W1N Church CR is not currently meeting.

Visit ​​https://locator.crgroups.info/ to find a CR group near you!

 
 

Celebrate Recovery is a "large umbrella" 12 Step program to help a limitless number of issues. It is a biblical and balanced program effective in helping people overcome their hurts, hang-ups and habits. Many of the addiction issues we deal with include alcohol addiction, drug addiction, gambling addiction, sexual addiction and food addiction. We also deal with eating disorders, love and relationship addiction, co-dependency, abuse, guilt, shame and anger to name a few.

 

The 8 Recovery Principles are based on the actual words of Jesus taken from Matthew Chapter 5, called the Beatitudes. Celebrate Recovery believes in providing a safe place for the broken to come and face the pain in our lives. The practical principles are designed to help us find an authentic relationship with the one and only Higher Power: a loving and forgiving Jesus Christ.

 

Celebrate Recovery is here to help! Come join us and commit to working the 12 Steps, regularly attend meetings, and get accountability partners and a Sponsor to support your journey to healing. Walking through the recovery process allows us to admit our powerlessness, and we look to God for the power to make us whole.

 

Things That We Are:

♦ A safe place to share

♦ A refuge

♦ A place of beginning

♦ Where respect is given to each member

♦ Where confidentiality is HIGHLY regarded

♦ A place to learn

♦ A place to grow and become strong again

♦ Where you can take off your mask

♦ A place for healthy challenges and  healthy risks

 

Things That We Are NOT:

♦ A place for selfish control

♦ A therapy group

♦ A place for secrets

♦ A place to look for dating relationships

♦ A place to rescue or be rescued by others

♦ A place for perfection

♦ A place to judge others

♦ A quick fix

 

 

 Celebrate Recovery 12 Steps:

  1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
  4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
  8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. We continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
  11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.

 

 

Celebrate Recovery's Eight Recovery Principles

 

The Road to Recovery Based on the Beatitudes

 

Realize I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.
          “Happy are those who know that they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3

 

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          

   

Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
          “Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5a

 

Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.
          “Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8

 

Voluntarily submit to any and all changes 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

 

Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others.
          “Happy are the merciful.” Matthew 5:7 

“Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9

 

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 to gain the power to follow His will.

 

Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and my words.
          “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.” Matthew 5:10

 

Small Group Guidelines

The following five guidelines will ensure that your small group is a safe place. 

 

 1. Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings.

 

Not your spouse’s, someone you’re dating, or your family members’ hurts and hang-ups, but your own. Focusing on yourself will benefit your recovery as well as the ones around you. Stick to “I” or “me” statements, not “you” or “we” statements. 

 

Limit your sharing to three to five minutes, so everyone has an opportunity to share — and to ensure that one person does not dominate the group sharing time.

 

2. There is NO cross-talk.  Cross-talk is when two people engage in conversation excluding all others. Each person is free to express his or her feelings without interruptions. 

 

Cross-talk is also making distracting comments or questions while someone is sharing. This includes speaking to another member of the group while someone is sharing, or responding to what someone has shared during his or her time of sharing.

 

3. We are here to support one another, not “fix” one another. This keeps us focused on our own issues. 

 

We do not give advice or solve someone’s problem in our time of sharing or offer book referrals or counselor referrals! 

We are not licensed counselors, psychologists, or therapists, nor are the group members. Celebrate Recovery groups are not designed for this. It is up to the participants to include outside counseling to their program when they’re ready.

 

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. 

 

We are not to share information with our spouses/family/co-workers. This also means not discussing what is shared in the group among group members. This is called gossip. 

Please be advised, if anyone threatens to hurt themselves or others, the Small Group Leader has the responsibility to report it to the Celebrate Recovery Ministry Leader.

 

5. Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group. 

 

Therefore, we ask that you please watch your language. The main issue here is that the Lord’s name is not used inappropriately. 

We also avoid graphic descriptions. If anyone feels uncomfortable with how explicitly a speaker is sharing regarding his/her behaviors, then you may indicate so by simply raising your hand. The speaker will then respect your boundaries by being less specific in his/her descriptions. This will avoid potential triggers that could cause a person to act out.