Tuesday nights from 6-8pm meal included

• Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths, and hopes with others that are also going through a Christ-centered recovery.

• Provide you with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up, or habit and who will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step each week.

• The leader will also follow Celebrate Recovery’s “Small Group Guidelines,” listed below.

• Provide you with the opportunity to find an Accountability Partner or a Sponsor.

 •Encourage

• Attempt to offer any professional advice. Our leaders are not counselors. At your request, we can provide you with a list of approved counseling referrals.

• Allow its members to attempt to “fix” one another.

Small Group Guidelines

1.Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Limit your sharing to 3–5 minutes.

2.There will be NO cross-talk. Cross-talk is when two individuals engage in conversation excluding all others. Each person is free to express his or her feelings without interruptions.

3.We are here to support one another, not “fix” one another.

4.Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group. The only exception is when someone threatens to injure themselves or others.

5.Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.

* Please be advised if anyone threatens to hurt themselves or others, their Small Group Leader has the responsibility to report it to a Celebrate Recovery Ministry Leader.

This group is for anyone who has ever thought they have a problem with drinking alcohol or using drugs. You may have tried to quit on your own and found some level of sobriety, but freedom from the compulsion to use your drug of choice has been elusive. At Celebrate Recovery, we know that a relationship with Jesus Christ as our Higher Power can set us free.

* Please be advised if anyone threatens to hurt themselves or others, their Small Group Leader has the responsibility to report it to a Celebrate Recovery Ministry Leader.

This group is for anyone struggling with the compulsion to rescue or take care of others, the compulsion to control or manipulate others, having difficulty setting boundaries, or recognizing their own worth. Members in this group learn to express their own needs and wants in a healthy way.

This group is for anyone who has endured past physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse. Recovery includes healing from the traumas done to us at some time in our past, as well as healing from the influence these past experiences continue to have on our lives.

This group is for anyone who grew up in a family or home where one or more caregivers struggled with addiction, compulsions, co-dependency or any other unhealthy behaviors. Recovery includes healing from the damaged emotions and belief systems from our childhood.

This group is for anyone who struggle with food and/or body issues that may result in compulsive behaviors such as overeating, binging and/or purging, starvation, excessive exercise, or obsession with food, looks, and/or body weight/size. Recovery includes transferring worship from food and body to God, and replacing lies and unhealthy distorted beliefs about God, food and body, with truth and healthy God-driven self-worth and esteem.

This group is for anyone who struggle with food and/or body issues that may result in compulsive behaviors such as overeating, binging and/or purging, starvation, excessive exercise, or obsession with food, looks, and/or body weight/size. Recovery includes transferring worship from food and body to God, and replacing lies and unhealthy distorted beliefs about God, food and body, with truth and healthy God-driven self-worth and esteem.

This group deals with Love and Relationship Addiction, and provides a safe place to deal with the depression, isolation, lack of trust, and the unhealthy use of love and relationships as a means of achieving worth.

Sexual addiction and its causes are largely unknown to most people.

This group not only provides support, but also helps women seek

an understanding of their own personal issues. Co-Dependents can

then confront their own denial and behavior while gaining insight and

understanding of their spouse’s sexual addiction.

These recovery groups are for men and women who find that anger is their

first response to problems of any size. The anger may be very evident as rage,

or less obvious in terms of withdrawal and isolation. These groups focus on

managing a God-given emotion in constructive ways.

Aquí los hombres tienen la oportunidad de compartir sus hábitos, heridas, y

complejos en su idioma natal.

WELCOME TO AN AMAZING SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE!

© Celebrate Recovery®

While you are at Celebrate Recovery, Celebration Place is a place where your children can make new friends, share ideas, play games, sing songs, create crafts, and watch videos and movies. Each week your children will learn the same lesson that you are learning in Celebrate Recovery. And most important of all, they’ll learn about God’s amazing love for them!

Celebration Place is truly a celebration—of the joy of life, the wonder of God’s love, and the promises of the future. Celebration Place is a structured program for children. The night begins with a time of connection that we call Free Play.

People were created for connection. Free play offers an opportunity for children to play together. Play is very important for children. It helps prepare them mentally and emotionally to learn in addition to building friendships

Every Celebration Place meeting includes a time of worship. We want to encourage children to connect with God. Praise and worship are just one way people can connect with God.

Children will experience sessions on topics such as denial, powerlessness, forgiveness, mercy, grace, and more--at their age level.

Every lesson has three centers that help reinforce what is being taught. These centers include things like games, crafts, object lessons, and snacks. They are a lot of fun and give children a way to connect with each other.

We have small group time before and after our centers. This is a time for the children to talk about the lessons, to ask questions, and share what they learned. It also gives the children a safe place to come out of their shells and talk about whatever is going on in their lives.

