Your senior pastor's support of your recovery program makes it acceptable for someone to be in recovery. If you want your recovery program to be respected and supported by the church as a whole, it needs to be and act as a regular ministry of the church, not as something separate. Your recovery program needs to be out in the open, a regular place where people in recovery can join together, fellowship with one another, and get God's answer on how to overcome their struggles by His power. With Celebrate Recovery, you'll learn how to focus every fellowship event to help members develop healthy relationships that will grow into a support team of sponsors and accountability partners. Built around individual needs and recovery issues, new groups act like blood transfusions in your recovery ministry.
People gain a sense of excitement and enthusiasm when a new group starts.
However, there are pitfalls to be avoided. Learn how to build healthy small groups that encourage and support people instead of putting them in dangerous situations. Celebrate Recovery provides a safe place for them to begin their journey of stepping out of their denial and into God's grace, as well as helping them to start dealing with their life's hurts, habits and hang-ups. The right curriculum is so important. It gives everyone an opportunity to put aside the busyness and hassles of the world and get in touch with the true Higher Power, Jesus Christ.