What is Celebrate Recovery?
A Ministry for Life's Daily Hurts, Habits, and Hang-ups
Celebrate Recovery is open to all who are hurting and want their needs met, healed, and resolved. And those who seek to overcome controlling addictions in their lives such as:
Anxiety/Depression, Divorce,
Drugs and Alcohol, Grief,
Gambling, Sexual Addiction,
Overeating, Over Spending,
Enabling: and Many More.
Where Did Celebrate Recovery Begin?
Rick Warren, author of bestsellers The Purpose Driven Church and the Purpose Driven Life, helped create this nationwide ministry. Today it is offered at more than 3,000 churches and prisons, and has helped an estimated 150,000 people to change lives through Jesus Christ.
Celebrate Recovery's Purpose Is:
- - To provide fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives, using 12 steps and 8 Recovery Principles (based on the Beatitudes, Matthew 5) Which are Christ-centered.
- - To help us work and apply these principles so we can grow spiritually and change.
- - To open the door to change by sharing our experiences, strengths and hopes with one another, help us learn about God's grace, to accept His grace and to experience freedom from our compulsive, dysfunctional and/or addictive behaviors.
- - To help us grow in the peace, joy, and serenity that is only found in Jesus Christ.