Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
Winter Salad
Jan 27th
Different seasons call for different tastes! Here’s a creative salad using produce found in winter:
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If you have a favorite recipe send it our way! We will share the best of them in future Health Tips and on our website. They can be raw or cooked, but they must be vegan (no animal products), and contain no refined sugar, refined grains, or table salt.
The Nurse Who’s Seen It All
Jan 26th
Many responded to last week’s Health Tip in which I shared some of the difficulties I faced in taking God’s health message to the world. Below I share a few of those responses along with several wonderful testimonies including one from a nurse who has seen the dark side of cancer both in her work life and personal life:
“I adopted The Hallelujah Diet six months ago after being diagnosed with breast cancer. I adopted the diet because I did not want to follow traditional treatments.
As a result of making this lifestyle change, my tumor is getting smaller, and as a side benefit have lost 45 pounds, a couple of other health issues have been completely resolved and I have been able to stop ALL medications. I feel GREAT! The Hallelujah Diet is the real deal!
I should know because I have been a nurse for 36 years and for the past 10 years worked with cancer patients medically, so I know all about cancer treatments and I know what works and what does not work.
If you have health issues, or just want to get healthy, please check out Rev. Malkmus’ seminars being held in Tampa and Jacksonville Florida during the month of February.”
Lisa M.
“Dear Rev. George, I want to thank you for your very inspiring Health Tips. I have read two of your books – ‘The Hallelujah Diet’ and ‘God’s Way to Ultimate Health’. I was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 2010, and adopted The Hallelujah Diet. I feel great and healthy but the doctors say I am not yet in complete remission.
I live in Africa and have access here to most of the Hallelujah Acres products for which I am thankful.”
Tessy A., Africa
“Just got home from the doctors. Everything is awesome as always – all my blood work is PERFECT. On The Hallelujah Diet my blood pressure is excellent; weight improving dramatically; bone density that of a 22-year-old. Follow up in six months.
Now heading to the kitchen for a nice glass of carrot juice and starting supper. I’m having vegan split pea soup this evening – yummy!”
Carla B.
“Dear George, Thank you so much for sharing your early years story. I have tried to share The Hallelujah Diet with others and became discouraged because no one wanted to share the journey. Feeling so alone I returned to lots of cooked foods for a few months and lost almost all the improvements I had attained when on The Hallelujah Diet.
Because of your Health Tip I am returning to The Hallelujah Diet because of your perseverance and the fact that God brought your seed to fruition, as He will do mine, in His time.”
Ginny L.
“Thank you so much for sharing your story. I had no idea you went through such difficult times. Yet through it all you kept your focus on what God had led you to do and it was well worth the wait. Being so open with your own struggles gives others hope while going through their challenges. Thank you for being such a blessing.”
Sandie C.
“Rev. Malkmus, I’m so glad you stayed with your health message and didn’t grow weary. God has truly blessed you after such a long, hard journey. I started The Hallelujah Diet over four years ago and have seen some good results.
Three years ago I became a Health Minister and have been working with a cancer support group sharing alternative means of dealing with cancer. We share The Hallelujah Diet and a number are following it. Keep up the good work. I am just a year younger than you. God bless you and all at Hallelujah Acres.”
Grace L.
“Dear Brother Malkmus, I purchased two of Rhonda’s recipe books at the North Carolina Fair two years ago. I told one of my nieces about Hallelujah Acres and she attended one of your seminars.
Following the seminar she adopted The Hallelujah Diet and within a couple of months was well and able to go back to work after being out of work for over a year on disability. The Hallelujah Diet saved her life!
I just read your Health Tip and wanted to share that as a child I met Lester Roloff. He came to my parent’s home in the Caribbean with Brother Bob Mayer who had led my parents to the Lord. I just wanted to share the memory as Brother Roloff had left an impact on me and my family with his vegan way of eating.
Hope that I can someday attend one of your seminars. May God keep blessing you and your ministry!”
Maria V.
Hallelujah Acres History – 1992-1997
Jan 24th
In previous Health Tips, I have shared how God used what appeared to be a tragedy in my life – a colon cancer diagnosis in 1976 – to birth a ministry in 1992 known today as Hallelujah Acres.
In this week’s Health Tip I want to cover the history of Hallelujah Acres from 1992 until 1997, the year we moved the ministry from Tennessee to its current facility in Shelby, North Carolina.
