Celebrate Recovery
For more information contact Irene Potts - Celebrate Recovery Ministry Team Leader - at irene.potts@yahoo.com
A CHRIST-CENTERED
RECOVERY PROGRAM
Overcome Your Hurts, Habits, and Hang-ups
It takes courage to change.
What is Celebrate Recovery?
It is a ministry that equips people with the tools to experience
freedom and peace in the midst of trials.
For example, when someone goes through a divorce, those in the
family experience hurt and disappointment. The divorce becomes the
place where people may get hung-up in the hurt. If a person does not
have the tools to deal with this hurt, then a habit will develop to
cover the pain. The use of alcohol, drugs, smoking, over-eating,
over-working, people pleasing, perfectionism, depression, shopping,
gambling...anything to help numb the pain!
Life does hurt but God heals! In Celebrate Recovery we experience
the Lord's presence in a powerful way as He brings healing and hope
to those who seek Him.
Anger, grief, depression, physical & sexual abuse, co-dependency,
domestic violence, drug addiction, sexual addiction, eating
disorders, post abortion, alcoholism, gambling, adult children of
alcoholics, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...are all issues
that seriously affect many people in our community that a sermon or
Bible study alone will not solve. However, there is hope and a way
that the Church can help the hurting move beyond their wounds to
experience the healing liberty of Christ. Celebrate Recovery is a
Christian 12-step alternative based on eight principles from the
Beatitudes.
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Celebrate Recovery Purpose
The purpose of First United Methodist Church's "Celebrate Recovery"
is to help us find hope and healing for our hurts, hang-ups, and
habits through fellowship and God's healing power in our lives
through the 12 steps and 8 Recovery Principles. We choose to open
the door to our healing by sharing our experiences, strengths, and
hopes with one another. In addition, we become willing to accept
God's grace in solving the problems in our lives. By working and
applying these Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We
become free from our compulsive, dysfunctional, and destructive
behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most
importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others.
As we progress through the program, we discover our personal, loving
and forgiving Higher Power, Jesus Christ.
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Celebrate Recovery's focus is to fellowship and celebrate God's
healing power in our lives through Eight Recovery Principles and the
Christ Centered Twelve Steps.
The Holy Spirit transforms us as we open the door of our heart to
one another by sharing our experiences, strengths, and hopes. In
addition we become willing to accept God's grace in solving our life
problems.
By working and applying these Biblical principles we begin to grow
spiritually. We become free from our addictive, compulsive, and
dysfunctional behaviors.
This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly, a
stronger personal relationship with God and others when we work the
program.
As we progress through the program, we discover the personal,
loving, and forgiving Power of our Lord Jesus Christ.
GOD NEVER WASTES A HURT
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What is a CR Large Group?
It is a time where the Celebrate Recovery groups (Men & Women) get
together for a time of worship, a lesson, or a testimony. Lessons
taught come from the Celebrate Recovery Leader’s Guide.
What is Newcomers 101?
A small group designed with the newcomer in mind. This group is
offered during the Open Share group time. It is a “One time only”
informational meeting to introduce Newcomers to the ministry and to
answer any questions they may have about CR.
What is an Open Share Group?
These groups follow the Large Group time. They are intended to
provide a safe place for sharing, and do not use the Celebrate
Recovery Participants Guides. Two questions are presented for
sharing related to the teaching or testimony that was just heard
during the Large Group time. Participants do not have to share… they
can just listen to what others are sharing. These groups are gender
specific. The small group guidelines are used to keep the group
“safe.”
5:00 PM to 5:30 PM BBQ
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Large Group Celebration Sanctuary
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM Open Share Groups for Men & Women Various Rooms
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM Solid Rock Café: Dessert Gym
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Celebration Station
6 yrs - 5th grade
Nursery available: infants-5 yrs .
Don’t give up! There is Hope…
I came to Celebrate Recovery,
CR, in Sept. of 2009. When I first started coming, I knew I needed
help. What I didn’t know
was how to get better. By working thru the steps in a step study
group, coming to large group and open share meetings, and the help
of my sponsor and C.R. sisters, I’ve gotten better. Recovery isn’t a
chore or a “have to”; it’s a “get to” for me.
Although I already had the
cornerstone, Jesus, CR has given me the foundation to
build my future on. I
was more than ready to get what others already had:
healing! I so
wanted healing from my past.
I wanted to change the person I was, so I wouldn’t keep the
insanity in my life. And
that’s what I’ve found here: healing.
So many of the poor choices I’ve
made in my life were made after I received the Lord. I made them as
a Christian. Doing meth for the first time and then becoming an
addict; divorcing the husband God gave me; adultery; abandoning my
children; the list goes on.
Although I had the Lord, I
didn’t have any tools to heal the broken pieces of my life. CR has
given me those tools, and my C.R. sisters are showing me how to use
them. It’s an ongoing process.
Recovery has
become a way of life for me. Working this program has shown
me how to change who I am on the inside.
I pray every day for less of me and more of Jesus in my life.
Thanks for letting me share. TW
Celebrate Recovery
Leadership Meetings
Feb.
6th Monday
at 6:30 pm
Group Leader Mtg.
Chapel
Feb. 13th Monday at 3:45 pm
CS Team Mtg.
Conference
Room
Feb.
20th Monday at 6:30 pm
CR T.E.A.M Mtg.
Conference Room
Feb.
27th
Monday
at 6:30 pm
Book Discussion at
the Parsonage
Celebrating
Changed Lives
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February 2012 CR Meetings
Feb. 5th
Lesson- “Spiritual
Inventory”
Part 2
Feb.12th
Testimony
Feb.
19th Lesson– Confess
Feb. 26th
Testimony
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5:00-5:30 PM BBQ
6:00-7:00 PM Worship/Large Group
7:00-8:00 PM Open Share Groups
8:00-9:00 PM Solid Rock Café
(Dessert)
Celebration
Station – 5 yrs. - 11 yrs.
Nursery available: 1 yr.-4 yrs.