"Celebrate Recovery"
Every Friday
Evening
at the First United
Methodist Church of Stuart
- Dinner: 6:00pm (Adults $5,
Kids* $2)
- *Childcare is available with
reservation from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm for infants thru 5 years
old - 772-287-6262
- Worship: 7:00pm - Featuring Praise Band 'Dayenu'
- Small Group Meetings: 8:00pm
- Solid Rock Cafe: 9:00pm
What Is Celebrate Recovery?
The purpose
of Celebrate Recovery is to encourage fellowship and to
celebrate God's healing power in our lives as we work our way
along the road to recovery.
By working
through the 12 Steps and 8 Principles of Celebrate Recovery, we
grow spiritually and we are freed from our hurts, habits and
hang-ups. Thus, freedom creates peace, serenity, joy and most
important, a strong relationship with others and with our
personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power, Jesus Christ.
This is
achieved through praise, worship, informative lessons, personal
testimonies, fellowship and small groups.
Worship
Service: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Meets
after dinner fellowship time
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All
women and men participants meet together
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We
meet 52 weeks a year...No Matter What!
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No
obligation to share
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Worship, readings and announcements
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Teaching, testimony, special guest speakers
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Close
with Serenity Prayer and offering
-
8:00pm
- Dismiss to Small Group meetings (women meet in the church
conference room, men meet in the church choir room)
Small
Group Meeting: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
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Recovery issue specific
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Meets
52 weeks a year
-
Gender
based
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Meeting is always open to new comers
-
Group
guidelines facilitated
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Sharing is on focus topic question
-
Meet
Accountability Partners
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Find a
Recovery Sponsor
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Acknowledge sobriety with sobriety chips
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Encourages further working of the 12 Steps
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Dismiss at 9:00pm to fellowship time at the cafe
Things to Know:
- What brought you here did
not happen overnight; unfortunately it won't go away
overnight. Recovery from your hurts, habits and hang-ups is
going to take some work on your part. But remember, you
don't have to do it alone.
- Healing begins by applying
the Principles found in the 12 steps of
recovery...Surrender, Hope, Commitment, Honesty, Truth,
Willingness, Humility, Reflection, Confession, Restitution,
Prayer, Meditation and Service.
- Celebrate Recovery is for
anyone - no matter where you are in your walk with God
(seeker, non-believer or a believer in Christ). Feel free to
ask questions.
- Celebrate Recovery is for
the whole family, everyone is invited to attend.
- We find it helpful to
supplement our Friday night attendance with our other
recovery meetings, care groups, church and/or a Step Study
Group.
- Remember to H.A.L.T.! - Be
careful not to get to Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired.
Things to Do:
- Attend a Small Group meeting
next week and get connected
- Stay after the Small Group
for fellowship at the Cafe
- Start looking for an
Accountability Partner or Sponsor to assist you on your
journey
- Visit the
Literature/Resource Table
- Attend the dinner before the
Worship Service on Friday nights
- Jump in and serve as soon as
you can...Greeting, dinner team, etc
- Come back at least 6-7 times
before you make a decision if Celebrate Recovery is for you
Things to Read/Listen to:
- Read your Friday night
bulletin to see what is going on
- Purchase a recovery Bible,
Participants Guide & Journal as soon as you are able
- Pick up some literature you,
YOUR area of recovery and start studying it
- Read about what a Sponsor
and/or Accountability Partner is.
- Check out and visit the
Celebrate Recovery meeting list - the official website is
www.celebraterecovery.com
Things to Do Daily:
- Pray to God in the morning
and ask for His Guidance throughout the day
- Read Good literature. The
Holy Bible, Recovery books, become informed, gain hope and
be inspired
- Connect with someone in
recovery
- Go to a meeting, small
group, church
- Pray in the evening and
thank God for helping you with your recovery
Prayer for
Serenity
God grant me the
serenity
to accept the
things I cannot change:
courage to change
the things I can;
and wisdom to know
the difference.
Living one day at
a time;
Enjoying one
moment at a time;
Accepting
hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as Jesus
did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I
would have it;
Trusting that He
will make all things right
if I surrender to
His Will;
That I may be
reasonably happy in this life
and supremely
happy with Him
Forever in the
next.
Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
The Road to Recovery
Eight Recovery Principles based on the Beatitudes
by Pastor Rick Warren
- 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
God, to myself, 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 readings 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"
All scripture quoted from the New International
Version.
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