Celebrate Recovery is a Bible-based, Christ-centered recovery program that ministers to those who struggle with life’s “hurts, habits and hang-ups.” Celebrate Recovery provides a safe environment for real life change in Jesus Christ as participants work through specific biblically-based recovery principles and steps in the context of Christian community. We recognize the truth that we need each other to grow personally and spiritually.
Celebrate Recovery’s curriculum takes participants through The 8 Recovery Principles, which are based on the Beatitudes. Celebrate Recovery ministers through the traditional means of grace – worship, Bible study, prayer, personal testimony and fellowship. It incorporates many features of the well-known 12 Step recovery programs, including weekly meetings, sharing our stories, small groups, one-on-one Sponsorship and team Accountability Partners, taking a searching and fearless Moral Inventory and sharing it with one’s Sponsor, and Making Amends for wrongs done in the past. However, it goes far beyond any secular recovery program by explicitly naming the Lord Jesus Christ as the one and only Higher Power, and by encouraging Forgiveness for the wrongs done to us.
The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to fellowship together and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through The 12 Steps and The 8 Recovery Principles. This experience allows us to "be changed."
We open the door by sharing our experience, strength and hope with one another. We become willing to place our trust in God's grace for solving our problems, and God graciously gives us everything we need to find victory over our struggles with abuse, anger, grief, alcohol, drugs, depression, guilt and shame, financial loss, divorce, dysfunctional families, sexual problems, eating disorders, and much more!
Yes, we can actually Celebrate our Recovery from life's Hurts, Habits and Hang-ups!
By working through and applying these Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We become free from our destructive, addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. As we progress through this program, we discover our personal, loving and forgiving “Higher Power” – the Lord Jesus Christ – the One and Only Higher Power. Celebrate Recovery is expressly and unabashedly Christian and Trinitarian.
Celebrate Recovery was created in 1991 by Pastors Rick Warren and John Baker at Saddleback Church in California. Over 8,500 people have gone through Celebrate Recovery at Saddleback Church, addressing many of life’s “hurts, habits and hang-ups.” It is currently being used in over 5,000 churches nationwide and internationally.
For more information on the national Celebrate Recovery ministry, go to www.celebraterecovery.com. However, everything you need to know about Celebrate Recovery for your own personal recovery, and for your own decision to attend Celebrate Recovery, is set forth on our website.
If all of your efforts to find comfort and freedom from pain in this life have in fact led to more pain and emptiness, perhaps it is time to try something different. Please join us as together we pursue real life in Jesus Christ and Celebrate the Recovery that only He can bring to His people through His Word.
