Deep Tissue Community Engagement
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Over 120 years ago, Seventh-day Adventist pioneers, Steven Haskell, John Tindall (and their teams) introduced several innovative, health-focused outreach strategies to meet the pressing health needs of urban communities in their day.
Deep Tissue is a training and collaboration platform for diligent Medical Missionaries. It will aid you and your team in organizing sustainable, community outreach programs.
Taking Community Outreach to “the Next Level”
DEEP TISSUE Community Engagement Strategies equip and empower members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (and other Faiths) to penetrate the “deep tissue” of communities served with high-impact, health-focused, outreach programs and activities. Our education-focused programming provides structures that empower residents confront structural inequities, health disparities, and access to healthcare in their communities. It puts hope within the people’s grasp!
DEEP TISSUE adapts “the Blueprint” and Tindall’s, Field School Model to advance a data-driven, collaborative vision for improving health outcomes where our members live work, and worship… in partnership with an array of “Key Community Stakeholders.”
DEEP TISSUE prepares Youth & Young Adults from CHOSEN and re-CONNECT Zones for paradigm-shifting, Community Leadership roles and responsibilities. CHOSEN engages and trains their peers in the city to participate in health-focused, programs and activities to transform community health outcomes.
Deep Tissue Impact
The Future of Sustainable Community Engagement, Outreach, and Reform!
DEEP TISSUE is a comprehensive, community outreach strategy that prepares you, church members, Youth & Young Adults for sustainably engage members of the community to offer Hope and Solutions (Matthew 22:37). Deep Tissue UNFIES members’ to achieve personal/ family/community-wide health improvement goals.
Community Stakeholder Partnerships encourage robust Member Involvement and help build mutually-beneficial Community Alliances. Such relationships leverage local organizations’ strengths and resources that build our capacity to bring low-cost/no-cost interventions to cities facing pressures to address devastating impact of COVID-19 – a mental health and substance abuse crisis, and spikes in lifestyle-/obesity-related diseases.
DEEP TISSUE’s Ten-phases are practical strategies for preparing church members, especially Youth & Young Adults, to confidently enter urban/suburban communities with practical SOLUTIONS for improving people’s lives where they live, work, and worship!
Prayer+Study Bootcamps
Believers Fellowship, Acts 2:46 “They worshiped together at the Temple each day.” Daily Prayer Contributes to UNITY, SUCCESS!
Field Training School
“There should be connected with our missions, training schools for those who are about to enter the fields as laborers.” Ev. 107.3
Urban Health Mapping
Community Engagement Zones’ (CEZ) Health Disparities are Assessed using Community Health Needs Assessments, Improvement Plans, and Surveys
Stakeholder Research
Build Database of Community Stakeholders whose Missions Address Health Inequities and Disparities to Partner with
Program Development
Members Trained to Implement Health-focused Programs and Activities that Address Specific CEZ Health Needs & Disparities
Stakeholder Engagement
We Educate Stakeholders about Adventism’s Historical Health Focus and our Plans for Improving Community Health.
Stakeholder Alliances
Leverage Stakeholders’ In-kind Contributions, Expertise, Space, Influence, etc. to Increase DUO’s Capacity to Serve our Neighbors
Program Implementation
Data is Collected in Every Phase of Deployment to Track Short-/ Long-term Program Impact and to Gauge Success in Meeting Health Improvement Goals
Assessment & Evaluation
Programmatic and Strategic Strengths and Weaknesses are determined in On-going Effort to Improve Future Outcomes
DEEP TISSUE Innovation
Program Data and Evaluations are Used to Drive Continuous Program Innovation, Build our Capacity to Serve, Impact Lives!
Deep Tissue Partners
Self-supporting institutions carry out the mandate to, “educate, educate, eduate” members with the support of the organized church. Deep Tissue (Affiliates) provide a variety of hybrid (online + in-person) training opportunities that better-prepare Adventists to enter large cities to proclaim the Gospel of Salvation using, “the entering wedge” of Health.
Deep Tissue’s, Community Engagement Zone (CEZ) model relies heavily on the expertise and eduational content of our Affiliates. Our teams work hard to educate, equip, and empower volunteers from churches within 30 minutes of each other to employ Christ’s Method for, “true success in reaching the people (Ministry of Healing 143.2, 3).”
Energy Shack Juice Bar
Toronto, Canada
Provides nutrient dense, high-quality juices, smoothies and total vegetarian meals to the public while educating them on the 8 laws of health, so they can have life, and have “it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Energy Shack also offers various health-oriented consultations.
