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The Seven Keys of Celebrate Recovery: Key 3 – Senior Pastor’s Support
The third key for growth of your Celebrate Recovery ministry is Senior Pastor support. I can’t emphasise enough the importance of this key. When we launched Celebrate Recovery here in Derby in 1998, our pastor was on board from the start, in fact his video is still...
A Church Leader’s View of Celebrate Recovery
As a church leader, I've seen the powerful impact of Celebrate Recovery in our congregation transforming countless lives and our church culture. It's all too common to feel you're the only one who struggles. So just by running such a group, we signal loud and clear...
The Seven Keys of Celebrate Recovery: Key 2 – Leadership Training
Leadership stands as a cornerstone of all that we do; it is also a skill that requires continuous refinement and development, which is why leadership training is the second key of a successful Celebrate Recovery group. Leadership training plays a pivotal role in the...
May is Mental Health Awareness month
Statistics show that the number of people struggling with mental health has sadly increased over the last few years – with one in four adults, and one in ten children, being diagnosed in the UK – and we all probably know others who don’t feel able to seek help....
The Seven Keys of Celebrate Recovery: Key 1 – Worship
The large group worship time at Celebrate Recovery is the first Key or, as we see in the leader's guide, the first pillar of a strong and vibrant Celebrate Recovery group. Worship points us to JESUS and clearly sets us apart from other recovery groups. At its core,...
Amazing Grace Testimonies
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch; like me!I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. I love testimonies! I love hearing what a wonderful God we have – loving, seeking, forgiving, full of amazing grace. I...
A Round up of 2023
Dear all, Once again, Christmas celebrations are here and as 2023 ends it's good to look back to see all that we have achieved this year. As I have said many times, Christmas is one of my favourite times as it brings me back to the realisation of what Jesus did...
Reflections on the UK Conference
What is it that makes attending Celebrate Recovery events, in the US and in the UK, worthwhile? I asked a couple of the guys who came to October’s Celebrate Recovery UK Conference what they felt they got out of the day. Pete is an Open Share Group leader. It was...
2023 Conference
We read in the book of Hebrews 10:24-25 these words “Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works, and let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do, but encourage one another” Meeting together and encouraging one...
My Identity In Christ – A Poem
In Principle 5, I realised my character defect of allowing my thinking and behaviours to be controlled by what others thought of me (or what I was mind reading them to think of me). This led to basing my belief system on wrong beliefs which developed into depression...