New Hope Christian Fellowship

Starting new round of lessons on Sept 5, 2007 

Come Join us!!

Do you really, REALLY want to recover?

Are you interested in a recovery program that challenges you to grow and that confronts your problems head on? 

Do you want to be in a group that takes a personal interest in you?

 Are you willing to participate in a recovery program that is not afraid to name Jesus Christ as the only Higher Power that will heal you?

Then, we invite you to consider:

Celebrate Recovery

at

New Hope

Christian Fellowship

Wednesday evenings from 7-9 PM

(Doors open at 6:45PM)

Celebrate Recovery is a Christian ministry that incorporates the 12 steps commonly used by many of today’s secular recovery programs.  We also include eight biblical principles for working through recovery.

Our curriculum takes a biblical approach to teaching us how to recover from many different things that make people “broken” in life.  Things like drug, alcohol, food, and behavior addictions; sexual, physical, and emotional abuse; divorce; grief; codependency; financial issues and many other problems that people face today.

So Why come to New Hope?

Because, you might find this a place to call home  . . . finally!  We take a personal interest in your recovery and your spiritual well-being.

While not excluding any of the required material of the "Celebrate Recovery" curriculum, the staff at New Hope on occassion also uses additional Biblical lessons that apply to recovery principles 

Meetings last for two hours with everyone meeting together for the first hour and then breaking out into smaller gender specific groups for the second hour.  We encourage you to attend regularly for the best experience. 

We welcome anyone who needs help.  If you are required to attend a 12-step recovery program by a court order, you may want to discuss Celebrate Recovery with your appropriate supervisor to see if it might qualify to fulfill the requirements.

Accept the challenge!  Do something meaningful for yourself!

Call for more information today!

330-721-4594

The Twelve Steps of Recovery

1. We admitted we were powerless over our dependencies — that our lives had become unmanageable.

ROMANS 7:18 18 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.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Romans 12:1 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, 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.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Lamentations 3:40 40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

James 5:16  Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

James 4: 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Luke 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Matthew 5: 23-24 Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

1 Corinthians 10:12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others with dependency issues and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Galatians 6:1 Brothers and Sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore them gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.

From the Curriculum of Celebrate Recovery

Eight Principles of Recovery

R=   Principle 1
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"

E=Principle 2
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"

C=Principle 3
Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.

"Happy are the meek"

O=Principle 4
Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust.

"Happy are the pure in heart"

V=Principle 5
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"

E=Principle 6
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"

R=Principle 7
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.

Y=Principle 8
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"