Adventist Lifestyle Centres: Getting Started
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Daniel Cho MPH, President, Lifestyle Is Medicine
Bailey Muller CPT, Exercise Director, Lifestyle Is Medicine
Mike and Rene Lemon, Speaker-Director, It Is Written CanadaIn 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.
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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.
Join the movement
Adult (30 yrs +) - $59
Students, Young people (29 yrs or under) - $49
Group (3 or more) - $39
Children (5 yrs or under) - Free!
There is a small Eventbrite fee. There is no tax.
Event partners
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.
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.
is a non-profit on a mission to train every Adventist in the principles of evangelistic science-based lifestyle medicine
is the television and media ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Canada
Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinics
are Naturopathic clinics in Toronto focused on the prevention, treatment and reversal of chronic diseases using evidence-based lifestyle medicine.
Have a question? Contact us!
Email: institute@lifestylemed.org
Text: 647-381-6983
Lifestyle Centres in Canada
Adventist Lifestyle Centres:
Fulfilling the Vision
An online conference
The Lord, through His last-day messenger Ellen G White, gave a very special and particular call for Adventist doctors and health professionals to establish sanitariums (or lifestyle centres) outside every major city. These special institutions were to use lifestyle-based natural therapies to help people heal and point them to Jesus as their healer and savior.
We are currently far from fulfilling this bold but necessary call. This event brings together Adventist health professionals, businessmen, pastors and laypeople who have a passion to see the vision of lifestyle centre work fulfilled in Canada. If this is your passion and interest, please join us!
Program + Speakers
All times are Eastern.
All sessions are live, not recorded. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and interact with speakers.
Thursday June 10, 2021
7 - 8:00 PM - WHY I’VE DEDICATED MY MEDICAL CAREER TO LIFESTYLE MEDICINE AND SANITARIUM-WORK
Dr Kelly is the founding president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and has made it his mission to transform the field of medicine through lifestyle medicine and sanitariums. He will share why he is so convicted about this vision.
Dr John Kelly, MD MPH, Lifestyle medicine specialist, Founding President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Friday June 11, 2021
7:00 - 8:00 PM - DO SANITARIUMS WORK? DO WE STILL NEED THEM TODAY? THE SCIENCE AND TESTIMONIES
Through His messenger Ellen White, God gave a unique call to Adventists to engage in sanitarium work. But this was a very long time ago. Is it still relevant and needed today? Also, do lifestyle centres actually restore health and lead people to Christ? Hear from leading Adventist doctors as they share the need, science and testimonies of the power of sanitarium work today.
Dr Mark Sandoval MD, President, Uchee Pines Institute
8:00 - 9:00 PM - LESSONS FROM STARTING A LIFESTYLE CENTRE IN CANADA
Join us as we hear Phil Brewer shares lessons he learned from starting Silver Hills Guest House in British Columbia.
Phil Brewer, Founder, Silver Hills Guest House
Sabbath June 12, 2021
10:00 - 11:00 AM - THE BLUE PRINT: LIFESTYLE CENTRES AND AN INTEGRATED HEALTH MINISTRY SYSTEM + PRAYER
God’s calling for lifestyle centres/sanitarium work is part of a larger blue print for health ministry that requires a truly integrated system/network of evangelistic centres of influence and ministries in order to be effective. Learn more about God’s blue print for evangelism for his end-time people and how we can implement this today.
Alain Mugisha, Business Manager, Paradise Fields; Co-founder, Camara Organic
11:30 - 12:30 AM - Adventism’s Mystic Stone; We need to get it rolling - Recapturing the vision of Adventist sanitariums
The Lord, through His last-day messenger Ellen G White, gave a very special and particular call for Adventist doctors and health professionals to establish sanitariums (or lifestyle centres) outside every major city. Join us for divine service as we overview this work and its importance to reaching the world in our generation.
Dr George Cho ND, Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinic
4:00 - 5:00 PM - WHAT COVID HAS TAUGHT US ABOUT LIFESTYLE MEDICINE AND HEALTH MINISTRY
An Adventist medical doctor shares his reflections on how the COVID pandemic exposed the desperate need for the health message and health evangelism.
Dr Will Marcoux MD, Medical Doctor, Courtice Health Centre
6 - 7:00 PM - FROM REAL ESTATE TO ONE WEEK IN PARADISE: WHY I’M STARTING A LIFESTYLE CENTRE IN ONTARIO
Once a successful real estate mogul in southwestern Ontario, Mario Roque is now on a mission to establish a health lifestyle centre in Hamilton. Hear about his incredible journey and vision for a unique, revolutionary lifestyle centre at Paradise Fields.
Mario Roque, Founder, Paradise Fields
7 - 8:30 PM - EXCITING LIFESTYLE CENTRE INITIATIVES IN ONTARIO
Hear about new and exciting lifestyle medicine/centre initiatives that are being launched across Canada. Participants will also have the opportunity to share what they are doing as well.
One Week in Paradise
Dr George Cho ND, Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinic
A lifestyle centre in Thunder Bay
Richard Green
Church-based lifestyle medicine immersions
Daniel Cho, MPH, President, Lifestyle Is Medicine
SUNDAY JUNE 13, 2021
6 - 7:00 PM - COVID, HEALTH MINISTRY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: HOW COVID HAS CHANGED MINISTRY
The Covid-19 pandemic’s impact stretches beyond health - it has seemingly altered every aspect of our lives: freedom of speech, internet censorship, religious observance, businesses and how we do ministry. Join us with the church in Canada’s top lawyer as we explore what every Adventist needs to know about effective health ministry in the post-Covid era. Bring your questions!
Grace Mackintosh LLB, Legal Counsel, Seventh-day Adventist Church of Canada
7 - 8:00 PM - LIFESTYLE CENTRES OUTSIDE EVERY CITY: HOW DO WE DO THIS? + PRAYER
This final session will be an open forum for all participants to discuss and share how we can fulfill God’s call for lifestyle centre work to be established outside every city across Canada and beyond.
JOIN US FROM ANYWHERE ACROSS CANADA AND THE WORLD!
Due to Ontario’s 3 step re-opening plan and current Covid-19 guidelines, this conference is being held online. That means wherever you are in the world, you can join us! Scroll down to register!
Adult (30 yrs +) - $49
Students, Young people (30 or under, Medical, Dental, etc students) - $45
Group (4 or more) - $39
There is a small Eventbrite fee. There is no HST.
Event partners
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.
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.
is a non-profit on a mission to train every Adventist in the principles of evangelistic science-based lifestyle medicine
Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinics
are Naturopathic clinics in Toronto focused on the prevention, treatment and reversal of chronic diseases using evidence-based lifestyle medicine.
Have a question? Contact us!
Email: institute@lifestylemed.org
Text: 647-381-6983
Should Youth Get It?
A look at the published study on Covid-19 vaccine for youth from a lifestyle medicine perspective
Dr George Cho ND MFSc CEP, Clinic Director, Pathways Lifestyle Medicine Clinics
Do you have the guts to fight disease?
The link between gut health and immunity, and the healthy lifestyle factors that maximize gut health.
Dr Pekka Maatanen, Scientist and Assistant Professor, Burman University