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The
Health Department promotes health education, temperance
and healthful living and all aspect of Adventist health
evangelism. It promotes and fosters the organization and
interest of Health and Temperance and healthful living
and all aspects of Adventist health evangelism.
The department conducts Health and Temperance lectures
and demonstrations, observes local and international
health days. There is also an effort to inform the local
congregations as well
as supplying information to the church coordinators to
improve the quality and quantity
of their work.
There are presently three Health Action groups, one per
parish. Eleven persons have participated in a First Aid
Training programme at the Conference Office and are now
qualified. The 60 and better club was introduced. This is a
heath-based programme to link contribution of the mature,
especially for mentoring of the youth.
The department plans to observe denominational and
international health awareness days/weeks, to encourage
health fairs on a district/church level, to participate in
all crusades, to conduct seminars to assist Health
Coordinators with their local church programmes, to create a
directory of health care professionals to assist in the
selecting of health presentations by competent persons, to
coordinate the work of the Adventist Health Professionals
Association in the constituency, to train health trainers,
to expand and improve where necessary the quality and
quantity of Health seminars offered to the constituency, to
encourage Health Ministries Coordinators to include inactive
members/groups in current programmes which will act as a
stimulant for them, to keep in focus the health message as
the right arm of the gospel and to encourage all to be a
participant in the spread of the gospel through the relevant
activities.
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