Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
George Malkmus
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.
The Birth Of Hallelujah Acres – The Rest Of The Story
Jan 17th
In last week’s Health Tip I shared how God used what appeared to be a tragedy in my life – a colon cancer diagnosis in 1976 – to birth a ministry known today as “Hallelujah Acres.”
The late Paul Harvey used to say: “Now for the rest of the story.” In this Health Tip I want to pick up where we left off last week with how God used a change in diet to eliminate my cancer and restore health to my body by sharing how additional events in my life ultimately led to the starting of a health ministry we today call Hallelujah Acres.
I want to begin by sharing another verse in the Bible that had great bearing in the development of the Hallelujah Acres ministry. This verse is found in Galatians 6:9:
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if WE FAINT NOT.”
On July 4, 1976 the church I was pastoring held a huge 4th of July service in a downtown theater in Glens Falls, New York. It was attended by over 500 people.
Immediately after that service, I got in my car and drove to Blue Ridge, Georgia where for several weeks I sat under the teachings of Dr. Carry Rheams.
I was already on the Genesis 1:29 diet, had already learned a lot about the body and its ability to heal itself and had already experienced significant healing. But I had a hunger to learn more about diet and lifestyle. From Dr. Rheams I learned how to help detoxify the body with lemon juice, and rebuild the body with raw, green drinks.
By 1977 I was well and still pastor of the Greater Glens Falls Bible Baptist Church in Hudson Falls, New York.
It was around this time it dawned on me that the healing I had experienced by a simple diet and lifestyle change could also help other Christians recover from their physical problems. I wanted to share that information.
First On My List: Fellow Preachers
I started taking this healing knowledge to fellow preachers. To say the least, it was not received well!
In fact, fellow preachers didn’t receive what I had to share about a changed diet any better than they had received Evangelist Lester Roloff’s efforts to change their diets and lifestyles years earlier.
I started to get discouraged. I knew I had a health message based on God’s original diet as given by God Himself in Genesis 1:29. I knew that it could eliminate most sicknesses from the Christian community but no one would listen.
In 1978 I left the church I had established in 1970 and obtained a job as lecturer and head gardener at the Shangri La Health Resort in Bonita Springs, Florida where I remained until 1980. This was a Natural Hygiene Fasting Resort and while there I had opportunity to listen to many Natural Hygiene doctors and learned so much more about how diet affects our health.
The Health Insurance Salesman
By 1980 I was still drifting, didn’t have much financially, and didn’t know what God would have me to do with my life.
During my many years as a pastor I had never had an income greater than $150.00 a week plus housing and felt it was time to provide my family with some of the things I had been unable to provide them in previous years.
So in 1981 I responded to an ad to be an insurance agent for the National Association for the Self Employed (NASE) which promised a significant income. First I had to get my license to sell insurance which I obtained and for the next six years sold health insurance to small business owners throughout the state of Florida.
As an insurance agent, I learned a lot about health insurance and was able sell more policies than any of the other 1,200 NASE agents for a number of years. I was even featured on their recruiting videos.
The reason I was able to sell so many policies was because I was honest in the presentation. Rather than selling policies with high premiums, I showed business owners how they, by taking a higher deductible, could save enough in monthly premiums to more than make up the cost of a lower deductible in the event they became sick and needed to use the policy.
Another reason I believe I did so well selling health insurance was that I was more concerned about helping the small business owner save some money than selling a policy with a higher premium that would bring me greater financial reward.
In 1986 I came home one weekend to find the furniture had been moved out of the house and my wife Janet had filed for divorce. I had been on the road selling insurance from Monday to Saturday every week for six years and no doubt this helped bring about this devastating departure after 36 years of marriage. Janet went home to be with Jesus not many years later.
The Move To Tennessee
With no furniture, no place to live, and no reason to be on the road living in motels selling insurance anymore, I stopped selling insurance and moved to a 50-acre tract of land I had previously purchased in Eidson, Tennessee. I started out living in a tent and then graduated to a 8×32 trailer while building a home.
While building that house I began writing a book on a typewriter (computers were not in vogue as yet) and this was quite a challenge. But I still had a burning passion to get God’s Health Message out to the Christian Community, which was just as sick and the world’s community.
