One Brooklyn Well being (OBH) will on Sunday, Oct. 13 host its annual OBH Gospel Fest in collaboration with Pastor Gil Monrose of Mt. Zion Church of God seventh Day and Brooklyn Heart for High quality Life.
Enid Dillard, OBH’s senior director of selling and communications, informed Caribbean Life on Monday that the occasion might be held within the Kahn Auditorium on the OBH Brookdale Medical Heart campus, 535 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn, from 4 – 6 p.m.
“That includes gospel choirs and artists from the central Brooklyn neighborhood, this effort is designed to rejoice the invaluable partnership between One Brooklyn Well being and the clergy of Central Brooklyn, and the necessary connection between bodily and non secular wellness,” mentioned Dillard, the daughter of Guyanese immigrants, stating that, “this distinctive collaboration began over 14 years in the past on the OBH Kingsbrook Medical Heart campus, because of the necessary alliance the medical heart fostered with their native clergy and well being ministries.”
Created by Dillard and Pastor Monrose, Dillard mentioned the occasion traditionally attracts over 250 patrons yearly, “providing a day of therapeutic and inspiration with a breadth of knowledge on medical companies, particular applications and help teams supplied at One Brooklyn Well being.”
Dillard mentioned OBH “works very intently with our neighborhood’s church buildings, as we rely on their advocacy to extend consciousness and training concerning the necessary applications and companies we provide.
“Our mission features a robust dedication to neighborhood collaboration, and this occasion and our partnership with Mr. Zion are reflective of that,” she mentioned. “Our church buildings depend on us to facilitate wants as properly, and this occasion celebrates our collective effort to advance therapeutic and encourage wellness all through our neighborhood.
“We thank Mt. Zion for his or her years of dedication, partnership and help,” she added.
Pastor Monrose, who was born within the US Virgin Islands of St. Lucian parentage, mentioned: “As clergy, we play an important function in our neighborhood’s well being, and having partnerships just like the one we now have with One Brooklyn Well being is necessary to us.
“Mt. Zion and Brooklyn Heart for High quality Life are dedicated to growing entry to well being training, well being screenings and collaborating on applications that talk to the social determinants of well being like gun violence and meals insecurity,” he mentioned.
“One Brooklyn Well being has been our associate in all these efforts, and the OBH Gospel Fest helps to commemorate that partnership and our dedication to our neighborhood’s non secular and bodily wellness,” he added.
Dillard mentioned this 12 months’s occasion spotlight is the OBH Gospel Choir, which incorporates voices from throughout the OBH system, comprising three medical facilities and their affiliated services, Interfaith Medical Heart (IMC), Brookdale Hospital Medical Heart (BHMC) and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Heart (KJMC).
She mentioned the occasion will even characteristic neighborhood gospel artists, such because the Mt. Zion Reward & Worship Crew, the Phillip Singers and the CCNY Liturgical dance staff.
“The neighborhood can have the chance to study extra concerning the spectacular applications at OBH, together with their in depth Pastoral Care Program, help companies such because the Stroke Survivors Help Group, the Breast Most cancers Survivor Help Group, OBH Facilities of Excellence and extra,” Dillard mentioned.
For additional details about the OBH Gospel Fest, go to www.onebrooklynhealth.org; or contact Dillard at 718-344-5579, or electronic mail: edillard@kingsbrook.org
