Worship & Wellness: Cornelio Marfield, Medical Missionary to the U.S.

Worship: For Heaven’s Sake  “Medical missionary work is largely spiritual,” says Cornelio Marfield, a medical missionary from Belize to the U.S. Reversing the usual trend of missionaries from the U.S. to the world, Cornelio has come to the U.S. to lend his hand and acquire practical experience in healing God’s way. (Read more below.)

Wellness: For Health’s Sake  It’s true that genetics can load the gun, but lifestyle pulls the trigger, says Cornelio Marfield. A native of Belize and a doctoral student of naturopathic medicine at IIOM, Cornelio has joined Pastor Shelem Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness and naturopathy, at the current TOR wellness retreat in Maryland. Together, they are working to get the body temple back to the way God intended it to be. (Read more below.)

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Ephesians 6:7-8  With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

Ephesians 6:10-11  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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For Heaven’s Sake…

With a background in health evangelism gained at the Wildwood (GA) Lifestyle Center, Cornelio, now a doctoral student in naturopathy at IIOM, says, “God’s way is the only way that works.” He is convinced that the results he has witnessed and helped effect ultimately would not be possible without prayer or God. “We must stay connected to God to be successful in this work,” he says. “Even Jesus, the greatest medical missionary, depended on His heavenly Father.” Quoting the last part of Exodus 15:26, he reminded us that God said, “I am the LORD that healeth thee.”

Cornelio continued, “God specializes in the impossible. He can heal instantly. But He wants to take us through a process that requires submission to His will.”

That said, Pastor Flemons shared this quote from the book Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene by Ellen G. White:

“The view held by some that spirituality is a detriment to health, is the sophistry of Satan. The religion of the Bible is not detrimental to the health of either body or mind. The influence of the Spirit of God is the very best medicine for disease. Heaven is all health; and the more deeply heavenly influences are realized, the more sure will be the recovery of the believing invalid. The true principles of Christianity open before all a source of inestimable happiness. Religion is a continual well-spring, from which the Christian can drink at will, and never exhaust the fountain.”(CTBH 13.2)

For emphasis, Pastor Flemons restated one sentence from the quote: The influence of the Spirit of God is the very best medicine for disease. 

 

For Health’s Sake…

In the “very spiritual country of Belize,” as he says, Cornelio leads a portion of the diabetes association for the nation’s capitol, where he has been instrumental in opening a treatment home to do therapies. Diabetes is the No. 1 killer in Belize, he says. About 16.1 percent of the population is directly affected by this disease. As such, he is quite experienced with the challenges of diabetic patients: the neuropathy, the poor circulation, and the hypertension.

Cornelio has been using this opportunity to pull from all of his training and experience with hydrotheraphy (hot and cold treatments), massage therapy to enhance circulation, and nutrition consultation to educate and promote a healthy lifestyle that excludes processed and dead food in the diet. Consequently, he has seen diabetes reversed. He has seen people with hypertension come off of medication. He has “seen the lame walk.”

It is a process, he confesses. But it is a process that works because it is God’s way. It’s the only way that works, he says. And it lasts forever.

During this retreat he has been assigned to a guest who has been suffering with diabetes for ten years, with two years of neuropathy. Upon arrival, the guest had “no sensation just below the knee all the way to the sole of his feet.” After only days of hydrotheraphy, a cleansing and nutritious diet of green juices, herbal teas to enhance circulation, and massage therapy, they are seeing awesome results. The feet are looking pinker, and sensation is returning in one or more of the toes on both feet. He is no longer on the 1000-mg dose of Metformin. The 1000-mg dosage alone was a shock to Cornelio, since in Belize the maximum dose is 500 mg, because of its negative effects on the kidney and liver.

Once blood sugar/glycemic levels are balanced, the meds can be safely eliminated, Cornelio says. His guest’s blood sugar level has been no higher than 153. At the end of the 10-day juice feasting, his reading was 112. The normal range is between 80 and 120, Pastor Flemons informs, and says meds are usually prescribed when the readings reach 200.

In another case, a diabetic woman also on hypertension medication complained that her blood pressure read 200/100 with medication. Nothing the doctors gave her was effective, she said. Now after only days at the wellness retreat, her blood pressure has normalized.

“This is what it’s about,” Cornelio insists, “reversing and changing lifestyle and reversing and changing disease. … God loves people more than anything in the world. … It is God’s will that we have life and have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).