The title of the book: “Why Christians Get Sick.”
I had never written a book before and had a lot to learn. It took me several years to write the book and then I couldn’t find a publisher. So I ended up taking everything I had financially to self-publish the book at a local print shop. The owner of that print shop had defeated diabetes and prevented the amputation of his foot by adopting The Hallelujah Diet.
I thought for sure that once my book was in print, everyone would want to buy my book and learn how they too could improve their health through a simple diet and lifestyle change based on that Genesis 1:29 diet that had restored my health back in 1976.
But to my consternation, no one wanted to buy my book.
It was now 1989 and I had struck out once again. I still had a passion to get God’s health message out to the Christian community, and now 13 years later years later, after spending several years writing a book and all I had on its publishing, still no one wanted to receive God’s health message.
All through these years, from 1976 to 1989, God was allowing various circumstances in my life to bring me to that place I had been trying to get to for the previous 14 years; the acceptance of the Health Message God had laid on my heart in 1976.
But there was one more major setback necessary before I found some light at the end of the tunnel.
Then My House Burned Down
On Christmas Eve 1989, while away for the evening celebrating the birth of Jesus, my house burned to the ground along with all remaining copies of my book “Why Christians Get Sick.”
Where do I go, what do I do now?
I had lost my wife and now had lost my home, and almost all the copies of the book I had written. I guess I had a little inkling of how Job must have felt when all those bad things happened to him.
But I was about to enter the last chapter of the book of Job where God restored him and blessed him beyond measure.
A friend who owned an antique mall on Main Street in Rogersville, Tennessee offered me a job as manager, along with a room above the antique mall in which in which I could live without rent or paying utilities.
Another friend loaned me a bed, table, and chair, and I purchased a small refrigerator. The folks in the church I was attending at the time gave me some clothes. Fortunately, there was a bathroom and sink near that room above the antique mall where I was able to continue juicing my carrots and it was there I lived and worked.
Continuing my burden to get out God’s health message, I stocked a booth in the antique store with healthy offerings and nutritional books, including my book “Why Christians Get Sick,” which I had managed to get a new printing of. I also began counseling those who showed interest in improving their health.
“For In Due Season Thou Shall Reap If Thou Faint Not”
At the invitation of the owners of the Hales Spring Inn, just a few doors from the antique mall where I lived and worked, I started holding free “How to Eliminate Sickness” seminars in the lobby of that hotel.
If five people showed up I was excited. It was in one of those early seminars in 1991, before Hallelujah Acres had its beginning in 1992; that God brought a very special person into my life, a person who was going to help me fulfill the vision I had had since 1976 to get God’s health message out to the Christian community.
Rhonda was to be that very special person but I didn’t know it yet. And here she was in my seminar because she had a booth in the store in which I worked.
She came to the seminar because I had learned that she had debilitating rheumatoid arthritis (the result of being hit by a freight train in 1981) and I had invited her to the seminar.
To make a long story short, Rhonda took heed to what I was teaching, adopted God’s Genesis 1:29 diet, and within than a year her rheumatoid arthritis was gone, she had lost 85 pounds in weight, and she was well.
Her healing led to a casual relationship in the beginning. She worked directly across the street from the antique mall and would come over during her lunch break. I would fix her an organic tomato sandwich on whole grain bread, and over lunch we would talk about diet and health. Over time, these lunch dates started love bells ringing.
Together we started Hallelujah Acres on February 12, 1992 in an 11-foot wide store front located between the Hale Springs Inn and the antique mall. We put in tables and chairs for 16 people and started serving carrot juice by the glass, other vegetarian fare, and each Saturday morning I shared my health message, “You Don’t Have to be Sick.”
Two months after Hallelujah Acres was birthed in that 11-foot-wide store front, Rhonda and I were married on April 11, 1992 — and our life has been a whirlwind ever since!
We have seen Hallelujah Acres grow from a ma-and-pa operation in a store front in a little town in Tennessee in 1992 to a worldwide ministry 20 years later.
