• Adult Children of Family dysfunction

• Anger

• Co-dependent women in relationships with sexually addicted men

• Eating disorders/food addictions

• Financial recover

• Love and relationship addiction - women

• Sexual/physical/emotional abuse

• Sexual addiction

• Spiritual abuse

Celebrate Recovery is going to take an intermission for the summer. We will be re-evaluating the group in the fall.  We have learned so much and I feel that CR has taught us more about the unconditional love of God in a very short time than many programs of which I have been part.  I would like to thank Bev Warfel, Donna Roper, and Rosie O'connor for all their labors of love which made the program successful.  Nancy Mcmillen, you were a late surprise but a blessing just as well.  Have a healthy summer, don't forget to attend you AA or Alanon meeting. Let me know if you are interested in doing this again in the fall.  A grateful believer in Jesus Christ, Marge Kennedy.

Celebrate Recovery (CR) is a phenomenally simple, yet totally life-changing program for recovering from the pain of life's hurts, habits, and hang-ups.  There is not a person who doesn't fit into one of these three categories.  As one person put it; "if you are alive, you are either in CR or you are in denial".

There is one key to CR's success: Relationships.  We were created by God to be in relationship.  The relationships and behaviors in our lives are dictated by our relationship with Jesus.  We can not have healthy relationships as long as we're living with the consequences of life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

Recovery best takes place in the context of a safe, supportive small group setting.  Celebrate Recovery is a Christ centered 12-step program.  It is only by surrendering to the power of Jesus Christ and applying the eight principles of CR in our lives along with the loving support of relationships with others who can encourage and hold us accountable that we can become free of the prison of our hearts and minds.

1. 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 can not carry it out. (Romans 7:18)

2. We 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)

3. We 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 sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship.  (Romans 12:1)

4. We 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)

5. We admit 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)

6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humble yourself before the Lord and He will lift you up.  (James 4:10)

7. 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.  (I John 1:9)

8. We 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 6:311)

9. We 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 alter and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the alter.  First go and be reconciled to your brother, then come and offer your gift.  (Matthew 5:23-24)

10. We continue 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.  (I Corinthians 10:12)

11. We 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 your richly.  (Galatians 3:16)

12. Having had a spiritual experience as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to 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 yourself may be tempted.  (Galatians 6:1)