February 14, 2013 Steps to Life Newsletter

Welcome to our first Newsletter for 2013 and thanks for being a subscriber to the Steps to Life (STL) Newsletter.

Please read the attachments that are part of this Newsletter because they provide you with more details about our coming programs.

STL Newsletters, News Flashes and Health Flashes.   What are They and How do You Get Them?

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STL's programs for 2013

Spiritual Seminars:

This year we are sponsoring three overseas speakers for our spiritual seminars.   Christian Berdahl (Sheperd's Call Ministry) is our first and is arriving early April (See accompanying advertising for details).   The second is Pastor Rick Howard in July (Author of the best selling book - Omega Rebellion - and as seen on 3ABN), and the third is Pastor David Gates for October/November (Gospel Ministries International).   All are engaging, inspirational speakers.

Sunday Health Seminars:

Presently these are scheduled for February 24 (Ben and Jana Meldt - Do It Yourself Home Health - See accompanying advertising for details), March 24 (Dr David Bird - Food As Medicine), May 5 (Karen Walters - Karen will tell how she devised a natural health program that enabled her to recover from obesity and multiple sclerosis), June 23 (Presenter to be confirmed), September 29 (Kaye and Peter Sehm - The topic will possibly include an in-depth look at the impact of the sugars and food additives on our health, along with cooking demonstration), November 24 (Oscar Sande (Oscar has promised another presentation in his 'Health Connections' series).

Depression Recovery Programs:

We are presently running two programs from the STL Studio on Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Christian Berdahl Seminar:

A Vital Connection - Melbourne (April 5 to 7 - at a new more central venue Friday and Sabbath, see below) Sydney (April 12 to 14) and Brisbane (April 19, 20)

We are pleased to bring you Christian Berdahl as our first seminar speaker for 2013.   Christian Berdahl and his wife Coby are the founders of Shepherd's Call Ministry, an evangelistic singing, speaking and video-production ministry based in Edgewood, New Mexico, USA

Christian came from a life of hardship and abuse. He found escape through the theatre arts.   In high school he began winning acting competitions. He carried these skills on to the civic, college and professional stages.   He also began to work in television production.   Soon he was so busy in production that he left theatre for a career in TV.   In 1995 Christian found a saving relationship with Jesus and began to put his skills to work for the Lord.

Today, through Shepherd's Call Ministry, he works to create Christian content for TV, radio and the internet...

He is a song writer and musician who has produced four well received CDs.   (Vision of Heaven, The Narrow Way, The Appearing: Heaven's Lamb, Consecration) and has range of inspiring presentations captured on DVD.   He will share his music with us throughout this seminar series.   Christian's theme is entitled A Vital Connection.   He will explore with us the amazing power of our minds.   He will describe how God wants us to connect with him and how Satan tries to interfere with our vital connection with God.   Particularly, he will show us how music can turn us to or away from God.   He will define for us four building blocks that give victory in Christian living.   You will be encouraged as Christian shares his story of how God can take a totally secular person and inspire them to be on fire for him.   Throughout the seminar Christian will share his music with us.

The Saturday evening program is not to be missed.   It's a concert with a message!   Having a vision of heaven is a powerful motivation for being a Christian.   Do you have one?   Christian will share his music talents with us and inspire us to look towards heaven as our home.   Why not ask your friends to join you for the weekend at Christian's seminar?

The Melbourne seminar will not be held at Karralyka Theatre.   A new, very suitable venue, which does not have other functions happening under the same roof and is only one third of the cost of Karalyka Theatre, ( a saving of $2,500) has been found.   It's the Performing Arts Theatre of Kingswood College, 355 Station St, Boxhill. (Gate 2).   See the program brochure for more details of this venue.   The 7.00 pm Sunday evening program in Melbourne will be at Steps to Life, 15 Industrial Park Dve, Lilydale.

Health Seminars. Would You Like to Organize One?

STL has been asked if it could run Health Seminars, along the lines of our Sunday Health Seminars conducted in Lilydale Melbourne, at locations in other states.   Unfortunately, it's not possible for us to do this.   However, we are willing to pass on your requests to the presenters who are willing to consider your requests, who feature in our Sunday Health Seminars, should you contact us and make a request.   You may be able to come to an arrangement with them to host a Health Seminar in your area.   If you wish to do this the presenter would need to be available and willing to travel to where you are.   You would need to be willing to fund their travel, provide accommodation, a suitable venue, etc, and advertise the program.   STL may be able to assist you with some basic graphics for advertising.   Feel free to contact us if you would like to explore this option further.   Most presenters are booked up well in advance.

Do It Yourself: Home Health Workshop With Jana and Ben Meldt, February 24.

Jana and Ben will be presenting the program from the STL Studio, Lilydale, Victoria.   They will be taking a Do It Yourself approach to keeping the largest organ of our bodies healthy - naturally, and keeping the environment we spend the most time in healthy by use of natural cleaners.   Jana trained as a Lifestyle and Health Counselor at Uchee Pines Health Institute, Alabama, USA a prominent natural health education centre specializing in recovery from western lifestyle illness including allergies, chronic fatigue, arteriosclerotic heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc.   She is German by birth.   Her training and work experience has been furthered through periods of employment at the Arthe Health Centre in Germany and the TGM Institute in Austria.   She, with her husband, Ben, lives in QLD from where they conduct health seminars in Australia and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.   Ben has undertaken short course training and work experience in natural health.   He has also worked in the health institutes

where Jana has worked and assists her in her natural health presentations.

New Staff Member for STL

We welcome Joel Ridgeway to our staff as a full-time employee and wish him God's blessing as he works for the Lord in the capacity of web and graphic design and film production as Emmanuel is able to train him.

CD of the Month

We draw your attention to the CD of the month by Christian Berdahl and encourage you to send a donation to STL to receive this excellent disc.

Re-ordering Reward Points Program on Website only.

By the time you receive this newsletter we will have uploaded a new Re-orderng Reward Points Program for all purchases on our website.   For every dollar you spend you will receive 1 point and when you have reached 100 points you will automatically receive 10% discount on your next purchase.   You will receive an update on your points as you purchase so you know how many you actually have accumulated.

For the Cost of One Salad Sandwich Each Week

Thanks for allowing us to share with you STL's plans for 2013.   We hope they meet some of your needs.   STL's mission is to help people to be physically, mentally and spiritually healthy and alert to the world and times we live in.   We are a not for profit, faith based ministry.   STL only exists through God's leading and the prayer and financial support of people like you.   Our costs of operation are kept to a minimum, but like you, STL's operational expenses keep going up.   We appreciate very much the prayer and financial support that so many give us.   As you plan your giving in 2013 could you think about contributing towards STL's expenses on a weekly basis, the cost of a fairly plain salad sandwich - that's about $5.   For the cost of a once a week $5 salad sandwich your donation would help greatly to keep STL afloat.

Christian greetings and kind regards

from Cherryl and the STL team

Brian Way/Programs Coordinator