Is your life out-of-control, a struggle, unmanageable, and even consumed by some hurt or habit? divorce? personal significance? grief? anger? sexual, physical, or emotional abuse? a chemical or food dependency? Celebrate Recovery large group meeting
and small recovery groups meet
Thursdays at 7:00 PM.

Individual men’s and women’s Step Study Groups
meet throughout the week.

Welcome to an Amazing Spiritual Adventure!

Do you sense the wrong in your life? Do you believe that “time heals all wounds?”  The truth is TIME OFTEN MAKES THINGS WORSE!  Wounds not dealt with fester and spread infection throughout the entire body.

Celebrate Recovery is designed as a program to help those struggling with hurts, habits and hang-ups by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through a recovery process.

This balanced program is based on 8 recovery principles and the 12 steps. By working and applying these principles, we begin to grow spiritually and we become free from our addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors.  This freedom creates peace, hope, joy, the ability to develop healthy relationships with others, and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with our loving and forgiving Higher Power.

Compulsive Behaviors and Addiction

(Individual Men’s and Women’s Groups)

Are you struggling with an addiction to drugs, alcohol, or food?  Do you struggle with a compulsion to shop, or the need to be in a relationship?  Do you find that an addictive or compulsive behavior has taken control of your life?
Then, this is the group for you!  We will learn to listen, encourage, and support one another in our journey to recovery from our addictive and compulsive behaviors as we discover to think in new ways.  Join us as we share the hope and freedom that Jesus Christ, our Higher Power, has given us to overcome our struggles.

Anger and Co-dependency
(Individual Men’s and Women’s Groups)

This group is for individuals who constantly seek approval and affirmation, struggle with the compulsion to control, rescue or take care of others, have difficulty setting boundaries and recognizing their self worth.  In addition, this group is for those who find that anger is their first response to problems.  The anger may be through rage, withdrawal, and isolation.  These groups focus on directing a God-given emotion constructively and learning new ways to manage relationships.

Co-Dependency, Fear and Depression
(Individual Women’s Group)

This group is for women who struggle with the need to please others at their own expense, values, desires, or sense of worth.  Fear is a driving force in their lives and depressive thoughts have been a controlling influence leading to feelings of insecurity and hopelessness.  This group will provide a safe place to express hidden feelings by providing a platform for sharing.  Additionally, members will learn how to express their own needs in healthy ways and discover their identity in Christ.

Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Abuse
(Women’s Group)

This is a group for women who have endured past physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse. Recovery includes healing from the trauma done to us, as well as healing from the influence that these past experiences continue to have in our lives.

Sexual Issues, Struggles & Addictions
(Men’s Group)

This is a group for men seeking recovery from lust and compulsive sexual behaviors. This group provides fellowship, is a safe place to share our struggles, pain, and victories, and helps to establish   accountability and mutual support among the group members throughout the week.

Compulsive Overeating & Food Addiction
(Women’s Group)

Do you eat when you are not hungry? Is your weight affecting the way you live your life? Do you give too much time and thought to food? Do you overeat by bingeing or by grazing continuously? Is food your friend?  If you answer ‘yes’ to three or more of these questions then this group is for you.

Family of Those Who Struggle with Addictions
(Women’s Group)

The family problem of addiction made us “co-victims”—those who take on the characteristics of the addict without necessarily ever taking a drink, or using. Choosing to recognize and exit the modeled behaviors is the beginning of our recovery.

Women Affected by Sexual Addiction and Betrayal
(Women’s Group)

A group for women whose spouse is currently having or has had an affair or is addicted to pornography or inappropriate sexual behaviors.  Our group provides a safe place to share our fear, hurt or anger and encouragement to find peace, strength and grace in the Lord Jesus Christ.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY SMALL GROUPS WILL:

• Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strength, and hopes with others who are going through the Road to Recovery “Principles” and 12 steps.
• Provide you a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up or habit that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular step each week.  The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery’s “Five Small Group Guidelines.”
• Provide you with the opportunity to find a sponsor or accountability partner.
• Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week.

Twelve Steps and their Biblical Comparisons

1We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behavior. That our lives had become unmanageable.“I know that nothing good lives in me that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.” Romans 7:18 NIV

2 Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.“ For it is God who is at work in you to will and act according to His good purpose.” Philippians 2:13

3Made a decision to turn our life and our will over to the care of God. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.” Romans 12:1 NIV

4Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.” Lamentations 3:40 NIV

5Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs. “Therefore, confess your sins to each other, and pray for each other, so that you may be healed.” James 5:16 NIV

6Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.” James 4:10 NIV

7Humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 NIV

8Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Luke 6:31 NIV

9Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother had something against you, leave your offering there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24 NIV

10Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. “So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” 1 Corinthians 10:12 NIV

11Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out. “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.” Colossians 3:16a NIV

12Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and practice these principles in all our affairs. “Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you may also be tempted.” Galatians 6:1 NIV

The Road to Recovery Eight Recovery Principals

Realize I’m not God, I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.(Step 1)

Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover. (Step 2)

Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.(Step 3)

Openly examine and confess my fault to God, to myself, and to another person whom I trust. (Step 4&5)

Voluntarily submit to any and all changes God wants to make in my life.(Step 6&7)

Evaluate all my relationships, offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, without expecting any reward.(Steps 8&9)

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 gain the power to do it.(Steps 10&11)

Yield myself to be used by God to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. (Step 12)