Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) are monotheists, believing that there is one, triune God. God is intimately personal, involved, and compassionate. The concept of God as being always present and aware is comforting, reassuring, and supportive. SDAs have always focused a great deal of attention on being healthy. Exercise, wearing healthful clothing, diet that excludes stimulants and the “unclean” meats listed in the Old Testament, sunshine, clean air, and sufficient rest are all seen as contributors to good health. Health-promotion education offered in an SDA context will typically extol exercise, sunshine; trust in Divine Power, hydration, rest, vegetarian diet, and abstinence from abusive drugs. Health promotion activities have traditionally been the purview of a church appointed “Health and Temperance Committee”. Internationally, the church owns and operates about 170 hospitals, 440 clinics, 40 nursing homes, and numerous educational institutions for training nurses and other health care professionals.