MEET Ministries
Huntingdon, TN
Missionary Education and Evangelistic Training (M.E.E.T.) Ministry is a multi-faceted, Christian, charitable, faith-based ministry organized in 1988. It includes a life-style center, a Home Natural Health Retreat, Gospel-Medical Missionary training school, publishing ministry (including canvassing), a natural farm, and herbal industry. They also conduct various seminars worldwide.
Life & Health Network
Lincoln, CA
Life and Health Network was created by a group of doctors and dentists who all share an earnest desire to do more than the norm. True health shouldn’t be merely about diagnosing symptoms and prescribing medication—it is far more valuable than that. True health is about overall wellness, treated in a sustainable manner that limits the need to visit the doctor altogether.
LIGHT Ministries
Wildwood, GA
In 2008, LIGHT Ministry was accepted as an ASI, member-organization and has since trained over 30,000 “Medical Missionaries” in over 95 different countries. LIGHT provides health evangelism training to church members using short courses, workshops, and online studies in an effort to support graduates in the establishment of vibrant community health outreach programs, health evangelism training schools, city missions, and rural lifestyle centers.
FAQ
!Principles and Practices
This site is the training arm of DUO Health’s outward-facing community outreach programs and activities. It is designed to answer questions you may have if your were recommended by your city’s, DUO Advisory’s point-of-contact. Please take time to review our organizational goals and objectives to determine whether Deep Tissue’s training and community outreach offerings are in line with your doctrinal views about Adventist’s role in the community and the lives of your neighbors.
Before committing to take this life-changing educational journey with us by enrolling, please pray and ask God to give you the will and discipline to make the sacrifices you may be called in our efforts to reach your neighbors with health programs and activities. Eventually, your team will become a symbol of service and Christ-likeness as you follow, “the Blueprint” other community-based organizations cannot replicate to improve community health outcomes.
Sustainable Community Outreach
Our goal is to institutionalize low-/no cost strategies and volunteeerism – an all-hands-on-deck modelCollaborative efforts to leverage the expertise and resources of many Community Stakeholders to address health inequities that contribute to disparities that continue to impact the most vulnerable people in a City by institutionalizing low-/no cost strategies and volunteeerism – an all-hands-on-deck model.
Deep Tissue: Meaning
Deep tissue massage is a type of massage therapy that focuses on realigning deeper layers of muscles and connective tissue. “Deep Tissue” Community Outreach Programs, in partnership with Community Stakeholders, is designed to realign residents with God’s Plan for them: Healthy Minds, Bodies, Spirits! The self-sacrifice of each Deep Tissue Team, combined with the Holy Spirit’s Power, is God’s ordained means for relieving humanity’s suffering.
Deep Tissue Community Outreach
Comprehensive, Health Reform strategies based on the Bible, Spirit of Prophecy, Christ’s Ministry, and Church History designed to increase Total Member Involvement (TMI) and systematically improve community health outreach/outcomes, and Adventism’s, social relevance in America’s large cities.
What's a Stakeholder?
Primary Stakeholders: Individuals or groups of people directly impacted by DUO’s programs, activities, and advocacy.
Key Stakeholders: Individuals or organizations who develop short-/long-term relationships with DUO to address social and/or health disparities in the city/community served by your team.
Stakeholder Engagement / OutreachBenefits
Community Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach legitimizes and embeds Adventist Health Reform principles, programs, and activities in your community to help reverse chronic disease and improve community health outcomes.
Close working relationships with Key Community Stake-holders greatly enhance our ability to attract local residents to peer-to-peer nutrition seminars, plant-based cooking schools, and our other health-focused programs. Stakeholder “awareness building” is an important step in fostering strong, lasting partnerships that build our capacity to achieve our stated mission as Health Reformers.
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DEEP TISSUE to YOUR City = “Good Success”
In every church there is talent, which, with the right kind of labor, might be developed to become a great help in this work. There should be a well-organized plan for the employment of workers to go into all our churches, large and small, to instruct the members how to labor for the upbuilding of the church, and also for unbelievers.
It is training, education, that is needed. Let all set their hearts and minds to become intelligent in regard to the work for this time, qualifying themselves to do that for which they are best adapted.
The greatest help that can be given our people is to teach them to work for God, and to depend on Him, not on the ministers. Let them learn to work as Christ worked. Let them join His army of workers and do faithful service for Him. Counsels for the Church, 69.2.
Church members must work; they must educate themselves, striving to reach the high standard set before them. This the Lord will help them to reach if they will co-operate with Him. 9T, 140.
Schedule an Appointment
If you’d like to learn more about “Deep Tissue” Community Outreach or how your team can implement CHOSEN’s, high-impact Youth/Young Adult programming in your community, please arrange a 30-minute appointment to discuss your thoughts, ideas, and aspirations with us.
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