UK Celebrate Recovery Groups

In January, I attended my first Celebrate Recovery (CR) ambassador meeting online. It was so encouraging to see people across the country joining, and to see how CR is so much bigger than the group in my little corner of the UK. At the meeting we discussed how we can...

At Celebrate Recovery we read the five guidelines during the open share group time every week.  Guideline 2 states: There is no cross-talk. Cross-talk is when two individuals engage in conversations excluding all others. Each person is free to express his or her...

This autumn, my Celebrate Recovery (CR) group at Jesmond Parish Church in Newcastle marked 20 years of God’s faithfulness. I’ve had the privilege of leading CR all of those years. Reflecting on this milestone was emotional – through every challenge, God’s...

Hebrews 10:24-25 tells us to “consider how to stir up one another to love and good works… encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near”… and that includes the CR UK Conferences! During 2025, the Celebrate Recovery UK team wanted to provide...

When I started our first Celebrate Recovery meeting 27 years ago, I didn’t know what to expect Celebrate Recovery wasn’t known back then as it is today. We were just a small group of people, meeting weekly, trying to find freedom through Christ and the 8 Principles...

Guideline 1 states: Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings, using ‘I’ and ‘Me’ statements. Limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes. This is the basic guideline which is extended in the following way:Using ‘I’ and ‘Me’ statements keeps us focussed on our...

Hello, my name is Alison; I am a Grateful Believer in Jesus Christ; in recovery from addiction, my outlets were sugar and alcohol. I have been on team since Celebrate Recovery started at my church in Birmingham in 2022. I took over as ministry lead in 2025. I attended...

Hi, I’m Claire, a Christian in Recovery from anxiety, which for me looks like: fear of what people think, fear of authority figures, fear of doing the wrong thing, fear of letting people down – a lot of fear – not always the stand frozen, rabbit in the headlights kind...

Outreach for Celebrate Recovery is a vital aspect of maintaining our own recoveries; it’s also about growing the programme and reaching those who are struggling with hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Step 12 and principle 8 tells us. Step 12 Having had a spiritual...

We love a good conference!  And our visit to Edinburgh did not disappoint. As well as the most gorgeous weather (I think even the locals were surprised!), in a stunning part of the UK, our day at Tron Kirk, Gilmerton and Moredun was very uplifting. We are immensely...