Five messages that will stir your soul! Learn the miraculous story behind the Adventist health message and the special place it holds in preparing a people fit to meet Jesus
1. Days of Blood, Drugs, and Tears
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Visions of Hope and Healing
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From Glory to Agony
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Out of the Ashes
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All we Get to Eat Is Manna …!
Presented by Dr. Bill Andress, DrPH, MA
(Former missionary to Japan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines)
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Dr. Bill Andress, DrPH, MPH, MA, MCHES is a graduate of Loma
Linda University and a former missionary to Japan, Hong Kong, and the
Philippines. Prior to his present position as associate professor of Health
& Exercise Science at La Sierra University in southern California, he was an assistant professor of Wellness, Health Promotion, and Injury
Prevention at Oakland University, north of Detroit, MI.
While serving as Director of Health Promotion and Wellness at the
Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, he began to ask the question, “Why did
God give a health message to the Seventh-day Adventist Church?” This seminar is the result of his personal quest to answer that question.
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 Days of Blood, Drugs, and Tears Life expectancy in the mid1800’s was only 40 years. Major killers included TB, pneumonia, dysentery, and yes ,even malaria. Early Adventists were not immune to these scourges. With the exception of Joseph Bates , they were largely a sickly group. Learn the story of a life changing message that would enable God’s people to stay alive long enough to proclaim the three angels’ messages.
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Visions of Health, Hope, and
Healing
From Glory to Agony
Out of the Ashes
All We Get To Eat is Manna …!
Just two months before the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the SDA Church was formally organized. The first vision given to
Ellen White after that organization was her comprehensive health vision. Learn the 10 components that formed the basis for the health teachings of the SDA Church. Includes the video
“By Voice and Pen.”
Thrill to the story of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and
Hospital. You will learn how under the leadership of
John Harvey Kellogg, this medical miracle became the most renown health institute of its day. Then weep as you hear how it was totally destroyed by fire, rebuilt, and manipulated away from the
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The miracle of Loma Linda University Medical
Center and the medical findings based on the
Adventist Health Study
Parallels between the giving of the manna to the children of Israel and the role of healthful living as modern Israel camps on the borders of the
Promised Land. Paul writes that the experience of
Israel in the wilderness was written especially for those living right before Christ’s second coming.
Concludes with a video of Hulda Crooks, the
Adventist who amazed the world in 1987 by becoming the oldest American and oldest woman to climb Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain. Six weeks later she broke her own record as the oldest person to scale Mt. Whitney. Dr. Andress had the privilege of accompanying her on those climbs and has written a book on her life.
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