Celebrate Recovery exists to see real people, completely in love with God, gain freedom from past hurt, pain, and addiction of any kind, coming into right relationship with God and others.
What is Celebrate Recovery?
Celebrate Recovery is a Christian Bible-based recovery program that helps individuals find freedom from hurts, hang-ups and habits. Only 1 in 3 attend Celebrate Recovery for substance abuse. Many are finding freedom from life’s struggles such as anxiety, perfectionism, food issues, depression, betrayal trauma, pornography, addiction and childhood abuse.
Who Can Benefit from Celebrate Recovery?
Everyone. We all need recovery from something. Why? Because everyone is broken, for “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Celebrate Recovery is for anyone struggling with current or past hurt, pain or addiction of any kind. Whether our brokenness is emotional, spiritual, financial, sexual, or in any other area of our lives, Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling your life.
What can I expect at the Celebrate Recovery meeting?
Friday meetings offer worship and either a teaching or a testimony from an individual whose life has been transformed through this ministry. The first hour is called “Large Group” where both male and females are gathered together. In the second hour, attendees break out into gender specific, issue-focused “Open Share Groups”. This is a welcoming space where each person is given a brief time to share without interruption. Each group has trained leaders to facilitate and sharing is voluntary. This share time is very valuable as it is a confidential, non-judgmental place to share among others who are working on their own recovery from hurts, habits and hang ups. The sharing helps participants process and receive love and support (through listening and not fixing) from others in the group.
REAL STORIES
History of Celebrate Recovery Brea
Weekly Schedule & Locations:
EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT
Meeting: 7-9 PM Signage and Greeters will direct you.
Fellowship @ Crosstalk Cafe: 9-9:30 PM
Free childcare available for all ages.
Monday Night Grace Group 7pm-9pm in Room 2
Support Group for family members and their loved ones dealing with Mental Health issues, providing Biblical encouragement, practical tools, support and hope in Jesus Christ.
Midweek Celebrate Recovery Step Study Groups
This step study small group is a gender specific group, committed to a year long, weekly small group, working the 12 steps of recovery, delving deeper into their past and the choices they have made. This is where participants will see real, lasting changes start to happen and develop into truly devoted followers of Jesus Christ. Email Deannak@thecause.cc for more info.
TWELVE STEPS & BIBLICAL COMPARISONS
We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors. That our lives had become unmanageable. “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
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. “For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.” Philippians 2:13
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship.” Romans 12:1
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. “Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.” Lamentations 3:40
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs. “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” James 5:16a
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.” James 4:10
Humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Luke 6:31
Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. “So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” 1 Corinthians 10:12
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out. “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.” Colossians 3:16a
Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and practice these principles in all our affairs. “Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.” Galatians 6:1
8 RECOVERY PRINCIPLES
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.” Matthew 5:3EARNESTLY 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 5:4CONSCIOUSLY choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care.
“Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5OPENLY examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.
“Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8VOLUNTARILY 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 5:6EVALUATE 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.” Matthew 5:7RESERVE a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and gain the power to follow His will.
“Happy are the peacemakers.” Matthew 5:9YIELD 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 5:8
PRAYER FOR SERENITY
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and 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 Niebuhr