Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
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Women’s Retreat A Great Success
Oct 24th
This past Thursday evening our auditorium was almost full with ladies coming from 30 different states in the United States as well as several other countries including Mexico and the Republic of Congo.
We had a number of women who brought along their teenage daughters so we had quite a diverse group! Ages ranged from 13 to 88.
The three-day retreat began with a half-hour of gospel songs by Bud and Barbara Lee. The Lees’ unique artistry and soul-stirring musical expressions presented an unforgettable worship experience.
Jackie Pegram, in full time-period garb, followed the Lees. Her Biblical impression of Abraham’s wife, Sarah, included how her lineage led to the birth of our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ. Her presentation drew a standing ovation!
After Jackie’s presentation, many ladies shared how their health has improved after adopting The Hallelujah Diet.
At least 40 ladies shared of reversal of cancers, diabetes, arthritis, and high blood pressure and cholesterol. Many also reported weight losses of up to 100 pounds! These testimonies are always a highlight!
On Friday, I (Rev. Malkmus) had the privilege of speaking, followed by Paul and Ann Malkmus‘ exercise break. Up next was a riveting address by our keynote speaker, Dr. Pam Popper who is featured in the plant-based food documentary, Forks Over Knives. We can’t wait to have her back at Hallelujah Acres!
Friday afternoon, Tim and Anita Koch, owners of the Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Lake Lure, NC demonstrated the recipes that were featured during a special dinner that evening!
For dessert, Joanne Cash treated us to her testimony of how Jesus rescued her from a life of drugs and alcohol. She sang several songs, including a duo via CD with her brother, the late, great Johnny Cash.
On Saturday, Suzy Hoseus shared how The Hallelujah Diet helped her overcome bipolar disorder, giving her a new lease on life. Suzy is a Hallelujah Acres Health Minister and has written a book titled Healing Bipolar and Depression.
Suzy was followed by April Tunsky, a keynote speaker for the Vaccine Information Coalition (VIC). She shared the tragedies associated with vaccines, especially autism, which contributed to the death of her own daughter.
Olin Idol, Hallelujah Acres’ Vice President of Health rounded the presentations with Our Children’s Stolen Future. In his address he shared how, both spiritually and nutritionally, our children’s future is being stolen from them.
Rhonda Malkmus, Co-Founder of Hallelujah Acres and wife of Rev. George Malkmus, concluded the three days with a biblical presentation that began with God being the Creator to an invitation to accept His Son, Jesus Christ.
Beverley Coad, past Deputy Coordinator of Lydia Prayer Fellowship International, was emcee for the Women’s Retreat. Beverley’s husband, Graeme Coad (former chaplain for the 700 Club) recovered from terminal prostate cancer on The Hallelujah Diet 16 years ago.
Next Year’s Women’s Retreat is October 18-20, 2012
Ladies, mark your calendars now! Join ladies from across America and around the world for a special week here at Hallelujah Acres — made just for you!
Gardening With Seeds
May 27th
It’s one of the most important steps in gardening! Your seeding method determines the future success of your crop but not everyone understands how to do it right. Rev. Malkmus shows you how to get great results every time!
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Jack LaLanne Dies At Age 96
Feb 15th
There have been three men who have greatly inspired and encouraged me in my quest to learn how to live a long and healthy life on planet Earth so that I could better maintain a body that was fit for the Master’s use. The names of these three men are Norman W. Walker, Paul C. Bragg, and Jack LaLanne.
I call these three men my “Health Heroes” because each of them maintained a strong and healthy body until nearly the century mark. Too many of God’s people fail to properly take care of their bodily temple and thus never fulfill the ministry God has called them to.
One of the reasons Norman W. Walker, Paul C. Bragg, and Jack LaLanne are on my Health Heroes list is not only because they talked a good talk, but that they walked their talk. In this Health Tip I want to begin sharing a little about what each of these Health Heroes of mine talked and then I will show you how their walk backed up their talk with exceptional health and long lives.
Jack LaLanne Dies at Age 96
On January 25, 2011, USA TODAY had these blazing headlines along with a huge picture of Jack LaLanne flexing his muscles on page 5D:
“Jack LaLanne 1914-2011 – The larger-than-life figure who reshaped our figures – LaLanne helped launch America’s obsession with physical fitness.”
