Adventist Lifestyle Centres: Getting Started

Sunday, March 6, 2022 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 12, 2022 6:00 PM

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Join Adventist health professionals, students, businessmen, pastors and laypeople as we hear inspiring stories and explore practical ways to start sanitarium/lifestyle medicine immersion programs.

If you are interested in this important and urgent line of work, don’t miss this event!

This event is being held in conjunction with One Week In Paradise, an innovative new lifestyle medicine immersion program that is being held at Camp Frenda. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from the leaders behind this new initiative, see the set-up and some practical lessons on how to start similar programs in your local community.

Program + Speakers

All sessions are online.

Dr George Cho, ND CEP, Naturopathic Doctor, Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinics
Through His end-time prophet, God called Adventists to establish sanitariums outside every city. Such institutions, done right, would be one of the most effective means of reaching people. Unfortunately we are clearly far from fulfilling this call. Join Dr Cho as he shares why we can no longer delay starting sanitarium (or lifestyle centre/immersion) work.
Dr Joyce Choe, MD, MPH, Ophthalmologist and Medical Doctor, Years Restored Lifestyle Center, Founder of Med Missionary
Mercy Ballard, Founder of Years Restored Lifestyle Center
Years Restored Lifestyle Center is a 57-acre home-like lifestyle center with a special emphasis on helping people with digestive and autoimmune conditions heal using natural remedies and lifestyle change. Join Dr Joyce Choe as she shares about the power of lifestyle medicine immersions and some tips for those of us just getting started.
Dr Scott Grivas MD, Physician, Wildwood Lifestyle Center / Founder, A Pattern Health Retreat
Dr Grivas has served as a physician at Wildwood’s lifestyle program for many years as well as leading his own health program in Missouri called A Pattern Health Retreat. In this session, he shares his wealth of experience on starting and conducting lifestyle center work.
Dave Fielder, Author and historian
The history of Dr John Harvey Kellogg and Battle Creek Sanitarium is a lesson book for those of us today who wish to start successful sanitarium work without repeating the errors of the past. In this session, noted author and historian Dave Fiedler highlights key lessons relevant to the present.
David Fam, President and Founder, Aenon Institute and Healthcare
David Fam is the founder and president of Aenon Institute, a pioneering lifestyle center in Malaysia. In this session, you’ll learn the incredible story of Aenon’s founding and important lessons we can learn as we seek to start similar institutions.
Dr John Kelly MD MPH FACLM, Founding President, ACLM
In 2020, the Village SDA Church in Berrien Springs, Michigan partnered with Dr John Kelly to hold an innovate church-based community lifestyle medicine immersion program. In this session, join Dr Kelly as they share how the program started, its impact and some lessons for others who may wish to start a similar program at their local church.
Daniel Cho MPH, President, Lifestyle Is Medicine
Bailey Muller CPT, Exercise Director, Lifestyle Is Medicine
Mike and Rene Lemon, Speaker-Director, It Is Written Canada
In the fall of 2021, a group of Adventist doctors, nutritionists, massage therapist, pastor, and other health professionals, students and volunteers teamed up to launch a brand new lifestyle medicine immersion in Ontario, Canada. In this session, you’ll learn about One Week In Paradise and important lessons on how you too can start sanitarium work in your community. Pr Mike Lemon and Rene Lemon from It Is Written Canada will also be sharing from a pastor’s perspective on helping start lifestyle programs and how to effectively integrate spirituality into the program.
Alain Mugisha, Business Manager, Paradise Fields
Success does not happen in a vaccuum. A successful sanitarium program or institution depends on a network of entities, churches and initiatives that will work synergistically to effectively reach souls for Christ. In this session, we’ll learn the blueprint outlined in the Spirit of Prophecy on how to establish this network and hear about how this worked in the recently launched One Week In Paradise program.

Presenters

**Dr John Kelly MD MPH FACLM**

Dr Kelly is a lifestyle medicine specialist and President and Medical Director of Oakhaven Lifestyle Center. He is founder of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and served at various lifestyle centres in America, including Black Hills Lifestyle Center.

**Dr Joyce Choe MD MPH**

Dr Choe is a board certified ophthalmologist and medical doctor for the Years Restored Lifestyle Center. She is also co-founder of Med Missionary.

**David Fam**

David is the founder and president of Aenon Institute and Healthcare in Malaysia. For over 20 years, Aenon has used Adventist health principles and lifestyle medicine to help more than a 1000 guests experience incredible improvements in their quality of life and restoration of their health through lifestyle changes.

**Dr A Scott Grivas Jr MD**

Dr. Grivas has pioneered and taught lifestyle medicine and natural remedies since 1989 He is the founder of A Pattern Health Retreat and physician at Wildwood Lifestyle Center. He has witnessed and mentored the growth of several lifestyle centers across America, Europe, and Asia.

**Mercy Ballard**

Mercy is founder of Years Restored Lifestyle Center. Since 2013, the plant based protocol and menus used at Years Restored have helped hundreds of clients find remission and healing.

**Dave Fiedler**

Dave currently lives in British Columbia, Canada with his wife and daughter. He has taught elementary, secondary, and collegiate classes in various Seventh-day Adventist schools. He is the author of several influential books, including “Hindsight: Seventh-day Adventist History in Essays and Extracts” and “D’Sozo: Reversing the Worst Evil”.

**Dr Daniel Saugh PhD MDiv MPH RPsych**

Dr Saugh is a Registered Psychotherapist and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Burman University. He is also the Health Ministries Coordinator for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada. He serves as the mental health lead for the One Week In Paradise immersion program.

**Mike and Rene Lemon**

Pastor Mike and Rene Lemon are the Speaker-Directors of It Is Written Canada. They helped start two lifestyle medicine immersion programs in Ontario, Canada providing spiritual counseling, devotionals and love is medicine sessions.

**Bailey Muller CPT**

Bailey is a personal trainer and health coach who serves as Exercise Director for Lifestyle Is Medicine and the One Week In Paradise immersion program.

**Dr George Cho ND MFSc CEP**

Dr Cho is naturopathic doctor and clinic director of Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinics in Toronto. He is also Director of Immersions and Training for Lifestyle Is Medicine and Clinic Director for One Week In Paradise immersion programs.

**Daniel Cho MPH**

Daniel is the President of Lifestyle Is Medicine and Program Director for the One Week In Paradise immersion program. He is also President of Compassion Health Toronto, a free clinic that provides health services to people in need in Toronto.

**Alain Mugisha**

Alain is the Business Manager for Paradise Fields, an Adventist-owned organic farm and clinic that is on a bold mission to produce the world’s most nutrient-dense produce. Paradise Fields is the sponsor of the One Week In Paradise immersion program.

Join us online!

All sessions will be available online. You will receive login details when you register below.

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Adult (30 yrs +) - $59
Students, Young people (29 yrs or under) - $49
Group (3 or more) - $39
Children (5 yrs or under) - Free!

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Event partners

Lifestyle Is Medicine

is a non-profit that is on a mission to help people prevent and reverse disease using the principles of lifestyle medicine. It holds online and church-based health programs.

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Paradise Fields

is an Adventist-owned certified organic farm that is on a mission to produce the world’s most nutrient-dense produce. Paradise Fields also has a farm store and lifestyle medicine clinic. It is in process of building a full service lifestyle medicine health centre.

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