about Celebrate Recovery
Thursdays
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Room 305
Celebrate Recovery meets each Thursday for 12 months each year. Childcare is provided for children of CR attendees on Thursday evenings.
Please note: Celebrate Recovery will not meet on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day or New Year's Day. Instead Celebrate Recovery will meet on:
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Contact
Leon Woods
989-859-2720
cr@mefchurch.org
Schedule
7:00 p.m. Worship and Prayer
7:20 p.m. Reading 8 Recovery Principles
7:30 p.m. Testimony or Teaching
8:00 p.m. Small Group Discussions
9:00 p.m. Coffee/Cookies
Recovery Principles, Based on the Beatitudes
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. Matthew 5:3
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. Matthew 5:4
Principle 3 Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control. Happy are the meek. Matthew 5:5
Principle 4 Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. Happy are the pure in heart. Matthew 5:8
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. Matthew 5:6
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. Matthew 5:7 Happy are the peacemakers. Matthew 5:9
Principle 7 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.
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. Matthew 5:10
Prayer for Serenity
By Reinhold Niebuhr
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