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After years of struggling with her diet and image, Fingar found healing with God's help and wants to share her message. Fingar's newly released book, "God is in Your Full-Length Mirror," offers the answers to negative addictions through God in a Biblical five-step process.
"My message is that God has the answers for every struggle that life throws us, including the struggle with food," said Fingar, who lives on Hilton Head and has worked as a fitness instructor 15 years.
At the height of her addiction, she was up and running at 5 a.m., teaching two to three classes a day and running triathlons and half marathons.
Fingar began listening to and talking with God about her problems while she binged and eventually put down her spoon. Like many women, she wanted the Hollywood figure, and Fingar decided she would leave it up to God.
She began exercising moderately three days a week, stopped binging and having second helpings and started eating healthy foods. Today she is smaller than when she constantly dieted, fasted and over-exercised.
The former director of the Sun City Hilton Head fitness center completed her master's degree in public health from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, and is now a wellness and lifestyle coach helping people overcome negative behaviors.
"I want to get people to learn to fish and find a relationship with God and get down to basics, learn what causes you to overeat," Fingar said.
Fingar, a recently ordained minister at Christian Renewal Church of Hilton Head Island, said she's learned that a spiritual element of health is necessary for success.
"If you don't change a person's attitudes and beliefs, you won't change for good," Fingar said. "The last thing we have got to triumph over in order to lead clean lives, to live before God, is overeating. I look at overeating as the final frontier."
Details: hundivided@hargray.com, 843-816-6667
HOLY REDEEMER APOSTOLIC CHURCH
The Holy Redeemer church family will continue celebrating the 37th annual holy convocation at 7 p.m. today with evangelist Renell Brown of Burton Deliverance and at 3:30 p.m. Sunday with pastor Henry Chisholm Jr. of Jehovah Church of Jesus Christ. Holy Redeemer is at 1402 Duke St., Beaufort.
Details: 843-524-1962
UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
United Way of The Lowcountry seeks local volunteers with knowledge of home repair to join 400 high school students from across the nation and provide simple home repair services for needy Beaufort and Jasper county residents Sunday through July 17. Approximately 60 projects in Beaufort, Bluffton, Ridgeland, Hardeeville, Hilton Head Island and other outlying areas will be completed.
United Way conducts this program in partnership with The Catholic Heart Work camp in an effort to achieve one of its strategic priorities, to provide safe shelter for people who live and work in Beaufort and Jasper counties.
Details: 843-837-2000, bethanym@uwlowcountry.org
ORANGE GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
The Male Chorus of Orange Grove Baptist Church will celebrate its 19th anniversary at 4 p.m. Sunday. Various choirs will participate. The church is at 189 Orange Grove Road, St. Helena Island.
Details: Henry Daise, 843-838-5205
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF BEAUFORT
Jeanne Owens, director of Prevention and Outreach for Hope Haven of the Lowcountry, will present local and national statistics regarding childhood sexual abuse at the 10 a.m. Sunday at the Wardle Family YMCA, Port Royal.
Owens will speak about the services Hope Haven provides to the local community. Robin Freyburger will discuss the Guardian ad litem program.
Hope Haven of the Lowcountry is a nationally accredited nonprofit children's advocacy and rape crisis center in Beaufort. Hope Haven provides state-of-the-art child forensic interviews, crisis counseling, victim advocacy, evidence-based mental health treatment, family support, law enforcement partnerships and educational programs.
Details: 843-838-1399
ALLEN CHAPEL AME CHURCH
Allen Chapel AME Church will host a gospel concert featuring the Bethel Word and Worship Church Choir at 4 p.m. Sunday. The church is at 16 Shelter Church Road, Beaufort.
Details: 843-812-7481, 843-255-6911
THE CHURCH OF THE CROSS
The Church of the Cross UW Sports Camp held this summer will include a musical at its Buckwalter Campus, from 5-8:15 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Sports Camp is for boys and girls ages 6-12, offering sports instruction in soccer, basketball, tennis, golf and cheerleading. UW Sports brings in a team to instruct young athletes in their particular sport of interest, learning new skills and further developing others. The camp is $40 for the first child and $30 for the second or third child. Additional children beyond the third child get in free. Scholarships are available.
Details or reservations: summersplash@thechurchofthecross.net, www.thechurchofthecross.net
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Family Ministry of First Presbyterian Church of Hilton Head Island invites families to a beach party at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Burke's Beach on Hilton Head. Bring a picnic supper and beach chairs.
Details: www.fpchhi.org, 843-681-3696
LADY'S ISLAND BAPTIST CHURCH
The United Voices of L.I.F.E. Choir will be in concert along with the Israelite Baptist Church Choir and a guest choir from Augusta, Ga., at 5 p.m. July 17 at the Lady's Island Baptist Church. The church is at 105 Brickyard Point Road, Lady's Island.
Details: Dorothy Capers, 843-524-5046; Mattie Capers, 843-525-0269
SCOTTSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH
The Scottsville Baptist Church Family will celebrate its 130th Church Anniversary at 6 and 7:30 nightly July 18-23, culminating at noon and 2 p.m. July 25.
The theme is "Together We Stand, Yes We Can." Guest churches are: 6 p.m. July 18, Church of the Harvest, Apostolic, St. Helena Island, elder Jerome Middleton; 7:30 p.m. July 19, First African Baptist Church, St. Helena Island, the Rev. Dr. Elijah Washington; 7:30 p.m. July 20, Adam Street Baptist Church, St. Helena Island, the Rev. Willie Wilson; 7:30 p.m. July 21, Jehovah Church of Jesus Christ, St. Helena Island, elder Henry Chisholm; 7:30 p.m. July 22, Goodnews Baptist Church, Beaufort, the Rev. Charlie Powell; 7:30 p.m. July 23, Pine Grove Baptist Church, Beaufort, the Rev. Sylvester Ezell; noon July 25, Nazareth Baptist Church, St. Helena Island, the Rev. Leroy Haynes; and 2 p.m. July 25, Ebenezer Baptist Church, St. Helena Island, the Rev. Leonard Ritter.
The church is at 110 Olde Church Road, St. Helena Island.
Details: 843-838-1260
GOOD NEIGHBOR MEDICAL CLINIC
Good Neighbor Medical Clinic will have limited hours of operation July 19-23. The clinic will only be open for scheduled physician appointments as follows: 3-6 p.m. July 20 for Dr. Reese; 2-5 p.m. July 21 for Dr. Gray; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. July 22 for Dr. Cross. The clinic is at 30 Professional Village Circle, Beaufort.
Details: 843-470-9088, gnmc1402@embarqmail.com
