Lord, please give

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Lord, please give Your Membership
Could Save A Life OLD  
NORTH STATE
MEDICAL SOCIETY
Time
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Time to Advance Healthy Lifestyle
Advocacy- for people in churches in
community organizations in institutions of
higher learning in African-American homes
in our communities and in our spirits and
daily activities.
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Time to achieve the goals of HEALTHY
LIFESTYLE ADVOCACY including .
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Goal 1

• Teaching medically-based, faith driven
• lifestyle behaviors that are wrapped in
• scripture and spiritual knowledge to create
• sustained, daily activities that promote
• health, longevity and prosperity in all
• parts of life

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Goal 2
2. Teaching the mechanics of establishing
and maintaining successful Health Promotion
Disease Management Clubs in churches with
a) congregational, health promotion
goals including questions everyone must
ask their physicians, and b) health messages
that can be incorporated into weekly church
services and
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Goal 3
3. Instructing physicians on the appropriate
protocols for use in treating
African-American patients.
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• ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO,
• OLD NORTH STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
• Heard
• The daunting reality of racism, denial of
  African Americans to appropriate medical care and
  pathetic debasement of eminently qualified Black
  physicians

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• Saw
• devastating, inhumane and at times, experimental
  treatment perpetrated on African Americans solely
  on account of race and inability to pay for care
  and

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• Felt
• Compelled to sacrifice at any cost on behalf of
  valued life.

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TODAY African American Physicians and affiliate
members of Old North State Medical Society
continue being a force for good . . . for
healthier children, healthier families and a
healthier community.
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REGARDING TOMORROW Old North State Medical
Society Proclaims One hundred years from now,
unto the fifth generation -
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People will Hear- African Americans are among
the healthiest people in the world
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• See -
• African Americans representing a minimum of
  thirty (30) per cent of all medical providers
  working in every level of the health care
  industry and

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• Feel -
• African Americans combine Medicine and
  Spirituality to achieve the best health outcomes
  for all.

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AND SO IT IS!!
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Your Membership Could Save A Life  
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I Corinthians 6 19-2019 What? Know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are
not your own?20 For ye are bought with a
price therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are Gods.
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. . . there are three dimensions of any
complete life . . . length, breath,
and height.
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Length Inward concern for self
concern that causes one to push forward, to
achieve his or her own goals and ambitions.
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Breath Outward Concern for Others Height
Upward Reach For GOD
You have to have all three of these to have a
complete life.
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Three Dimensions of
a Complete Life
Delivered at New Covenant Baptist Church,
Chicago, Illinois, on 9 April 1967
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SPEND TIME PROMOTING HEALTH
IN EVERY
PART OF
LIFE
Through
Healthy Lifestyle Advocacy
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Through Bridging MEDICINE AND SPIRITUALITY
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ADVOCACY
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Why BRIDGE Medicine and Spirituality?  
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Does this serve the best interest of
everyone?
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Is there a scriptural foundation for bringing
the two together?
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Can the church become a leading advocate for
the improved health of its members?  
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Can providers of medicine take a more active
interest in supporting the churchs role as an
advocate of healthier living?
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Where are the hindrances to broadening the
churches role in contributing to the daily,
weekly and monthly behavioral goals leading to
improved health of its members?  
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Where are the greatest possibilities for
advancing the churchs role in encouraging
healthier behavior among its members?
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Are we standing at a crossroad between
life and death . . . as individuals, as
communities and as a race of people?
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• Lets look at more reasons WHY . . .
• Many lives are at stake
• According to the US Bureau of the Census, in
  1996, 1,624,260 Million African Americans lived
  North Carolina.
• One out of every five of North Carolinas
  residents is Black.
• African Americans are the second largest racial
  group in North Carolina.

Our people live fewer years than White Americans.
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• African Americans born today
• have a life expectancy of about 70,
• typically dying 6-7 years earlier than
• White Americans.

• 9 out of 10 minority residents
• are African American.

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• From 1990 to 1996 our death rates from
• AIDS 150
• Diabetes 14.
• African Americans Deaths due to
• Diabetes are
• 3 times greater than Whites
• Stroke are
• 2 times as likely as Whites and
• Heart Disease
• 1.5 times as likely as Whites
• Kidney Disease
• 3 times as likely as Whites
• Prostate Cancer
• 3.5 times as likely as Whites
• Cervical Cancer
• more than 2 times as likely as Whites

We die earlier when we could live longer!
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Many disease conditions are avoidable through
practicing healthier lifestyles.
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• LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH for BLACK MEN ARE
  DISEASES THAT CAN BE IMPACTED
• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Unintentional Injuries
• Stroke
• AIDS
• Homicide
• Diabetes
• Pneumonia, Influenza

What does your future hold?
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• LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH for BLACK WOMEN ARE
  DISEASES THAT CAN BE IMPACTED
• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Stroke
• Diabetes
• Unintentional Injuries
• AIDS
• Pneumonia, Influenza
• Homicide

