Declared to Charities Services, 19 Dec 2024
What we do
When the trust registered, it declared exactly what it intended to do, who it was for, and where it would happen. Those seven activities are reproduced below. We publish them here rather than a friendlier summary because the filed version is the one we can be held to.
Unless noted otherwise, each of these runs virtually and in person where we have representatives — currently Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Christchurch — and through associates in the countries where we work.
Understanding the whole person
Anyone seeking help toward mental, physical or spiritual healing.
Education and training in how the whole person functions, and how those needs are met in harmony with the way we were created. This is the foundation the other six activities rest on, and the one we would teach first to someone new.
The material draws on the Law of Life, the writings of E. G. White, and the work of Dr Horst Müller — a German ear, nose and throat specialist whose case observations connected physical illness to the emotional events that preceded it.
How to take part: Ask us when the next course runs.
Nutrition and cooking
Anyone seeking a balanced lifestyle across mental, physical and spiritual health.
Classes in healthy nutrition and cooking — practical, hands-on, and aimed at what a household can actually do rather than at an ideal nobody sustains.
Food is where most people's health is won or lost, and it is the cheapest place to change something.
How to take part: No classes are running at the moment. Write to us and we will tell you when they start again.
Natural remedies and healthy lifestyle
Anyone seeking a balanced lifestyle.
Classes in natural remedies and in the daily habits that keep people well — rest, water, movement, sunlight and air, taught as things a person can arrange for themselves rather than things they must buy.
How to take part: No classes are running at the moment. Write to us and we will tell you when they start again.
Growing food
Anyone who wants to plant and sustain a garden that meets their own dietary needs.
Education and physical training in growing and maintaining vegetable and fruit gardens — an economical way to support a healthy lifestyle that covers mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing at once.
Working ground is good for the body and unusually good for the mind, and it ends in food. Few activities do all three.
Where: We intend to obtain our own farm and land in due course to carry out most of this work.
How to take part: No sessions are running at the moment. Write to us and we will tell you when they start.
A pool of resources
Trainers, students and beneficiaries, and anyone suitably qualified who wants to give back.
Creating, obtaining and storing a body of resources for support, education and training — books, presentations and teaching material, held so that anyone we work with can reach them.
Several are already published and free to download, including Dr Müller's own book.
Where: Stored virtually and at physical locations as needed.
How to take part: The published material is free on our resources page.
Seminars, camps and retreats
Trainers, students and beneficiaries, and anyone requiring support services.
Support seminars, training programmes, camps, symposiums, personal counselling and retreats — the settings where the teaching above is delivered properly, with time and without interruption.
This is the activity that takes the trust overseas: our seminars in South Africa are run under it.
How to take part: Ask us what is scheduled.
Ongoing support
Trainers, students and beneficiaries alike.
Continuing support for people we have taught and for those doing the teaching, provided as further training, counselling and coaching.
A seminar that ends when everyone goes home has done half a job. This is the other half, and it is the least visible thing the trust does.
How to take part: Get in touch and say what you need.
The idea underneath all seven
Health, pictured as a tree
Dr Mark Sandoval explains the Law of Life with a fruit tree. When a tree bears bad fruit, picking off the fruit does not fix it. You have to look further down.
- Fruit and leavesSymptoms
- What we notice and complain about: pain, a cough, tiredness.
- BranchesBehaviours
- Breathing, eating, drinking, sleeping: the actions that bring in what we need.
- TrunkNeeds
- Water, food, air, rest and love. We need them because of what we are.
- RootsBeliefs
- We do what we do because we believe what we believe.
- SoilSources
- Where we draw from. Pure water or polluted, real love or a substitute.
Healthy fruit comes from good soil, true beliefs and actions that match our needs. Unlike a tree, a person can choose their soil. That choice is what our teaching is about.
After chapter one of The Law of Life by Mark Sandoval, M.D. Read the first chapter free.
Want to be part of this?
Come and learn, give your time, or help pay for the venues and materials that make any of it happen.