Jim & Joann W

We wish to give testimony to the past 6 month experience of seeing a reversal in our general health condition, but more importantly, an improvement in our attitudes toward our health thus our enthusiasm for the years that lie ahead. My wife, Joann, loves to tell others we are enrolled in our own personal "NHPP" (Nursing Home Prevention Plan).

Our desire to do more "full-time ministry", having my wife "retire" from the nursing home where she worked part time (at close to minimum wage, but with full benefits including our health insurance), provided the motivation for my qualifying "unconditionally" for the Christian Care MediShare program. The nursing home cafe that Joann managed, (where she was constantly requested to make chocolate malts for overweight residents and their visitors) was an added incentive for both of us, as we witnessed the multitude of health issues resulting from lives wrapped around unrestrained consumption of the very foods that put those people in the nursing home in the first place.

We desired before the Lord to not follow the "way of the world" in lifestyles that led to such pathetic endings. God led us to Christian Care Medi-Share and broke our "bondage" to medical insurance/medical treatment addictions. To be accepted into the MediShare program I was required to enroll in the Health Initiatives program, Restore, which literally realigned my eating and exercise habits to that which supported my biblical convictions of how I ought to be living.

Bill became my Health Education Consultant and prayer companion. Every two weeks I would receive a phone call wherein we would review the degree of short term goals achieved and set goals for the next step. When needed, Bill would have health consulting Doctors and/or Physical Therapists CALLING ME, to provide top notch guidance to my specific needs or questions. I think Bill would have had President Bush call me if the need was there!

Bill assured me that the numbers would be there if I simply stuck to the program outlined in "Eat to Live". In faith, convinced that God's hand was in this guidance, I trusted the results to Him. Today, six months later, with my total cholesterol down over 60 points, and my blood pressure at 118/72, I was congratulated in a phone call from Bill for having graduated out of the class of "Conditional Approval"into full participating membership in the MediShare program.

We are thanking God for His direct intervening hand in matters of our disciplined, (not self-indulging) healthy life-style outlook. We thank the MediShare and Health Initiatives Staff and Board-of-Directors for their obedience to God's teachings, enabling the many members, now including my wife and me, to incorporate those principles into our daily life.