To God Be The Glory
As I reflect on what has transpired during the past 20 years, the words of that great Christian hymn come to mind: “To God be the glory, great things He has done.”
I want to say that without God’s leading and help, Hallelujah Acres would not have become a reality. Man can only do so much, but when God is in it, all things are possible.
Reflecting on those challenges, and final triumph, reminds me of the words of another great gospel song, written by Kittie Suffield in 1924 titled:
Little Is Much When God Is In It
In the harvest field now ripened
There’s a work for all to do;
Hark the voice of God is calling,
To the harvest calling you.Refrain:
Little is much when God is in it!
Labor not for wealth or fame,
There’s a crown and you can win it,
If you go in Jesus’ Name!
1992 – Hallelujah Acres Has Its Beginning
Shortly after Christmas 1991, Rhonda came into the antique mall I was managing all excited to tell me of a tiny restaurant that was closing its doors down the street. She said if we could rent the space I would have a place to sell my health products and hold my seminars.
It sounded like a great idea… but neither of us had any money.
So I went to the president of the local bank with (whom I had developed a friendship because he too had an interest in health and healthy living) and I asked to borrow $1,000. Using my 1986 Mazda pick-up truck as security I was able to obtain a loan.
With that $1,000 we paid the first month’s rent of $50, purchased some tables, 16 chairs, some used kitchen equipment, some produce for the dining room and product for the shelves. We opened “Hallelujah Acres” in that storefront on February 12, 1992 selling carrot juice by the glass and offering a limited vegetarian menu.
DID YOU KNOW?
In those early days we lived on our tips of about $25.00 per week, while putting all profits back into paying off the loan and building inventory. To this day, we have never taken a salary, received a bonus, or been paid for a seminar or culinary class, yet God has met our needs and blessed us financially above anything we could ask or think.
In those early days few frequented our restaurant in that little town of Rogersville, Tennessee. The town had a population of only 5,000 people and there was little nutritional awareness. We were getting quite discouraged until we started holding a free “How to Eliminate Sickness” seminar on Saturday mornings in the restaurant.
People began coming to hear the health message, staying for lunch, and buying product. As people started applying what was being taught, testimonies started being shared with others and it wasn’t long before we had standing room only in the seminars!
Our restaurant was being frequented by local businesspersons, judges from the next door courthouse, and the president of the bank had a standing order for daily carrot juice.
Within a year of opening the doors of Hallelujah Acres we couldn’t contain everyone in that 16-seat restaurant. Plus, the basement of the restaurant was becoming too small to warehouse and ship the products we were now shipping across the country.
DID YOU KNOW?
In those early days our customer names and contact information were handwritten on 3×5 index cards and kept in a shoebox.
1993 – Hallelujah Acres Moves And Publishes A Magazine
In the spring of 1993 we moved down the street three doors to a 56-seat restaurant; the day we opened we had to turn people away! Soon our seminars filled the restaurant with people coming from across America and sometimes even another country.
During 1993 we also published the first issue our paper publication, “Back to the Garden“. The first issue was two colors, eight pages, and we had 3,000 copies printed. Today, this publication is called the “Hallelujah Acres Health News,” has 48 full color pages and is read by a half-million people bi-monthly.
This magazine has been a free publication ever since we started publishing it in 1993 — and it is still free to read online today from anywhere in the world! The paper version is also available to US and Canadian residents through an annual subscription.
1994 – Hallelujah Acres Moves Again
After two years ministering in Rogersville, we felt that closing the restaurant and going on the road would enable us to reach many more people with the message “You Don’t Have to be Sick!” So we moved Hallelujah Acres to our 50-acre farm where we were living on Clinch Mountain in Eidson, Tennessee.
There we built a building to house the ministry and I started doing seminars across America. No sooner had that first ministry building been completed then it was too small! We immediately started construction of a much larger second ministry building where we held our first Saturday-of-the-month “You Don’t Have to be Sick” seminars.
I was gone a great part of the time. Meanwhile, Rhonda was overseeing the ministry operation in Tennessee, which was growing in leaps and bounds necessitating hiring others to help handle the rapidly growing interest in the Health Message we were proclaiming.
Our Motto – That the Whole World Might Know – You Don’t Have to be Sick!
1994 – First Health Minister Training
People were adopting The Hallelujah Diet and becoming well from all kinds of physical problems. These people began asking us to teach them how to share God’s health message with others. As a result, in August 1994 we held our first Health Minister Training with 25 in attendance.
