Faith & Fitness Initiative with the Body by Vi Challenge Seeks to Help People Live in Full Vitality by helping them to get the nutrition needed to allow their bodies to perform optimally ~ affordably ~ and even for free as a donation for those truly in need.

Watch Pastor Steve Willis as he explains how he was convicted to lead this initiative while living in the most obese city in the country – Huntington West Virginia.

The mission is to change our fast food culture through this Faith and Fitness Initiative. Instead of fast, convenient junk food, we can provide, convenient, affordable nutritional food in the form of the Vi-Shape Shake.

This can be FREE for those in need through our community challenge, and FREE for YOU through our 3 and yours is FREE campaign.

Let your churches know about this new initiative by inviting them to listen to a pre recorded call :
Recorded Call to Listen Online

The Faith and Fitness Initiative operates as follows:

1.Your church or ministry can get involved in the Faith and Fitness Initiative using the ViSalus Community Challenge without doing business, simply promote the donation phase of the Community Challenge.

2.As you raise money for meals for those in need, a percentage of what you’ve raised will come back to that ministry as a cash royalty.

3.You can help friends lose weight and get healthy with a support group in your church using products that add no extra cost to anyone’s budget. You can do this without the church getting involved, yet you can support your church in doing so.

Our LIVE National Faith and Fitness Call is the second Thursday of every month at 6pm Pacific Time. On that date, dial 507.726.3356 access code 55741#

You can also contact Melanie Milletics at 727-565-2053 to learn how you can join this initiative today.
Thank you again for joining us and together we can help provide a real solution to the obesity epidemic in the US and Canada.

The Body By Vi Community Challenge to feed hungry children was launched in November of 2009. As of April 2010, the Body By Vi Community Challenge has provided over 139,000 meals to children in need across the US, Jamaica and Haiti.  Ryan Blair, CEO of ViSalus, was interviewed by Direct Selling News regarding the Community Challenge.

Excerpt from the Direct Selling News:

“We comprise a diverse community of distributors, so for us, one cause doesn’t fit all,” says Ryan Blair, Founder and CEO of ViSalus. “Instead, we help out locally, wherever our distributors are located.” Their Body by Vi Community Challenge launched last November with a goal to purchase 100,000 meals for local food pantries and Boys & Girls Clubs, wherever their distributors see a need. “This project has exceeded my wildest dreams,” Blair says. “It aligns with the absolute core message to our field, so it is one that really resonates with them.”

The truth is, there really is no way to measure the benefits, because there is no proven connection between a company’s philanthropy and their recruitment and retention numbers. However, most executives will admit there is an intangible benefit, nonetheless. “From an entrepreneurial perspective, it raises the profile of our individual distributor within the community—increases their social capital—and spreads the word about ViSalus and all the good we’re doing,” Blair says.

The bottom line is that, innately, people want to belong to something bigger than themselves. “At ViSalus, we do consider it a tool of sorts,” Blair says. “Everyone’s selling something. If you stand for a cause and stand for helping someone, it helps to differentiate you from the crowd.”

Right from the start, the team of founders at ViSalus set out to create a company that was about more than just profits. The spirit of helping others is a thread that has run through the company from Day One. “Our causes help to shape people’s ‘whys,’ ” Blair says. “Above and beyond running their ViSalus business, our distributors host drives and events to help raise money to send our meal-replacement products to children. We have had overwhelming responses from people that their involvement has made a significant impact on their lives.”

With over 139,000 meals served already – it is clear that the  Body By Vi Community Challenge is a massive success.  If you would like to know how you can participate in the Community Challenge, please contact Community Challenge Leader Melanie Milletics on 727-565-2053.

Excerpt from DirectSellingNews.com :  The Greater Good: The Unintentional (Business) Bonus from Cause Marketing

Wellness Company Sets Goal to Donate 100,000 Healthy Meals to Children in Need

LOS ANGELES, CA – November 18th, 2009 – ViSalus Sciences has made another step towards bringing its mission of Prosperity to families in need. From Fusion Academy, a ViSalus national convention in Tampa, Florida, CEO Ryan Blair announced a new initiative that will leverage the company’s Vi-Shape® Nutritional Shake Mix to provide, healthy nutrition to children from coast to coast.

The Body by Vi™ Community Challenge has set a goal of donating 100,000 children’s meals through a network of local Distributors working with charitable organizations in their communities. For as little as 50 cents per meal, ViSalus Distributors and Customers can make a donation to be matched meal for meal by ViSalus.

The Challenge was given a head start towards this goal by Co-Founders Ryan Blair, Nick Sarnicola, and Blake Mallen, who together pledged the first 15,000 meals on stage today.
“Our company is founded in name and spirit on the pillars of Life, Health, and Prosperity,” said ViSalus Chief Marketing Officer Blake Mallen. “To us, Prosperity is about much more than financial freedom; it’s about the ability to give back to the people and causes that touch your heart.”

Chief Sales Officer Nick Sarnicola is humbled to have an opportunity to combine the benefits of ViSalus products with the giving spirit of the ViSalus community. “To have great products is one thing,” said Sarnicola. “To have a great product that children can benefit from and enjoy is another. For our community to make this product available for free to the children who need it most is the ultimate form of contribution we can achieve.”

ViSalus Founder Ryan Blair was inspired to take this cause to the masses after a recent trip to Jamaica showed him what a difference the ViSalus community could make. “There are too many children in this world who don’t have a fighting chance because they simply don’t have the means to get the nutrition their bodies need each day. To succeed at school, on the athletic field, or simply to grow up to be healthy, nothing is more important than nutrition, and I hope the children of the world know we don’t plan on stopping at 100,000 meals,” said Blair.

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Body By Vi Community Challenge
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About ViSalus Sciences®
ViSalus Sciences®, with headquarters in Troy, Michigan and Los Angeles, CA, is a leading Weight Management and Nutritional Supplement maker utilizing the direct selling channel to distribute its products. ViSalus is the company behind the Body by Vi™ Challenge, a health transformation program helping people achieve their weight loss and fitness goals for a chance to win over $100,000 per year in total prizes.