Gilead: Our Focus Teaching and Training.   The first stage focus of Gilead Healing Center is training people for good health. This is achieved through training sessions, seminars, conferences, and regularly scheduled teaching in primarily three areas: God’s healing covenant and the value of faith. Natural healing approaches through approved alternative therapies. Restoration after a loss, grief, repentance from a life controlling problem (deliverance), stress, “burn-out”, sin, and other areas where a person may need to be restored to wholeness spiritually and/or emotionally.       Nutrition and Exercise.          Diet, exercise, and nutrition should be an initial approach to “natural healing” whenever possible. Dr. James Duke, Ph.D. and Dr. William Campbell Douglas, M.D. said that in one year 180,000 people died of FDA approved drugs due to ADR (adverse drug reaction). Both suggest that whenever possible, a “kinder, gentler” approach should be administered through the use of herbal remedies and vitamin/mineral therapies. Dr. Julian Whittaker, M.D. has had amazing success by using natural remedies, diet, and exercise as a priority in treating his patients. This is why we explore alternative healing treatments without prejudice.     Medical.        Medical science is certainly a much-needed science. We have seen wonderful breakthroughs in the medical world that have brought the quality of life for many to new levels. Yet we must remember that 180,000 people a year are dying, not of disease or sickness but of adverse FDA approved drugs. Thus, we are opposed to the practice of over prescribing internal medications as a result of patient pressure and pharmaceutical company pressures.      The price of health care rises by almost 25 percent a year. A large part of this is to pay for prescription drugs when quite often a more natural, less expensive, less invasive approach without side effects would be much more appropriate.      This is why all medical people associated with Gilead Healing Center or employed by Mount Hope Ministries will have a “leaning” toward alternative or integrative approaches to healing as a front-line resort rather than prescribing drugs as a first option. Prayer and faith, however, will always be our first response to sickness and disease. The examples of approved medical and naturopathic professionals are: Dr. Don Colbert, M.D. Dr. Julian Whittaker, M.D. Dr. Reginald Cherry, M.D. Dr. William Campbell Douglas, M.D. Dr. James Balch, M.D. Dr. John R. Lee, M.D. Dr. James Duke, M.D. Dr. Marcus Laux, N.D. Dr. Jesse A. Stoff, M.D. Dr. Jacob Tettelbaum, M.D. Dr. Arnold Fox, M.D. Dr. Craig Cooney, Ph.D.