The article then went on to report: “Leaders of the fitness world are remembering Jack LaLanne, who died Sunday at age 96, as a pioneer who set an example all his life that inspired people of all ages. LaLanne, widely considered the founding father of the fitness movement in the United States, preached strength training and healthy eating long before it was fashionable.”
Jack LaLanne Sickly at Age 15
In California, over 80 years ago, Jack LaLanne’s mother dragged her then 15-year-old son to a lecture by health crusading nutritionist Paul C. Bragg. They arrived late and had to sit on the stage close to Bragg in front of some 3,000 people. That night changed Jack LaLanne’s life forever.
“My mother forced me to go,” LaLanne recalls. “I had dropped out of school for almost a year. I was a sick shut-in! I wouldn’t go out and see people. I had pimples and boils and I was wearing glasses. I was thin, wore a back brace and was so weak I couldn’t participate in sports. I didn’t want anyone to see me.”
During the lecture, Jack heard Paul Bragg tell the audience that they could reverse their physical problems by eating right and living a healthy lifestyle. These words struck a needed chord in the young, unhealthy LaLanne. “I was weak and sick. I used to have blinding headaches every day. I couldn’t stand pain. I wanted to get out of my body.”
Jack recalls how life seemed so hopeless, but Dr. Bragg told us that we could be physically born again. After the lecture, LaLanne went to Bragg’s dressing room and talked for an hour with him. “This was the start of a wonderful, lifelong friendship.”
Dr. Bragg Asked Me…..
Jack recalls “Dr. Bragg asked me, ‘What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner?’ I told him, “cakes, pies and ice cream?” He said, “Jack, you are a walking garbage can.”
“That night I got down on my knees, by the side of my bed and I prayed. I didn’t say, ‘God, make me a Mr. America.’ Rather I said ‘Please give me the will power and intestinal fortitude to refrain from eating the wrong, lifeless, dead foods when the urge comes over me. God please give me the strength to exercise when I don’t feel like it.’”
At the end of two weeks, he said, he felt “like an entirely different human being.” He went from being the butt of jokes to captain of his high school football team and took up bodybuilding.
Jack’s Life After His Encounter with Paul Bragg
There hasn’t been a donut in Jack’s life since Bragg told him, “The best part of a donut is the hole.” In the 70 years since Jack opened his first gym in downtown Oakland, Jack has spread his gospel of fitness through nutrition and exercise, in lectures, a 34-year television show and a variety of extraordinary physical feats.
Following are some of Jack’s accomplishments: 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes, and swimming from Alcatraz to San Francisco in freezing ocean water while handcuffed and shackled.
On his 70th birthday, he celebrated with a mile long swim, during which he towed 70 rowboats filled with 70 people. LaLanne pioneered health gyms and has a number of nutritional and exercise products on the market – all of which made him a wealthy man. Many have seen Jack LaLanne demonstrating and promoting his Jack LaLanne juicer.
But Jack LaLanne, the muscle mogul, with the 45-inch chest and the 28-inch waist, says he cares nothing for material rewards. “I never thought about making money in my life. This is a capitalistic country and if you do a good job, you will be compensated.
“In the future I want to open a chain of health food restaurants, write more books and do some more television. I love inspiring people to be healthy, happy, and stronger.”
LaLanne was grateful that fitness and nutrition had become No. 1 in growth, with sales in the billions. He believed the emphasis on exercise and a healthy natural diet would create a stronger, better America. “With healthier citizens, we will unburden society from sickness and reduce the medical bills that are draining people’s savings and causing grief.”
“I talked about the dangers of white flour and sugar over 60 years ago and people thought I was some kind of a fool. Now it’s every doctor saying ‘salt, white flour, sugar are killers, killers, killers’,” he said.
“It’s exciting what’s happening. This is going to be the salvation of America, you watch. The incidences of drugs, alcoholism and crime on our streets will decrease in the next few years. Young people turn to drugs because they are eating too much sugar and refined, dead foods, and the lack of exercise.
“How do you think kids get started on this deadly drug habit? It all starts with excessive consumption of white sugar, candy and soft drinks. When you use too much sugar it destroys the B-complex vitamins so that you can’t make wise decisions, your energy’s down and you’re apprehensive and doubtful about your life.
