Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake Adopts Successful Health Practices

Investing in a Legacy of Health and Wellness

By Rev. Dr. Floyd H. Flake

The Greater Allen Cathedral of New York has successfully adopted the Nubian Health and Wellness Church Program, urging the continual investment in a “legacy of health and wellness.”

Investing, starting today, in strong health and wellness practices can reap immediate benefits, but can also establish a long term benefit - not only in a more healthful and longer life, but in the lives of our future generations in the A.M.E. church.

Using the cumulative benefits of exercise, good nutritional habits, vitamins and dietary supplements and a strong spiritual base, African Americans can begin to erode the disparities in health and mortality that currently exist.

Not only are these investments of regular exercise, spiritual strength through habitual prayer, and daily attentiveness to nutritional needs important for our individual and family health, but in the long term improvement of the health of all African Americans.

Greater Allen Cathedral has adopted the Nubian Health and Wellness Church Program which has three objectives: to Communicate about wellness and health issues, to Educate regarding the benefits of good health habits and to Prevent illness. In adopting the Nubian Health and Wellness Church Program, we are also providing for another legacy–a tradition of higher education. The program offers youth in the Allen Rites of Passage part of a successful sales and marketing effort – offering entrepreneurial training to generate sales of Nubian Health Products to generate personal income as well as funding for college scholarships.

For those who aspire to college, the Nubian Health and Wellness Church Program contributes to the higher education fund for young people of the assembly. Between 15 and 20 percent of each sale goes to the church’s scholarship account for qualified college-bound students according the program guidelines.

As part of the entrepreneurial training program, those mentored in the Rites of Passage program learn about marketplace dynamics, developing entrepreneurial skills, methods of wealth generation and investment, financial management and an appreciation of work ethic and attitude, income earning and savings providing the framework for a lifetime of achievement and financial success.

In selecting the Nubian Health and Wellness Program, our congregants have access to an important investment tool in the legacy of wellness: well-formulated food supplements offering the world’s best ingredients and consistent quality, purity and potency. It is a quality program, which reflects the high quality of spiritual and physical well being we aspire to.

A Health and Wellness Program is an investment – in better health, prevention of illness, longer life, and the legacy of healthy living for ourselves and for future generations.