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Health & Wellness News (The 20 most recent) By Subject: All | A2 | Advocacy | Annual Conference | Commentary | Congregational Development | Finance & Stewardship | General Church | Health & Wellness | Hurricane Katrina | Mission & Ministry | Racial Reconciliation | Small Membership Church | Spiritual Development | Web-only News | Youth | Zimbabwe
Study guides churches in understanding flu virus
Written: 10/27/2008 Special to the Advocate Efforts to improve the health of members of the Mississippi Conference have earned national recognition. The conference and the AmazingPace program were awarded a Healthy Future Champion Award by Acting Surgeon General, Adm. Steven K. Galson at the White House Office of Fai...
Written: 8/19/2008 Therapy patients give thumbs-up By Susan Christensen Special to the Advocate After suffering a few busted lips, Ray Ishee of Stringer gave up fist-fighting back in grade school. But on a recent weekday, the 68–year-old willingly put up his dukes for a round of make-believe boxing. It...
Written: 4/16/2008 Bikers – or those who want to be – can mark their calendars for the third annual Circuit Ride. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. May 31 on the Longleaf Trace in Prentiss. The trail winds through Mississippi pine forests with no traffic and no hills. The journey will begin in downtown Prentiss and...
Written: 2/6/2008 Special to the Advocate United Methodists in Mississippi have walked around the world nine times in the past six months and are healthier for it. Since The Amazing Pace began in June at Annual Conference, significant improvements in key health measurements have been achieved. Bisho...
Conference to mark World AIDS Day
Written: 10/16/2007 Special to the AdvocateThe Amazing Pace wellness program apparently made a big impression on United Methodists from across the denomination. Representatives of the program and the Mississippi Conference took part in the third annual National Congregational Health Ministries Conference in Wichita, K...
Written: 10/16/2007 Bishop Fritz Mutti, coordinator of the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund, will be one of the featured speakers when the Mississippi Conference recognizes World AIDS Day on Dec. 1. Mutti seeks to raise $1 for every United Methodist for the AIDS Fund by 2008. Also speaking will be Dr. Craig Thompson...
BOMB sets 2008 insurance rates
Written: 9/4/2007 By Woody Woodrick Advocate Editor When the “competition” started, Tupelo trailed Starkville. That didn’t sit well with some of the Tupelo team members, so they put in some extra work to take the lead — and they’ve kept it. This wasn’t about high school football. It was a group of...
Southern to Sumrall
Written: 1/16/2007 By Lucy Schultze The Oxford Eagle Working people in the Oxford area without health insurance will soon have access to medical aid, thanks in part to Oxford-University United Methodist Church. The church supports the new Oxford Medical Ministries Clinic in many ways, including making...
Written: 12/19/2006 By Woody Woodrick Advocate Editor GREENVILLE — Basic health care for low-income folks in this Delta city began to improve in October when Good Samaritan Health Center opened. It got a little better Dec. 12 when Methodist Healthcare of Memphis contributed $12,500 to the clinic. “T...
Author to highlight health event
Written: 6/30/2006 By Linda Green United Methodist News Service A United Methodist physician who believes the denomination's clergy are among the least-healthy professional groups in the United States is featured on a Web-log on Time magazine's global health update site. Dr. Scott Morris, a physician, Unite... |
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