“These are the hard facts. If you stop eating white sugar products and get on live, organic, natural foods, you will feel better immediately. Look at me, if Dr. Bragg hadn’t changed my life at age 15, I would have been dead at age 17.”
LaLanne’s personal health regimen included health foods, abundant use of fresh vegetable juices, plus vitamin and mineral supplements and a big two-and-one-half-hour workout each day. He would start exercising at 5:00 a.m. because it’s a challenge and it’s tougher that way.
“Getting out of a warm bed at 5:00 a.m. to go down to my gym in the morning . . . I could be lazy and sleep late! But when I’m through with my two-and-one-half hours of morning exercise I think, ‘Jack, congratulations – you did it again!’ And I still have the willpower to do that – everything else is easy by comparison.”
Jack LaLanne was the father of two and happily married to Elaine. Right up until the end of his life he still had “enthusiasm and super energy for helping the world to be healthy, happy, and at peace.”
Jack LaLanne’s Earthly Life Ended on January 23, 2011
The USA TODAY article gave us a glimpse of his passing with these words:
“He had a fine singing voice and would often burst into song around Elaine, his wife of 51 years, singing an old standard from World War 1. On Sunday, it was Elaine who sang to him: ‘If I were the only girl in the world and you were the only boy. Nothing else would matter in the world today. We could go on loving in the same old way.’”
“I sang it to him,” Elaine told USA TODAY on Monday, “and he smiled, and it wasn’t that much longer before he passed away.” LaLanne died at his home in Morro Bay, California, with his family around him.”
EDITOR’S CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
As I said at the start of this article, Jack LaLanne is one of my Health Heroes, and one I have tried to emulate in my life these past 35 years. It is my hope that after reading Jack’s testimony above, you will make him your Health Hero as well, and that you will desire to emulate his diet and lifestyle as I have. Share this article with your children!
For the first 15 years of his life, Jack ate the world’s diet, and you have read the consequences he suffered as a result. But at age 15, when challenged by Dr. Bragg to change his diet and start exercising, he took up the challenge and almost immediately started to see his sickly and weak young body become healthy and strong.
What Jack LaLanne has been preaching for over 70 years is what this editor has been preaching for the past 35 years. It is also what Hallelujah Acres is all about. The only difference is that I add Jesus to the equation. By adding Jesus, you not only have the best in this world, but a guaranteed bright and healthy future in heaven.
If you my friend are not on The Hallelujah Diet, if you would but stop putting the world’s SAD diet into your body and start eating only those foods that are healthy, and start exercising, then you too can most likely experience the miracle in your body that both Jack LaLanne and this editor have experienced.
Thirty-five years ago, at age 42, this editor had a weak and sickly body in decline and failing him. After I was told “it’s colon cancer,” it was Lester Roloff who told me it was my rotten diet that had caused the problem. He then went on to encourage me to stop eating the foods that had caused my problem, start eating healthy foods, and begin exercising.
I, like Jack LaLanne, listened to these words of wisdom, changed my diet and started exercising. Within weeks my body started to respond as the rectal bleeding stopped and within a year my cancer was gone. That was 35 years ago in January 2011.
Today, at age 77, I am not only free of cancer, but have a muscular body with rock-hard abs, a 41-inch chest, and 31/32-inch waist, and can do almost anything physically I could do as a teenager. My body is strong, my endurance is great, and I thank God for Evangelist Lester Roloff introducing me to a healthy diet and lifestyle 35 years ago.
(Today, my chest and waist measurements do not quite measure up to Jack LaLanne’s 48-inch chest and 28-inch waist, but I’m a work in progress, working on improving these measurements most every day. Jack had almost a 30-year head start, he started at age 15 to improve his health and I didn’t get started until age 42 but I’m sure glad I got started when I did, because if I hadn’t, only God knows where I would be.)
May Jack LaLanne be an inspiration to you to change your diet and start exercising! And please don’t say that you are too old or sickly to begin. No matter how old or sickly you are, in most instances a change in diet and lifestyle can start you on a road that can change your life, or possibly even save it.
(Major portions of Jack LaLanne’s life story in this Health Tip were originally published here.)
