First Place 4 Health Celebration!

There is a celebration at the end of each session of First Place 4 Health.  This celebration is based upon the one in the story of the Prodigal Son, Luke 15:20-22.  Like the son in the story, the members of the First Place 4 Health are learning what it means to change their focus.  The program, based on Matthew 6:33, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God…,” is a four sided approach to weight loss and total health – mental, physical, spiritual and emotional.  It is not the weight loss that we celebrate, but the fact that we have “returned” to our heavenly Father.

Yes, we have a dinner of healthy foods at our celebration, but the best part is not the food.  The testimonies that follow the meal are dessert for the soul! It is truly amazing to realize how our lives have been transformed since we decided to put God first.

We just celebrated the end of the Fall-Holiday session.  We took in several new members at the Orientation and invited them to the celebration as a “taste” of things to come.  We are presently into the new session which is a study called, The Power of Hope.  We are meeting at Redeemer Lutheran Church for this session, which will run for twelve weeks.  There will be an orientation in mid- April for the Spring-Summer session.

It is my hope and prayer that we can offer a men’s program in the near future.  There is a companion program called “Bod 4 God” which has a more masculine sound (although neither program is gender specific), yet based on the same principle of putting God first in our lives.  If anyone is interested in either program, please contact Kathy Geehreng, kegeehreng@verizon.net of 301-253-6437.