Our Health Ministry

Supporting a happier, healthier life for the members at First Pres!

The FPC Health ministry is a news ministry created to provide individuals and families with resources that promote health and wellness. We share Christ's ministry of healing and wholeness (body-mind-spirit) by serving others through health education, preventive screenings, and a caring presence.

What is the Health Ministry?

Our health ministry works to help congregation members live happy and healthy lives. Through that, we provide several different resources including:

  • Providing blood pressure checks.
  • Offering flu vaccines.
  • Helping people find health resources.
  • Promoting healthy eating.


We also created a congregational cookbook featured on this website where our members could share their favorite healthy recipes! Scroll down for more information on our health ministry efforts!

The Congregational Cookbook

The First Presbyterian Church Health Ministry Team is collecting recipes within our church family to promote healthy eating. A Healthy Eating Cookbook is our goal!


With the information provided below on What is a Healthy Recipe in mind, we would love for you to share a recipe with our church family. It can be an entree, salad, side dish, appetizer, or dessert. 

  1. Download and fill out the recipe form.
  2. Return the completed form to our Health Ministry box outside the main office.
  3. Feel free to provide a photo of the dish by emailing one to Charity Finnigsmier.

Go to the Cookbook!

What is a Healthy Recipe?

A recipe with an overall healthy dietary pattern that emphasizes:

  • A wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
  • Whole grains and products made up mostly of whole grains.
  • Healthy sources of protein (Mostly plants such as legumes and nuts; fish and seafood; low-fat or fat-free dairy; and, if you eat meat and poultry, ensure it is lean and unprocessed.)
  • Liquid non-tropical vegetable oils such as canola, corn, olive, soybean and sunflower oils.
  • Minimally processed foods.
  • Minimized intake of added sugars.
  • Foods prepared with little or no salt.
  • Limited or preferably no alcohol intake.

Apply this guidance wherever food is prepared or consumed.


* Taken with permission from the American Heart Association website.

Want to Get Involved?

We always need volunteers and would love for you to participate in this exciting new ministry to promote health and wellness! You do not need health experience to be involved.


To find out more, contact the church office or email Charity Finnigsmier.

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