Hallelujah Acres Celebrates 19 Years of Ministry
Feb 8th
On February 12, 2011, the very same day I celebrate my 77th birthday, Hallelujah Acres will celebrate its 19th birthday. Following is a brief review, telling of Hallelujah Acres’ beginning, growth, and current status, along with our vision for the future:
In 1976, I was 42 years old and pastor of The Greater Glens Falls Bible Baptist Church in Hudson Falls, New York, a church I had established in 1970, with just my family of six and an advertisement in the local paper that we were starting a new church.
By 1976 the church had a membership of over 600, a Christian School with over 100 students in grades K-12, a Bible Institute program, a weekly radio broadcast titled “America Needs Christ” on several radio stations, and over a dozen young people in school preparing for the ministry. God’s blessing was surely on that ministry!
Then in January 1976, amidst all that blessing, I started experiencing rectal bleeding and a baseball sized tumor was discovered under my left rib cage. Then came the news – “colon cancer.”
Just prior to those devastating words I had lost my mother, a registered nurse, to colon cancer after she had chosen the medical route for her treatment. At the time of mother’s death I was convinced she died not from the cancer, but rather the treatments given her. Because of mother’s bad experience, I went searching for an alternative way of dealing with my cancer.
In my search, I reached out to an evangelist friend in Texas by the name of Lester Roloff. At the time, many in the Christian community considered Brother Roloff a “health nut” and were severely critical of his Biblically-based health message.
But that criticism didn’t stop me from listening to and heeding his advice when he discouraged me from going the medical route. He encouraged me to stop eating the world’s meat-based, sugar-laden, Standard American Diet (SAD), which he said was the cause of my cancer.
In place of the world’s SAD diet, Brother Roloff encouraged me to eat only the foods God told Adam and Eve to eat in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 1:29, along with lots of fresh vegetable juices. I made the diet change overnight and it wasn’t long before the rectal bleeding had stopped.
Within one year of making the diet change, my tumor (as well as all symptoms of cancer) was gone – without any medical intervention. During that first year, not only did my cancer go away, but so did all other physical problems I was experiencing prior to making the diet change.
That experience caused me as a pastor and student of the Bible to search the Scriptures to see if I could find more counsel from God pertaining to diet, health, nutrition, lifestyle, etc. I was looking for information that could possibly shed additional light on what appeared to be an almost miraculous recovery.
That Biblical search led me to numerous verses in addition to the Genesis 1:29 verse Brother Roloff had turned me on to. Verses like 3 John 2:1, where we read: “Beloved, I wish above all things that though mayest prosper and BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth.”
In 1988, my miraculous cancer recovery, along with the numerous Bible verses I had found, inspired the writing of my first book Why Christians Get Sick. This book was originally self-published and then picked up by Destiny Image, a Christian Publisher.
Over a million copies of this book are now in print and the book has been translated into several languages. The book contains over 100 of the Scripture verses I had found that related to diet, health, nutrition, lifestyle, etc. This book still produces more positive feedback than any of the five books I have written.
In 1991, before Hallelujah Acres had its official beginning, I held a seminar in Rogersville, Tennessee, attended by only a few people. A young lady by the name of Rhonda was in attendance. Her car had been hit by a freight train in 1981. As a result of that accident, arthritis had settled into almost every joint in her body and she could hardly move.
Rhonda adopted The Hallelujah Diet, she says, “to prove it could not help my arthritic condition doctors had been unable to help in the previous ten years.” Within a year of making the diet change, her arthritis was gone and she had lost 85 pounds. I love to tell folks that “After I rebuilt her body I married her!”
On February 12, 1992, because of all that was being learned and personally experienced, Rhonda and I established Hallelujah Acres, a Christian ministry! It was established for the purpose of teaching health from a Biblical perspective. Hallelujah Acres was our humble effort to restore health to a very sick Christian community, a community that was just as sick as the non-Christian community in spite of abundant prayer.
The ministry began in a tiny, 11-foot-wide, 16-seat vegetarian restaurant and health food store on Main Street in the little town of Rogersville, Tennessee. Few frequented our restaurant in those early days – that is until I started offering a free “How to Eliminate Sickness” seminar Saturday mornings.
As people started listening and applying what was being taught, there came testimonies of miraculous healings from myriad physical problems – everything from cancers to diabetes to incredible reports of weight loss.
One man, after only six months on the diet, reported a 60-pound weight loss as well as the disappearance of 28 different physical problems. But that was just the beginning. Since then, tens-of-thousands have written to tell me that after adopting The Hallelujah Diet they have recovered from over 170 different physical problems, including terminal cancers.
