Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered recovery ministry, founded in 1991 at Saddleback Church, that organizes biblically based 12-step support groups to help people address addictions and other personal issues referred to as "hurts, hang-ups, and habits." It provides curriculum and resources to support recovery groups hosted by churches and other organizations worldwide.www.celebraterecovery.com
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Sep 15, 2026
Wendy BurchettHOST
Your one assignment this week is to decide to take some action to get help and support.
Wendy BurchettHOST
I found a great therapist in a support group like Al-Anon and later Celebrate Recovery.
Wendy BurchettHOST
I highly recommend both of these support groups.
Wendy BurchettHOST
You are worth it.
Wendy BurchettHOST
God wants you to heal and find hope and connection, even in the midst of this painful journey you find yourself on.
Wendy BurchettHOST
It is important to note that if you have any traits of codependency in your life, Al-Anon or Celebrate Recovery would be a powerful place for you to connect with others and begin to radically change your life.
Wendy BurchettHOST
You do not have to be living with active addiction in your life in order to qualify.
Wendy BurchettHOST
God wants to help you learn to let go of the obsession over people, places, and things, and instead help you to learn to live in freedom.
Mark EldridgeHOST
Two things.
Mark EldridgeHOST
One is first, it's important for you all to know that both Dolly and I have had a long history with Celebrate Recovery as ministries in our churches that we've done.
Mark EldridgeHOST
My background with that was, I don't know, 18 years ago as a rector, I was just trying to figure out a way to fulfill the Great Commission on the west side of Jacksonville where I was a rector and seeing the needs in our community and trying to get How do we how do we share the gospel with people? And it's a long story.
Mark EldridgeHOST
I won't share it with you now.
Mark EldridgeHOST
That's been my experience.
Mark EldridgeHOST
And so I don't know about you, Dolly.
Mark EldridgeHOST
I don't know if we've talked about this, but for me, I started the Celebrate Recovery at our church because I was trying to help other people.
Mark EldridgeHOST
And about two years into the program, I was there every Friday night and participating and and everything.
Clint MunozHOST
Mm-hmm.
Shawn BonneteauGUEST
'Cause the, the, the sad/funny part about my, my story there is I was going to Celebrate Recovery and was super thankful for it at the time, but I was only really going because they let me play drums and they gave me a free dinner.
Clint MunozHOST
[laughs]
Shawn BonneteauGUEST
And I really wasn't taking the group seriously.
speaker_5HOST
... and she was also being very kind with, like, the reality of what you were doing, and then-
Shawn BonneteauGUEST
Yeah
speaker_5HOST
... that was enough for you to kinda be like, "Okay, I'm gonna go to serious recovery," and then you started doing different things? Did you s- did you continue doing Celebrate Recovery, or did you-
Clint MunozHOST
Hmm
Matthew PowersHOST
I, I do wanna ask you just 'cause-
Monica PowersHOST
'cause-We see addiction in, in our church where we're big in Celebrate Recovery and, and trying to help people with that.
Monica PowersHOST
But you see so many people, and I know there's gonna be people who are listening, and they've got friends, family members, loved ones, and they're going through addiction or illness or a disability or recovery, depression.
Monica PowersHOST
They're just, they're going through it, and they try to help.
Kevin BolgerHOST
And oftentimes if you're a survivor, you're also a child of, you know, an alcoholic.
Kevin BolgerHOST
You're, you're all these different Celebrate Recovery, which basically incorporates all survivors-
Laurie HardieHOST
Mm
Kevin BolgerHOST
... is a great group.
Kevin BolgerHOST
Give them a try.
Kevin BolgerHOST
There's a lot of free ones.
Kevin BolgerHOST
Those groups, Celebrate Recovery, many other survivor groups are available.
Kevin BolgerHOST
You can find them online for your area.
Christina McVeighGUEST
I think, you know, if, somebody loves AA, that's incredible.
Christina McVeighGUEST
If somebody loves Celebrate Recovery, that's incredible.
Christina McVeighGUEST
If somebody loves Smart Recovery, that's incredible.
Christina McVeighGUEST
Whatever we can do that speaks to somebody, I want to be that person that helps get them to that point.
JonathanHOST
Lord, I thank you for a church where it's okay to be truth tellers.
JonathanHOST
Lord, I pray for every person that's got something on their heart, on their mind right now, God, that they would lean into that, God, that they would come to Celebrate Recovery on a Thursday night, that they would call the church, that they would get the help that they need so that you can restore and redeem what they have, may have broken.
JonathanHOST
God, thank you for this amazing body of people.
JonathanHOST
We love you.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
We've been talking through a little bit different angle with answering some questions that came from local ministry leaders from across the globe, but hit part one last time, and I want to continue answering some questions that came up from our valued ministry leaders across Celebrate Recovery, across the nation, and and continue that conversation.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
We had a good conversation last episode and want to wrap up answering some more in today's episode.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
Today, we're continuing to answer questions from the ministry leader.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
Welcome to Celebrate Recovery Official, a podcast that shares life-changing stories, courage, hope, and leadership wisdom, all centered around the Celebrate Recovery principles based on Matthew chapter 5, where Jesus gives us a model recognizing we are spiritually poor to face those events and the hurt that comes from that, the negative core beliefs that we may have developed as a result of the pain in our life.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
the habits, the protections, the strategies to stay alive that have caused havoc on our relationships with others, ultimately toward facing those hurts, healing those hurts, new healthy truths, new healthy practices, and healthy connection with others and God.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
I'm a grateful believer in Jesus Christ.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
I struggle with drugs and alcohol and perfectionism.
Rodney HolmstromHOST
My name is Rodney.
HamishHOST
All right, ready? Choice number six.
HamishHOST
relationship choice, okay? What is the relationship choice according to Life's Healing Choices, which is a study, by the way, for those of you who are just joining us, we're using these choices that come from Saddleback's Life's Healing Choices course, which is the baseline for Celebrate Recovery, which is a group that we're starting up.
HamishHOST
We'll talk about that in a little bit.
HamishHOST
So choice number six is relationships.
HamishHOST
Some things we have in our lives, we can put these things in place, make these choices, we can see real fruit.
HamishHOST
Then there are other things that go on in our lives that we recognize are going to take a lot more effort.
HamishHOST
And this is where I'd really like to recommend the Celebrate Recovery groups that we're planning to start in November, where you will have an opportunity to be around people who are also going through deeper hurts, habits, and hang-ups.
HamishHOST
You can be open and honest with each other and find healing as you work through things together.
MarkHOST
Sometimes he uses our greatest failures to... to turn it into our greatest ministry and our greatest message.
MarkHOST
That's one of the things that Celebrate Recovery says is God will take your mess, your terrible mess, and he will make a great message out of it because then you can help other people who are struggling in the same thing.
MarkHOST
And so, you know, Peter, if you go on to the story, later Jesus shows up on the shore and he's in his resurrected body and he tells Peter, And he ministers to Peter.
MarkHOST
And he tells Peter, Peter, do you love me? He tells him to feed my sheep.
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