OPEN MEETING
EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-Centered 12-step program that recognizes Jesus Christ as our Higher Power. We recognize that the 12-steps are biblical; that they provide the framework for our daily walk with God and that they are a necessary part of His resurrection and ongoing healing of our lives.
We recognize that recovery is very fragile and an ongoing journey; we strive to be effective leaders and role models by dealing with our own recoveries with vigilance and open honesty. Our goal is to serve all that come to Celebrate Recovery with the love of Jesus Christ. We want to come alongside you and share from our healing experiences so that you can do likewise. We believe that this is an act of serving one another, thus fulfilling the Word of God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-7)
The purposes of Royal City Christian Life Centre’s Celebrate Recovery ministry is to fellowship and celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through the “8 recovery principles.” This experience allows us to “be changed.” By working and applying these Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We can 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.
Celebrate Recovery give people a safe place to talk, listen and learn - Learn that we are not along in our struggles; learn that others do care, and are willing to walk along side of us as we open up in group sharing.
Groups are gender-specific, men and women meeting in small groups separately, after meeting together for a recovery related teaching, or testimony from someone already walking out their own recovery.
CELEBRATE RECOVERY SMALL GROUPS CAN:
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Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths and hopes with others who are going through the “Principles” in a Christ-Centered recovery.
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Provide you a leader who has gone through similar hurt, hang-up, or habit that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular step each week.
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Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner and/or sponsor.
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Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week, if available.
CELEBRATE RECOVERY SMALL GROUPS WILL NOT:
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Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counselors. We will provide you with a list of approved counselor referrals
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Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.
Prayer for Serenity
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it;
Trusting that You will make all things right
If I surrender to Your will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You
Forever in the next.
AMEN.
Reinhold Niebuhr