Emmanuel Church Celebrate Recovery

06/24/2026

06/24/2026

A Celebrate Recovery Step Study is a powerful journey of honesty, healing, and surrender. Using the Participant’s Guide, each person is invited to slow down and take a deeper look at their hurts, hang-ups, and habits in a safe and Christ-centered group. It is not about perfection or pretending everything is okay; it is about allowing God to gently uncover the places in our hearts that still need healing. Through each lesson, question, Scripture, and personal reflection, the Step Study helps us see where we have been wounded, where we have made choices that hurt ourselves or others, and where God is calling us into freedom.

To do a Step Study with the Participant’s Guide means being willing to be honest, open, and willing as God walks us through the 12 steps and 8 principles of recovery. It is a commitment to show up, share, listen, and grow with others who are also seeking healing. The guide helps us put our thoughts and struggles into words, and it gives us a path to face our past, confess our pain, make amends, and build a new life rooted in Jesus Christ. A Step Study reminds us that we do not have to stay stuck in shame, fear, or brokenness, because with God’s grace and the support of a recovery family, real change is possible.

James 5:16
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”


Celebraterecovery.com

06/23/2026

Join us this Friday night at Emmanuel Church Celebrate Recovery to honor a special milestone. We are celebrating our women's step study graduation. Come cheer them on!

Dinner: Spaghetti, with sausage, salad, bread, fruit and dessert.

6:00 Dinner
7:00 Large Group
8:00 Small Groups
9:00 Fellowship and Dessert

Free childcare – check in 6:45 pm. Come on out and invite a friend!


Celebraterecovery.com

06/22/2026

💚Mental Health Monday💚
You Are Allowed to Ask for Help

Many of us learned that strength meant handling everything ourselves.
Recovery teaches a different lesson.
Strength isn’t pretending you’re okay.
Strength is being honest when you’re not.

Sometimes healing looks like:
• calling your Sponsor
• texting an Accountability Partner
• asking for prayer
• scheduling a therapy appointment
• admitting you’re struggling

Asking for help doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
It means you’re investing in your healing.

✨ Try this today:
Identify one support person you can reach out to before you actually need them.

💬 Let’s talk:
Who is someone you trust when life feels heavy?

06/22/2026

Coming up this Friday!

06/22/2026

“But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by preserving produce a crop.” Luke 8:15

Did you know that sequoia trees can get as tall as 300 ft tall, the tallest on record being 325 ft tall?? What if a sequoia seedling stopped growing? "Like, thanks but I'm tall enough!" It would never reach its full potential. What if it never reached the beautiful, majestic heights that make it a spectacular sight to see?

As the women's step study ends, I am reminded of how far each of my step study sisters have come. However, just because the step study has ended doesn't mean that you stop. Your recovery is just like a tree. Recovery must grow and flourish. You cannot stand still. As you grow in your faith with Christ we are in sync with our recovery. Leading a life where Christ becomes our priority, not our addictions. As we wrap up, I encourage every one of you to continue to Grow in your love for Christ and in turn spread the good news to others.

Step 12. Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.

“Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore them gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.” Galatians 6:1

- E


Celebraterecovery.com

06/19/2026

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16

For me admitting to God the nature of my wrongs is the first step in truly letting go and trusting Him. He knows all my sins; He understands and realizes that my sin is what holds me back. Admitting to God the nature of my wrongs is only about me acknowledging what He already knows. I am, for the most part, an open book with a lot of people. I think telling people my life story is something God has called me to do. But to dive into my past, to look at my sins and openly examine and confess to someone that sinful nature, that was the hard part for me. I also have trouble doing this because of my past religious experiences, I had negative memories of acting this out to clergy, it all seemed so fake to me. I always knew that about myself, that I would come up with something just to say so that I had been to "confession", it was all an act. In Celebrate Recovery (CR) I realized to find healing, true healing, I had to dig deep and admit that I have sinned. CR sponsors are there to help guide us through, and boy did that make a huge difference for me, my sponsor walked alongside me throughout this process. I am still reminded by my sponsor that I wasn't the first to create these life hurts, habits or hang-ups and I will not be the last. It was then I could confess to them and God to move forward. While I was doing this my trust in my CR groups became real and genuine, so my confession was genuine as well.

One passage that illustrates the power of confession is:

James 5:16 - Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

When we openly confess to our CR sponsor or accountability partners we are placing these confessions into the confident prayer that has great power to heal. And for that I am eternally grateful

Theresa


Celebraterecovery.com