NAD Health Summit 2012

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NAD Health Ministries

Mark Finley

Track 2 Seminars

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 1

Katia Reinert

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 1

Diana Fleming

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 2

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 2

Ernestine Finley

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 3

Don Hall

Fitness for Life, Part 2

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 3

Gordon Botting

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 4

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 4

Hildemar Dos Santos

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 5

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 5

Fitness for Life, Part 3

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 6

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 6

Fitness for Life, Part 4

Andrea Scott

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 7

Ivan Williams

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 7

Fitness for Life, Part 5

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 8

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 8

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 9

Jesus Methods in the 21st Century, Part 10

Adventists InStep for Life: Responding to the Obesity Epidemic, Part 10


Yesterday, we spent time talking about obesity briefly. Today, you're gonna hear a little bit more in depth when Dr. Dos Santos comes to again talk about it. And remember, the other assignment was for you to read that report, especially if you're in the US. There is another person who still needs a report who lives here, so if any of you from Inter-America or Europe or any other country did get a report, I would kindly ask you to please, if you can give it up, because it's the U.S.

Report. And as I mentioned yesterday, we didn't have it for everyone. I thought to give it to the people in the U.S. Since this is a report for the United States. So if you can kindly Donate that for the person here that needs it in the US.

I'll be very happy with that so they can use it. This report is available on the website as well. And the website for the trust, you just Google trust for America's health and you can also see that. If you're from another country, you can access that that way. So yesterday we spent time talking about briefly the reason why the church is involved in this and why this is a big important thing.

Let me come over here so I'm not in front of you. And also why obesity exists, at least a little, some reasons we mentioned that. Now, we spend most of the time talking about diet, right? Because that is 1 of the areas that are very important and that are related to this whole issue of obesity. However, there are other things that we didn't talk about.

And 1 of them is how the scope of this initiative. We have been partnering with a lot of different ministries for this initiative called Advancing Steps for Life. Of course, health is leading. You know, we took that in our belt to really lead that and kind of push others along with us. But Hope Channel is partnering as well.

As you see, they're here for the summit and they are helping to really get the word out. Some of the videos that we've done. How many, again, were here on Saturday afternoon? I think most of you were here. You saw some of the videos.

Hope Channel has helped us with that. We are partnering with the schools because kids are in our schools, so we need to really work with the schools. So wherever you are, whatever conference or region you're with, you have to really connect with, if it's in a local church, you look for local church school. If it's an area that you have an university, try to connect with them and see if you can work together. If you're coming from a conference level, then have to work with the superintendents of education at the conference or union level.

And we talked to the conference directors before about that. But this is the schools. Then we have youth ministries. So at the local church, trying to connect with your youth ministries director so you can actually get them involved and plan something, pathfinders, you know, youth, whatever, youth meetings. Sometimes you have plans going on with the young people.

So you can actually include them in what you're doing to, in this initiative, particularly Let's Move Day and some of the other things. Children's Ministries, same thing. Try to work with the children's ministries director to see how we can engage the younger kids in the school. Community services, very important piece. As we're gonna hear today, you know, 1 of the pieces of this is getting food, access to foods for people through community gardens and through a lot of the feeding sites, or even sponsoring farmers markets, you know, to come to the church.

So you can invite the community and just have that. So community services, as you know, has many food pantries, it has gardens. You're gonna hear from Dr. Bonning, who is here. He is both a health director for Northern California Conference and a community services director.

And he's doing a lot combining those 2 areas already. So, and he will share that with you. And of course we have our health systems. Loma Linda is also part of this and they are recording their miles. Particularly Adventist Health System, who was here and got the award in catering, they're having their employees record the miles as well as the community when they do 5Ks, when they do anything for the community and the community comes in, they are recording their miles on the website.

So of course our leadership is on board. You saw here Elder Jackson, Elder Wilson, both on Sabbath afternoon. They both participated on Let's Move Day in different ways. And this is what they said when we launched this initiative. You know, Elder Jackson, our president and NAD, this is our time, a church, we have for a long time talked about the importance of not just healthy minds and bodies and hearts but also bodies.

And so this initiative is a wonderful means to advance this among our kids and their families. And of course, Elder Wilson also believes that this Let's Move initiative, which is the national initiative we're partnering with, is consistent with our church's approach, and so we should partner with them. And you saw that coming through. Now, what are the goals of the initiative? Again, if you have this brochure, you're gonna see those goals listed.

