The Health and Wellness Ministry in the African American Church
The Health and Wellness Ministry in the African American Church

Author: Edwin H. Hamilton

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1594674698

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Edwin H. Hamilton, M.D., D.Min., writes this provocative book introducing and establishing throughout the Black Church a program of Preventive Health Education through a Health and Wellness Ministry. Riggins R. Earl, Jr., Ph.D., noted theologian/philosopher, writes an insightful introduction based on Booker T. Washington?s teachings.The prevailing spiritual thought embodies I Corinthians 6:19: ?Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit??A three-part Model-in-Ministry design comprises the Minister of Health and Wellness?Preventive Health Education and Community Health Outreach. These are explained for Health Ministers and laity alike. The ministry?s theological foundation is presented succinctly. The planning of the Ministry and The Community Health Fair is clearly explained. The summary and conclusions give precise points regarding the ministry. Empowering course outlines for the Health and Wellness Ministry give concise pathways for any church to use for Health Ministry establishment. A chapter on Water and two of the author?s sermons from the Hampton University Ministers? Conference are included in this new edition.

The Black American Church
The Black American Church

Author: Dr. Khandicia N. Randolph

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this book seeks to examine the leadership of the Black church through a critical and theoretical lens utilizing historical and anthropological foci to better identify and understand some of the challenges within the paramount institution and its attrition to the Black American community at large and provide appropriate suggestions and generating frameworks for addressing the challenges. The church has always played a pivotal role in Black American culture's identity, development, and progression. Leadership and organizational challenges within the church pervasively matriculate to other Black spaces, historically Black organizations, and a broader societal context. Due to the church's historical and ethnographic context for Blacks in America, many of the challenges faced in the church go unrecognized, unspoken, thus unattended. This manuscript endeavors to identify the challenges, and flaws through research and data, to provide solutions through practical and theoretical implementations to some shortcomings for the betterment of the church and culture. The interconnectedness of culture and religion for Blacks in America established a gargantuan impact factor on the church and its leaders. This manuscript examines the pervading effects of the influence through leadership dispensation. It also explores the understanding of leadership through the lens of Black Christianity, deriving that the foundation of leadership in the Black community was primarily circumscribed by the influence of the church as conglomerate collectivism of almost five hundred years of the history and culture of Africans, African descendants, and members of the African diaspora in what is now America who contributed to the ideal of the Black church. The critical analysis provided is not one of condemnation but likened to a vital performance review through member experiences barred against applicable leadership and organizational development barometers.

Public Health Education in the African American Community
Public Health Education in the African American Community

Author: Lena Butler-Flowers

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 1434973085

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The African American community is facing a health crisis. We are in a predicament in which excessive eating is the order of the day. This overindulgence of food has caused obesity, infant mortality, hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, kidney disease/failure, cardiovascular disease, and eventual death. The purpose of this book is to build public awareness of the health crisis facing the black community, develop a health education model suitable for use in large and small groups that would serve to improve diet and exercise in at-risk individuals and promote the establishment of Faith and Health initiates in the local church.

From Every Mountainside
From Every Mountainside

Author: R. Drew Smith

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2013-06-27

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1438447264

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It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society. Individual essays point to the multiple directions the quest for civil rights has taken, into the North and West, and into policy areas left unresolved since the end of the 1960s, including immigrant and gay rights, health care for the uninsured, and the persistent denials of black voting rights and school equality. In exploring these issues, the volume's contributors shed light on distinctive regional dimensions of African American political and church life that bear in significant ways on both the mobilization of civil rights activism and the achievement of its goals.

Swimming Up Stream 2: Agency and Urgency in the Education of Black Men: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 150
Swimming Up Stream 2: Agency and Urgency in the Education of Black Men: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 150

Author: Brendaly Drayton

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1119284104

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This volume is the continuation of a two-part series that focuses on salient topics and issues affecting Black males as they engage in adult education and learning. Considering the historical and current effects on the way these men participate in adult education, this volume broadens the conversations around adult Black males’ educational experiences by utilizing academic research as well as program descriptions and personal narratives with a concern for the “lived experiences.” More specifically, the authors explore: the agency of Black men in carving out pathways to success, the programs that support these endeavors, and the role of civil society in facilitating or inhibiting their progress. Topics covered include the digital divide, sports, professional career development, sexuality, role of religion, college as a choice, and the Black Lives Matter initiative. Practitioners will be encouraged to reflect on their own practices as they work toward engagement of Black males in learning communities. This is the 150th volume of the Jossey Bass series New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. Noted for its depth of coverage, it explores issues of common interest to instructors, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of education settings, such as colleges and universities, extension programs, businesses, libraries, and museums.

African-American Faith in America
African-American Faith in America

Author: Larry George Murphy

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2015-04-29

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1438140320

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Examines how African traditions have influenced the practice of Christianity and Islam in the United States and how African Americans express their faith today.

DermaMyth: Breaking the Cycle of Skincare Myths
DermaMyth: Breaking the Cycle of Skincare Myths

Author: Chesahna Kindred, MD, MBA, FAAD

Publisher: Kindred Hair & Skin Center

Published: 2020-08-24

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1735446009

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Myths about your hair, skin, and nails are more common than you think. How many trends have you seen come and go? Dr. Kindred, a board-certified dermatologist, turned her popular social media #DermMythMonday into a book! She lays out the truth about common misconceptions in skincare. Don't worry about medical jargon, she intentionally made this book simple, easy for everyone to understand, and yet, mind-blowing.

The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One
The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One

Author: Estrelda Y. Alexander

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-06-22

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1608993620

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This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Neo-Pentecostal, and quasi-Pentecostal bodies within the United States and Canada. In addition, the dictionary contains entries on the important people, places, events, and theological and secular issues that shaped these groups over their histories, some of which go back more than a century. This and subsequent volumes will be invaluable tools for students and scholars of the history of Pentecostalism.