Celebrate Recovery
WHAT AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered program that helps us deal with life’s “hurts, habits and hang-ups.” The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through the eight recovery principles found in the Beatitudes and the Christ-centered 12-steps.
We open the door to healing by sharing our experiences, strengths and hopes with one another. In addition, we become willing to accept God’s grace in solving our life problems. The result… life-change!
So please, come join us for this incredible journey. We look forward to meeting you.
Gabe & Shawnine Franco
Celebrate Recovery Directors
(760) 835-3700
WHAT TO EXPECT
Large Group Meeting
Mondays, 7-8 pm
We enjoy a contemporary worship experience and are challenged by a teaching from one of the 12 steps or hear a personal testimony of a life changed by applying these principles.
Open Share Groups
Mondays, 8-9 pm
Immediately following the Large Group Meeting, we divide into groups according to general recovery issues and by gender. This is a time to share your experiences and feelings in a safe environment.
Open Share Group Guidelines
1. Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
2. There is no cross talk. Cross talk is when two people engage in conversation excluding all others.
3. We are here to support one another, not “fix” one another. This keeps us focused on our own issues.
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.
5. Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group. This includes no graphic descriptions.
Step Study Groups
A Step Study is a personal journey though each of the 12 steps in a confidential group. Step study groups meet throughout the week. When you finish the study, you will have worked your hurts, habits, and hang-ups through each of the steps.
Childcare
Childcare is provided on Mondays from 7pm – 9pm for the Large Group Meeting & Open Share Groups.
ROAD TO RECOVERY
8 PRINCIPLES BASED ON THE BEATITUDES
Realize I AM 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 they are spiritually poor. MATTHEW 5:3a
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 5:8a
Voluntarily submit to every change 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 5:6a
Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others.
Happy are those who are merciful to others. MATTHEW 5:7a
Happy are those who work for peace. 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 by my words.
Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires! MATTHEW 5:10