On February 12, 2012 Hallelujah Acres will celebrate its 20th birthday, and on April 11, 2012, Rhonda and I will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. To God be the Glory, great things HE HAS DONE!
Today, I can truly say with the Scriptures:
“And we know that all good things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
And I can also agree with that other Scripture I shared at the beginning of this article:
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
With all the roadblocks the devil put in my path between 1976 and 1992, it would have been so very easy to throw in the towel and lose the vision, but I thank God He never allowed me to do that.
As I write this, I find myself just two years from my 80th birthday. The vision and passion that the whole world might know ‘You Don’t Have to be Sick’ that I first had way back in 1976 is still alive and well in my heart and mind! I am thrilled that God has allowed it to become a reality in my lifetime.
If God has given you a vision of something that is good and positive and that can help your fellow man, don’t let the devil take that vision from you!
On February 4, 2012, at my First Saturday of the month, “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” seminar at Hallelujah Acres International Headquarters in Shelby, North Carolina, Hallelujah Acres will celebrate its 20th Anniversary. In addition to the seminar, many special things are planned for that day including a healthy birthday cake to be enjoyed by all who attend the seminar that day. 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 the opening of that store front in 1992 and share how Hallelujah Acres has grown in the past 20 years to the worldwide ministry it is today, helping millions around the world eliminate their physical problems. I trust you will join us as we continue to share the rest of the story.
The Birth of Hallelujah Acres
Jan 10th
I am a Christian! I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God! Yes, I believe that:
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”
(II Timothy 3:16-17)
In fact, I believe the Bible so much that in the margins of my Bible, opposite Genesis 1:1 where we read “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”, I have penned the words “AND I BELIEVE ALL THE REST!”
However, 36 years ago there was a verse in the Bible I questioned. It is found in Romans 8:28…
“And we know that all things ‘work together for good’ to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Thirty-six years ago, at the age of 42, I was told I had colon cancer. Though I believed the Bible, I had to question how Romans 8:28 could fit the situation I found myself in. How could a cancer in my body “work together for good”?
God Used Various Circumstances
God used various circumstances in my life to prepare me for “such a time as this.” You see, I was raised by a mother who was a registered nurse, a graduate of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Mother raised me to believe that when I got sick I should get to the doctor just as quickly as possible because the doctor was the only one capable of making me well.
So when my mother was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 59, in keeping with what she believed and what she had taught me, she very willing submitted her body to the treatments the doctors told her were necessary. She had great faith in doctors and medical modalities.
Mother submitted her body to surgery, chemotherapy, and cobalt treatments (called radiation treatments today). Her death was a slow and agonizing one following these treatments. Though no single one of these treatments killed her, she was in and out of the hospital until she died at the age of 65.
At the time of mother’s death I was convinced that it wasn’t the cancer that ultimately caused her death, but the cumulative damage done to her immune system by the many treatments she had received.
Because her immune system had been so compromised by the treatments she had received, her body finally had to give up and give in. I remember saying “good-bye” to my mother as we placed her in the grave. It is a very sad event that you do not soon forget!
Now It Was My Turn
Now picture this if you will… I have just watched my mother go through this horrible cancer experience and death when I am told that I have the same form of cancer she had.
I was scared. How should I respond? What should I do?
Mother had raised me to put my faith in doctors. She instilled in my mind from my earliest remembrance that “when you get sick you go to the doctor and do what he says.”
But I had just seen mother get sick, I had seen her go to the doctor, and I had seen the horrible consequences of doing what the doctors said.
Should I do what mother had programmed me to do while growing up? Or should I seek an alternative way of dealing with it?
Breaking a lifetime of programming by your mother is not an easy thing to do.
How I Broke The Programming
But because of the horrible suffering and eventual death I had seem my mother experience following her acceptance of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, I broke programming and went searching for an alternative.
That search led me to an Evangelist friend in Texas by the name of Lester Roloff.
Brother Roloff was a great preacher but he had some very strange ideas about how we should feed the body, ideas totally contrary to the programming I had received for the previous 42 years of my life. Brother Roloff taught that we should not eat animal flesh but rather only the plant foods that came from the garden.