Our new ministry building was not completed as yet and not having sufficient finances to purchase chairs, that first group of Health Ministers sat on 2×10 wood planks resting on concrete blocks. We had no windows yet and the floor wasn’t even finished.
To say the least, it was a very humble beginning for a health ministry which today numbers over 10,000 trained Health Ministers located in every state in the U.S. and in 48 foreign lands.
Attending that first training was Olin Idol (PHOTO: upper left corner in plaid shirt) who joined me in 1995 as my personal assistant, and has been with Hallelujah Acres ever since.
Bev and Chet Cook (PHOTO: middle row, far right – Chet is wearing a black shirt) were also in that training. They later opened the first Hallelujah Acres first Lifestyle Center in Lake Lure, North Carolina and currently direct all four of our Lifestyle Centers. Dr. Rowen Pfeifer was also in that first training.
1995 – Rev. Malkmus Appears On 700 Club
By this time, Graeme Coad, who at the time was Chaplin of the 700 Club, had reversed his terminal prostate cancer on The Hallelujah Diet. Graeme was instrumental in getting me on the 700 Club for a nine-minute interview with Pat Robertson. That nine-minute interview generated more response than the 700 Club had ever had.
That television exposure caused a tremendous increase in interest in The Hallelujah Diet. Since then I have had opportunity to appear on ABC Nightline, all major TV networks, Trinity Broadcasting, The Food Network, Fox News (3 times) and the Jim Baker show.
1995 – “God’s Way To Ultimate Health” Published
My second book, “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” has everything a person needs to know about how to return to God’s original plan for nourishing the human body. The book contains 279 pages of vital information and real-life testimonies – a book that many people say saved their lives. (Over a quarter million copies of this book are now in print.)
Also in 1995, Destiny Image took over the printing and distribution of my first book “Why Christians Get Sick.” Over a million copies of this book are now in print and are available in several languages.
1996 – Rev. Malkmus Holds Seminars Across America
By 1996, so many churches across America were wanting the hear God’s health message that I traveled across America holding “How to Eliminate Sickness” seminars. Some of these seminars had attendances of over 1,000 people.
These seminars took me from Florida to Texas, up the west coast, across the fruited plains, the northern states from Wisconsin to New England, and down the eastern seaboard. I remember doing 17 seminars in 18 days in Texas on one of those speaking tours.
1997 – Hallelujah Acres Goes Online
Not many people had access to the internet as yet, but we realized it provided the potential for us to reach people around the world with the message “You Don’t Have to be Sick.”
What should our URL be? We thought of “HallelujahAcres.com” but knew if they had to spell “Hallelujah” they would never gain access. So we just used the letter “H” for “Hallelujah” and ended up with www.hacres.com. Today, this site averages over 90,000 hits per month.
1997 – The Very First Health Tip
About the same time we went on the internet, we began publishing a FREE weekly electronic Health Tip. There were not many subscribers in those early days, but as more and more people gained access to the internet subscriptions have steadily increased. Today this electronic Health Tip goes out to nearly 100,000 subscribers weekly.
I personally write these weekly electronic Health Tips between 3:00 and 6:00 a.m. most mornings. This issue is consecutive issue #740, and all previous issues are available in the archives (look for the “wall clock” icon on the right hand side).
1997 – Hallelujah Acres Moves To North Carolina
The location of our ministry — on a mountaintop in Tennessee, located on a dirt road, very difficult to find and far from an interstate or airport — was by now running out of room and there was no more buildable land on that mountaintop. So we started a search for a new location.
A businessman from Shelby, North Carolina attended one of my seminars in Tennessee and shared that he had a building in Shelby that he owned that would be perfect for our ministry. It had been built for a Christian school, which had closed its doors and become the campus of Ambassador College.
Ambassador College had outgrown the facility and it was available. Bud Mims, the owner, knew that we didn’t have much financially to purchase the building so he allowed us to move into the building while he held the mortgage and allowed us to pay off the mortgage as finances allowed.
The location was ideal! It was only 45 minutes from the Charlotte international airport and within an hour or less drive of four interstate highways. Shelby was small enough to have the small town appeal without a lot of traffic, but large enough to provide all basic needs and less than an hour away from Charlotte, the largest city in North Carolina.
We turned the gym into a 400-seat auditorium, the classrooms into offices for our rapidly expanding staff, the basement into warehousing of product and shipping, two of the offices into our call center, and the library into our store. We moved into our new facility on November 1, 1997.
