First Place 4 Health is a Christ-centered weight-loss and healthy-living program which has guided hundreds of thousands of people to a healthy lifestyle.

Orientation meetings will be held on Monday, January 9 (7PM) and Sunday, January 15 (Noon).  

New twelve week sessions start January 19.  Registration by January 26 is required to participate in the Winter 2012 session.

The Spring session begins in April.

For more information and to register, call Laura Harsche at 856.778.3520 or email MMHLCH(at)comcast.net. 

Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on weight-loss programs and products.  Many are on a search for a quick fix, unwilling to consider permanent changes in their lifestyle as the answer.  However, the members of First Place 4 Health here at FUMC have discovered that the Bible holds the answer to the obesity epidemic.  By following the First Place 4 Health program, a faith-based weight loss plan supported and endorsed by registered dieticians and physicians, members have already lost more than 500 pounds!

Meeting in weekly support groups, the members of First Place 4 Health follow a 12-week curriculum that is centered around achieving balance in four essential areas of their lives: emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical.  First Place 4 Health encourages members to adopt practical disciplines in all four areas.  These include regular attendance and fellowship (emotional); prayer, Scripture reading, and Bible study (spiritual); Scripture memory and keeping a food record (mental); and eating well and exercising (physical).  First Place 4 Health helps members learn how to be victorious over past eating patterns and how to commit their minds and, ultimately, their bodies to God.

The First Place 4 Health program has delivered faith-based health and weight management instruction and support to small groups meeting in churches since 1981.  It has been active in more than 12,000 churches with over a half million successful members!  It has been running successfully here at FUMC since January of 2010.  The program points members to God's strength and creates a compassionate support group that helps members stay accountable in a positive environment.

A winter session will start in January.

FIrst Place 4 Health is about more than weight loss- it's about lifestyle change that encourages every particpant to find balance in his or her own life.  Carole Lewis, National Director of First Place 4 Health