So, 1 area is physical activity. The other area is access to foods, healthy foods. So, you heard a little bit about we surpassing our 1000000 mile goal. What is that? We briefly mentioned that Saturday afternoon.

The US had a goal of 3000000 miles for the whole country of physical activity. And we as a church said, we're gonna do a third of that. Just basically did a calculation and said, we'll do a million miles. And so this is what we were striving to reach in 2011. Through Let's Move Day, through getting you to report on the website, you're walking, you know, so we could reach that.

Then the second piece was to get the students in the schools to be active. And as I briefly mentioned on Saturday afternoon, the government here in the US gives out an award called President Active Lifestyle Award. So President Obama has that, there's a website for this, and kids who walk 1 hour a day, or exercise, any kind of activity, 1 hour a day, 5 days a week, for 6 weeks, they can get that award. And so we want our kids in our schools to apply for that because they can get those awards. This is 1 of the goals of the national initiative.

But this actually is a goal for our schools because as we talk to our directors, our principals, they want to see more physical activity in their kids, in our schools, in their activities. The food needs to change. We'll talk more about that on Wednesday. So this is 1 of our goals. And actually some schools in Maryland, I can tell you, 1 of our Adventist schools in Ethelton got number 1 in the state in terms of getting awards compared to any other public school because the students are active.

Now that's 1 area, 2 of the goals. The second is increasing access to healthy foods, fruits, vegetables, and That comes through 2 goals. 1 of them has to do with gardens and farmers markets in schools and churches. So, you know, either cultivating in a land that you already have, or if there's no land in a school or church, sponsoring a farmer's market. Do you know what a farmer's market is?

For those of you in the US, I think you know. If you're coming from other countries, in Brazil we call it feira, where they bring all the products and they sell it in the streets. Here is farmer's market. I'm sure every country in inter-America also has this. So you can actually ask the farmers to bring the products to your church and actually have this market where they sell the fruits and vegetables in a less expensive way to the communities.

So you can do that or you can do vegetable gardens. And this is the focus of this morning's, you know, the next 45 minutes or so with Dr., next hour when Dr. Bodding will speak. And the other piece is summer feeding sites. Also, community services, as I said, has food pantries and has sometimes, you know, some of the food...

What is it called? They have partnerships with the local county or so to get food banks where they can get access to food. Here in the US, because of this national initiative, there's funding now that's available for churches. And different than what it used to be before, they would come and bring you the food, and you have to use the food that they bring. And sometimes it was not the healthiest food in the world.

Well, now you can actually provide, if you sign up as a summer feeding site, or a feeding site, you can provide the food you think is healthier. So you can have fruits, vegetables, whatever, vegetarian meal, and then you can get reimbursed through the funds that come for this particular initiative. Now, why summer? It's because the kids during the summertime, they're not in school. And here in US, you know that when kids goes to school, they get many times, they had their lunch there, their breakfast there.

And so when there is no school, they're back home. There is no breakfast and no lunch. And so this happening in the summer is important because then if you in your church can feed the kids in the summertime, even if it's once a week or whatever, doing VBS or camp, you can then engage your community to learn how to eat healthier and you can get reimbursed by the government. But you have to go through the process of registering and we'll talk more about that later on. Now, this morning, as I said, these are the 4 goals, but we're gonna be focusing a little bit on the gardens.

How many of you have, well first of all, how many of you have been involved with gardening at all? Ooh, good, all right, even if it's in your backyard. That's great. How many of you have a church that has a garden? Nobody, good.

So you're gonna have a wonderful talk this morning. Because 1 thing, how many of you have land in your church, even if it's a square like this, that can be used as a garden? A lot of you do. So it's a matter of really learning how this can happen. And we would love to see, Imagine if your church could have a little garden, vegetable garden, and get the kids involved in the garden, whatever, and then get involved to give that products away for the community, for those that don't have it, or even allow the community to come in and plant and reap some of the vegetables and fruits if you have that space so they could use it.

It can be a powerful way of engaging with the community and meeting a need. So Dr. Gordon Boddy, who is again the health director and ACS director for Northern California, has been involved in this in a very big way. And he will be able to share with you what has happened in his conference, where he found the resources, and give you tips on how to do that. This media was produced by AudioVerse for the NAD Health Summit.

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