1. Man, Machine & the Future of Human Community October 13, 2009 Reverend Andrea Lomboy Associate Pastor of Care, Evangelism & Missions Virginia Stroke Systems Task Force, Member - Community Educator & Web Manager President & CEO University of Virginia, Department of Neurology Stroke Telemedicine & Tele-education Program Coordinator

4. CHR will create a forum ( www.faithbasedhealth.com ) for health care professionals to disseminate information to the faith community and for the faith community to access resources for better care and prevention. Our goal is to connect the health and faith arenas so that together, we may learn, grow, and be a source of healing to each other. From church leadership to individual church members, the potential is great to share knowledge about health care and direct congregations to the most appropriate channels for accessing information on health issues. As church members access medical resources more efficiently, and at the same time, deepen their understanding of health and healing through a Biblical approach, we can help reduce disease, promote wellness, and curtail the high cost of care. Bringing together the promise of medicine with the power of faith lessens the gap between the secular and the sacred, increasing synergies and infusing the potential to build healthier communities.

5. Health

7. Simply put, these determinants affect the health of every member of your congregation. Each determinant should be considered as an “opportunity” to show the love of Christ and minister to the needs of your community. http://www.vdh.state.va.us/healthpolicy/2008report.htm

12. Even majority groups can have minority subgroups within them.

13. Question: How might these numbers affect your congregation’s budget and member giving?

14. Faith

33. Community

34. 268,240 documented congregations - 176,477,348 adherents *The data in these reports come from the Religious Congregations and Membership Study which is collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (www.asarb.org). They collect these data by asking denominations to submit counts at the county level of congregations and membership. Some denominations choose not to participate while others simply do not have the data required to participate. The latter is the case with most African-American denominations.

35. Congregations Members Virginia Statistics for Congregations and Memberships The Association of Religion Data Archives, www.thearda.com * These statistics are only for reporting churches.

36. These statistics are only for reporting churches. 45 known churches in Essex County of which only 20 reported.

37. How can your church be prepared?

38. http://www.flu.gov/professional/community/cfboguidance.html

39. http://www.healthfinder.gov/nho/

46. Technology **All references to the organizations in this section should not be construed as an endorsement of their products or services.

50. Text Messaging Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey, December 2007, n=1,704 for those with cell phones or PDAs. Margin of error is +/- 3 points. Survey conducted in English Mobile Data Use by Age

51. Text Messaging Text4baby is a free mobile information service and promotional campaign for mobile health (for 2 years) and designed to promote healthy birth outcomes among underserved populations. An educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), Text4baby will help women in having safe and healthy pregnancies by empowering them with information they need to give their babies the best possible start in life. Virginia has agreed to participate in the public-private partnership and is finalizing the details of their participation. This technology can play a major role in the health of our congregations. Text 311411

59. Pastoral welcome, challenge, and pinpoint to a certain medical message. Select the individual you best represent. Select the topic of interest. The session takes you through a variety of screens and ends with a video discussion between a doctor and the pastor.

62. Social Networking is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet.

63. Social Networking is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003, and is accessible via the Internet. A free client program called the Second Life Viewer[1] enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world, which residents refer to as the grid. Second Life is for people aged 18 and over, while Teen Second Life is for people aged 13 to 17.

64. Video Gaming is a home video game console released by Nintendo.