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CR Step Groups are meeting on – Monday and Tuesday Step Groups are from 7:00pm–8:30pm

At this time the Monday and the Tuesday Womans Step groups are closed due the fact it is at Principle 4. After a 12 week period the group does not allow any new members to join.

Woman’s step group on Tuesday’s 7:00–8:30pm in room 110 A

Men’s step group on Tuesday’s from 7:00–8:30pm in room 110 B

We will be starting new step groups for men and women shortly.

Step groups are gender specific groups that are a Christian–based 12 step program that help you work through your hurts,habits and hangups.

Celebrate Recovery meetings are held on every Friday.

CR Meal Friday– 6:00 to 6:45 PM

Large Group Worship and teaching (110 A&B)–6:45 to 7:45PM

Open share from 7:45 to 8:45 PM

the open share meeting’s are gender specific groups to share and work through their hurt, habits,and hangups in a safe environment

  • Share groups are located in the room’s as followed
    • Men’s General – Rm 114
    • Men’s Chemical Dependency – Rm 110B
    • Women’s Eating Disorders – Rm 110A
    • Women’s General – Rm 122A
    • Women’s Chemical Dependency – Rm 122C (beginning 6/1/07)
    • Newcomers 101- - Conference Room

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ–centered recovery ministry reaching out to help those with hurts, habits, and hang–ups both within our church family and the community.

We hope to see you there, if you have a hurt habit or hangup this would be the place for you.

The purpose of Lakeshore Community Church’s Celebrate Recovery is to fellowship and celebrate God’s healing power in our live’s through eight recovery principles and the Christ–centered 12 steps. This experience allows us to change. We open the door by sharing our experiences, strength, and hopes with one another. In addition, we become willing to except God’s grace in solving our problems.

By working the 12 steps and applying their 8 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 principles we discover our personal, loving, and forgiving higher power–Jesus Christ

Welcome to amazing Spiritual adventure

Principle 7: Reserve a daily time with God for self–examination, Bible reading, and prayer inorder to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.

Step 10: We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

” So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that don’t fall .” (1 Corinthians 10:12)

  • Here are the lessons for this month :
    • Step 11–Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our consciuos contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.” (Colossians 3:11)
    • Lesson 21:Relapse 5/04/07
    • Lesson 21:Relapse testimony or short lesson 5/11/07
    • Lesson 22:Gratitude 5/18/07
    • Lesson 22:Gratitude testimony or short lesson 5/25/07

The Serenity prayer

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,
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is
not as I would have it,
trusting 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 in the next.
Amen

Reinhold Niebuhr

Eight Recovery Principles

  1. R= 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”
  2. E= 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”
  3. C= Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
    “Happy are the meek”
  4. O= Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.
    “Happy are the pure in heart”
  5. V= 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”
  6. E= 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”
  7. R= 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.
  8. Y= 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”

Twelve steps and their Biblical Comparisons

  1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behavior. That our lives had become manageable.
    “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.” ( Roman 7:18 NIV)
  2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
    “For it is God who is at work in you to will and act according to His good purpose.” (Philippians 2:13 NIV)
  3. Made a decision to turn our life and our will over to the care of God.
    “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in the 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)
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
    “Let us examine our ways and test them, and return to the Lord.”(Lamentations 3:40 NIV)
  5. Admitted to God, ourselves, 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)
  6. 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)
  7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
    “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9 NIV)
  8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
    “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” (Luke 6:31 NIV)
  9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
    “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the alter and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering 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)
  10. We continued to take 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 NIV)
  11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
    “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.” (Colossians 3:16a NIV)
  12. Having had a spiritual experience as a result of these steps,we tried to carry this message to others, and practice these principles in all of our affairs.
    “Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you may also be tempted.” (Galatians 6:1 NIV)