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Celebrate Recovery Contact: Kyle Gatlin | kyle@covenantdothan.org

Start your recovery here.
Freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.


Thursdays @ 6 pm

6 pm- Large Group Worship (Fellowship Hall)
6:45 pm- Dinner and Fellowship
7:15 pm- Small Groups (Gender and problem specific)
8 pm- Solid Rock Cafe (desserts and fellowship in the Oasis- C210)

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ centered recovery program for everyone who struggles with a hurt, habit, or hang-up. Based on the 8 recovery principles borrowed from the Beatitudes, participants are taken through a process of restoring their relationship with God, themselves and others.

Happiness and healing are yours for the choosing. We've all been hurt by others. We've all hurt others. We've all hurt ourselves. As a result of bad choices, everyone ends up with some sort of hurt, habit or hang-up. Celebrate Recovery helps every hurt, habit and hang-up in life: Alcoholism, divorce recovery, sexual abuse, codependency, domestic violence, drug addiction, sexual addiction, food addiction, gambling addiction and anger. Click here to learn more.

By working and applying the 8 Biblical Principles and the 12 Steps, you’ll begin to grow spiritually. You can become free from addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others. As we progress through the program we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power - Jesus Christ.

NEWS:

CR Step Study for Ladies (Begins September 8)
Wednesdays from 6-8 pm
Facilitated by Sherry Schulmerich, Sharon Davis, Teresa Gibson

CR Step Study for Men (Begins September 8)
Wednesdays from 6-8 pm
Facilitated by Eric Davis & Rob Gibson

CR Bibles for newcomers
If you would like to donate money toward the purchase of CR Bibles, please contact Kyle Gatlin at 793.4440.

Have you ever hurt in life? Anxiety? Depression? Divorce? Anger? Addiction?
Contact one of our small group leaders at Celebrate Recovery:

Chemical Addiction Male Leader: Eric Davis at 790-4695
Chemical Addiction Female Leader: Sharon Saliba at 798-9459
Life Issues Male Leader: Rob Gibson at 798-0962
Life Issues Female Leader: Sherry Schulmerich at 790-4591

As leaders in CR, we are on a journey of healing from many hurts, hang-ups, and habits through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. We would like for you to join us on the Road to Recovery! Contact us today to begin your journey of healing. *If you would like to help as a volunteer with this ministry, contact Kyle Gatlin at 793.4440.



Recovery Principles, based on the Beatitudes

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."

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."

Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control. "Happy are the meek."

Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart."

Voluntarily 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."

Evaluate 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. Happy are the peacemakers."

Reserve a daily 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.

Yield 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."

The Twelve Steps

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behavior, 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

2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore to 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 lives and our wills 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

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 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 5:16

6. We 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

7. We 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." 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 6:31

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 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

10. We 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

11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will and power to carry that out. "Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly" Colossians 3:16

12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs. "Brothers, if some one is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you may also be tempted." Galatians 6:1

 

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