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Introducing Celebrate Recovery

This page provides information for UK churches. It contains helpful UK videos and presentations to introduce CR to your team and church and ensure your CR group is a safe and authentic one.

Thank you for enquiring about Celebrate Recovery.

We hope Introducing Celebrate Recovery – a pack for UK churches will be of great help to you. This page contains presentations and videos designed by the UK Team to help you introduce the Celebrate Recovery programme to your church.

Please note that the contents of this page is only intended for the person in receipt of the page. Please do not share the page or password with others. 

Presentation 1: Introducing Celebrate Recovery

There are three differing lengths of presentation you could use depending on your audience:

A stand-alone 5 minute video

 “Whiteboard Introduction to Celebrate Recovery”

A 15-minute presentation

With script, handout, PowerPoint presentation and videos

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A 30-minute presentation

With script, the same handout, PowerPoint presentation and videos

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Supporting Videos for Presentation 1

These two videos support both Presentation 1 and Presentation 3

Presentation 2: Setting Up Celebrate Recovery at Your Church

With script, handout, and PowerPoint presentation

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Presentation 3: Weekly General Meeting Nights

With script, handout, PowerPoint presentation and videos

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Supporting Videos for Presentation 3

If you decide you’d like to run a Celebrate Recovery programme, Presentations 2 and 3 will help your Celebrate Recovery team understand how to prepare to launch a programme and what the meetings look like.

We hope this will help you to establish a Celebrate Recovery group in line with the DNA set out by Saddleback Church – a format that works! Celebrate Recovery is a wonderful programme offering support to many who are now growing in their relationship with Jesus Christ and finding freedom from their hurts, hang-ups and habits.

We would be delighted to support you on this journey. Please keep in touch!
Every blessing,

Further Information

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Being a Celebrate Recovery ambassador

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...
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Understanding the 5 Small Group Guidelines: Guideline 2

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...
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20 Years of Celebrate Recovery – 20 Things I Love

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...
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CR UK Conferences 2025

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...
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27 Years of Healing: My Journey with Celebrate Recovery

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...
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Understanding the 5 Small Group Guidelines: Guideline 1

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...
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Why attend a Celebrate Recovery conference?

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...
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Writing a Testimony

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...
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The Seven Keys of Celebrate Recovery: Key 7 – Outreach

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...
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The Edinburgh Conference

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...
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