[Leader — to confirm]

Health Promotion is HBC’s series of practical sessions on physical and mental wellbeing, led by health professionals from within and beyond the church. Topics covered have historically included diet, exercise, mental health awareness, chronic disease management, and care for the body that God has given.

The 2015 booklet records that the Youth Club has hosted similar sessions, “speakers which included the police and health professionals to talk to the youths on crime and sexual health.” That has expanded into a broader Health Promotion ministry serving the whole congregation and the wider Harlesden community.

The deeper historical precedent at HBC is striking: the Mothers’ Medical Aid and Maternity Society was formed at HBC on 26 May 1897 — a remarkable provision of medical support for mothers at a time when the NHS lay half a century in the future. Care for the body alongside care for the soul has been an HBC instinct from the very beginning.

The current programme of Health Promotion sessions and leadership should be confirmed.

Sources: [125th] pp. 52–53 (health professional speakers); [Centenary] p. 10 (Mothers’ Medical Aid 1897).