It wasn’t long before pastors from across the country were asking me to hold seminars in their churches and in the mid-1990s, Pat Robertson asked me to appear on the 700 Club.
That 9-minute interview generated more response than anything the 700 Club had ever previously experienced. Since then, appearances on Trinity Broadcasting, the Jim Bakker Show, ABC Nightline, NBC, CBS, along with numerous appearances on FOX News and The Food Network, have introduced The Hallelujah Diet to millions.
In 1993, Hallelujah Acres began publishing a free paper publication that has a current readership of over a half-million. In 1997 we established a wonderful website which contains hundreds of hours of nutritional information from a Biblical perspective.
In addition, since 1997, I have personally written a FREE electronic Hallelujah Health Tip, currently being mailed weekly to over 40,000 homes around the world. You are reading consecutive issue #690.
Today, Hallelujah Acres sits on 20 beautifully landscaped acres of land on the outskirts of Shelby, North Carolina (population 21,000), located between Charlotte and the gorgeous mountains of North Carolina less than an hour to the west. Mountain views are common in this area of mostly rolling hills, and the climate is the best – mild winters, incredible spring and fall, and summers not as hot as I experienced in New York.
With a current staff of 46 people, our Biblical health message is bringing hope and healing to millions around the world, and we have trained over 10,000 Health Ministers to help us take this message to the world.
Included in those 10,000-plus Health Ministers are 63 medical doctors, 75 chiropractors, 300 plus registered nurses and over 900 pastors who are sharing this information in their churches. These Hallelujah Acres trained Health Ministers are currently located in every state in the United States as well as in 49 foreign countries.
Our call center fields some 500 incoming calls a day and our shipping department mails sometimes over 500 parcels a day, not only to addresses in America, but to some 139 foreign countries. The profits derived from the sale of products are how we support the ministry. Thus every time someone purchases something from Hallelujah Acres they are helping us reach more people with God’s Health Message.
In 1998 we established “Hallelujah Acres Canada” and currently have a lovely store and shipping center located in Toronto, and have hundreds of trained Health Ministers scattered across all of the Canadian provinces. We even mail a Canadian version of our paper publication to thousands across Canada at no cost.
In 2003 we opened our first Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Lake Lure, North Carolina, then a second in Plant City, Florida, and another in Branson, Missouri. These lifestyle centers are in the homes of trained Health Ministers who take people into their homes for a week or two to teach them how to implement The Hallelujah Diet at home. Several other Lifestyle Centers are in the plans.
In these Lifestyle Centers people learn about the diet and receive hands-on instructions into the how-to of our program as well as helping prepare and then taste the delicious foods of The Hallelujah Diet. These Lifestyle Centers are incredibly popular and so helpful in introducing people to the ease with which they can make The Hallelujah Diet a part of their everyday life.
By 2006, Hallelujah Acres was running out of room. We did not want to relocate, so where to go was a huge question. But just like God had done time and time again before, when the need arose, He answered by availing us to 300 acres of land located directly across the road from Hallelujah Acres.
While we keep an eye on the economy to implement the plan for 72-room hotel and 250 seat Hallelujah Acres Restaurant on that land, we have moved ahead with developing “The Villages of Hallelujah Acres,” the nation’s first healthy lifestyle community. Ground breaking for “The Villages” took place on February 29, 2008 and infrastructure was completed by 2010. All utilities, including sewer, water, electric, natural gas, telephone, cable, and high speed internet, are underground and available.
Three homes have already been built in the Villages, one being the residence of this editor and Rhonda, to which we moved on November 3, 2009. We were very excited to be The Villages’ first residents.
The Villages will eventually have some 600 residences including 190 (one, two, and three bedroom) condominiums. A number of homesites have been sold or reserved while several families have moved to the area awaiting the completion of our first condominium.
The internet has become more and more important to our growth in recent years, and this past year we have totally revamped our www.hacres.com web site, our Villages website, and our new Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center website is due to go online any day now. Also our product website has been totally revamped and ordering on the internet improved dramatically.
