General Schedule for Groups

First Tuesday of each month

We meet in the Student Lodge Building 

5:45 – 6:30 PM - Dinner / Fellowship
6:30-7:30 PM - Large Group Worship
7:30-8:30 PM - Open Share Groups

Dinner on these nights is provided for donations. Everyone usually brings a dessert or a drink and the leadership team provides the rest of the meal. Childcare is provided after the dinner at 6:15 PM in Kids' Cove.

Large Group Experience

After dinner, all CR participants will attend the Large Group Time, which includes:

• An uplifting time of worship with praise music
• Announcements and reading of the 12 Steps or 8 Principles
• A time of personal testimony OR teaching based on the 12 steps.
• The Serenity  Prayer
• Dismissal to Open Share Groups or Newcomers 101 (a one-time class for the first-time newcomers)

During Large Group, there is no obligation for anyone to share. Simply enjoy the presence of God with other grateful believers and hear inspiring testimonies or teachings.

Open Share Group

Following the Large Group Experience, first-time participants will be dismissed to the one-time class introducing the concepts of Celebrate Recovery called Newcomers 101. All other participants will be dismissed to a more intimate Open Share Group.

These same-sex  groups include:

• Facilitation by trained group leaders and often a co-leader
• Gender-specific grouping
• Issue-specific recovery topics that can include Chemical Dependency, Co-dependency, Family Dysfunction, Depression, . . . and many others. The groups offered at Lakewood will solely depend on the expressed need of participants of CR as well as the availability of committed leaders. “A-Z” groups are general groups for either participants who are waiting for an issue specific group to form, or for those trying to identify their areas of struggle. These groups will follow the Open Share format just as any other issue-specific recovery  group.
• Sharing of struggles and victories (no-one will be pressured to share, as this is always voluntary) through answering a focus question based on the evening’s teaching or testimony
• Acknowledgment of sobriety and victories through awarding of success “chips”
  
• Encouragement of finding a sponsor or accountability partner for support within and outside of CR
• CONFIDENTIALITY & ANONYMITY ARE REQUIRED

All Open Share Groups will follow the Small Group Guidelines to ensure the consistency and safety among all small groups within CR.

All other Tuesday’s

6:30-8:00 PM - Step Study and Open Share Groups meet

Womens’ Groups

Open Share – This group meeting allows you to become familiar with the Celebrate Recovery Program and it’s guidelines. All newcomers start here until a step study begins. Terri Sullivan - Facilitator 

Step Study remains open. Facilitators Bobbett Holloway and Theresa Goss 

Men’s Groups

Open Share – this group meeting allows you to become familiar with the Celebrate Recovery Program and it’s guidelines. All newcomers start here until a step study begins.  Ed Benner – Facilitator

Closed Step Study - 4th Step & beyond.

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