Celebrate Recovery

What is Celebrate Recovery?

Every Tuesday Night
Doors open at 6:30 pm
7:00 pm – Worship
8:00 pm – Open Share Groups

Virtual meetings are being held on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm. Click here to join a group.

A Christ centered program that gives people the resources and relationships to help recover from life's hurts, habits, and hang-ups.

This is a program for anyone struggling with past or current dysfunctions or compulsions, whether they are affecting their own life or the lives of those around them.

The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the Eight Recovery Principles found in the Beatitudes and Christ-Centered Twelve Steps.

This experience allows us to "be changed". We open the door by sharing our experiences, victories and hopes with one another as well as learning to accept God's grace in our lives.

By working the Christ-centered steps and applying their 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.

As we progress through the program we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power Jesus Christ, the one and only true Higher Power.

Jesus Christ, the One and Only True Higher Power

The general meeting, where all participants gather for a time of worship and either a teaching or a testimony is our LARGE GROUP. The Large Group acts as the top of the funnel moving people toward changed lives through Christ's power. It is a non threatening meeting where someone can come and see what recovery is all about, without having to commit to sharing any of their hurts, habits, or hang ups. The Large Group meets for one hour.

At the conclusion of the Large Group, participants are excused to attend groups that are gender specific (men’s and women’s groups), and recovery issue specific in larger Celebrate Recovery ministries. These are the OPEN SHARE GROUPS. The leader of the Open Share group facilitates the use of the small group guidelines keeping the group a safe place to share life's struggles and victories. By attending these Open Share groups, experiencing the safety and encouragement of the group, and hearing others share of their victories and changed lives, participants will funnel into the third type of group, the STEP STUDY GROUP.

The Step Study is a two hour meeting meeting on a different day of the week from the Large Group and Open Share Groups. The Participants guides are used in this group, working through them one question at a time. The leader facilitates the small group guidelines, keeping the group focused on the questions and moving forward. It is here that the healing takes place, and lives are changed.

• Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
• There will be no cross talk please. Cross talk is when 2 individuals engage in dialogue, excluding all others. Each person is free to express feelings without interruption.
• We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to “fix” another.
• Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group!
• Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered group.

Celebrate Recovery Groups Can/Will Not…

Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Can:

• Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths and hopes with others who are going through the “Principles” in a Christ-Centered recovery.
• Provide you a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up on habit that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step each week. The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery's “FIVE RULES.” 
• Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner or sponsor.
• Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week, if available.

Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Will Not:

• Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counselors. We will provide you with a list of approved counseling referrals.
• Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.

Rules and Why’s

Other Focus: Concentrating on others needs and problems. Analyzing their motives and behavior. Asking questions of others. Telling stories about what he/she did.

• NEGATIVE RESULTS: Helps us avoid our own issues. Makes us observers, not participants. Puts a safe (and lonely) distance between ourselves and others.
• RULE 1: Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
• RULE 2: We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to "fix" one another.
• GOALS: Work on self. Share personal needs, feelings, ideas and problems. Allow time for all those who need share.

Breaking Confidentiality: Telling outsiders what was said or done in group. Gossip disguised as a prayer request.

• NEGATIVE RESULTS: Violates trust and safety. Makes members afraid to share risky material.
• RULE 3: Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group.
• GOALS: Celebrate Recovery is a safe place.

Cross-Talk: Interrupting people, asking questions, having a dialogue with one other member of the group.

• NEGATIVE RESULTS: Members fear that they won't be able to finish sharing, that their ideas are not valued, or that they won't get a chance to speak.
• RULE 4: There will be no cross-talk please. Cross-talk is when two individuals engage in a dialogue, excluding all others. Each person is free to express feelings without interruption.
• RULE 5: Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.
• GOALS: Listen respectfully to what others choose to share.

Where Would You Like to Serve with Celebrate Recovery?

Please see the available opportunities for service as well as their primary duties.