DO YOU desire news methods and tools that will help you
skillfully and effectively to present the health mes sage to your
non-Seventh-day Adventist contacts as well as revitalize and stimulate
your church members?
A prevention series of health-slide and filmstrip programs has been developed to meet this need. Produced by Dr. Mervyn Hardinge, dean of the School of Health, Loma Linda University, this series emphasizes the natural remedies advocated by Ellen G. White. These include the proper use of pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, pure water, and trust in divine power (see The Ministry of Healing, p. 127).
Twelve beautifully illustrated and scientifically accurate programs that make up the prevention series are now available for your church health evangelistic programs as listed below:
SUGARTIME—The harmful effects of too-great sugar consumption.
MR. TENSE—What happens to the body when tension takes over, and how to prevent this from happening.
I'M TIRED—The importance of rest and relaxation.
BUBBLE OF AIR—Reasons for get ting plenty of fresh air.
WATER, WATER, WATER—The physiological importance of adequate water intake.
PHYSICALLY FIT?—The benefits of exercise in prevention of heart disease.
SUNLIGHT—The beneficial effects of using this natural remedy, along with cautions about overexposure.
THE SPIDER'S WEB—Detrimental effects of caffeine ingestion as evidenced in experiments with spiders
GREAT GRAIN ROBBERY—What has taken place when whole- grain elements have been re moved from flour.THE LIVING TOOTH How better to protect your wonderful teeth and keep them healthy.
LET'S SHAPE UP—Weight control, not just dieting, but a new life style.
JUST A LITTLE OUT OF SHAPE—The dangers involved in being obese.
These are available in slides or film- strips with either cassette or reel sound track, neatly packaged in a box with a script booklet. In addition they come as a cartridge, a unit containing both sound track and 16 mm. film, which may be inserted into a LaBelle projector. Two of these are the Sentinel 16 and the Courier 16, the Sentinel having the larger screen. A third model, the Tudor 16, has the same advantages, to be used with a small, "mini theater" screen for smaller audiences or projected onto a regular screen for larger attendances.
Slides may be used in any slide projector and if synchronization is desired, a sound synchronizer may be purchased to attach to the projector and any stereo tape recorder. In addition, for smaller audiences, a carousel may be placed in the Singer Caramate projector, causing the program to appear on a screen like a TV, the cassette being specially made to be inserted to synchronize the pro gram. This projector is easily carried by an attached handle.
Filmstrips may be used with any film- strip projector. Some of these projectors have a place for a cassette to be inserted to synchronize the program. For small audience viewing there are two small units with attached carrying handles, the Singer Auto Vance 11 with screen size of 3" by 4" and the Singer Auto Vance 111 with screen size of 5" by 7". The cassette again synchronizes the programs. These projectors can be effectively used with one-to-one audiences, such as in hospital patient teaching, or with small groups, such as home Bible study classes.
All of these materials are now being distributed by Professional Health Media Services. This is a health education supply center whose objective it is to provide quality programs at economical prices to our church people to aid in health evangelism. These programs can be used by any church member, even the most timid, and pave the way for further Bible lessons.
Other materials are available for use, such as the "Adventures in Adventist Living" program prepared by Leo Van Dolson, to help SDA laymen become more effective in health evangelism. It includes a teacher's guide, with student textbook and seven sets of slides. These can be effectively used for a weekly series of meetings or at prayer meetings.
Also available are four beautifully illustrated sets of slides using Spirit of Prophecy quotes entitled "Diet," "Health," "Exercise," and "Health Habits."
A new program just available is "Keys to Health and Happiness." It includes a syllabus with health and Bible studies sufficient for a month's series of meetings. This set of studies was written by Reuben Hubbard of the School of Health, Loma Linda University.
A Nutrition Series written by Edyth Cottrell, nutritionist and author of the Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley cook book, also is available in slide and film- strip format with reel or cassette sound track. There are seven programs in this series, beautifully illustrated and interestingly narrated for use in cooking schools and home economics classes. Recipes from the cookbook are demonstrated on the slides.
"The Adventist and the Health Mes sage" is a series of slides neatly pack aged in plastic sleeves in book format with an accompanying script written by Joyce Hopp, of the School of Health. It traces the SDA health message from its beginnings to present-day happenings. A sound cassette comes with the pro gram.
Other materials available through PHMS include a selection of more than 160 health-related books; all types of anatomical models and charts; color transparencies; bulletin board and posters; and the Medfact library of nine different categories of health topics.
PHMS has become the distributor for materials previously handled through the department of health productions in the School of Health, such as the prevention and nutrition series, and takes in new health-related products as they come onto the market.