Expanding the Mission of Healing
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 Adventist colleges and universities that offer health professions education programs serve as extraordinary spaces where “preaching, teaching, and healing” harmoniously converge. They hold the potential to mirror the way Jesus ministered to humanity’s needs during His time on earth noted in the biblical account: “And Jesus…
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World Health Day (April 7)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 This year’s special day will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign, titled Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health…
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World Immunization Week (April 24-30)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 World Immunization Week, celebrated in the last week of April, aims to promote the life-saving power of immunization to protect people of all ages against vaccine-preventable diseases. Since 1974, vaccination has saved 154 million lives – that’s more than 3 million lives a year or six people…
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World No Tobacco Day (May 31)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 World No Tobacco Day 2025 will give a platform to young people around the world who are calling for the tobacco industry to stop targeting them with products that are harmful to their health. Young people globally are calling on governments to adopt policies that shield…
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Breathe-Free2.
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 1st Quarter 2025 Now updated, this powerful and informative community program helps smokers kick the habit! Its roots extend back to the Five-day Plan to Stop Smoking—the first community-based smoking cessation program. This enhanced, nine-day program provides a comprehensive physical, mental, social, and spiritual approach proven to assist smokers…
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Embracing Biblical Shalom
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2024 As we embark on a new season of ministry and witness, it is with great joy and renewed purpose that we re-envision Health Ministries within the global Church. Rooted in the biblical concept of Shalom, we stand at the threshold of hope and healing, Health Ministries…
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Official Adventist Health statement
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2024 The Adventist church has voted on several official statements and guidelines about whole-person health and healing. These statements are related to physical, social, behavioral, and mental health. These include reproductive health, care of the dying, addictions, domestic violence, human cloning, poverty, sexuality, immunizations, and more. Check…
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Adventist Human Sexuality Resources.
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2024 Human sexuality is one of the most beautiful gifts ever given by God to His creation. Join us as we explore the magnificent beauty and profoundness of this gift to discover God’s love, truth, and life. Many questions arise in the middle of mixed messages shared…
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Female Genital Mutilation (Feb 6)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2024 Since 2012, the UN General Assembly has designated February 6th as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation to amplify and direct the efforts to eliminate this practice by 2030. Abuse comes in many forms, and female genital mutilation is one of them.…
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World Cancer Day (February 4)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 4th Quarter 2024 Cancer touches millions of lives in countless ways. The new World Cancer Day campaign 2025-27 “United by Unique,” places people at the center of care and will explore new ways of making a difference. It offers a three-year journey from raising awareness to taking action for…
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Seasons Change
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2024 HC Q1 2024 Online “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens…” Ecclesiastes 3:1. The seasons of the year change, bringing opportunities to plow, plant, nurture, and harvest. Each season may bring challeng- es—freezing or excessive heat, drought or…
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International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3).
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2024 Disability inclusion is essential for upholding human rights and sustainable development globally. https://bit.ly/48Aexdi. The Adventist church has advocated for inclusion, respect, and dignity for all, regardless of abilities. While we recognize the reality of disabilities and loss through the Adventist Possibility Ministries, we view these through…
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Official Adventist Health statements.
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2024 The Adventist church has voted on several official statements and guidelines about whole-person health and healing. These statements are related to physical, social, behavioral, and mental health. These include reproductive health, care of the dying, addictions, domestic violence, human cloning, poverty, sexuality, immunizations, and more. Check…
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ADRA’s New Mental Health Initiative.
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2024 ADRA Marketing and Development has started a fresh mental health focus featuring ADRA projects that relate directly to mental health and have webinars and conversations with mental health professionals. The kick off is a webinar for parents and caregivers. Join ADRA for a special World Mental…
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World Mental Health Awareness Day (October 10).
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 3rd Quarter 2024 Safe, healthy working environments can act as a protective factor for mental health. Unhealthy conditions, including stigma, discrimination, and exposure to risks like harassment and other poor working conditions, can pose significant risks, affecting mental health, overall quality of life, and consequently, participation or productivity at…
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A Time for Everything?
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2024 “There is a time for everything (Eccl 3:1 NIV),” said the Wiseman. He did not specifically say there is a time to come and a time to leave, but I believe he would agree. For me, after having served in the Health Ministries Departments of the…
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Health Ministries Leaders Platform.
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2024 The GC Health Ministries website offers several resources for health ministry leaders through our online platform. HM leaders must register and log in so they can access materials, programs, a library of documents and videos, and a calendar with training events that can be helpful. These…
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ENDitNOW Sabbath (August 26)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2024 This year enditnow® Emphasis Day is entitled “Go Find My Sheep” bringing a call for everyone to seek those broken by traumatic experiences and share hope. It also focuses on having “Trauma Informed Churches”, describing five ways the church can help traumatized people heal and find…
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World Humanitarian Day (August 19)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2024 Over 130 million people throughout the world are currently in crisis, either through war or natural disasters and are in need of humanitarian aid. The purpose of World Humanitarian Day is to raise awareness of the plight of civilians around the world who have become caught…
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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (July 30)
Source: The Health Connection Newsletter | 2nd Quarter 2024 This year’s global campaign for World Day Against Trafficking in Persons theme is “Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking.” The campaign urges accelerated action to end child trafficking. Children represent a significant proportion of trafficking victims worldwide, with 1 in 3 victims…
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