For his dietary ideas, Brother Roloff received lots of ridicule and rejection from fellow preachers! And I must admit that I had joined in with fellow preachers in ridiculing his admonitions to eat a plant-based diet and drink lots of carrot juice.
In fact, we preachers used to affectionately call him “Ole Carrot Juice Roloff.”
But now I had a dilemma. Though I had previously ridiculed Brother Roloff’s beliefs and his efforts to get fellow preachers to eat a plant-based diet, I had been told I had a serious and potentially life-threatening physical problem.
Perhaps it was time to reevaluate what he had been teaching and listen to what he had to say.
So I contacted Brother Roloff and shared my dilemma. His response was that I not go the medical route with my cancer, but rather do something as simple as change what I had been eating for the previous 42 years of my life. He told me to eat only what God told Adam he should eat in Genesis 1:29. He also encouraged me to drink a lot of carrot juice.
How Cancer Can “Work Together For Good”
Thinking I had nothing to lose by accepting Brother Roloff’s advice — and a lot better than accepting the horrible medical modalities that I felt had caused my mother’s death — I changed my diet overnight. I stopped eating animal flesh, stopped all forms of dairy, eliminated all refined sugar, refined grains, and all forms of caffeine.
The next day I ate nothing but raw, plant sourced foods and began drinking lots of carrot juice and distilled water. That was quite a drastic change from what I had previously been eating!
But the amazing thing was that after a few days of not feeling well (detoxing – as my body was throwing off accumulated poisons), I began to feel better.
Within a very short time my rectal bleeding stopped and within a year my baseball size tumor had disappeared and I was well! WOW! Within a year I had learned that “all things (CAN) work together for good”!
Hallelujah Acres Is Born
I was a preacher. I was saved at a Billy Graham Crusade in New York City on May 29, 1957, went to school for four years to prepare for the ministry, pastored various churches for many years, preached some 5,000 biblically-based messages, and read through the scriptures Genesis to Revelation in daily devotions most years. I thought I knew the Bible quite well.
But Brother Roloff had to re-introduce me to a verse in the Bible (Genesis 1:29) that I had probably read hundreds of times; it had just never registered. In this verse God had given Adam a diet intended to nourish his human physical body.
Who would know better what was proper nourishment for the human physical body than the creator of that body?
Now, at the encouragement of Brother Roloff, I had accepted and consumed that same Genesis 1:29 diet that God gave to Adam. Within a year of adopting it, my cancer was gone and I was well.
What should I do with this experience and knowledge?
Yes, not only did “all things work together for good” as far as my own physical health was concerned, but now God was using that same cancer experience to show me once again that “all things work together for good” when He led me to start a ministry called Hallelujah Acres. Little did I know it would bring health and healing to millions around the world.
On February 12, 2012, Hallelujah Acres will celebrate its 20th anniversary.
Next week, the good Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high, we will share how God used “all things working together for good” to take Hallelujah Acres from just a vision to a reality – from a ma and pa ministry in 1992 – to a worldwide ministry today. Trust you will join us.
Celebrating 52 Years Cancer Free
Dec 31st
On Monday, December 26th, Rhonda and I had the privilege of dining of with our dear friends Dr. Graeme Coad (age 75) and his wife, Beverly.
Dr. Coad was Chaplain for the 700 Club for 12 years and is currently pastor of Grace Chapel in Jacksonville, Florida.
We reminisced and praised the Lord for leading both of us to adopt His Genesis 1:29 diet after each of us was diagnosed with cancer. Dr. Coad was diagnosed with so-called “terminal” prostate cancer 16 years ago and I was told I had colon cancer 36 years ago.
Dr. Coad received his diagnosis while still Chaplain of the 700 Club back in 1995. It was then that he, after the medical community had given him a “no hope” diagnosis, turned to The Hallelujah Diet. Today, 16 years later, he is still cancer free and carrying on a very active lifestyle in a body fit for the Master’s use.
As you probably know, my experience with cancer 36 years ago caused me to refuse any medical treatments because of the horrible experience I had seen my own mother endure with the same cancer I had. Instead, I adopted God’s Genesis 1:29 diet (upon which The Hallelujah Diet is based) and today I too am cancer free and carrying on a very active lifestyle in a body fit for the Master’s use.
