Celebrate Recovery

 A safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling our life.

Celebrate Recovery (CR) / Finding My Way

Christ-centered, 12-step recovery program for anyone struggling with hurt, hang-ups, and habits of any kind

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New at Le Sueur UMC!

Celebrate Recovery is planting a new community at Le Sueur United Methodist Church. You do not have to be a member of the church or live in town. We wish to launch both men and women groups.

Can you help?

If you have experience in Celebrate Recovery and are ready to lead, or want more information, please reach out. Click the CR button.

We are still seeking:

  • male leaders for the men’s group

  • musicians

  • your prayers

What is Celebrate Recovery?

Celebrate Recovery (CR) is a Bible-based, Christ-centered recovery program for those who struggle with life’s hurts, habits, and hang-ups. CR takes participants through the 8 Recovery Principles, which are based on the Beatitudes. 

 What is the purpose of Celebrate Recovery?

The purpose of Celebrate Recovery is to fellowship together and celebrate God’s healing power in our lives by sharing our experience, strength, and hope through the 12 Steps and the 8 Recovery Principles. This experience allows us to “be changed”.

 Who is Celebrate Recovery for?

You may be thinking that recovery is only for those with alcohol or drug problems. This could not be further from the truth. Most of life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups can be addressed through this one ministry, including problems with abuse, anger, grief, alcohol, drugs, depression, guilt and shame, financial loss, divorce, dysfunctional families, sexual problems, eating disorders, and much more! 

 What is recovery?

In physical health, the term “recovery” refers to the process of moving from illness to wellness. Our hurts, habits and hang-ups are like spiritual illnesses. By using the tools of Celebrate Recovery, we can begin to move from spiritual illness to spiritual wellness. Some might say we move from bondage-to-self to freedom-in-Christ. Others might say we move from self-reliance to faith-in-Christ.

What are Hurts, Habits and Hang-Ups?

A hurt, habit or hang-up is anything that hinders your walk with God. They postpone or prevent genuine fellowship with God and your loved ones.

Is Celebrate Recovery

Right for me?

Celebrate Recovery offers the opportunity to participate in a group fellowship where love and hope combine with God's purpose to mend our lives. Ask yourself:

  • Are there things in my life that I do that hurt me or others?

  • Is there something in my life that I wish I could live without?

  • Is there something I have tried to quit but can’t do so on my own?

  • Do I have a painful habit or hang-up from which I need to be freed?

  • Is there one particular thing I can’t let go of that is destroying my life?

  • Is it time to admit that my life is out of control?

  • Are there people in my life I am trying to fix?

  • Am I a people pleaser?

  • If you answered YES to any of these statements, we urge you to attend a Celebrate Recovery meeting to see if it is right for you.

Celebrate Recovery’s 12 Steps 

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.

History

Celebrate Recovery started in 1991 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California and has grown into a worldwide program to help people in recovery.  Because it is a Christian-centered 12-step program, churches serve as host sites to local programs.  Leaders are trained in the methods of Celebrate Recovery and are supportive mentors in the recovery ministry.  LeSueur United Methodist has prayed over this ministry, and with the Spirit’s direction, is prepared to launch a new site at our church in the FALL 2023. 
For more information about Celebrate Recovery and its history, click on the button below.