What does the future hold for Hallelujah Acres? Only God knows! But it is thrilling to see how far Hallelujah Acres has already come since God gave me a vision back in 1988 which I shared in the last chapter of my first book “Why Christians Get Sick.” Following are the words I wrote over 20 years ago concerning the future of a ministry that was only a dream at the time of the writing:
“My goal is to make Hallelujah Acres into a modern Garden of Eden, from which God’s natural ways of health and healing will flow to Christians around the world. I envision Hallelujah Acres as being a place where Christians can come to seminars where they will learn how to grow, prepare, and serve foods as God intended. Nutrition and proper care of the body will be taught and then these Christians can go back to their respective areas of influence to share this knowledge with others. I personally believe that the American people, and especially Christians, are thoroughly disenchanted with the present means available for dealing with sickness, and are just waiting for someone to show them a better way. I want to and am willing and ready to do all I can to make this happen. Will you help me? The job is staggering, but the potential rewards can be fabulously exciting.”
“As for the future, I envision Christian Churches worldwide as being places were prayer requests for sickness are a thing of the past, and God’s people exude the wellness God designed for His human creation. If Jesus tarries and with your help, I believe this is an attainable goal. Dear reader, will you join us as we continue our efforts to reach ever more fellow Christians, and anyone else who will listen, with the Biblical Health Message God has entrusted us with? With stronger and healthier bodies, we will be better equipped to fulfill that Great Commission Jesus entrusted us with – Which is: “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15)”
I close by repeating a few additional words I wrote over 20 years ago: “Will you help me? The job is staggering but the potential rewards can be fabulously exciting.”
Will you join us here at Hallelujah Acres and help us take God’s health message to multitudes of Christians around the world who are sick and dying needlessly, as well as to anyone else who will listen?
“Universal Health Care” is not the solution to our current health care crisis because it forces everyone into a system that has already proven to be a failure. However, we here at Hallelujah Acres do have the solution, it is God’s solution, and is articulated in the Word of God.
Please join us, because together and with God’s help, we can bring health and healing to a society that is sick and dying needlessly. My dream is to see churches that no longer spend most of prayer time praying for the sick, but rather praying for the souls of those that know not Jesus, and where our monies no longer go for sick care.
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth.”
III John 2
Rev. Malkmus’ 77th Birthday
Feb 5th
February 12th is a very special day in my life — First, because it was on this date in 1934, at 8:20 a.m., that I physically entered this world, and secondly because it was on this same date in 1992, that Hallelujah Acres was birthed.
I really feel blessed to be celebrating my 77th birthday, because neither my mom nor dad lived past age 65, and I am only 5 years from outliving the oldest recorded age of any family member on either my mom’s or dad’s side.
Mother died following a bout with colon cancer, and dad died after suffering numerous strokes and heart attacks. So if genes have anything to do with what physical problems develop in a person’s lifetime, surely I was a prime candidate for both mom’s cancer and dad’s stroke problems.
And sure enough, in 1976, at the age of 42, I was told I had colon cancer. Rather than going the medical route mom had gone before me for her colon cancer (with horrible consequences), I opted for “The Genesis 1:29 Diet.” Within one year of making the diet change, my cancer was gone. I have remained cancer-free every since.
Then in 2001, after returning from a speaking tour in South Africa where I had delivered seven seminars in six day to an average crowd of 600, and was in the air 53-hours, I lost my ability to speak coherently while delivering a seminar at Hallelujah Acres.
I was rushed to the Shelby hospital where I was diagnosed as having experienced a hemorrhagic stroke (a blood vessel had ruptured in my brain). Doctors blamed the stroke on the extended stress experienced during my South African speaking tour, including 53 hours in flight over the Atlantic Ocean and hopping all over South Africa.
Doctors immediately wanted to give me intravenous drugs and airlift me to Charlotte for surgery to cauterize the bleed. Rhonda was concerned. Since my body had not endured a single drug for the previous 25 years, she worried the drugs could kill me. She was also concerned about giving the doctors permission to open up my brain.
After Rhonda refused to give the doctors permission to treat me, the doctor told her that without treatment I would die. After Rhonda’s final refusal of any medical treatment, I was ordered out of the hospital, sent home by ambulance, and transferred to my bed by stretcher. Rhonda had to sign a form stating that I had arrived home alive.
At home, Rhonda immediately started me on the Hallelujah Recovery Diet, which includes a fresh raw vegetable juice or a barley powder drink alternately every awake hour. By the next morning my thinking abilities had begun to return.
