Wellness Peace University is a 9-week, plant-forward wellness program for churches, families, and small groups. We start with the most surprising idea in nutrition: that a plate without meat at the center can leave you full, satisfied, and stronger. From there, one small step a week, we walk you into a way of eating, moving, and gathering that lasts.
The Mission
Most of the chronic disease around our dinner tables is the kind the science says we can prevent, and often reverse, by adding more whole plants, moving a little more, and minimizing the meat. WPU is the simple, weekly, community-first program that helps you do that together. Without dogma. Without perfection. Without giving up the joy of a good meal.
The Program
Three quiet ideas hold the program together. They're the same three that have made every great small-group program work, from kitchen tables to church basements: a clear path, a community to walk it with, and a small step you actually take this week.
Join the founding waitlist →We start with plants and add. We don't put a finish line on the meat. We just keep showing how powerful, satisfying, and delicious a plant-first plate already is. The point is to feel the difference and keep the change.
One short lesson, one shared meal, one small step a week. The behavior-change rhythm that works because it's the rhythm a healthy small group already knows.
Built to be hosted at your church, your community center, or around your kitchen table. The kit will be free for our founding coordinators. The community is the engine.
The Curriculum (in draft)
We don't open with theory. Step 01 is a single week of plant-powered meals designed to surprise you. Full, satisfying, and delicious. From there, each week is one short video, one meal to try, one small step to keep. By week nine your plate, your pantry, and your people all look different. In the best way.
Before any theory, a week of plant-powered meals that prove the point. Full plates. Real flavor. The "I didn't even miss it" moment that changes everything else.
Now that you've felt it, the science behind why whole plants do something for the body that nothing else does. For energy. For inflammation. For the long arc of a healthy life.
Clean it out. Stock it up. The 12 staples every plant-forward kitchen runs on, and what to put back on the shelf in their place.
The simple template: greens, beans, grains, fruit, plus. The math is easy. The plate is beautiful. The kids actually eat it.
Leafy greens every day. The seven ways to cook kale, collards, spinach, and chard so the whole table asks for seconds.
Cheap. Filling. Anti-inflammatory. The protein-and-fiber backbone of the longest-lived people on earth. A week of meals built around them.
How to dial back animal foods without making it weird. At home. At restaurants. At the family holiday table. The grace and the simple scripts that keep the change human.
Wellness is more than the plate. Daily movement, real sleep, mindful living, and stress that no longer runs the show. The four habits that compound the other eight.
Invite a friend. Lead a circle. Carry it back to your church or community. The point of nine weeks together isn't graduation. It's multiplication.
"I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth ... they shall be yours for food."Genesis 1:29
For Churches & Coordinators
If your congregation has run a small-group program before (wellness, stewardship, marriage, recovery), you already know how this works. Same room. Same shared table. Same kind of life-giving conversation. We're recruiting founding coordinators to help us shape the videos, the leader guide, and the recipe cards before we open it more widely.
Become a founding coordinator →Building This Together
We're in pre-launch. The website is live, the curriculum is in draft, and the community is forming. If you'd like a hand in shaping any of it, here are the three roles we're filling first.
Take the program in our first cohort. Help us learn what works, what doesn't, and what we have to fix before we open it up.
Join the founding list →Lead a small circle at your church, your community center, or around your kitchen table. Help us shape the leader guide and the rhythm of the room.
Help build the church program →Share a recipe, a family adaptation, a budget hack. Help us build the recipe library that will make this real for thousands of plates.
Add me to the cook list →
"At the end of ten days they were healthier and stronger than the youths who ate the king's food."Adapted from Daniel 1:15
Join the founding waitlist
Tell us a little about you and we'll be in touch with the founding-cohort plan, the first taste-the-power week, and the ways you can help shape the program as a member, a coordinator, a cook, or all three.
Questions, Answered
WPU is faith-friendly and built to thrive inside a church or congregational setting, but you don't need to belong to one to take it. The framing is wellness as stewardship of the body you've been given. We draw on older wisdom (the garden in Genesis 1:29; Daniel and his friends asking for vegetables and water and looking healthier ten days later in Daniel 1:15) and on modern science (the longest-lived communities on earth all eat mostly plants, in close community, with their families). We don't preach. We just point at what works.
No. WPU is plant-forward, not plant-exclusive. The point is to eat more plants, dial back the rest, and feel the difference. Most people land somewhere they're proud of. More plants. Fewer processed foods. Less meat. We don't draw a hard line for anyone.
Right now, nothing. We're building this with the founding cohort. Long term, church-hosted classes will stay free or donation-based, online cohorts will be pay-what-you-can, and coordinator kits will be free for partner churches and community groups.
WPU is a 9-week behavior-change program, not a 30-day plan. It teaches a way of eating, cooking, shopping, moving, and gathering that you can keep doing on week 52 and week 520. The community is the engine. That's what makes the change stick.
Yes, and right now we're looking for founding coordinators to help us shape the kit before launch. You get the videos-in-progress, the leader-guide draft, the recipe cards, and a small circle of other coordinators to think through it with you.
Honestly, no. That's the point. We're in pre-launch, building this with the people who want it to exist. If any of the three roles below sound like you (founding member, founding coordinator, founding cook), get in touch and help us shape what this becomes.
