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Understanding that ministry extends far beyond a Sunday
morning experience, PBIM continuously seeks opportunities
to transform, equip, empower, and mobilize communities.
Being a community health educator and breast cancer
advocate, Dr. Belin collaborates with various churches,
ministries, academic institutions, organizations, and
agencies to provide effective faith-based interventions
and culturally-sensitive health promotion programs.
A believer of “the
anointing is for service”,
Dr. Belin has developed, implemented, and worked with
many community health-ministry programs including Witnessing
In Tennessee, Reach One-Teach One, Red Dress Sunday,
the Young Adult Sandtown-Winchester Project, the Minority
Male Health Project, and the South Africa based- NaMayo
Project to name a few. A brief description is provided
below for several of them.
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Operating in the creative power of God and being a breast
cancer advocate, Dr. Belin implemented Tennessee’s
first ever breast cancer education project designed for
African American women, Witnessing
In Tennessee (WIT). WIT is a culturally-sensitive
breast health education program implemented with churches
and community organizations in the East Tennessee Region
to increase breast cancer screening and education among
African American women. This program has been highlighted
at national conferences and Dr. Belin is first author
on a publication that details the program entitled, “Saving
Grace”. WIT continues to be effective and has added
a component for men, focusing on prostate cancer screening
and education.
- Having a passion to empower underserved communities, PBIM partnered with
the American Cancer Society to develop Reach
One –Teach One, a breast health project implemented
in Baltimore City to provide seminars and health events, whereby breast health
information is distributed, along with opportunities for partnering to increase
education and awareness regarding breast cancer screening and early detection.
The overall goal of Reach One-Teach One is to assist in eliminating cancer
as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing
suffering from cancer through education via community outreach targeting breast
cancer screening and early detection among African American women.
- Embracing global ministry, Dr. Belin joined Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant
to deliver health and healing in Lusaka, Zambia via the NaMayo
Project. The NaMayo Project brought together women from
both the US and Zambia focusing on holistic health and healing. This Community-Based
Participatory Initiative was implemented with the faith community and designed
for the women of Zambia to improve quality of life, with an emphasis on best
practices in health education, strategies for effective outreach, HIV/AIDS,
and cross cultural communication on healing. The NaMayo Initiative also provided
a platform to address the dynamic relationship between poverty and health in
an effort to create meaningful self-help opportunities by women for women.
PBIM continues to provide health promotion and education from the pulpit to
the community!
The
programs continue to grow and new ones are being
added!
