True Life Stories

What are people saying about Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-centered recovery program?

"I didn't think a recovery program was for me. I was so wrong. The first time I heard, "Hurts, habits and hang-ups . . . We all have them, I knew God was speaking to me, even though I didn't have a particular habit with a "label". The hurts in my past have ruled my life, controlled it . . . until now."

"When I started attending a step study and began to work the steps, I felt so at home. I was in a church group where I was the only woman recovering from my addiction, yet I belonged. I found that all hurts, habits and hang-ups have similar threads that unite us all. And, since we all were looking to Jesus that made the similarity even stronger. I belonged in the body of Christ."

"I thought I had a relationship with God – I really didn't.  I was acquainted with God. I went to church because that's what 'good' people do. Through the process of recovery, I have learned that the people I thought were perfect have their own struggles. Now that I am not so ashamed of my imperfections, I am able to take the focus off of me and listen to what other people are going through."

"I've come to realize that the hurt, hang-up or habit orf alcoholism is not a curse, but instead a blessing. The very thing Satan tried to use to destroy me has turned into a vehicle to glorify God."

"CR is kind of like the best church service and AA meeting I'd ever been to rolled into one."