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Welcome Newcomers! CELEBRATE RECOVERY SMALL GROUPS CAN: Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths and hopes with others who are going through the "Principles" in a Christ-Centred recovery. Provide you a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up on habit that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step each week. The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery's "FIVE RULES." Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner or sponsor. Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week, if available. CELEBRATE RECOVERY SMALL GROUPS WILL NOT: Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counsellors. We will provide you with a list of approved counselling referrals at your request. Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.

Eight Recovery Principles based on the BEATITUDES by Pastor Rick Warren   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"

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 -

THINGS WE ARE THINGS WE ARE NOT A safe place to share. A refuge. A place of belonging. A place to care for others and be cared for. Where respect is given to each member. Where confidentiality is highly regarded. A place to learn. A place to demonstrate genuine love. A place to grow and become strong again. A place for progress. Where you can take off your mask and allow others to know who you are. A place for healthy challenges and healthy risks. A possible turning point in your life. A place for selfish control. Therapy. A place for secrets. A place to look for dating relationships. A place to rescue or be rescued by others. A place for perfection. A long-term commitment. A place to judge others. A quick fix.

Find more information about Celebrate Recovery at www.celebraterecovery.com

 

Ministry Opportunity at RIV:

Servants needed at  "Riv Café"  for:  Welcoming;  BBQing;  Setting Up;  Food Preparation;  Crèche and Group facilitating.
Tuesday Nights from 6pm – 9pm    Contact Stuart Templeton