Do We Have A Healthy Message?

It's hard to share a life worth living if the one we've got isn't all that. Looking at the Adventist churches I've seen in my life, I'm not convinced we have a health message. What we have is a vegetarian or vegan message that sometimes translates to health and wellness. But sometimes [more often?] does not. If it did, there wouldn't be critical people running around pointing fingers at those who eat meat and there wouldn't be apathetic people walking around wishing they weren't. Whatever people ate, for the glory of God, they would be active and fit and obviously healthy and happy.

Assuming that can happen [and I believe it can], I'm looking for 8 individuals not too busy running the church [or away from it] to be coordinators of our Life Worth Living Ordinary Outreach. You do not have to be a member of the church to participate. But you do have to commit to becoming a resource specialist in one aspect of NEWSTART [Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunshine, Temperance, Air, Rest, and Trust in Divine Power].

These folks will be in charge of scouring the newspaper, internet, and journals to collect info, stories, pictures, and articles to share so they can give a short update/report on developments in their field of health and wellness once every 8 weeks in a small class offered to the community.

We could set TUE nite, for example, as health and wellness nite at church where the church and community will be informed that there will be something happening promoting a life worth living. Each class focuses on only one of the 8 aspects of wellness per week in an informal roundtable discussion/presentation. It could include an "Ask the Doctor" section assuming we have a willing one or better yet we can recruit one from the community to donate an hour of his/her time fielding random medical questions. It could include healthy snacks. A simple closing prayer. And an invitation to return. And could continue nonstop year round without any leader burning out because they're responsible for leading only once every 8 weeks. You think this might work?