Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-Centered twelve-step program that provides lasting healing and hope for any hurt or habit.
“All 12 steps were significant in helping me to re-wallpaper my thinking and take ownership over my behavior and responses in any given situation. I was not responsible for the happiness or the behavior of others.” Ruth
“I have really enjoyed working the 12-Steps; letting everything out to people I have learned to trust. This has been a freeing feeling of the heart, mind, and soul. I have never felt so relieved. I have been able to laugh again, and enjoy life.” Carol
“Personally, the steps do not allow me to stay comfortable in my walk with the Lord; I am always being pushed forward. He is always challenging me with my character defects which I am finding are many. I came into this ministry because I wanted to help others. But I have found that I am the one who is getting the most out of it.” Debbie
“Through Celebrate Recovery, God is teaching me how to self-reflect, manage my impulses, and have empathy for others. I am realizing that I have value and that there is hope that I will become a more peaceful person. I’ve examined and confessed my faults to myself, God, and someone I trusted. I’m learning to voluntarily submit to changes that God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. I’ve evaluated my relationships and am in the process of offering forgiveness to those who have hurt me and making amends for harm I’ve done to others.” Heather
“The more I got involved with Celebrate Recovery, the more I realized that I too was struggling with hidden sins in my life. I was struggling with sexual addictions and pornography and alcoholism.” Larry
“I’ve learned some new words in CR…codependency…addiction to love… and “working the steps.” I have a new definition of insanity and I know I’m only as sick as my secrets. Recovery is work…daily work! The Bible exhorts us to labor to enter into God’s rest. The labor is emptying me of myself, seeking God with my whole heart, and letting Him guide my steps and put a watch over my mouth.” Lisa
“I am excited that God is moving in Blue Ridge to make it a safe place for the sexually broken to come to find hope and healing. I still struggle with depression, but I’m starting to learn how to manage it. I’m still afraid, but God keeps showing me that when He asks me to jump, He will always be there to catch me. God promises us in His Word, in Isaiah 41:10: “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.” I’ve been in recovery for a long time, and experienced many successes and failures, but I take encouragement from what a good friend reminded me of recently--a promise from God in Philippians 1:6--that He started the work in me, and He will finish it.” Tracy
“I didn't have to pretend or hide any longer (in Celebrate Recovery) because no one was holding my future back or knew who I thought I was supposed to be. I attended every week and it was different from my last recovery group because I could be honest without feeling as though I was a failure. For 2 years I have sought Christ in this process and sometimes I do stumble as I seek the Lord, but I know that my performance is not why Jesus loves me. He loves me because of who He is. I also have learned to love myself apart from what I have done and to allow others to love me and not what I am able to do. Recovery has been hard and at the beginning of September I was told that the cancer was definitely out of remission. This is a scary thing and could have set me back into old habits, but God is good and I trust that whatever His plan is it will be because He loves me.” David B.
For more information on Celebrate Recovery or Step Study Groups, contact Debbie O'Brien at 434-525-7481 x128 or celebraterecovery@blue-ridge.org.