Integrating Healthy Living Messages in Sermons Transforms Lives
“I was the first beneficiary of the Food Policy and Healthy eating messages that I shared with my congregation. I dropped from weighing 81 kilograms to 70”, so started the testimony of Reverend Fred Kirathi of Nakuru County, who radically changed his diet to start practicing what he was preaching.
Rev Kirathi added that when he shared his before and after photos on Facebook, more than 140,000 people commented on it and asked to learn how he did it.
Rev Kirathi was sharing his experience during a peer learning session that brought together 27 clergy who were previously trained and deployed by the NCCK to integrate messages on Food Policy and Healthy living in their sermons.
During the session, the clergy, drawn from the 9 regions, were commissioned to deliver another round of food messages during the month of April.
“We expect to see more people change their feeding habits to keep away the Non Communicable Diseases”, Rev Carol Paul from Homa Bay County averred.
The pulpit messaging on healthy lifestyles is a component of the Food Policy programme being implemented by the NCCK in partnership with KELIN and GHAI. The project is aimed at countering the rising prevalence of Non Communicable Diseases, which currently account for 43% of deaths and 50% of hospitalizations in the country.
