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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_alcoholics_anonymous/
Pill For Alcoholism May Also Dampen Urge To Steal. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102974699
How We Get Addicted. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1640436,00.html
Changing attitudes through Beatitudes
Faith-based recovery program helps participants heal
October 13, 2006 Looking back, Tami described her life three years ago as “bankrupt in every sense of the word.” Her husband of 18 years had walked out on her. She lost her job and her teenage son struck out on his own.
“I was extremely angry with the world,” she said. “It was always somebody else’s fault.”
It wasn’t until a friend directed Tami to a Celebrate Recovery program that her life began to turn around and brought her to Alaska.
“Celebrate Recovery led me to listen to what God wanted,” Tami told newcomers last Friday night at Zion Lutheran Church.
Since early June, the faith-based recovery program has slowly grown, mainly by word of mouth.
“We have about 25-40 people every week and are hoping for 150 to 200 by the end of the year,” said Alice Heckert, program coordinator.
Participants gather for a buffet dinner at 6 p.m. every Friday, followed by worship, song and a lesson in the church sanctuary at 7 with testimony or a special speaker before breaking up to meet in small groups segregated by gender. The evening ends with coffee and dessert in the church lobby.
Why Friday night?
Heckert said the program organizers didn’t even consider any other night of the week.
“That is the night most everybody is out there partying,” Heckert said. “A night when people are in a bad place and they need the company too.”
Healing is the H-word aspired to at Celebrate Recovery. Participants work on overcoming hurts, hang-ups and habits ranging from eating disorders, gambling, drinking, grief, abuse, sexual addictions, pornography, broken relationships and depression in a safe, confidential environment.
“It’s forward looking, and it emphasizes personal responsibility,” Heckert said.
At Celebrate Recovery the life-transforming goal of healing relies on the assistance of a higher power. It’s not a generic God that is called upon by program participants, but Jesus Christ.
The recovery ministry adheres to eight recovery principles found in the Beatitudes and a Christ-centered 12-step program, similar to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Some in the program, like Scott, a recovering alcoholic, said, “We need something more than AA.”
Bill Slayden, a Celebrate Recovery group leader who overcame alcohol and drug addiction through AA and Narcotics Anonymous, has embraced the new program.
“This is what I was looking for a long time,” Slayden said. “I’ve seen many lives already touched and changed by what’s going on here.”
Celebrate Recovery is not a replacement for AA or NA but an adjunct to addiction programs, Heckert said. Nor does it replace therapy.
“It complements any recovery program you’re in,” she said.
In addition to the Friday night gatherings, during which child care is provided, Celebrate Recovery Step Studies are held during the week in confidential, caring groups, sharing and working through the program’s steps and principles with a trained facilitator.
There is an afternoon and evening group for women and two evening men’s groups.
The Celebrate Recovery ministry started in 1991 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., by John Baker, a pastor with Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life.” Today, thousands of churches worldwide are running the program.
A Celebrate Recovery workshop will be held Saturday at Zion Lutheran, 2982 Davis Road. Registration is $10 and fellowship begins at 8 a.m., followed by worship at 9 a.m. and an introduction to the program at 10.
Following lunch, there will be leadership training at 1:30 p.m.; a Saturday Nite Alive Worship Service at 5 p.m.; and a free evening concert featuring Bryan Duncan, which begins at 7 p.m.
Workshop leaders include Duncan, who holds three Dove Awards, has sold more than a million records and did the video for “Left Behind.”
Also training will be Hillary DeCecchis, CR Northwest regional director, and Charlie Graham from Saddleback Church, who offers the program to rescue missions in Southern California.
For more information, contact Heckert at 590-1062 or actons51@juno.com.
