Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered recovery program designed to help men and women address a variety of hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Our Thursday evening format will include worship, teaching and personal recovery testimonies, small group interaction and fellowship. Celebrate Recovery will provide a safe environment for real life change in Jesus Christ, as participants personally work through specific biblically-based recovery steps in the context of Christian community. We recognize the truth that we need each other to grow personally and spiritually.

Large group will start at 6:00 PM. Small share groups at 7:00 PM. Coffee, snacks, fellowship at 8:00 PM.

The purpose of Sloan’s Lake Community Church’s Celebrate Recovery is to fellowship and celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through the eight recovery principles found in the Beatitudes and Christ-centered twelve steps. By sharing our experience, strengths, and hopes with one another we grow in our spirituality. We become free from our addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors, and can overcome our pain with the fellowship of others and God’s grace. This freedom gives us peace, serenity, joy and most importantly, a stronger, personal relationship with our loving and forgiving Higher Power: Jesus Christ.

If you have an interest in volunteering to support this ministry, please contact 303-458-8186.

Recovery Principles

1) Realize I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. “Happy are those who know that they are spiritually poor.”

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.”

3) Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. “Happy are the meek.”

4 & 5) Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God and to someone I trust. “Happy are the pure in heart.”

6 & 7) Voluntarily submit to any and all changes 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”

8 & 9) Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others. ”Happy are the merciful” “Happy are the peacemakers”

10 & 11) Reserve a time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.

12) Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and my words. “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.”

Small Group Guidelines

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

2. There is NO cross talk. Cross talk is when two people 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. This keeps us focused on our own issues. We do not give advice or solve someone’s problem in our time of sharing or offer book or counselor referrals.

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

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