Celebrate Recovery
A Ministry supported by Christ Church Anglican
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, Bible-based 12-Step Recovery Program.
Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find freedom from your hurts, hang-ups, and habits. This Christ-centered recovery program provides a way to bring God’s healing power into our lives through the eight biblical principles of recovery and the fellowship of acceptance and accountability.
What is Celebrate Recovery?
Celebrate Recovery is a program that was developed over thirty years ago and has been used in thousands of churches throughout the United States.
It focuses on one of the most neglected aspects of real recovery: spiritual transformation.
As you work through and apply eight biblical principles of recovery, you will begin to grow spiritually.
As a result, you will begin to experience freedom from those addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors.
This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others.
Celebrate Recovery Newcomer 101 Video
Celebrate Recovery:
C.R. Small Groups can:
Provide a safe place to share all of your experiences, strengths, and hopes with others who are going through a Christ-centered recovery.
Provide you with a leader who has completed CR’s Step Study and worked through their own hurts, habits, and hang-ups, who will facilitate the group as it focuses on a specific principle each week.
Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner.
C.R. Small Groups will not:
Attempt to offer any professional help. Our leaders are not licensed counselors. We can provide you with a list of approved counselors.
Allow members to attempt to fix one another.
Small Groups
What To Expect
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A safe place to share
A refuge
A place of belonging
A place to care for others and be cared for
Where respect is given to each member
Where confidentiality is highly regarded
A place to learn
A place to grow and become strong again
A place where you can take off your mask
A place for healthy challenges and risks
A possible turning point in your life
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A place for selfish control
Therapy
A place for secrets
A place to look for dating relationships
A place to rescue or be rescued by others
A place for perfection
A place to judge others
A quick fix
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Realize I am not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable .
“Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor…” Matthew 5:3
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Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover.
“Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted…” Matthew 5:4
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Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
“Happy are the meek…” Matthew 5:5
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Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.
“Happy are the pure in heart…” Matthew 5:8
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Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
“Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires…” Matthew 5:6
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Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others.
“Happy are the merciful. Happy are the peacemakers…” Matthew 5:7, 9
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Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
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Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words.
“Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires…” Matthew 5:10
The Road to Recovery
8 Recovery Principles Based on the Beatitudes
(Matthew 5:3-10)
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen
– Reinhold Niebuhr
The Prayer for Serenity
Weekly Schedule
Thursday Evenings
Meeting at 6:30pm
Dinner served from 5:45 - 6:15
No cost to attend
Childcare Provided
(Birth - 4 years old)
Celebrations Place
(CR Program for K - 6th Grade)