There are alternatives to early mortality.
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Among North Carolina children screened in 1996,
a Black child was nearly 2.5 times as likely to
have an abnormally high blood lead level. Four
out of five infant deaths among African Americans
in 1996 were attributed to immature or premature
birth defects, the health status of the mother,
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, breathing conditions
, and other conditions.
No one is exempted from earlier mortality.
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. How many African-Americans are estimated to die
this year from the leading causes of death?
What other complications could result?
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What are some of the causes of these conditions?
About how many African Americans are
treated annually for each leading cause of
death?  
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Could these conditions be avoided or better
managed? How?  
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Can patients contribute to the disease
progression? How do patients contribute to the
disease progression?  
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Could setting up specific disease management
clubs at churches improve ones health?
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ADVOCATE Healthy Lifestyles Create Health
Promotion Clubs Disease Management Clubs in
Churches and other Community settings.
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Train church missionaries and health leaders to
be advocates for Healthier Lifestyles. Have
Old North State Medical Society teach disease
management strategy based on ethnic, cultural and
racial indicators.
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Inspire Others! Set Goals! Applaud
everyones talents and abilities! Get educated
about specific diseases. Be Strong in the
Lord Believe in the people you serve.
FACILITATE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ADVOCACY
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Practice Trust, Appreciation, and
Compassion, Spend Time Together, Manage
Stress, Pace yourself, Be patient, Be
Committed, And remember PEOPLE ARE IN PAIN.
Keep a Vision of HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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Consult and be a Spokesperson to your colleagues
and the faith-based community. The Healthy
Lifestyle Advocate is a vital link in ongoing
education about Healthy Lifestyles.
Consider Being A Consultant or Program Coordinato
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• Create An Advocacy Leadership Team
• Including
• You,
• Your pastor,
• Your doctor, and
• Your church leadership
• Reach out through your own network. Your
  neighbors pastor. Your Mothers nurse. The
  minister that runs the homeless shelter in your
  town.
• And dont forget your co-workers, your spouse,
  your children, your brothers and sisters, your
  best friend, your Sunday School teacher any
  anyone else you think of.

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• Together we can
• build bridges so that the flow of information,
  ideas, practical solutions, and spiritual
  strength will be encouraged and unimpeded.
• find links between each of us, every person and
  resource that improves the health and well being
  of our people.
• 3. inspire a spiritual home that will take this
  mission of advocacy for good health as part of
  its outreach to the community it serves.

Create Disease Management Clubs . Health
Maintenance Clubs in Faith-Based Communities
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• Give the Club a home?
• Start with your home church.
• Ask your pastor and the board of deacons or
  elders for a blessing and permission to
  meet at the church.
• Consider
• how you will provide child care,
• how you will share food and
• refreshments,
• can people with wheelchairs and
• walkers get around easily, is it
• safe, are transportation and
• Parking available, is there a
• phone people can use, is there a
• contact you can reach easily.
• Identify times when your Club
• can meet.
• Have several choices of times.

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Say to him Long life to you! Good health to you
and your household! And good health to all that
is yours! 1 Samuel 256
Learn about the body, its systems, how it works
and how to care correctly for it.
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Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will
be on your food and water. I will take away
sickness from among you.
Exodus 2325
Do you know how to recognize the signs and
symptoms of imbalance and disease conditions in
the body?
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Jesus went through all the towns and villages,
teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good
news of the kingdom and healing every disease and
sickness. Matthew 935
Which questions should be asked at each visit to
the doctors office.
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After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he
feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the
church-- Ephesians 529 
Are you thoughtfully selecting providers of your
health care?
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This will bring health to your body and
nourishment to your bones. Proverbs 38
Understand the essentials of good
healthnutrition, exercise, mental attitude,
faith-based health fairs and more
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I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick
and you looked after me, I was in prison and you
came to visit me . . . Whatever you did for one
of the least of these brothers of mine, you did
for me. Matthew 2536,40
Emerge as the dedicated Disciples ADVOCATES of
Healthy Lifestyle with dignity and assurance
that HIS will can be on earth as it is in
heaven.
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Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of
which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be
shepherds of the church of God, which he bought
with his own blood. Act 2028
Work in specific Disease Management Clubs
Hypertension, Diabetes, AIDS, Emotional Illness,
Heart Disease, Obesity and more based on the
needs of your congregation.
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And the prayer offered in faith will make the
sick person well the Lord will raise him up. If
he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James
515
And prayer without works. .support one
another .be gentle forces for good .problem
solve as groups and individuals .reach
beyond comfort to do as HE did.
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CAN YOU give your life today to health and those
activities that will accrue to the fifth
generation?
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Needs you to make the Difference on behalf of
health and well-being! Unite with physicians
today for life tomorrow and beyond.
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For more information contact Old North State
Medical Society P.O. Box 31588 Raleigh, North
Carolina 27622 [phone] (phone) (919 782
4620 (fax) E-mail ONSMS Medical
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