Adventist CHIP Association

The Adventist CHIP Association is a fellowship of Seventh-day Adventist Churches around North America who, along with other local sponsors, are conducting this unique video-based program in their communities.

Historically, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has been passionately committed to the health and healing of the whole person. In the late 19th Century, John Harvey Kellogg developed the world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium while his brother, W.K. Kellogg, launched the breakfast cereal industry. Since that time, the Seventh-day Adventist church has created a network of hundreds of hospitals (including Loma Linda University Medical Center in southern California), clinics, and community health education centers that span the globe. Many thousands of people associate their health care with Seventh-day Adventist personnel and institutions.

Dr. Hans Diehl is pleased to support qualifying Seventh-day Adventist churches that provide CHIP as a dynamic, first-class means of bringing scientifically sound lifestyle education and motivation to communities across North America.

The Adventist CHIP Association is a non-profit, grass-roots, volunteer-driven organization that provides materials, leadership training, and ongoing support for Seventh-day Adventist Church CHIP Programs.

Their Mission is to provide scientifically sound, community health education programs in the local community that will bring healing to the whole person—body, mind, and soul—while creating lasting friendships and stimulating an interest in God's original design for maximum health and wellbeing.

The Association convenes an annual Summit for business, leadership training, fellowship, and inspiration.

Basic Leadership Workshop Schedule:

• Columbia Union/Pennsylvania Conference - March 26-28, 2010. This workshop is being conducted in partnership with Adventist HealthCare, the Pennsylvania Conference, and the Columbia Union and is hosted by Blue Mountain Academy, 2363 Mountain Road, Hamburg, PA 19526. It begins Friday with registration and check-in between 12:00 and 3:00pm. The workshop begins on Friday at 4:00 pm. and closes on Sunday at 4:00 pm. Early-Bird Registration fee ends on March 18. For details about the workshop fees, schedule, meals, accommodations, and more, click on the links below. You may also email info@sdaCHIP.org or call 239-267-1961(Eastern Time Zone).

• Concord, North Carolina - April 9 - 11, 2010. This workshop is being conducted in partnership with the Carolina Conference and is hosted by the Concord Seventh-day Adventist Church 30 minutes from Charlotte at 2141 Hwy 49 North, Concord, NC. It begins Friday with registration and check-in between 12:00 and 3:00 pm. The Workshop begins on Friday at 4:00 pm and closes on Sunday at 4:00 pm. Early-bird registration fee ends on April 1. For details about the workshop fees, schedule, meals, accommodations, and more, click on the links below. You may also email info@sdaCHIP.org or call 866-732-2447 (Eastern Time Zone).

• Keene, Texas - May 20 - 23, 2010 This workshop is being conducted in partnership with the Southwestern Union and Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and is hosted by the Keene Adventist Church, adjoining the campus of the Southwestern Adventist University at 114 S. Fairview Street. Registration and check-in are Thursday between 3:00 and 6:00 pm at the church with the workshop starting at 7:00 pm Thursday evening in the chapel. From Friday morning at 9:00 am until 12:30 noon on Sunday the rest of the workshop meetings are held in the Senior Center about one block from the church at 207 E. First Street. Early-bird registration fee ends on May 5. For details about the workshop fees, schedule, meals, accommodations, and more, click on the links below. You may also email info@sdaCHIP.org or call 866-732-2447 (Eastern Time Zone). Keene is 30 minutes south of Fort Worth and an hour plus from either DFW or Love Field in Dallas.

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• Orange Park, Florida, April 5, 2009
  This Sunday workshop was co-sponsored with the Orange Cove Seventh-day Adventist Church near Jacksonville, Florida with twenty-five persons attending from four churches including one from Mississippi.
  
  
• Sacramento, California, April 25 & 26, 2009
  This workshop was co-sponsored with the Northern California Conference Health Ministries department. It was held in the fellowship hall of the Sunset Oaks Seventh-day Adventist Church located in Rocklin, CA, with some 40 persons from 11 Northern California churches attending.
  
  
• Salt Lake City, Utah, May 16 & 17, 2009
  This workshop was co-sponsored with the Nevada-Utah Conference Health Ministries department. It was held in the fellowship hall of the West Jordan Seventh-day Adventist Church. Twenty-two persons from four churches (Moab, Ogden, Salt Lake Central, and West Jordan) completed the training and received their certificates.
  
  
• Ventura, California, June 27 & 28, 2009
  This workshop was co-sponsored with the Southern California Conference Health Ministries Department. It was held in the fellowship hall of the Ventura Seventh-day Adventist Church. There were three 3 churches represented from, Ventura and Pasadena, CA and one form Ontario, Canada with close to a dozen in attendance.
  
  
• New York City, NY September 26 & 27, 2009
  This workshop was co-sponsored with the Greater New Your Conference Health Ministries Department and hosted by the Morris Park Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Bronx, NY. There were 10 churches represented with about 44 in attendance representing RI, NY, NJ, MA, and CT.
  


• Ottawa, ON Canada – October 17 & 18, 2009
  This workshop was co-sponsored with the Ontario Conference Health Ministries Department and hosted by the East Ottawa Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ottawa, Canada. There were five churches represented with 20 in attendance.
  


• Chicago, Illinois – October 17 & 18, 2009
  This workshop was co-sponsored with the Illinois Conference Health Ministries Department and hosted by the North Shore Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Chicago, IL.  There were 14 churches represented with 75 in attendance. In addition, eleven pastors from Spanish churches came to hear about Health Beginnings now available in Spanish.
  

Contact

Adventist CHIP Association (866) SDA-CHIP or (866) 732-2447 for information, training, and managing CHIP programs within the Seventh-day Adventist system of churches & hospitals Contact: Peggy West, RN, BSPA (Office Manager) 247 Peach Orchard Rd Greeneville, TN 37745 office (423) 546-4719; fax (423) 546-4139 westpeggy@comcast.net
Harold Burden, MDiv, MPH (ACA Chairman) (503) 257-4883 hob@adventistCHIP.org Skype: hoburden
Dena Guthrie, RN, MS (Treasurer/Program Development) (321) 972-625 info@adventistCHIP.org Skype: chip777--1