Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, biblically-based recovery program that seeks to celebrate God’s healing and redemptive power in our lives through the “8 Recovery Principles.” We invite you to experience change, allow God’s grace to help you solve life’s problems, and allow Him to release you from your hurts, hang-ups and habits that have been holding you back from authentic joy in your life. Check out our Monday night schedule…
Every Monday Night!
Celebrate Recovery (CR) meets every Monday night, 52 weeks a year even when Monday falls on a holiday.
5:15 – 6:00 PM Lite Bites. Families are encouraged to gather here before going to Celebration Station and Large Group. (Donations help to cover the cost.)
5:55 – 6:00 Celebration Station & Child Care Check-in
6:00 – 7:00 PM Large Group. Adults meet together for a time of worship with the CR band and praise team, then teaching or a testimony. Upon arrival a greeter will hand you a bulletin to help you become acclimated.
7:00 – 8:00 PM Open Share Groups. After large group, adults break into recovery-specific groups and meet others with similar hurts, hang-ups and habits. These groups are gender-specific and meet in separate areas. Locations are printed each week in the bulletin. If you are new to recovery or a guest we invite you to attend our “Newcomers” group.
8:00 PM Celebration Station & Child Care Pick-up. Prompt pick-up of children is appreciated.
8:00 – 9:00 PM Connecting Time. This is a time to fellowship with others from your group.
Children are important to us. The children’s companion to Celebrate Recovery, Celebration Station is a 52-week program that mirrors Celebrate Recovery’s one-year group teaching schedule and curriculum plan. Celebration Station is for children ages 4-10. A $4 fee for 1-2 children or a $6 fee for up to 5 children covers the care and services provided each week. Child care is also available for children age 3 and under. A parent or legal guardian must check in/check out their own children.
Small Group Guidelines
1. Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
2. There is no cross talk. Cross talk is when 2 individuals engage in a dialogue, excluding all others. Each person is free to express their feelings without interruption.
3. We are here to support one another; not “fix” one another. This keeps us focused on our own issues.
4. Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group. The only exception is when someone threatens to injure themselves or others.
5. Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.
8 Recovery Principles
1. 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. “Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3
2. 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
3. Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. “Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5
4. Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. “Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8
5. 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
6. 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.” Matthew 5:7; “Happy are the peacemakers.” Matthew 5:8
7. 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 follow His will.
8. 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
Celebrate Recovery Words
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the 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, the 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 resonably happy in this life; and supremely happy with You forever in the next. AMEN – Reinhold Niebuhr
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, biblically-based recovery program that seeks to celebrate God’s healing and redemptive power in our lives through the “8 Recovery Principles.” 
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