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Celebrate Recovery

It’s Purpose

The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to develop relationships with other and to experience God’s healing power in our lives through the “12 steps” and “8 Principles” of recovery. We are changed through this experience. We begin by sharing our experience, strengths and hope with others. Further, we become willing to accept God’s grace in solving out life’s problems.

As we work to understand and apply the Biblical principles that direct the Celebrate Recovery program, we begin to grow spiritually. We recognize our own dysfunctional, compulsive and addictive behaviors, and become free from them. This freedom creates a peace from within, serenity, joy, and foster stronger personal relationships with God and others.

Welcome to an Amazing Spiritual Adventure.

“I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out”-Romans 7:18

Who Benefits

Quite simply, anyone whose life has become unmanageable will benefit from this ministry, Some of the hurts, hang-ups, habits, and life circumstances that are represented in our meetings include:

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Alcoholism

Anger and Rage

Codependency

Compulsive Control of Others

Divorce Care

Drug Addictions

Grief Care

Pornography

Sex and Lust

Uncontrolled Spending

Tobacco Use

Even if you did not see yourself in the list above, if you are finding it difficult to maintain a meaningful relationship with God, others or yourself, consider attending Celebrate Recovery.

Come and join a family of believers who, like you desire a positive life change, to become free from the burdens of sin and pain, and intentionally live the life God has intended for us.

“For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose” - Philippians 2:13

Points to Ponder…

Many in Celebrate Recovery have come to discover that sobriety is not the goal. Sobriety is a tool. The goal is to be usable by God. Our obligation is to prepare ourselves for His service, so He can use us to interact with other people in a positive and meaningful way. Lack if sobriety prevents that.

We trust in the one and Only living God as our Savior and Hope. With Him all things are possible. He will deliver us from our pain and compulsive behaviors, and addictions if we surrender completely to Him.

The 12-step study groups are where the work of looking at out past, facing consequences, embracing forgiveness, and engaging in the ongoing process of spiritual renewal happens. Restoration and recovery will occur through the process of self discovery and the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

On behalf of everyone in Imani Temple of Temecula Christian Community Center Church Of God In Christ Celebrate Recovery Ministry, we encourage you to accept our invitation to attend the next meeting. Until then, we bid you the peace & love of the Lord Jesus Christ and wish you well.

Things we are…

A safe place to share

A refuge

A place of belonging

A place of care for others and be cared for

A place where respect is given to each member

A place where confidentiality is highly regarded

A place to demonstrate genuine love

A place to grow and become strong again

A place for progress

A place where you can take off your mask and allow others to know who you are

A place for healthy challenges and risk

A possible turning point in your life

 

Things we are not…

A place for selfish control

Therapy

A place to look for dating relationships

A place to rescue or be rescued by others

A place for perfection

A long-term commitment

A place to judge others

A quick fix

 

 

The Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the Serenity to accept

The things I cannot change. 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 the 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; That I

may be reasonably happy in this life, and

supremely happy with You forever in the

next. –Amen                    Reinhold Neibuhr – 1926

 

“Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will lift you up” – James 4:19