Coming Soon...

How many of you wish you would have found CR when you were a teen?  I know I do!  My need for approval didn’t start when I was 34 years old…I think I was more like 10!!  I didn’t start using food to cope with my emotions when I got married; it was when I was an adolescent.   These unhealthy patterns were full blown BAD HABITS by the time I was a teen, and then they just continued to spiral out of control the older I got.

I think that’s one reason why I am so excited that MRCC is beginning The Landing! (If you haven’t heard much about The Landing yet, that’s okay…it’s new and you’ll be hearing a lot more about it over the coming weeks!)

The Landing is an all-new, year-long program that helps teenagers travel the path to freedom, healing, and wholeness. This dynamic resource mirrors the content presented in the successful Celebrate Recovery program.

The lessons deliver hope-filled truths and real-life strategies for giving young people the tools for making wise choices and developing healthy patterns for living.

The program will be offered at MRCC in conjunction with our CR program each Friday night and lessons are designed for junior high and high school students.   They will meet from 7-9 in the Summit and the lessons will be very open and hands on!   (There are a few differences between CR and The Landing: The Landing does not have students introduce themselves with their hurt, habit or hangup, students will not do testimonies or written inventories.  They will have private journal and prayer time.)

Kick-off night is January 21st, please be praying that God, once again, uses this program to change lives!

There are several of us from the MRCC Celebrate Recovery program that have committed to helping with the Landing, but we can always use more leadership!  If you are interested in serving and have completed a Step Study, please let Micah know!

Grateful Believer,

Karyn

Christmas Memories

I just want to say thanks to everyone who donated to help buy gifts for kids sponsored through the Anna's House Foundation.   We took up a donation on December 3rd and... 

we raised more than $925!!  

The night of the contribution I found myself overwhelmed with emotion.  My husband asked me on the way home why it was such an emotional thing for me.  I just thought I would share my answer with all of you.

I have so many wonderful memories of Christmas morning.  Running in to the tree to see just what Santa had brought me.  While my family was not wealthy I always got that one gift I really wanted.  I remember having so much joy. Imagining some child not ever having those memories breaks my heart.  Having the chance to be a part of maybe bring one child that joy really means a lot to me.  I hope that these kids can remember this Christmas.

God tells us to love one another.  To me, this is just one way we can all show love to a child we may never meet.  Again, Anna's House is a Christian organization that helps Christian foster families.  So, I also feel that we are helping those families, who may not have the funds, show those kids they do love them.  In turn, maybe someday the love these families show them will translate to a relationship with Christ. 

As you can see by the pictures here, we were able to provide...lots of clothes, toys and, of course, cars with flames!

There was more money than we needed for these gifts.  We offered to buy for more children, but Anna's House did not have more in need.  Since that was the case we gave Anna's House the extra money.  They plan to use it to help provide these same families with food this Christmas.

 

I feel so blessed to have joined with each of you in providing gifts for these children whom we may never know.  Thank you for all you donated, whether it was your money or your prayers.

Merry Christmas!

Grateful Believer,

Chellie

A better answer...

I’ve been asked three times about the blue wristband/bracelet that I wear. Here’s how those conversations went:

“So what kind of wristband is that? What does it represent?” asked a co-worker.

“Celebrate Recovery,” I tell him. “It’s a Christ-centered recovery program that I’m involved in.”

“That’s that Rick Warren thing, right?”

I spent the next few minutes talking with him about CR and the hope it brings to those who are hurting. I think all he heard was “blah blah, Rick Warren, blah, Jesus, blah.”

The next conversation was with a friend’s 7-year-old.

“What’s that say on your bracelet?” he asked.

“It says ‘Celebrate Recovery’” I replied.

“Oh.” End of conversation.

I realized after these two conversations that I had to figure out a better answer for this question. In order to do that, I had to take some time to figure out exactly what the bracelet really means to me.

By the third asking, I was ready.

Helping out with the 1^st graders at church one Wednesday evening, I got the question.

“Why do you wear that?” he asked, pointing at my wrist.

“It reminds me to make good decisions” was my answer.

And that was it. It was what I knew all along.

Recovery is about making good decisions, one decision at a time. The more I make good decisions, the easier the recovery process gets. I grow closer to God, my family, and my friends. The good decisions add up, and when I find myself faced with big choices that can hurt me, it’s easier to choose the one that leads me closer to God.

The best decision isn’t always the easy one, or the most pleasant, but I wear a daily reminder that I’m not in this alone. When I slip because of a poor choice, the blue around my wrist is a gentle reminder that there’s another opportunity to make things right again.

The blue CR wristband is available online at Celebrate Recovery Gear. Better yet, visit CR@MRCC Friday nights to learn how to heal through good decision making.

