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Making Healthy Choices™ Health Newsletter

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Community Health Assessments

COLLEGE STUDENTS
Students at a college Health Fair swamped our booth when we used Your Health Age™, Your Stress Profile™, and Your Coronary Risk™. The “Free” coupons in a coupon-book drew interest! We also used the assessments at camp meeting, at community health-outreach classes on stress, weight management, coronary risk, and at our church’s weekly Faith Night (sometimes called prayer meeting). People were very interested in the reports. We have volunteer help for data entry, the health presentation, promotion and advertising, and computer needs, and we have many leads for future health work.
Dale
Ohio

ILLITERACY AFFECTS PARTICIPATION
Since the natural tendency in each of us to fear the unknown,
it is possible that some folks are afraid of the computer. With 25% of our population illiterate, we had to read the questionnaire for Your Health Age™ to some folks and insert the people's answers. Those who completed the forms themselves checked many of the "Want more information" topics.
Kathy

HEALTH MINISTRY
Our church is using health ministry to build bridges to share the gospel of Christ through our church-owned and operated out-patient clinic. We regularly use the Your Health Age™, Your Stress Profile™, and Your Coronary Risk Profile™ in health evangelism. We have had many opportunities to share the healing gospel of Christ. Here are two recent ones:

1. A physician and I had the opportunity to speak on stress to the County Commissioners and Healing Professionals at their annual meeting. We had the 120 politicians & social workers complete Your Stress Profile™ in conjunction with our presentation.  It was well received.

2. Peak Performance Health Summit is a springtime health program intending to build relationships through health ministry to share the gospel of Christ. We used the Personal Wellness Profile™ from Wellsource, Inc., and Your Stress Profile™ from LifeLong Health®.  Through these tools we found people desiring to make lifestyle changes, and then walked with them in making changes.

Doug
Washington

WORK SITE
With plenty of help promoting, coordinating, and arranging the computer set-up, we used Your Health Age™ at my work place as well as at a Health Fair. We had a medical doctor on site for counseling.  The survey opened the door with people and they freely discussed their health concerns with the doctor and with me.  With this good rapport, we were able to offer literature they readily took.  Next time we would like to have Your Coronary Risk™ available for use as well as offer cholesterol readings.
Steve
Montana

CARNIVAL RIDE OPERATOR
We had a hectic week at our County Fair, although it was a real blessing. My husband wrote a program to track and contact the 46 people who requested further information on the Your Health Age™ questionnaire. Seventy people filled out the health questionnaire. We also had a drawing for a 10-volume set of Uncle Arthur’s Bible Story books. When I compared the list with names of people from last year, fewer than a dozen overlapped. The highlight was having an operator of one of the carnival rides go to church with us.
Kathy
Tennessee

FLIGHT PLAN
Just a brief note to say how very much I enjoyed the How to Run an Effective Health Ministry at your Church weekend seminar. I learned so much!  I had lot's of fun with my Omron Body Logic Pro Fat Analyzer during my flight home. Pulled it out and before I knew it I had several folks in my area checking out their fat. The Body Composition Assessment Package is going to be a real useful tool for me.
Roxanne
New Mexico

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   Reports from Users

DVDs AND LOTS OF SUPPORT
Last Monday 30-40 attendees finished a memorable Eight Weeks to Wellness™ series with a delicious vegetarian Thanksgiving Feast. The MD that ran the program with consistency and enthusiasm used the DVDs along with strong medical, nutritional, social, and technical support. I hosted one table, presented a brief summary, and answered medical questions. We also used the Heart and Diabetes DVDs. A retired professor with a keen interest in nutrition and good tasting, healthy dishes shared her knowledge and insights along with samples and recipes. We really appreciated this Lifestyle Seminar.
F. H.
Washington

DVD PROGRAM, AWARDS. GRADUATION DINNER
We put on the first Eight Weeks to Wellness™ program using the DVDs--they weren't all complete when we started! We began with 45 people and ended with 48 at the graduation dinner. Everyone really enjoyed it. One lady from the community wrote us a Thank You letter and brought it to the dinner, and many thanked us personally and hugged me. They said they didn’t know why more people weren’t there. She said, "This is top notch stuff!". The principal from or church school brought a display from the Health Food store so people would know where they could buy whole grains. That was a big hit after the dinner and giving out the awards and all. He sold about $600.00 dollars worth. He even sold two Champion Juicers. They are great for making fruit ice cream and nut butters. He only charged $15.00 over the wholesale price.
Shirley
Washington