Within one week of the stroke, Rhonda took me to a neurologist who read my hospital records, talked to me, and exclaimed, “You’re a miracle!” He went on to say that 50% of all who experience a hemorrhagic stroke die and the remaining 50% are usually left with physical and/or mental limitations, yet just one week following the stroke I had none.
I am convinced that if I had not been on The Hallelujah Diet when I experienced that stroke 10 years ago, and if Rhonda had not refused medical treatments, and if she had not given me copious amounts of raw vegetable juices, I would not be celebrating my 77th birthday.
In fact, as I prepare to celebrate my 77th birthday, I feel absolutely TERRIFIC! They call me Mr. “T” here at Hallelujah Acres. I have incredible energy, endurance and stamina, (even more than I had before the cancer or stroke), along with a resting pulse in the 50s, and I still find life on planet earth a wonderful, exciting and blessed experience!
But I am not only thrilled to reach the age of 77 with a sound mind and strong physical body, but also thrilled to still be able to do anything physically I want to — including daily vigorous aerobic workouts, stretching and weight resistance exercises, going on 2 – 8 mile power walks, doing hard physical work… you name it!
I go to bed around 9:00 p.m. each evening and then most mornings I am up at 3:00 a.m. to work on my weekly Health Tips in my study till 6:00 a.m. Then I go back to bed from 6:00 till 7:00 for a power nap before rising for the day.
And as for my energy level, you can come see me in action at one of my seminars and watch my physical abilities and energy level for 3 hours. I’m often called the “Hallelujah Energizer Bunny.”
At the age of 77, I am also able to carry on a vigorous schedule. This schedule includes conducting some 30-plus seminars and driving over 30,000 miles annually, with remote radio interviews and occasional television appearances, in addition to writing a weekly Health Tip. And I can still type over 50 words a minute with almost zero error.
Rhonda and I are both active in our local church. We both love gardening and each year, during the growing season, grow much of our salad vegetables along with some organic fruits. I even mow my own lawn and take care of the landscaping.
Today, at the age of 77, I have no sign of senility, Parkinson’s, arthritis, mental fog, liver spots on my hands, or a protruding tummy. I don’t have an ache or a pain in my body, and still have a full head of hair that continues to regain color after turning snow white following my stroke in 2001.
My eyesight is such that I do not need glasses for distance or reading and two years ago, I passed my North Carolina driver’s license eye test without glasses for the first time in more than 50 years, and my “Corrective Lenses” restriction was removed. That’s a BIG HALLELUJAH!
At age 77, my hearing and smell are exceptionally keen and I weigh the same as I did in high school, with a waist size of 32 inches. And although I have been on a 100% plant-based, mostly raw diet for 35 years, there is no indication of a deficiency of protein, nor any mineral, vitamin, or any other nutrient.
And for those who might be interested, my height is 5’ 9”; weight 145 pounds; and I have a lean, muscular body with rock hard abs, calves, biceps/triceps, and I am still building muscle without any animal source protein in 35 years. The audience always gets a kick out of my beating my tummy and showing my muscles in my seminars.
I do not believe I have ever felt stronger in body or mind then I feel as I celebrate my 77th birthday without an ache or pain. To God be all the glory, because He created this physical body I possess, and he designed it to be exercised and nourished exclusively with garden foods so that I can continue to experience health into my later years.
I believe that the only reason I have reached age 77 in such a physical and mental state is because I listened and applied what my Creator communicated to me in His Word, the Bible, in Genesis 1:29, 35 years ago. And let’s not forget what the Bible says in Galatians 6:7: “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Since the stroke in 2001, I have decreased the number of seminars delivered yearly, and I have cut out all air travel. But I still deliver the first Saturday-of-the-month seminar here at Hallelujah Acres, still travel by auto to give seminars in the eastern U.S., and I still write the weekly Hallelujah Health Tip.
Many tell me that I have more fire in the delivery of my seminars than I had before the stroke, and I still deliver the three-hour seminar without notes, with tremendous recall, and then answer questions while experiencing no fatigue. Today, my passion and concern for others, especially God’s people who are sick and dying needlessly, has not waned!
While I have no plans for retiring, I have decided to make my recent two-week speaking tour in Florida the last one where we are on the road for several weeks at a time. Yes, Rhonda and this editor are finally planning to take some time off every now and then to smell the roses.
