AMEN 2013: Following the Leader

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2013: Breakout Sessions A

Winston Craig

Disease Prevention and Management Through Balanced Nutrition

Linda Carney

Women’s Health via Lifestyle Medicine for Whole Foods Markets

Errol Bryce

Partnering the Practice and Church for Explosive Church Growth

Rick Beckermeyer

Utilizing Digital Data for Education in Your Dental Office & Mission

This is the session that deals with partnering the practice with the church for explosive growth.

Our Father and our God, we thank you so much for your goodness.

Thank you that we can share in your work.

Thank you that you have called us to be agents of change.

The talk this afternoon will have 3 primary aspects of the agenda.

1, making an argument for uniting medicine and faith, medical and the church community, as well as wellness and evangelism.

The second aspect, Amen asked me to tell what I'm doing.

And thirdly, I would like to invite you to be part of the process.

And I must tell you that I have 2 financial disclosures.

I have a financial interest in Renew Medical Center and Lifestyle Institute, as well as ePreventionRx.

We could divide this presentation in 6 different aspects or parts.

1, we want to describe to you the current state of affairs within the church, within the health care industry.

I would like to illustrate the cry of the human soul.

Spend more time in depth outlining Christ's method.

Then show the role that you can play to help the explosive growth within the church.

And hopefully I will have time for questions.

Let me start right at the beginning with the genius for this concept that I will be introducing to you.

Jesus Christ outlined 2 very clear paths, 2 opposing forces.

In John 10 and verse 10, Christ made it very clear that the thief is only there to steal, kill and destroy.

He said, I came so that they can have life, real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamt of.

Everything we do, every job that we attempt, you will find these 2 opposing forces.

Acts 1 and verse 8, it states, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, locally, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." He wants us to think globally.

This it is very important that you do not take a parochial approach to what we're doing.

But most important to get from this is that we have the power to make this happen.

And then Christ signs, gives us a contract where he says in Exodus 34 verses 10 and 11, Behold, I make a covenant, a contract with you before all your people.

People are going to look at us and they're going to marvel at our achievement.

I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation.

And all the people among you, among whom you are, shall see the work of the Lord for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you But there is a condition to this contract.

There is something that you have to do to fulfill this contract.

So throughout this talk today, we're going to be looking at his method so that we can claim this contract, we can hold on to this power, understanding that there are 2 forces, and we are guaranteed success.

So let's start by looking at the current state of affair in the Church.

Over the last 20 years, every mainline Protestant church has shown decline.

Top of the list is the Presbyterian Church with a 24% reduction.

For example, in 1995 alone, they lost 100, 000 members in 1 year.

The Episcopal is right behind them at 20 percent.

And there's a small group of churches that are showing either staying the same or showing some growth, but that growth is less than 2, 2.5%.

And if we looked at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Baptist Church, there's a reality check that is not very pleasant.

80 percent of our churches are either stagnant or die.

For example, 8, 000 Baptist churches experience no baptism the last 2 years.

And looking at the Seventh-day Adventist Church that has the distinction of being the fastest growing church, but it's only a growth rate of 2.5%.

And if you take out migration, immigration, people coming in from Mexico, from the Caribbean, the growth rate is actually dismal.

It's from Ron, from the director of North American Division Evangelism.

Let's now look at the state of the health care industry.

At this point, we are now experiencing 17% of our GDP goes towards health care.

If you look at the rate of growth Over the next 11 years or so, by 2022, if you look at the curve and the rate of growth, 46% of our spending growth will be due to health care.

Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance subsidies will eat up 46% of that growth.

It is a crisis that every administrator is worrying about and keeps people up at night.

2 years ago, the World Health Organization called an emergency meeting to discuss the non-communicable disease crisis that is hitting the third world countries.

There's a global epidemic of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases that are hitting this country and they have no money.

The malignancy curve as we all know is flat not only in the United States of America, but it is devastating with these lifestyle cancers in the third world country.

I migrated myself from Jamaica, a very small island in the Caribbean, we have no money.

Yet Jamaica has the highest rate of prostate cancer in the entire world, most years.

The bottom line for all of this is that we have an escalating cost that we just cannot fathom or deal with.

But with this crisis within the church, this crisis within the health care industry, comes an opportunity.

It's interesting that the Chinese symbol for crisis is danger and opportunity.

And it is this opportunity that the church needs to jump on.

The church needs to position itself, unite health and faith to address this crisis.

If you look at people who are studying the processes of health care and how do we find solutions, there is 1 factor that is emerging.

Harold Miller, 1 of the best analysis that I have seen, looked at this and decided that the best solution to this crisis is to have healthy consumers.

And these healthy consumers must continue to be healthy if we're going to be able to solve this crisis.

1 of the biggest costs for us is hospitalizations.

And if we have healthy consumers who continue to be healthy, we will have no hospitalization.

So their health condition is going to determine the amount of hospitalization and the amount of acute care episodes that we have.

Now, if we do have events, if we operate very efficiently, then we can lower the high cost of these events by having successful events treated efficiently, minimizing complications, infections, and readmissions.

And This is done by having better outcomes, higher quality.

But the basis of all of this is the healthy consumer who continues to be healthy.

In other words, prevention and wellness, the basis of this.

So we look back to the genius behind this, this master design, who gave us, as a Church, June 21, 1863, Prevention and Wellness.

All the significant developments over the last 150 years were first presented June 21, 1863.

The cholesterol theory was first presented June 21, 1863.

Colin Campbell who discovered plant-based diet.

Series

AMEN 2013: Breakout Sessions A

Partnering the Practice and Church for Explosive Church Growth

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