A Christ-Centered Recovery Program

Celebrate Recovery recognizes the importance of God's healing power in our lives.

Using the eight recovery principles found in the Beatitudes and Christ-centered 12 Steps, people have the opportunity to experience lasting change.

By sharing personal experiences strengths and hopes with each other, people learn how to accept God's grace in solving life's problems.

By working with Christ-centered steps and applying their biblical priciples we begin to grow spiritually.

We become free from our addictive, compulsive dysfunctional behaviors.

This freedom enables us to experience peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly a stronger personal relationship with God and others.

What is Celebrate Recovery

The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to encourage fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives as we work our way along the road of recovery.

By working through the principles, we grow spiritually and are freed from our Hurts, Habits, and Hang-Ups. Thus freedom creates peace, serenity, joy a strong relationship with others and our personal, loving and forgiving higher power, Jesus Christ.

This is achieved through praise, worship, informative lessons, personal testimonies, fellowship and small groups.

Celebrate Recovery is based on God's Word, the Bible.
Celebrate Recovery is forward looking.
Celebrate Recovery emphasizes personal responsibility.
Celebrate Recovery encourages spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ.
Celebrate Recovery utilizes the biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spritually and emotionally.
Celebrate Recovery addresses all types of hurts, habits, and hang-ups.
Celebrate Recovery encourages members to also attend secular (traditional) recovery meetings as an additional outreach opportunity.
Celebrate Recovery is not intended to be a substitute for church membership. We recommend everyone to be a part of a local church.

Finally, Celebrate Recovery can be added to any other recovery process or group that you are currently attending.

What is a Hurt, Habit, or Hang-Up?

A hurt, habit, or hang-up is something that hinders your walk with God. The proceeding lists are intended to be examples and are not all inclusive.

Hurt

The feeling of being hurt is an emotional reaction to another person's behavior or to a disturbing situation:

Loss, grief, illness, handicap, abuse trauma, fear, worry, anxiety, shame, low self-esteam, mental illness, depression, resentments, care giver burn out, abortion, adultery, homosexuality, divorce, cults, witchcraft, loneliness, stress, self-pity guilt, regret.

Habit

A habit is an addiction to someone or something;

Alcohol abuse, drug abuse, overeating.

Hang-Up

Hang-ups are negative mental attitudes that are used to cope with people or adversity;

Co-dependency, workaholic, sexual addiction, anger, rage, procrastination, compulsive exercising, spending debtors, lying, cursing, gossip, self-injury, self-centeredness, pride.

What Are The Eight Recovery Principles

R = Principle 1

Realize I'm not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.

"Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor"

E = Principle 2

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"

C = Principle 3

Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.

"Happy are the meek"

O = Principle 4

Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust.

"Happy are the pure in heart"

V = Principle 5

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"

E = Principle 6

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 the merciful" "Happy are the peacemakers"

R = Principle 7

Reserve a daily time with God for self examination, Bible readings and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.

Y = Principle 8

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"

Meetings

We meet every Thursday night in the Regency Room.

Abbotsford Christian Assembly

3970 Gladwin Rd, Abbotsford, BC

6:30pm-7:00pm Dinner
7:00pm-7:15pm Worship
7:15pm-8:00pm Main Meeting
8:00pm-9:00pm Small Group
9:00pm-9:30pm Cups of Hope Cafe Fellowship

For further information please visit the Celebrate Recovery website.

Please call or email the church if you have any questions. (604)859-2345