Since starting Hallelujah Acres on February 12, 1992 we have not taken a vacation, nor did we even go on a honeymoon following our marriage on April 11, 1992. These past 19 years have been almost totally devoted to getting God’s health message out to a Christian community that is sadly just as sick as the non-Christian community.
With my son Paul as President of Hallelujah Acres, and his very capable wife Ann at his side, along with an outstanding and dedicated staff, I feel Hallelujah Acres is in excellent hands to continue without Rhonda and this editor being almost totally involved with the ministry six days a week as we have been for most of the past 19 years.
Thank you for your continued love, prayers, and support, and thank you for sending in those testimonies — nothing encourages and motivates me more than reading how The Hallelujah Diet has restored the health of God’s children and in some cases even saved their lives.
And thank you especially for those who have stood with us and encouraged us through the years. We love you and thank God for each of you!
I’ll Never Go Back To My Old Ways – Barbara
Feb 3rd
I wish you could sit where I sit and read what I read each day as letters come in by e-mail and postal mail from around the world telling of the incredible improvements people have experienced in their health after applying The Hallelujah Diet to their lives. Following are a few of those letters:
“Rev. Malkmus, I attended your ‘God’s Way to Ultimate Health’ seminar this past Saturday at the Altamonte Springs/Orlando Hilton and want to thank you for all your knowledge and effort promoting the plant-based diet. You are tireless and very convincing that this is the only way to live.
I am not new to The Hallelujah Diet as I have done the 60-Day Challenges and received your Health News magazine and Health Tips for a long, long time. I also have most of Rhonda’s recipe books. I have now been a vegan for about 20 years and just wanted to let you know that I appreciate all of your hard work.
It is refreshing to know that you are not in it for the money, but are genuinely interested in helping people learn how to live long while enjoying a healthy life.”
Claris W., Florida
“Hi Dr. Malkmus, I want to thank you for all the good information in your books, magazine and Health Tips. I have learned a lot and have changed a lot. My health is so much better now because of you. May God bless you with a long life and happiness! You and Rhonda are people with a heart for God’s people. You are changing the world.”
Eloiza H.
“Dear Rev. Malkmus, Thank you for your ministry! I praise God for using you and giving you the wisdom and knowledge to help multitudes. I sent my testimony in after doing the 60-Day Challenge.
Before adopting The Hallelujah Diet, I never expected the fun and joy I would experience preparing healthy meals as I now do. I will never go back to my old ways of living and eating! Now folks are always complimenting me about my health and can’t believe I am as old as I am.
It was kind of funny that when I was experiencing all those physical problems that have disappeared since adopting The Hallelujah Diet, my doctor told me raw foods were bad for me. How wrong he was and by the way, I have not gone back to him since making the diet change because I no longer get sick.
Before the diet change another doctor had me eating so much protein that I was just getting sicker and sicker. I was so very depressed and frustrated and losing so much weight which I didn’t want to lose. I was at my wits end and was searching for answers when my friend told me about The Hallelujah Diet. I thought I can at least try the 60-Day Challenge and within just a few days after accepting the challenge and adopting The Hallelujah Diet the results were unbelievable. I now have so much energy! But one of the best things I have experienced is that I now have one or two bowel movements a day. Before the diet change I was lucky to have one a week.
I plan on a visit to Hallelujah Acres soon to attend one of your seminars and then attend Paul and Ann’s “Where Do I Go from Here” classes. People laugh at me because of the way I now eat, but that’s ok, because I am now well and many of those who laugh at me are sick. You and Rhonda have been a tremendous blessing to me and it’s all because of your desire to serve the Lord. May the Lord continue to bless you above and beyond! I love you and your family.”
Barbara C.
“Hello Mr. Malkmus, I have been on your mailing list for several years and appreciate so much you sharing God’s plan for a healthy life. I became a vegetarian thanks to reading your book ‘Why Christians Get Sick’ many years ago.
I have four children and as a result of bearing children or maybe a combination bearing them and of lifting them, I have developed a hernia just above my belly button. I have read that if you have a hernia you should get it fixed by surgery. Can this hernia be healed by diet?”
Andrea H.
EDITOR RESPONDS – Unfortunately, a hernia is something that most likely will require surgery to repair. This is a structural issue upon which diet has little impact.
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