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About Celebrate Recovery

1. Celebrate Recovery is based on God’s Word, the Bible. When Jesus taught the Sermon on the Mount, He began by stating eight ways to be happy. Today, we call them the Beatitudes. From a conventional viewpoint, most of these statements don’t make sense. They sound like contradictions. But when you fully understand what Jesus is saying, you’ll realize that these eight principles are God’s road to recovery, wholeness, growth, and spiritual maturity.

2. Celebrate Recovery is forward-looking. Rather than wallowing in the past or dredging up and rehearsing painful memories over and over, we confront our past and move on. Celebrate Recovery focuses on the future. Regardless of what has already happened, the solution is to start making wise choices now and depend on Christ’s power to help us make those changes.

3. Celebrate Recovery emphasizes personal responsibility. Instead of playing the “accuse and excuse” game of victimization, this program helps us face up to our own poor choices and deal with what we can do something about. We cannot control all that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to everything. That is a secret of happiness. When we stop wasting time fixing the blame, we have more energy to fix the problem. When we stop hiding our own faults and stop hurling accusations at others, then the healing power of Christ can begin working in our mind, will, and emotions.

4. Celebrate Recovery emphasizes spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ. The third principle calls for us to make a total surrender of our lives to Christ. Lasting recovery cannot happen without this principle. Everybody needs Jesus.

5. Celebrate Recovery utilizes the biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spiritually and emotionally. It is built around small group interaction and the fellowship of a caring community. There are many therapies, growth programs, and counselors today that operate around one-to-one interaction. But Celebrate Recovery is built on the New Testament principle that we don’t get well by ourselves. We need each other. Fellowship and accountability are two important components of spiritual growth.

6. Celebrate Recovery addresses all types of hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Some recovery programs deal only with alcohol or drugs or another single problem. But Celebrate Recovery is a “large umbrella” program under which a limitless number of issues can be dealt with.

by Rick Warren

Groups

Celebration Recovery offers groups for Adults, Youth, and Children

Adults

Purpose:

Celebrate Recovery (CR) is a program that aims to help those struggling with substance abuse, sexual abuse, eating disorders, and other destructive behaviors.

CR offers a supportive community and typically has a small group to help participants recover and grow together.

Some of the benefits of joining CR include:

Learning how to live a healthy lifestyle free from addictive behaviors
Developing a support system of friends who share similar goals
Gaining access to recovery resources and issue-specific small groups
Receiving guidance and support from Christian leaders or mentors

Youth - MS and HS

Purpose:

Through the Landing, students can find a safe place to find help, hope, and healing through engaging the recovery principles and growing in relationship with Jesus Christ. This ministry allows our students the ability to start changing their lives early, so they don't have to walk through more pain later in life and not have a way to grow through it. This program changes lives and can change yours too.

There is no hurt, no struggle, no lie too heavy for Jesus to carry and heal.

The Landing helps us find a better way forward so that we can live, through Jesus, a life of freedom and purpose.

K - 5th Grade

Purpose:

Sometimes the hurts, hang-ups and habits that children struggle with go unnoticed. That’s why Celebration Place is so important. It’s a place where children ages K-5th grade can discover their own pathway to healing.

With structure, love, discipline, and guidance, we hope to help children to develop life skills that will be vital in their times of struggle and daily life. Celebration Place is designed to equip children with practical coping techniques, strategies, and values to prevent the development of unhealthy coping mechanisms. We like to think of it as “PREcovery.”

Celebration Place gives children…

Hope for all the amazing things God has in store for them
Truths that help them overcome life’s challenges by learning to lean on Jesus
Joy as they embark on a wonderful, year-long journey of songs, games, videos, impactful experiences, and great conversation
Friendships with other children