HOREB SDA CHURCH
                            520 Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225.
                              Tel. 718-778-7373
             

Health Ministries   Ask the Doctor!

The following is a comprehensive job description indicating the scope of possibilities of Horeb SDA Health Ministries.The health ministers leader, in cooperation with the health ministries committee, can determine the specific responsibilities that are necessary to meet the needs of the church within the community.

1. Health Awareness

These events help people become aware of their personal health needs and the available resources to meet those needs. A need may be something indispensable to good health such as nutritious food, or it may be something desirable to enhance enjoyment of life such as a new jogging suit.


2. Community Awareness

To plan events such as health screening and testing, information articles in newspapers, radio and television programs, public advertising, health fairs, or cooperation with City health events such as The Great American Smoke out, World Health Day, and the National Cholesterol-Screening Program.


3. Health Promotion/Disease Prevention

The purpose of health promotion/disease prevention programs are: 

  • To provide information and strategies for lifestyle change
  • To help motivate participants to actually make lifestyle change
  • To support and encourage participants as they make changes.
  • To improve the participants' quality and length of life.
  • To develop lasting friendships between caring church members and participants.
  • To help participants understand the inter-relationship of body, mind, and spirit.

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