Not to mention, neither Dr. Coad nor myself have been sick since making the diet change; it seems fitting since we both have a passion for reaching the Christian community with the message “you don’t have to be sick.” In fact, Dr. Coad and Beverly became Hallelujah Acres Health Ministers 15 years ago and have been very active proclaiming God’s health message to the Christian community ever since.
In a reunion of sorts, Dr. Coad and I are teaming up on Saturday, February 18th at the Embassy Suites in Jacksonville, Florida for a “God’s Way to Ultimate” seminar. We’re celebrating a combined total of 52 years cancer free on The Hallelujah Diet!
Dr. Coad, myself, Beverly, and Rhonda would love to meet you and share our testimonies with you of how The Hallelujah Diet restored our health — in fact, the event will be just 6 days after I celebrate my 78th birthday (and Hallelujah Acres’ 20th anniversary) on February 12.
If you live in the Jacksonville area or just want to escape winter for a while — come hear this life-saving message!
2012 – Time To Try Something New?
Dec 27th
On January 1, 2012 we will all begin a “NEW” Year. In the last book of the Bible, we find a passage about a coming day when Jesus will proclaim: “Behold, I make all things ‘NEW’”. (Revelation 21:8)
As we anticipate the beginning of a new year, I want to challenge you to consider some “new” things that could be helpful to both your physical and spiritual well-being.
The Bible often cautions us with regard to the choices we make. For instance the apostle John admonishes us:
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but TRY the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
(1 John 4:1)
I Was Raised On The Standard American Diet (SAD)
I was raised in a home, being provided items to eat by my mother that were not in my health’s best interest. Now I can’t blame my mother for this, because she was doing the best she knew how based on her knowledge.
Mother was a registered nurse and what she gave me to eat was based in large part on what she was taught about nutrition in Nurses Training, and of course what she was provided to eat by her mother as she was growing up.
What most of us eat today is based on what we were programmed to eat by our parents and what society around us eats.
I was raised on the Standard American Diet (SAD), a diet of meat and dairy at most every meal, with lots of sugary desserts, while almost everything I ate was cooked.
Based upon what I have learned in recent years, this diet was one that was destined to eventually create physical breakdown and problems in future years.
I Continued To Eat The Standard American Diet
Shortly after graduating from high school in 1952, Uncle Sam sent me greetings that my services were required in the U.S. Army for service in the Korean War. Having joined the Naval Reserve in high school, rather than going into the Army, I applied for active duty in the U. S. Navy, where after boot camp I served on a ship for several years.
On that ship, the U.S.S. LST 1041, once again without any input from me or knowledge of what was healthy to eat, I was provided and ate the same SAD diet I had been raised on at home. [LST’s are Landing Ship Tanks, and would beach themselves, open their bow doors, and from the tank deck tanks and troops would come forth to engage the enemy.]
After an honorable discharge from the U. S. Navy in July 1955 I married and guess what I ate? You guessed it, the same SAD diet I had been raised on and eaten during my upbringing at home and during my years in the Navy.
Consequences Of Consuming The Standard American Diet
As a result of consuming this almost 100% cooked food diet (high in animal fat and animal protein with lots of candy, sugar desserts and soft drinks), physical problems that had begun to manifest as a child continued to manifest with increasing frequency and intensity as I grew older.
Pimple outbreaks became more intense and frequent; tooth decay caused me to spend ever increasing hours in dentist chairs; eyesight deterioration developed to the extent I required glasses; hypoglycemia manifested; elevated blood pressure surfaced, and the final blow – in late 1975 was told I had colon cancer.
Not wanting to go the traditional medical route my mother had gone for her colon cancer before me, I went looking for an alternative. Why? Because mother’s experience of going the medical route and accepting their treatments was disastrous.
At mother’s death, I was convinced it wasn’t the cancer that ultimately caused her death. It was the chemotherapy, radiation and surgery that destroyed her immune system, which in turn led to her death.
I believe that most of the deaths attributed to cancer today are caused by the immune destroying treatments used in the treatment of cancer — not by the cancer itself.