The best decision you’ll make is the one that brings you closer to Christ.

Grateful Believer,

Morgan

Cunning, Baffling, and Powerful

The AA "Big Book” calls alcohol “cunning, baffling, and powerful.” It also says that “without help it (meaning alcohol) is too much for us.” The “Big” Big Book (the Bible) says in Romans 7:15-18: “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.”

When I began drinking regularly at age 16 I simply liked the “feeling” alcohol gave me. This is the “cunning” part of alcohol - because long after I lost the peace alcohol had once given me, I continued to think the next time I drank I would have that peace again. Alcohol was “baffling” in that even after a drunk driving car wreck my freshman year in college, multiple blackouts, another drunk driving wreck as a car passenger, an arrest for public intoxication, and other incidents (things much worse than mentioned here, but I’m not ready to put them in a blog) I still thought “I can control my use of alcohol!” And finally it is “powerful.” I would tell myself “I am not drinking today” and I would later that day find myself drinking again. I once quit drinking for 42 days and as soon as I had the next “first drink” I was quickly back to drinking like I had before. I even quit for six months at age 22, I thought I had alcohol beat, but as soon as I drank again it was if I had been drinking all along and not long after I had one of my worst blackout episodes.

It wasn’t until six more years passed, at age 28, that I had my last drink (one day at a time) and have not had a drink in over 16 years. The difference between the last time I drank and all of the times before was that previously I had tried to stop with my willpower instead of using the power of God. Earlier in this entry I quoted Romans 7:15-18. This scripture reminds me that while there may be a part of me that wants to quit using alcohol there will always be another part of me that wants to do what I hate to do. Therefore my will power will never be enough because sin lives in me. It doesn’t matter what hurt, hang up, or habit I have, as long as I live I will always have a sinful nature. It is this knowledge of self that makes Romans 8:1-5 so incredible!

“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. Those who live according to the sinful nature have their mind set on what nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their mind set on what the Spirit desires.”

Every day when I wake up I am an untreated alcoholic/sinner and every day I get on my knees and seek His will because I deal with an addiction that is cunning, baffling, and powerful and because I have a sinful nature that invites me to do what I don’t want to do. It is comforting to know that all I need to do every minute and every day is to be willing to submit to his power instead of my own and I am free. There is no special key needed to unlock this power it is a simple decision that I make. There is no special intelligence needed only the humility to let God be in control and for me to get out of the way.

Grateful Believer,

Sheldon

Warning: Do Not Attempt Alone

As a part of our new pre-school wing at church there is a flight of stairs that the toodlers/pre-schoolers and their parents can take to get to their classrooms.  Living in a one story house all his life, my three year old looked up at me and said, "Daddy, those are big stairs."  I can empathize with my three foot son.  When I was his age, my family would vacation to Houston to my aunt and uncle's house.  It was a two story mansion in my estimation.  I can remember looking up those stairs and thinking, "Before I leave I will walk to the top by myself."  That was wishful thinking on my part.  My parents put up a gate so that I could not attempt my adventure. 

Likewise in my recovery, I am often so deep in my self-made pit of addiction and unhealthy behavior or underserved hurt and sorrow that it is inconceivable to me how to get out.  I'm looking up and I see how many steps I need to take to find freedom or healing, and it feels impossible...and it is...on my own.  One of the keys that I have discovered in the Christian road to recovery - hand in hand with Jesus - is that the journey is meant to be traveled in numbers.  Eventually, I was able to climb that staircase at my aunt's house.  Holding my dad's hand, he taught me how to climb those stairs one at a time.  Similarly, God tells me in His Word that I need to have people in my life to support me through the storms of life:

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

 ⁹ Two are better than one,
   because they have a good return for their labor:
¹⁰ If either of them falls down,
   one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
   and has no one to help them up.
¹¹ Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
   But how can one keep warm alone?
¹² Though one may be overpowered,
   two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

In Celebrate Recovery, THE best way to find genuine support and accountability that works is to be consistent in meeting attendance.  This includes attendance in Large Groups (lessons and testimonies), Open Share groups (learning from those with similar issues) and Step Study groups (10-12 month group with a wide variety of issues all focused on healing and freedom from hurts, hang-ups and habits). When I am consistent in group attendance, I have the opportunity to get to know others.  As those relationships form naturally, it is my responsibility to ask others (same gender as me) to be my accountability partners and sponsor.  These people are not assigned to me.  I must choose and ask them to join my accountability team to help me on my road to recovery.

