Celebrate Recovery
The Celebrate Recovery ministry purpose is to fellowship and celebrate God´s healing power in our lives through the Eight Recovery Principles. This experience allows us to be changed. We open the door by sharing our experiences, strengths and hopes with one another. We become willing to accept God´s grace in solving our lives´ problems. By working and applying these Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually and 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.
Who is Celebrate Recovery for?
- Do you have trouble setting limits for yourself?
- Do you sacrifice your own needs to make others feel good about themselves or to keep the peace?
- Do you struggle feeling safe when you aren't in control?
- Do you act kind on the outside but feel bitter on the inside?
- Do you, or someone you love, use food, pornography, sex, relationships, alcohol or drugs to cope with life's problems?
- Do you live with someone who abuses you or do you feel the continued effects from past abuse?
If you answered yes to any of these, Celebrate Recovery is for you!
Join Us for Celebrate Recovery at St. Andrew's!
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Where: |
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church |
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When: |
Every Tuesday night |
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7:00-8:00 p.m. - Dierenfield Hall C |
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Contact: |
Bill, 949.574.2267 or . |
Celebrate Recovery small groups CAN:
- Help you set limits for yourself.
- Provide you with a safe place to share your experiences, strengths and hopes with others that are also going through a Christ-centered recovery.
- Provide you with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up or habit and who will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step each week.
- Provide you with the opportunity to find an Accountability Partner or a Sponsor.
- Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week.
Celebrate Recovery small groups WILL NOT:
- Attempt to offer any professional advice. Our leaders are not counselors.
- Allow its members to attempt to "fix" one another.
What Hurts, Habits or Hang-ups can Celebrate Recovery help you with?
Addiction
If you find that you cannot quit drinking or using entirely, even when you honestly want to, or if you have little control over the amount you consume, you are probably an alcoholic and/or an addict. If that is the case, you may be suffering from a problem that only a spiritual solution will conquer.
Codependency
Do you have a compulsion to rescue and take care of others, have difficulty setting boundaries, or recognizing your own worth? At Celebrate Recovery you can learn to express your own needs and wants in healthy ways.
Physical/Emotional and Sexual Abuse
Recovery includes healing from the traumas done to us at sometime in our past, as well as healing from the influence these past experiences continue to have on our lives.
Adult Children of Family Dysfunction
The family problem of alcoholism made us “co-victims”—those who take on the characteristics of the alcoholic without necessarily ever taking a drink. Choosing to recognize and exit the modeled behaviors of alcoholism is the beginning of recovery for the ACFD (or ACA).
Sexual Addiction
Celebrate Recovery offers support for those seeking recovery from lust and compulsive sexual behaviors. Celebrate Recovery offers 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.
Love & Relationship
This group provides a safe place to deal with the depression, isolation, lack of trust, and the unhealthy use of love and relationships as a means of achieving worth, that are characteristic of Romance & Relationship addictions.
Eating Disorders and Food Addiction
We have learned a tendency to compulsively try to control food or to be out of control with food. At your own pace, you will learn to trust, to ask for your needs to be met, to say “no” when it is appropriate, to express your feelings, and to hang around when all you want to do is run.
Anger
Do you find that anger is your first response to problems of any size? The anger may be very evident as rage, or less obvious in terms of withdrawal and isolation. At Celebrate Recovery, we focus on managing a God-given emotion in constructive ways.
Do you struggle with a hurt, habit, or hang-up? Change is possible. Give Celebrate Recovery a try.
SATURDAY, July 31 at 5:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, August 1 at 8:00, 9:30 and 11:11 a.m.
Laura Johnson
Summer Road Trip Series
"A Critical Junction"
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Presbyterian Church