CORPORATE USE
I just want to tell you that we received Eight Weeks to Wellness™ this week and I am absolutely impressed! It follows a different format than other manuals and I love it! I think many corporations would enjoy this program once they see how easy it is to do and how comprehensive it is.
Jeanne
Michigan

FIRE DEPARTMENT IN OUR HOME
As the Medical Officer for our fire department I am striving to take our motto of "Saving lives..." one step further! We're doing Eight Weeks to Wellness™ in our home for the fire department, and using the Professional CD as appropriate. It's great. We have a 16 x 70 foot trailer. There are two families, but where two or three are gathered together, the Lord blesses ... despite the limitations! 
Marcia
Indiana

Barbara
Kentucky

HEALTH MINISTRY
We set up a health ministry through our church-owned and operated out-patient clinic. I used the Eight Weeks to Wellness™ in my small-group health ministry, and adapted this tool to include appropriate scripture passages each week. Thanks for equipping our church, clinics, and campus ministry to do grace-centered health ministry.
Doug
Washington

A SATURDAY SERIES
We held the "Eight Weeks to Wellness™" program at our church on Saturdays for 2 1/2 hours. It was a success. We had 37 participants. Our most mature person was 84 years old! How wonderful for her to still be interested in good health. We arranged to have a Community Health Fair at the church instead of discussing physical exams. There were 25+ health care practitioners that volunteered their time. To let them know that we appreciated them, we provided a healthy lunch. Some of the screens/exams/workshops were vision, dental, bone density, hearing, blood pressure, diabetes, heart, podiatry, healing touch, massage therapy, body fat, stop smoking, etc. We had low fat/low cholesterol food demonstrations and food tasting at the end of the weekly sessions. We also incorporated a 15 minute exercise segment. If we do it again we will charge more to cover all of our expenses.
Greta
Pennsylvania

CIVIC CENTER & MONTHLY SUPPORT GROUP
We finished our Eight Weeks to Wellness™ in 9 weeks with about 30 people attending, half of which were church members.  We did a survey at the end and found people wanted a support group to meet once per month, so we will be meeting once per month to keep studying about health, exchange some recipes, have a light fiber-filled supper and maybe have a guest speaker. We got to use the civic center at no charge since we were a non-profit group. You can suggest this to others who want to put on a program in their community. Thanks for everything.
Patricia
Florida  

BEFORE AND AFTER ASSESSMENTS
We are kicking off our Eight Weeks to Wellness™ program with a Health Fair at the church.  The Health Fair is open to the community.  This way participants can have "before and after" assessments. We believe if people can see improvements from the lifestyle changes they are more likely to continue.
Georgia

CERTIFICATES PRINTED
Thanks for the new Eight Weeks to Wellness™ certificate merge document so we could print certificates for everyone who completed the eight-week series! We had a good attendance and people were delighted with their certificates.
Joyce
Florida

VEGETARIAN MEAL & COOKING DEMONSTRATION
We charged $40.00 for an eight-session LifeLong Weight Management™ series that 25 people attended. We included a “Feel Good – Look Good” food demonstration each evening and served a vegetarian meal. I made an additional PowerPoint® presentation. Next time I’ll get more prepared farther in advance!
Dale
Ohio

TWO SESSIONS BACK-TO-BACK
I've now completed two Eight Weeks to Wellness™ series.  I have to admit that I'm ready for a little break from doing the two back to back and learning so much. But I can't tell you how much fun this has been for me. I count my ability to do this as a gift from God and from youl in teaching such wonderful principles that have given me added energy, a better weight, more flexibility and a great attitude.
Roxanne
New Mexico

SERIES WELL-RECEIVED
Our Eight Weeks to Wellness™ series was very well received. Thanks for putting the work together. It has been a blessing for many in our church already, and especially to me.
Steven
Georgia

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