Churches stressing health and fitness: Wellness churches
Larry Swain, a Pittsburgh minister, is happy that he’s lost more than 50 pounds in a year and a half. He credits several factors, especially wanting very much to wear a smaller tuxedo at his daughter’s wedding. A doctor’s visit also showed his cholesterol and blood pressure were at unhealthy levels.
It didn’t hurt to hear a pointed question from a guest speaker at his Pittsburgh Baptist Association meeting. “He asked me, ‘Larry what are you doing to take care of yourself?”’ recalled Swain, executive minister of the association.