Women's & Health Ministry Departments

WOMEN'S MINISTRIES DEPARTMENT

The Women’s MinistryDepartment develops strategies network, planning and implementing programmes relevant to the needs and development of women Conference wide. The church membership is also kept informed through reports, letters, seminars, retreats, workers’ meetings and church visits.

The department has three women’s action groups one located in the parish of Clarendon, Saint Catherine and Manchester. These groups are responsible to carry out the activities for the women at that level. These groups plan and incorporate the events of each calendar activity for the benefit of the women, this includes social, economic and spiritual enrichment.

The department plans to conduct surveys to determine the needs of the women in the churches of the Conference, to encourage Women’s Ministries Coordinators to include inactive members/groups in current programmes, which will act as a stimulant for them.

HEALTH MINISTRY DEPARTMENT

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.