1. We talk about our own thoughts and feelings, not about other people. When it’s our turn, we only talk for a few minutes.

2. We talk to the whole group, and not just one person.

3. When others talk, we listen quietly without interruption

4. We don’t talk outside the group about what others say, unless we’re worried that people might hurt themselves and others.

5. We never use mean words or put-downs at Celebration Place

During small groups, children use their Celebration Place Journals to get in touch with their feelings and record their thoughts. This unique aspect of the journal opens the door to healing communication by teaching children to talk to each other, talk to God, and talk to their parents.

Children bring home a discussion sheet so that the parents can talk with them about the week’s topic and healthy choices can be reinforced. The unique approach initiates positive, fun, faith-filled conversations between children and parents that let them practice open communication and sharing in ways they may never have experienced before.

The main points of the lesson are reviewed as a final reminder of the recovery themes taught. Children end the night in prayer by reading together a child version of the Serenity Prayer.

God, help me accept the things I can’t change;

Give me the courage to change the things I can;

And give me the wisdom to know the difference.

Amen

Sometimes the hurts, hang-ups and habits that children struggle with go

unnoticed. That’s why Celebration Place is so important. It’s a place where

children ages K-5th grade can discover their own pathway to healing.

With structure, love, discipline, and guidance, we hope to help children

to develop life skills that will be vital in their times of struggle and daily

life. Celebration Place is designed to equip children with practical coping

techniques, strategies, and values to prevent the development of unhealthy

coping mechanisms. We like to think of it as “PREcovery.”

• Hope for all the amazing things God has in store for them

• Truths that help them overcome life’s challenges by learning to lean

on Jesus

• Joy as they embark on a wonderful, year-long journey of songs, games,

videos, impactful experiences, and great conversation

• Friendships with other children

© Celebrate Recovery®

The Landing is Celebrate Recovery’s student ministry geared towards Jr. High and High School students. The lessons and content we walk through in the Landing are designed to mirror the same life-changing material as the adult Celebrate Recovery program – the difference is the Landing is packaged for students. The Landing exists to provide a safe place for our students to process life and the struggles that accompany it, provide tools to help them live emotionally and spiritually healthy lives, and point them towards the freedom found in Jesus Christ. Through this journey we come to realize that our struggles matter, we do not have to face them alone, and our True Higher Power, Jesus Christ, offers us a better way forward that leads to lasting healing, hope, and freedom.

A typical night in the Landing will consist of:

This time serves to create connection between our students and leaders and builds friendships and connection. This normally involves some sort of game or activity.

Oftentimes our lives are filled with distractions and obligations that keep us from slowing down and focusing on what God is doing. A time of worship gives us all an opportunity to connect with and rest in God.

Our Landing leaders will present biblical truths and recovery principles to us in a way that we can engage with, participate in, and apply to our lives.

The Landing uses the same five Small Group Guidelines that adult CR uses in Open Share groups and walks through a series of questions that pertain to that night’s teaching time. Small Group gives the students a time to process and personalize the recovery principles they are learning.

This time serves as a place for students and leaders to connect, build relationships, and continue processing the lesson after the service.

No matter who we are, we all have struggles and pain that can keep us from living the abundant life that Jesus promised us. Thankfully, true healing can come when we connect ourselves to the hope of Jesus and a safe community of people who are willing to love us and walk with us. Our small groups play a huge part in fostering that connection. Every week, in the Landing, we will have a time for small group sharing separated by gender. This time is essential to allow us to process through our struggles and hurts, and gives us a chance to connect what we’re going through to the truths we learn here. These groups are an incredible place to find connection, hope, healing, and encouragement, but that can only happen if they are truly safe. In order to ensure these groups are productive and safe, we use these same five Small Group Guidelines each and every week:

1. Focus on your own thoughts and feelings when sharing in the group. Limit your sharing to three to five minutes.

2. Please avoid all cross talk. Cross talk is when two individuals engage in conversation excluding all others. Each person is free to express their feelings without interruptions.

3. We are here to support one another, we will not attempt to “fix” one another.

4. Anonymity and Confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in group will stay in group. The only exception is when someone threatens to harm themselves or others, or any case of abuse.

5. Avoid offensive language; it has no place in a Christ-centered group.

Through the Landing, we can find a safe place to find help, hope, and healing

through engaging the recovery principles and growing in relationship with

Jesus Christ. This ministry allows our students the ability to start changing

our lives early, so they don’t have to walk through more pain later in life

and not have a way to grow through it. This program changes lives and can

change yours, too. There is no hurt, no struggle, no lie that is too strong for

Jesus to carry and heal. The Landing helps us to find a better way forward so

that we can live, through Jesus, a life of lasting freedom, hope, and purpose.

© Celebrate Recovery®