Hosting a Successful Healthy Cooking Class at Harrisburg First SDA Church
Learn best practices for hosting a healthy cooking class at Harrisburg First SDA Church, including tips on mission statements, team building, budgeting, community engagement, menu planning with sample menus, and connecting with attendees through affordable, locally sourced ingredients. Discover how to promote healthy eating in a simple, cost-effective way to make cooking classes interesting and engaging.
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Best Practices in Hosting a Healthy Cooking Class Rita Overcash Harrisburg First SDA Church
Taste and See Cooking Class, Harrisburg First SDA Church Monthly class, January through November Attendance now 20-25, of which ~10 are non-SDA Our mission encourage healthy lifestyles and make friends for Jesus
Other PA Conference cooking classes Lewistown Church Chestnut Hill Church Full Plate Diet 8 week program Conducts two six-week cooking classes each spring www.fullplatediet.org Tuesday classes in the community Sunday classes at the church 4 weekly cooking classes, creates own menu, provides lots of cooking tips to participants Surveys participants to determine areas of interest and any allergies Health education emphasis Fee for each class
Whats your mission? Do you have a plan? What is your mission statement? Who is on your team? What time can you commit? What is your budget?
Connecting with the community Reaching out to established contacts Advertising Personal invitations The importance of involvement by church members
What should we cook? Use ingredients that attendees can purchase locally Promote healthy eating Simple is better Low cost Demonstrations make it interesting
Sample menus Dinner Breakfast Lentil Roast Greens & Tofu Scramble Wrap Garlic Cauliflower & Potato Mash Health Nut Blueberry Muffins Green beans Green Smoothies Salad Baked Oatmeal Sunflower Seed Waffles Choose 2-3
More Sample Menus Lunch or Dinner Everything Garbanzo Beans Vegetarian Chili Curried Vegetable Stew Corn Bread Seasoned Chickpea taco salad with avocado ranch dressing Tossed Greens Salad
Soups, Salads, Sandwiches Sweet potato black bean burritos Creamy Corn Chowder Or Hawaiian Sloppy Joes Quinoa Salad Oven-baked potato fries Tossed Greens Salad Tossed Greens Salad
Available Resources Natural Lifestyle Cooking by Ernestine Finley, Cookbook, instructor s manual, participant workbook & DVDs, available from Adventistbookcenter.com, $70, $10 per workbook Covers breakfasts, bread making, healthy suppers, healthy desserts, menu planning, advantages of a total vegetarian diet Delightful Cooking DVD set by The Micheff Sisters, 4 programs with corresponding recipes; available from 3ABN, $16 Web sites free! (give full credit when sharing recipes) Oh She Glows www.ohsheglows.com Vegan 8 www.vegan8.com 8 ingredients or less Brand New Vegan www.brandnewvegan.com oil-free, comfort food
Adding health education to your cooking class What resources do you have available in your church? Health talks without reinventing the wheel Online Resources CELEBRATIONS www.healthministries.com/celebrations_presentations Creation Health www.creationhealth.com Balanced Living - www.lifestylematters.com/content/balanced-living
The principles of health reform are found in the Word of God. The gospel of health is to be firmly linked with the ministry of the Word. It is the Lord s design that the restoring influence of health reform shall be a part of the last great efforts to proclaim the gospel message Medical Ministry, 259. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly, John 10:10, NKJV Much of the prejudice that prevents the truth of the third angel s message from reaching the hearts of the people, might be removed if more attention were given to health reform. When people become interested in this subject, the way is often prepared for the entrance of other truths. If they see that we are intelligent with regard to health, they will be more ready to believe that we are sound in Bible doctrines. Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, p. 121.3
