NAD Health Summit 2012

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NAD Health Ministries

Plenary Sessions

Daniel Jackson

NAD Health Summit 2012 - General Session

Ted N.C. Wilson

NAD Health Summit 2012 - Worship Service

Allan Handysides

NAD Health Summit Devotional - Monday

Lydia Archbold

NAD Health Summit Devotional - Tuesday

Peter Landless

NAD Health Summit Devotional - Wednesday

Kathleen Liwidjaja-Kuntaraf

NAD Health Summit Devotional - Thursday

Fred Hardinge

NAD Health Summit Devotional - Friday

Good morning and thank you Katia for introducing me.

My complete name is Kathleen Hanayanti Libijaya Kuntaroff Likimwa Lijingwa.

So I have Chinese name and I have also English name, I have Indonesian name, but I'm happy that we belong to an international church.

Well the topic assigned to me this morning is about reach across with Jesus.

A story was told about Grandma Sally, who was very excited because she had the first great-grandchild, And so she was really, really excited to be able to live that long, to witness the first great-grandchild.

After a few weeks, the parents of this child needed a break.

And so they said, Grandma, can you take care of the baby?

So she was excited to take care of the baby.

And so she told her friend, which is Grandma Gertie.

So Grandma Gertie also came over and she said, you know, I really would like to see that little cutie.

After a while, after 5 minutes, she said, come on, You're so excited to show me your little great-grandchild.

How come this is already 5 minutes and you're not telling me?

As we grow older, There's a tendency for us to forget things.

However, God does not want each of us present here to forget that we are 1 by creation and 1 by redemption.

And therefore, we have to reach out to others, regardless of their background.

You know, Julia Neuberger was 1 of the first 2 female rabbis in the United Kingdom, who was the Prime Minister's champion for volunteering from the year 2007 to the year 2009, and she wrote in The Guardian on January 2, 2010.

1 change I'd like to see in the coming year is a move away from social networking sites.

The rise of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the rest has been an important cultural shift for the last decade.

And with many of us using the web to make the so-called friends and meet the possible partners.

There's nothing wrong with that in principle, provided they realize that the Internet, however much it has transformed our lives for the better, it is no substitute for meeting people, getting out there, and making friends.

Those sites can only make initial connections.

They cannot begin to develop the depth of the real friendships, of real connectedness.

We need other people to sustain us, And other people need us to sustain them, particularly old, lonely, and vulnerable people, or the young, frightened, and uncertain.

And this is being written in The Guardian on January 2, 2010.

Yes, reaching across to others is a vital factor in the health of individuals and the health of the society.

That's why we at the General Conference Health Ministry Department, we have put a holistic prescription of health using the acronym CELEBRATIONS.

C stands for choices, E stands for exercise, L stands for liquids, E stands for environment, B stands for belief, R stands for rest, A stands for air, T stands for temperance, I stands for integrity, O stands for optimism, N stands for nutrition, S stands for social support.

When you look at Romans 14 verse 7, it said, for none of us live to himself and none of us die to himself.

And we are dead, we need also friends, because who is going to bury you?

So we need friends, according to the Bible, as we are alive, as well as we are, as well as when we are dead.

We really need to reach across to each other while we are still alive.

You know, when I read the text in John 13, verse 34, It says, a new commandment I give you, love 1 another as I have loved you.

You know way back In the Old Testament, there is already a commandment to love God and to love 1 another.

The 10 Commandments, the first commandment is to love God wholeheartedly, and the last 1 is to love man wholeheartedly.

Then I found out, actually the word new commandment is because it stated that, as I have loved you.

Jesus came all the way from heaven to come down to this earth to show the meaning of how to love 1 another as I have loved you.

When you look at Luke 9, verse 52 to 56, You know how Jesus handled James and John.

You know at that time Jesus was about to go to Jerusalem.

And then he sent messengers ahead of him on the way they entered a village of Samaritans To make preparations for Him.

Because He determined to journey to Jerusalem.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, they were so upset, they said, Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?

See how tempered, how hot-tempered it is to call fire from heaven to consume them so that they will be killed.

Jesus turned back and rebuked them and said, they don't want to receive us, let's go to another village.

See Jesus was full of compassion even though John the son of thunder has a lot of weakness until John became the John of the Beloved.

See how compassionate Jesus treats other people.

And look at the way how Jesus handled Peter.

You know when you look at Luke 22, Verse 54 to 62, Peter denied Jesus, how many times?

And yet, what was Jesus' reaction towards his denial?

When we look at it, it says, Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, look with full of compassion.

And so Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, before the roast of crocs today, you will deny me 3 times.

You know, the psychologist Abraham Maslow observed that reaching across to others with love is as essential to the growth of human beings as we need vitamins, as we need minerals, as we need proteins.

It is interesting that when God says we need to love each other and do good to each other, That means it's not only helping the person that receives the love of God through us, but it's also helping us to be healthy.

Science has discovered that supporting others not only benefits the receiver, but it also benefits the giver of love.

Robert Ardre defined the psychoneuroimmunology field, there are many, many studies done to show how the positive impact of supporting others, be it to the animals, such as the rats, or the pigs, or the rabbits.

Then they saw also the positive impact of supporting babies, psychotic patients, and normal people, even on pregnant women with their unborn fetuses.

This was the first study that was done way back in 1972.

It was a study that shows the impact of reaching across to others in loving social support and the outcome of pregnancy and childbirth.

And this was conducted among the US Army wives at the military hospital.

And it was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

So what they did is all these pregnant wives of the US Army were given questionnaires before their 6 months of pregnancy, asking as to how much emotional and psychological support they had, knowing that the majority of their husbands were outside always defending for the country.

Now, as they followed this woman all the way to their delivery time, here's what is the results.

They found out that women who reported many life changes during the years preceding pregnancy, and who did not report much emotional and psychological support had 3 times as many complications of childbirth as those who had more support.

3 times more complications of childbirth.

So we can see that loving support, reaching others in a very kind manner, especially to pregnant women, benefits the delivery of their babies and also benefits the pregnant woman itself because of the lesser complication.

You know, to be evidence-based, the study has to be repeated every time and it always gives the same results.

So, in the Columbia University, there were 2 doctors, Drs.

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42m

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53m

NAD Health Summit Devotional - Monday

34m

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24m

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26m

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26m

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