What is Celebrate Recovery (CR)?
Celebrate Recovery is a biblical and balanced program that helps people overcome their hurts, habits, and hang-ups. It started in 1991 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. It was designed as a program to help those struggling with hurts, habits and hang-ups by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ. Celebrate Recovery is now in over 20,000 churches worldwide and has served millions seeking change in their lives.
No matter if you struggle with grief, loss, addiction, legalism, codependency, or the pain of broken relationships, Celebrate Recovery is for you. CR is a vehicle to engage and walk with the Gospel in your life in an intentional way while becoming part of a community that will walk the path with you. You are invited to come join us—and we hope you'll let us know you're interested in attending by filling out the form below. CR is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that may be controlling your life.
No matter if you struggle with grief, loss, addiction, legalism, codependency, or the pain of broken relationships, Celebrate Recovery is for you. CR is a vehicle to engage and walk with the Gospel in your life in an intentional way while becoming part of a community that will walk the path with you. You are invited to come join us—and we hope you'll let us know you're interested in attending by filling out the form below. CR is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that may be controlling your life.
Friday Evenings:
7:00 - 8:00 pm - Large Group Worship & Lesson
8:00 - 9:00 pm - Small Group Break-Outs (gender-specific)
(First Friday of each month 6:00 - 7:00 pm a meal is served.)
We follow guidelines regarding masks and social distancing.
7:00 - 8:00 pm - Large Group Worship & Lesson
8:00 - 9:00 pm - Small Group Break-Outs (gender-specific)
(First Friday of each month 6:00 - 7:00 pm a meal is served.)
We follow guidelines regarding masks and social distancing.
The 12 Steps of Celebrate Recovery
We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, 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 NIV
Romans 7:18 NIV
We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
Philippians 2:13 NIV
Philippians 2:13 NIV
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 NIV
Romans 12:1 NIV
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 NIV
Lamentations 3:40 NIV
We admitted to God, to ourselves,
and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
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 5:16a NIV
so that you may be healed.
James 5:16a NIV
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 NIV
and He will lift you up.
James 4:10 NIV
We humbly asked Him to remove
all our shortcomings.
all our shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful
and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 NIV
and will forgive us our sins and
purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 NIV
We made a list of all persons
we had harmed and became willing
to make amends to them all.
we had harmed and became willing
to make amends to them all.
Luke 6:31 NIV
We made direct amends to such people
whenever possible, except when
to do so would injure them or others.
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 NIV
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 NIV
We continue to take
personal inventory and when we
were wrong, promptly admitted it.
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
be careful that you don’t fall!
1 Corinthians 10:12
We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us,
and power to carry that out.
and power to carry that out.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
Colossians 3:16a NIV
Colossians 3:16a NIV
Having had a spiritual experience
as the result of these steps,
we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
as the result of these steps,
we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Galatians 6:1 NIV
8 Principles of Celebrate Recovery
The Road to Recovery
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 that my life is unmanageable.
(Step 1) “Happy are those who know that they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3a TEV
Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him and that He has the power to help me recover.
(Step 2) “Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 TEV, NIV
Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
(Step 3) “Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5a TEV
Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.
(Steps 4 and 5) “Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8a TEV
Voluntarily submit to any and all changes God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
(Steps 6 and 7) “Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires” Matthew 5:6a TEV
Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others.
(Steps 8 and 9) "Happy are the merciful.” Matthew 5:7a TEV; “Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9 TEV
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. (Steps 10 and 11)
Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and my words.
(Step 12) “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.” Matthew 5:10 TEV
(Step 1) “Happy are those who know that they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3a TEV
Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him and that He has the power to help me recover.
(Step 2) “Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4 TEV, NIV
Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
(Step 3) “Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5a TEV
Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.
(Steps 4 and 5) “Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8a TEV
Voluntarily submit to any and all changes God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
(Steps 6 and 7) “Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires” Matthew 5:6a TEV
Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others.
(Steps 8 and 9) "Happy are the merciful.” Matthew 5:7a TEV; “Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9 TEV
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. (Steps 10 and 11)
Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and my words.
(Step 12) “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.” Matthew 5:10 TEV
The Prayer for Serenity
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
