This is to draw reader's attention to this new forum http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=144197#Post144197. The first post reads:
More will follow on possible legal structures etc, who is currently on board, who's interested etc. Feel free to comment, question, fellowship and enjoy. Hope to see you there.

Sounds wonderful Brother Mark, are you a doctor or nurse practitioner? I love that this is your passion. I admire your courage to move forward. My passion is also the health ministry.

I pray you are not encumbered by the same difficulties that has beset Wiemar and other Adventist health ministries. They attracted a lot of 'run to the hills' minded families who were fanatically on the fringe of our faith, so the repercussions were felt by the church. Then to correct the situation they disassociated themselves from their past supporters and become commercialized or fanatical.

Country living is wonderfully therapeutic.

The best of both worlds is to have a ministry in town to garner clients, then bring them to where you live and treat people in need of healing, out of town.

Also be careful how you connect your ministry to the church. Nothing seems to get done when controlled by the hierarchy of our church. Let them come to you. Independent Seventh Day Adventist Ministries are the most effective outreach you can get in America this day and age to bring souls to Christ through the SDA church which has become totally ineffective here. (Use Amazing Facts as a model for independent ministry while remaining loyal)

I asked for help to advertise through our church, for some help to get things set up from our conference for the smoothie shop ministry God gave me a vision for. The result? No one skilled showed up to help do the build out after 20 people promised, the brother from church who I HIRED to do the painting got half way through, and without telling me disappeared with all the payment. Then after I had set up shop and did all the work myself, the leaders who originally said they would help me, tried to steal my smoothie recipes (and names) to set up their own shop (with coffee) in the sanctuary of the EDGE Christian center, without EVER even consulting me. Ouch.

I do forgive, but the lessons learned are never forgotten.

I rejoice in the outcome as a sign of God's will because more people were brought to the Lord in my smoothie shop than all of the ministries in Minneapolis combined in those three years using less than a $40k investment. But only one pastor (full time employed) would meet with those recent converts 40 miles out of town, and only 7 were baptized, but through other minsters. Shame.

If you're reading this Pastor Gene, thank you for what you did for them.

Do you have lots of pure soft water available there through wells? What's your soil like?

I went to the USGS NAWQA site and found your well water there is pretty good unless in the areas with high arsenic. You have low hardness which is key in my book for comfort. You have low Radon also.

You should check it out.

http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/studies/domestic_wells/

Have you ever noticed God led Mrs White to set up shop wherever there was good water?

It is essential for therapeutic purposes.

I live where the city meets the country just down stream and next to the headwaters of the Mississippi and our towns water treatment plant is the best rated plant in Minnesota ten years running, so in the hard water Midwest, we are where water is as good as it gets.