Recovery Family

Just wanted to make you aware of or remind you of a great resource available to help you start your CR and/or to take your CR to the next level…

The Fall One Day Seminars
Sept 26 – Little Rock, AR / October 10 – Albany NY / October 24 – Denver, CO / November 7 – Fort Wayne IN / November 14 – Austin TX

While there are not any offered in the SE Region this fall, the CR One Day Seminars with founders John and Cheryl Baker are the first stop for training, to start and keep your CR growing and healthy. However, there are One Day Seminars scheduled close to us. If you’re traveling and happen to be in the area and able to catch a training, this communication is for you! Or if you have a leader or potential leader needing inspiration or training, and can afford to travel, they don’t have to wait for a Seminar to come right to your area.

Check out www.CelebrateRecovery.com for the latest training events and the links to register. We’re excited that all the scheduled seminars offer both the Seven Keys and the Advanced Leadership Training tracks. Please see the note from Pastor John below…

Hurts Increase During Hard Economic Times

Everyone is feeling the effects of the declining and uncertain economy. This includes our church budgets! I know as a church leader, one of the first things we consider in order to save money is cutting back on attending conferences. Let me give you some reasons why during these difficult times you need to consider attending the Celebrate Recovery One Day Seminar:

1. When the economy is struggling people in your church and community are hurting. They are facing the possibility of losing their jobs, their homes, or struggling just to pay their monthly bills. They can feel hopeless and defeated.
2. History has proven that during times like these the number of people turning to addictions and compulsions greatly increases. When people are hurting, they turn to anything to numb the pain. They start abusing alcohol, drugs, food, sex, gambling, and one another.
3. In the United States, there are already 18 million alcoholics, 4 million drug addicts, 16 million sex addicts, and 4 million addicted to food.

The list goes on and on. These numbers are only going to increase during the months to come!

We know the only true and lasting answer for those feeling hopeless and defeated is to turn to Jesus Christ! But how does your church reach out to those in your congregation and community that are struggling? Over 12,000 churches have found a way to help individuals with any kind of hurt, hang-up, or habit. They started a Celebrate Recovery – a Christ-centered Recovery program based on God’s Word.

I am praying that you, or a team from your church, will consider attending this Celebrate Recovery One Day Seminar. My team and I are coming to your area to help you keep your expenses down. You will learn everything you need to know about starting a Celebrate Recovery in your church. For more information go to www.celebraterecovery.com.

If you already have a Celebrate Recovery ministry currently running in your church, we will also have an Advanced Leadership Training track. It will help your leadership team be more effective in helping the individuals that God sends to your church find victory over their hurts, hang ups, and habits.

More info available at the CR site…In His steps,

John Baker
Founder and Pastor of
Celebrate Recovery

The kick off of the national Life’s Healing Choices Campaign with Pastor Rick Warren and Saddleback Church begins September 26-27, 2009!

If your church is unable to schedule the Series at this time, please consider doing it sometime in the near future. Be sure to promote this to your pastor and staff if you have not already done so. It’s a great way to grow your CR ministry! The following is a note from Saddleback Church about this important event:

“Dear Pastor or Church Leader,

The kick off of the national Life’s Healing Choices Campaign with Pastor Rick and Saddleback Church is just weeks away on September 26-27, 2009! Churches across the country are getting excited about the life-change that’s going to happen through this journey of healing and hope… .

For everyone in your congregation to experience the full, transforming potential of discovering freedom from their hurts, hang-ups and habits they need to not only hear the messages, but to be involved in a small group using the curriculum and to personally do the daily readings in the companion book, Life’s Healing Choices.

As a Life’s Healing Choices Access Pass holder, ordering curriculum in bulk for your congregation is easy! Just visit our campaign Resource Center at www.LifesHealingChoices.com. We’ve provided two order options for you:

1. Choose to order the Life’s Healing Choices curriculum with a 1-year subscription to Purpose Driven Connection. Includes:
· LHC curriculum (study guide and DVD).
· 3 additional curriculums, each featured in a brand-new issue of Purpose Driven Connection.
· $15 each, that makes each curriculum only $3.75.
2. Or choose to order single copies, in bulk of the Fall issue of Purpose Driven Connection. Includes:
· LHC curriculum (study guide and DVD).
· $10 each.

We’ve done our best to serve you by making what you need for each person at your church really simple. They need: 1) a copy of the Life’s Healing Choices curriculum study guide and DVD in the Purpose Driven Connection and 2) a copy of the book Life’s Healing Choices. Remember, the national launch is on September 26-27 which will mean you’ll want to distribute your materials the prior weekend. To ensure delivery by September 17th so you can distribute them and be ready for a strong launch, your order needs to be placed by September 6th at  or give us a call at 1-800-240-8313.

Sincerely,
Pastor Gerald Sharon
North American Director
Purpose Driven Network

P.S. We know many churches are facing difficult financial times right now and might not have the funds to place a church order for all of their small groups or attendees. In order to serve you, we have created a brand new ordering option we hope will help solve that problem. As an alternative to the church purchasing material for everyone, your members can now place their own orders directly. All you have to do is provide them with the email address you used to sign up for your Online Access Pass, along with this password: “lhc0926.” They can then place and pay for their personal order at the campaign price and have it shipped directly to their home. That’s all there is to it!”

There is also an updated video clip about this at www.CelebrateRecovery.com.

There’s a new way people can find your Celebrate Recovery! Please note the info sent from the National Team…

“Below is a link to the Purpose Driven Connection website. Take a look at it!  Make sure you take note of the feature down towards the middle of the page where it says “Celebrate Recovery Groups” in red letters. Right underneath that it gives you a really new, neat option…you can enter in any zip code and it gives you five Celebrate Recovery groups in that area! How cool is that?! Take a look.”

www.PurposeDriven.com