry.com;– PositiveChoices.com

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Health Professional Liaison• Nurture of health professionals

takes place through regional meetings and specific sub-groups such as dentistry and nursing professions are given specific attention.

• “Quest for Quality” seeks to encourage health professionals to reach high levels of quality.

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Appreciative Inquiry Visits to Mission Hospitals

• Teams of specialists visit mission hospitals upon the invitation of the Division Health Ministries Directors.

• These visits reach into many isolated hospitals, bringing encouragement and a sense of family to some very isolated people.

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Temperance Work• Temperance is a major work of the

Health Ministry Department.• Dozens of new national branches of

the ICPA have been formed.• This work is of high profile.• An invitation from the police and

army in the Emirates is expected to result in the setting up of an office of Health Education in Abu Dhabi.

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Collaborative Activities• GC/HM is very involved in the

expanding interest globally in building new medical schools, dental schools, and schools of public health.

• Liaison with Global Mission and their Centers of Influence.

• Multiple prospects of liaison with Ministerial, Children’s, Women’s and Family Ministries.

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Interaction with Secular Agencies

• Secular agencies, such as WHO and PAHO have welcomed the SDA Church to contribute to their programs.

• In South America, with the medical school in Argentina, the Adventist University in Sao Paulo, in Lima, Peru.

• The IAD worked closely with PAHO in Haiti.

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Regional and Global Conferences

• Recognition of mental health issues has prompted a mental health expert to be added to the GC/HM team.

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Regional and Global Conferences

• The world conference on mental health will focus on our biblical worldview, and its interpretation in our response to mental health issues.

• The success of the Geneva conference in 2009 prompted a desire to run another such conference in 2014; funding is being set aside.

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Materials Production• The revision of old materials,

production of new – including a book on health.

• The GC Nutrition Council is charged with constant surveillance of the nutrition landscape.

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