FAITH COMMUNITIES ENCOURAGE HEALTHIER LIVING
– Hattiesburg American/ USA Today
BALTIMORE FOOD AND FAITH PROJECT
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A huge area of opportunity for the Christian church is to make a more positive impression on the nutritional wellness of their members and community. However decades and generations of poor diet history make that unlikely. Most church leaders and members just don’t know where to begin or what to do.
The Baltimore Food and Faith Project, a partnership between John Hopkins University and faith communities in Baltimore is changing that. Immediately impressive is that they have developed a resource called The Good Food Toolkit so churches can evaluate their food policies and practices and to develop and implement a personalized action plan for improvement. They promote gardening too.
This is all on one hand very brilliant for strengthening the role of the church in today’s culture and the daily lifestyle of the community and on the other hand it is simply following Jesus Christ’s example. He connected with people time and again through meal times and food connections.
Faith & Fitness Magazine’s 2017 Redefined Conference collocated at the Athletic Business Show in Orlando, November 8-11 offers a 3-track format this year. One of those tracks focuses on the increasingly important role of nutrition in the fitness industry and the unique ways fitness ministry is redefining how nutrition is done.
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This commentary appears in the June/July 2017 issue of Faith & Fitness Magazine in the news section.