On February 4, 2012, at my first-Saturday-of-the-month “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” seminar here at Hallelujah Acres, we will celebrate the ministry’s 20th Anniversary! In addition to the seminar, many special things are planned for that day including a healthy birthday cake for the enjoyment of all those at the seminar. Y’all come!
Next week, the good Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high, we will pick up where we have left off here with our move to Shelby, North Carolina. We will share how Hallelujah Acres has grown in this new location (now 58 full time employees) and how we are building a village. I trust you will join us next week as we continue to share the rest of the story.
Back From Orlando Seminar
Jan 23rd
This past Saturday, Rhonda and I journeyed to the Embassy Suites Orlando North hotel in Altamonte Springs, Florida. It was a gorgeous day – sunny with temperature in the 70’s. We were amazed to see the trees budded and some already sprouting green leaves. Is it really already springtime in Florida?
We arrived at the venue just before 9:00 a.m. and found the seminar room all set up with nearly 200 chairs. Rhonda greeted the folks while I had opportunity to not only greet the people but also autograph books and answer questions.
The seminar began at 10:00 a.m. sharp with the room nearly full. For next fifteen minutes those in attendance who were on The Hallelujah Diet shared the improvements in health they had experienced since making the diet change.
There is no question about it, these testimonies are the highlight of every seminar that I conduct and this seminar was no exception!
They shared how they have recovered from cancers, diabetes, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and multiple sclerosis. They’ve seen blood pressure normalize, experienced drops in triglycerides of over 100 points and cholesterol of over 50 points, and weight losses up to nearly 100 pounds!
With testimonies like these, it’s no wonder those not on The Hallelujah Diet listen closely to the health message that follows.
In February, we have two more seminars scheduled in Florida, one in Tampa-Brandon on February 11, and one in Jacksonville on February 18. Both seminars begin at 10:00 a.m. If you live in these areas please plan to attend and bring someone with you.
We look forward to meeting you, and if you can’t attend and you know someone who lives in the areas where these seminars will be held, please let them know about the opportunity!
How Diet Affects ADHD Kids
Jan 21st
Fast foods, sodas, and ice cream may be American kids’ favorite food items, but they are also probably the worst for those children dealing with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a new study reveals.
According to two researchers from the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, a relatively simple diet low in fats and high in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables is one of the best alternatives to drug therapy for ADHD. Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation has also been shown to help in some controlled studies, they noted.
The researchers reviewed almost 70 publications on diet-based interventions in ADHD and found that diet is one established contributor to ADHD that parents can modify.
One of the most provocative findings in recent years came from the Australian Raine study, which followed children from birth to age 14.
That study found that development of ADHD was significantly associated with the Standard American Diet (rich in saturated fats and sugar) compared to a diet high in vegetables, fruits, and whole grains.
“A greater attention to the education of parents and children in a healthy dietary pattern, omitting items shown to predispose to ADHD, is perhaps the most promising and practical complementary or alternative treatment of ADHD,” the study said.
Editor’s Note:
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD or ADD) is a developmental disorder characterized by the co-existence of attention problems and hyperactivity. It is the most commonly studied and diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children, affecting an ever increasing number of children.
I personally believe the primary cause of ADD and ADHD is the vaccines children receive.
The medical community treats the symptoms of ADD and ADHD with some very toxic drugs such as Ritalin and various derivatives. Every one of these drugs is capable of creating additional problems in the child receiving them – even death. For a sad account of a parent who lost their child as a result of Ritalin, click here.
But, it’s not just children who are being diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. Following is a testimony from an adult who had been diagnosed with “adult ADD” and the results he obtained after adopting The Hallelujah Diet:
“My own health challenges have also disappeared. I had been diagnosed with an Adult Attention Deficit Disorder and had been on Ritalin for five years to help me concentrate – but once I got refined sugar out of my system I was able to concentrate and no longer needed the Ritalin. I have also lost 30 pounds. We have seen other less dramatic changes as well – no more body odor, our hair is healthier, my wife has fingernails for the first time in her life, and our skin is clearer. No more hemorrhoids, no more sore feet, and I could go on and on. Dr. Malkmus, I thank God for you and your ministry!”
Gardening Guide #36: Worm Farms (Part 2)
Jan 20th
Worm farming out of the box! Willi Murray shares how to set up a commercially manufactured worm farm.
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