Celebrate Recovery

A Christian 12-step program for hurts, habits and hang-ups

Meeting at Grace every Thursday evening in the Cornerstone Building, third floor
Large Group session and Open Share small groups, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Join us for a meal before at 6:30 pm (donation appreciated, but not required)
Stay for fellowship after, at Holy Grounds Café

The purpose of Grace Covenant’s Celebrate Recovery program is to fellowship and celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through eight recovery principles and the Christ-centered 12 steps. This experience allows us to be changed. We open the door 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. By working the steps and applying their Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We 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 principles, we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power-Jesus Christ.

Celebrate Recovery at Grace Covenant Church will begin with worship time and will be followed by small group meetings that will lead you through the 12 steps of recovery and 8 recovery principles, based on the Beatitudes.

These small groups can:

Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths and hopes with others who are going through the steps and principles in a Christ-centered recovery.
Provide a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up or habit that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular step each week.
Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner or sponsor.
Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week, if available.

Small Groups will not:

Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counselors. We will provide you with a list of approved counseling referrals.
Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.
Be a quick fix.
Be a place to judge others.
Be a place for perfection.

12 Steps Based on Biblical Principles:

We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors and our lives had become unmanageable. (Romans 7:18)
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (Philippians 2:13)
Made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God. (Romans 12:1)
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. (Lamentations 3:40)
Admitted to God, to ourselves and another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. (James 5:16)
Were entirely ready to have God remove all our shortcomings. (James 4:10)
Humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. (1 John 1:9)
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. (Luke 6:31)
Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. (Matthew 5:23-24)
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. (1 Corinthians 10:12)
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry that out. (Colossians 3:16)
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs. (Galatians 6:1)

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