Health Ministries

Why are Seventh-day Adventists interested in Health?

The work of healthcare and healing is a central belief of the Adventist Church.

As early as 1863, Ellen White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, counseled the new believers on the importance of healthful living. The outstanding feature of her initial message was the relation between physical welfare and spiritual health, or holiness. In 1866, the early Adventist Church started the western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a Seventh-day Adventist pioneer, and his brother William were complicit in developing what we know today as corn flakes and improving the production of peanut butter. Read full article