On the death certificates of these cancer patients, cause of death should not be listed as “cancer”, but rather “treatments.”
Then I Tried Something “New”
After watching the rapid decline in mother’s health after she started down the medical route for her cancer, I went seeking an alternative.
In my search, I asked the advice of an evangelist in Texas by the name of Lester Roloff. He discouraged me from going the medical route and encouraged me to do something as simple as change what I ate.
He said that if I wanted to get well I needed to stop eating the SAD diet of cooked meat and dairy, and the refined sugar that had destroyed my immune system (and caused my cancer). In its place, he said I needed to start eating the raw garden foods God told Adam to eat in Genesis 1:29, and to drink lots of freshly extracted vegetable juices.
Because I was willing to try something “NEW” (at least it was new to me) my rectal bleeding stopped within days and the baseball-sized tumor in my colon shrunk then disappeared.
Within a year I was well and cancer-free!
Friends, because I was willing to try something “NEW” 36 years ago, I am still alive and well and soon to be 78 years of age. I have already outlived my mother by 12 years who ate the SAD diet and accepted medical modalities for her cancer.
Are You Willing To Try Something “New?”
In both the spiritual and physical realms, there are false prophets trying to lead us in a direction contrary to the way God would have us go, a way contrary to our best interests.
And when a person listens to these false prophets it can lead them ever further away from both spiritual and physical health.
How can we know whether a spirit is of God? We can “try the spirit”:
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this WORD [the Bible], it is because there is no light in them.”
(Isaiah 8:20)“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy WORD is truth.”
(John 17:17)Jesus said: “And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall make you free.”
(John 8:32)
Many Voices
Friends, there are many voices beckoning us to try various things in both the spiritual and physical realms that can be very destructive to both our physical and spiritual well-being.
Many a person has walked into trouble by trying something new, something they should never have tried in the first place. For instance, that first cigarette or that first drink of alcohol…that first lie…taking something that didn’t belong to them…being unfaithful to a spouse…and we could go on.
And as we look back over our lives, most of us can see how that if we had tested the spirits and never tried that something new, that something that was not in our best interest, that took us in a direction we shouldn’t have gone, or consuming something that wasn’t good for us, how much better our life could have been.
As we go back to the book of Genesis we learn that God gave Adam and Eve a diet in Genesis 1:29. When did God give them that diet? Immediately after He had created them!
This diet God gave them consisted of 100% raw, garden sourced plant foods, the very foods science confirms our physical body was designed to be nourished with.
However, in Genesis 3:1-6 that old serpent the devil comes along and entices Eve to try something “new” (the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil) and she yielded, ate of the forbidden fruit, then gave some to Adam, and he partook. And we all know the result – sin entered the world.
“Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned…For as by one man’s [Adam’s] disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one [Jesus] shall many be made righteous…That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(Romans 5:12, 19, 21)
Our Enemy Is Still Trying To Get Us To Try Something New
Today, our enemy, that old serpent the devil, is still trying to get us to try something new — something that is detrimental to our health! — like cigarettes, beer, wine, liquor, soda pop, candy, sugar desserts, cooked animal flesh and dairy, and we could go on.
And what has been the result? Sickness abounds!
Most of the prayer requests in our churches are for sickness, while the cost of treating all this sickness is bankrupting not only our own pocketbooks, but the pocketbook of our nation.
The more we spend treating the symptoms of these physical problems the worse the health of our people.
In contrast, are you my dear friend willing to try something new that is good for you?
If you are not on The Hallelujah Diet, may I encourage you to do so. It’s a diet and lifestyle similar to the one God gave Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden some 6,000 years ago, and the diet I turned to 36 years ago that restored my health.
Your health, length of life, and years of service to Jesus depends on having a body fit for the Master’s use!
And if you have only religion and not Jesus, may you today accept Him as your personal Lord and Saviour!
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.”
(See Romans 10:9-13)
With Jesus in our hearts and a body fit for the Master’s use, what an exciting position to be in as we enter the New Year 2012.
Rhonda and I wish you and yours a very blessed, healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year 2012!
Next week, the good Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high, we will bring you another exciting and informative Hallelujah Health Tip.
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