Millie and John Youngberg will debut a user-friendly, total wellness program called WIN! Wellness (WIN!) at the North American Division Health Summit Orlando 2007, January 28–February 3. The Youngbergs' completion of this wellness package with 21 complete lectures, 1,100 PowerPoint visuals, handouts, and group strategies is just one more in a series of miracles.
In 2001, Millie was diagnosed with lymphoma. During her treatment, she and her husband John began to think about the need for a health ministry to include the effects of family relations and spirituality on an individual’s health. It is a miracle that Millie is alive and that she bounced back from the brink of the grave to co-author a new total wellness approach—biological, spiritual, and family wellness. She feels that she was “saved to serve.”
Now, almost five years later, the WIN! (Wellness Integrating Needs) ministry has taken shape. The rationale for WIN! is simple. The eight natural remedies are essential. But in the book The Ministry of Healing, where they are outlined on page 127, these remedies are preceded by many chapters on spiritual healing and followed by seven chapters dealing with the family. In the thoughts of Ellen White, family and mind/spirit health are integral to biological health—thus the 21-factor WIN! model was developed, giving equal treatment to the three areas of health. Seventh-day Adventist doctrines are gently integrated.
During the Family Life International Conference at Montemorelos University in July 2006, John and Millie Youngberg introduced the Spanish Version of WIN!, which is called SI! Salud Integral (SI!). The first copy of SI! was presented to the president of the North Mexico Union who ordered 1,000 copies for distribution among ministers, health educators, family life educators, colporteurs, and lay persons throughout his union.
Zeno Charles-Marcel, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Montemorelos University, said, “Every so often someone comes along with a fresh way of presenting ‘old truth.’ What the Youngbergs have done in WIN!—taking simple, basic health principles and relating them to the three most important spheres of our life and health—really is nothing short of being a masterpiece. The ‘system’ that they present is so intuitive and easy to grasp; it seems impossible that no one has thought of this before.”
The WIN! ministry has also spread to Guam where pastors have been trained to present the series evangelistically in Micronesia. Wes Youngberg, Dr.PH, director of the Wellness Center at The Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic, reports that members of other faiths and non-church goers are attending the meetings where WIN! materials are being shared.
At the Health Summit Orlando 2007, WIN! and SI! leadership training will be offered for health educators, family ministry leaders, evangelists, community service and women’s ministries leaders, as well as any qualified lay person interested. Electronic media and printed training manuals will be available to prepare leaders to spread the gospel and help individuals live healthier and happier lives.
For more information on the Health Summit Orlando 2007, call 800-732-7587 or visit www.plusline.com/events. Click on the Health Summit Orlando 2007 and look for further information about WIN! and SI! training.
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