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Celebrate Recovery

READY TO BE FREE? Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered 12 step program existing to help you get free your from your hurts, habits and hang-ups. 

We meet every Monday night from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at Hope Church in the Multi-purpose room.

Meeting Agenda:
6:30 pm Large Group
7:15 pm Open Small Group Time

Come early to share a meal at 6:00 p.m. ($3/meal).

"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11

 

JOIN US... if you are ready for healing from life's, hang-ups or habits. There's a place for you.

For more information:
Contact Gary Frank 636-7912 or Susan Yarrington (217) 787-1446 Ext. 212.


Purpose

To fellowship and celebrate God's healing power in our lives through the eight recovery principles found in the Beatitudes and the Christ-centered 12 Steps.

This experience allows us to be changed. We open the door by sharing our experience, strength, and hope with one another. In addition, we become willing to accept God's grace in solving our life problems.

By working the steps and applying their 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.


The Road to Recovery :   8 Principles Based on the Beatitudes:

R = Realize I'm not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.

"Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor."

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."

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

"Happy are the meek."

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

"Happy are the pure in heart."

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."

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."

R = Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.

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."


Gary's Testimony

Read Gary Frank's testimony

Kim's Testimony

Click here to read Kim's Testimony http://hope-church.ws/learn/profile.php?id=34

Location
 

Hope Church, 3000 Lenhart Road, Springfield, IL 62711


 

  Online Giving

Have you ever thought of contributing to Hope Church by the way of "electronic giving?"  There are several ways this can be done, all of which are easy and safe.

Just click on the link below to get started

Online Giving
    Food for the Journey

Hope is a place for people willing to embark on a spiritual journey, from those just investigating whether there is a God, to those who have made following Christ the priority of their life.  This is a safe place for everyone.  But safe doesn’t mean serenity.  The Bible presents a dangerous message of life change.  We don’t assume everyone believes, or even knows the Bible, but we do assume everyone who comes through our doors is open to exploring it. We believe the Bible is God’s inerrant truth and it is foundational to everything we do.

The Daily Devotional
Food for the Journey.


 

   
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