Celebrate Recovery

What Is Celebrate Recovery?

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered 12-Step program founded in 1991 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. It is now active in over 3,500 churches across America and the world. The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to celebrate God’s healing power in our lives through the 12 Steps and 8 Recovery principles. This experience allows us to “be changed.” We open the door by sharing our experiences, strengths, and hopes with one another. In addition, we become willing to accept God’s grace in solving our lives’ problems.

By working and applying these Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We become free from our addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy, and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others. As we progress through the program we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power, Jesus Christ.

Who Is Celebrate Recovery For?

Celebrate Recovery is for anyone interested in having God free them from addictions, compulsions, and their hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Although Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered recovery program, it is not restricted by any religion or denomination.

What Are The Components of Celebrate Recovery at Sober Living by the Sea?

The key components of Celebrate Recovery at SLBTS are: Open Share Groups, Step Studies, sponsors and accountability partners, 1:1 weekly meeting with leaders, and using the Life Recovery Bible and Celebrate Recovery Participant Guides. Clients are provided transportation to Celebrate Recovery and Worship Services at Saddleback Church each Friday and Sunday.

How Long Is This Program?

The Celebrate Recovery program fits with the Standard 90-day treatment program, The Alternatives Program and Outpatient schedules, as well as the T.E.A.C.H. Program where clients earn college credits at Saddleback College, one of the 109 California State public colleges (serving more than 2.5 million students statewide). The unique aspect of the Aftercare Program is that both the client and family are strongly encouraged to continue their recovery at a local Celebrate Recovery program in their own community.

What Can Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Do?

Celebrate Recovery’s small groups provide a safe place to share your experiences, strengths, and hopes with others who are going through the “Principles” in a Christ-centered recovery, with a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up, or habit who will facilitate the group as it focuses on the Steps of recovery. Celebrate Recovery will also provide you with the opportunity to find a sponsor and accountability partners and attend recovery meetings throughout the week.

Staff

Charlie Graham, B.S., M.Ed.

Charlie Graham has been a leader in Saddleback Church’s Celebrate Recovery for the last eight years and has served in various capacities on staff. He has consulted nationwide to churches starting Celebrate Recovery programs as well as speaking on recovery topics. His expertise in communication group dynamics enables him to serve on all levels from 1:1 to small groups to large organizations.

David Hickman, B.S., Th. M., Ph.D, CAS

8 Recovery Principles David Hickman is a minister and has an extensive background in spiritual counseling, recovery and crisis management. David's group process and counseling focus is on family dynamics and personal responsibility.

Dr. Hickman has worked inpatient, outpatient, as well as with local church recovery ministries. Most notably, David worked for 13 years as a youth minister and 10 years as a chaplain and counselor for Steve Arterburn's New Life Clinics.

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