Accountability partners are other CR participants (same gender as you) who help me with a specific area of recovery.  For example, I may ask someone to hold me accountable for my meeting attendance; or, I may ask someone to help me with my alcohol addiction.  Then, during the week if I need encouragement/support or if I want to share a victory, I have a name and number to call and share it.  This seems simple and insignificant, but it is actually powerful and a key to any one's recovery.

Sponsors in Celebrate Recovery serve as "coaches" or "mentors" in recovery.  They have at least 10-12 months recovery under their belt, they have finished a step study (which means they have a sponsor too) and they are the same gender as you.  My sponsor is an excellent example of  what a sponsor should do.  He tells me what I need to hear to progress - not what I want to hear.  He shares with me his experiences, strength and hope.  In other words, what has worked for him and what has not.  He warns me about pit falls.  When I'm stuck and need help, I call him and he listens...sometimes followed by a helpful assignment.  He asks great questions to help me probe through a difficult time.  He listened to my 4th step inventory and did not judge me.  Instead, he expressed to me grace and love.  These are all functions of the sponsor.  The sponsee/sponsor relationship is pivotal to a successful recovery journey.  The greatest warning I could give to anyone is this: do not attempt to climb the 12 recovery steps alone.  If you do, I believe you will be frustrated and inevitably fail.

One of the greatest things I did in my recovery was to swallow my pride and reach out for help and trust the Lord that He would deliver me.  When i did that, God really began to bless my recovery.  I'll close this blog with one of my favorite Psalms:

Psalm 40:1-3    

¹ I waited patiently for the LORD;
   he turned to me and heard my cry.
² He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
   out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
   and gave me a firm place to stand.
³ He put a new song in my mouth,
   a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the LORD
   and put their trust in him.

Grateful Believer,

Micah

Give Thanks

THANKSGIVING... Have you given thanks for your blessings lately?              

I was asked to share some thoughts for the blog entry this week as our nation pauses to give thanks.  Actually, I think it has become more of a precursor for the dropping of the flags to start the Christmas race, but all in all, it does at least get some of us to consider being thankful.  If not daily, at least once a year. 

God has given us all many things to be thankful for.  For me, it is my family, my health, my friends, my recovery (both physical and mental), and then a whole list of things too numerous to count.  But, as in all things good, there is the other force at work in this world that wants to steal our happiness and our thankfulness.  Satan attacks on every front – we have to be ready for his arsenal of hurt.  And, as long as we are alive, we get no reprieve.

There are some verses in the Bible that really speak to me, but there are others, well to be honest, some of them are hard for me to comprehend.  But this passage in Colossians 3: 12-17 is one that is very encouraging to me.  This passage talks about putting on the new elements that make us God’s chosen ones.  What more could we be thankful for than to have an opportunity to get to change who we are to become someone new –someone blessed with the love of God.

“Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

I love those last words... “Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”  I really try to give God thanks in all things and I try to do it daily.  But, I’ll be honest, some days, I don’t do it.  I let my busy schedule or other events dictate my activity, and I let thanking God slip through the cracks. 

So in closing, let me just ask you, what are you thankful for?  Have you told the person(s) responsible for your blessings how thankful you are for what they have done for you?  Have you told God how thankful you are for what he has done for you?   

This is a wonderful time to be reminded that we have so much to be thankful for.  But being reminded doesn’t mean much if we don’t do something about it.  Give Thanks!

…give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus…. 

I Thessalonians 5:18 

Grateful Believer,  

Bob 

10 Things I’ve Learned in Recovery So Far…

10. I have to celebrate victories in my recovery; it’s given me my life back! So I celebrate with victory dances and of course a new chip. (At the end of the movie Evan Almighty, Evan meets God face to face and they share a victory dance. My time face to face with God and having a victory dance is the one I aim the hardest for and the one I look forward to the most!)

9. Like the Arrid deodorant commercial… Depression stinks, recovery works! You’re never too young to start recovering from the past. I began coming to Celebrate Recovery two years ago when I was 19. I’m a much happier person to be around - just the other day my 5 year old nephew said so.

8. I learned that there are people that I can trust. I know I am not judged when I speak out. Knowing that I’m not alone in my hurts, hang-ups and habits is the most RAD-TASTIC feeling ever.

7. I learned being anti-social doesn’t help me. Dude seriously, I didn’t realize how much I was missing out until I stepped out of my comfort zone and actually became social at CR. It has been a key to my recovery. I met people that became like my second family and they love me for me.

6. I learned that having a sponsor and accountability is way important. I know when I’m in a bind or about to slip up- I can call someone and they know they can call me. I have incredible accountability partners and I cannot thank God enough for them being a part of my recovery.

5. I learned when I started to be transparent and throw away my façade- the chains that kept me a prisoner of my past were gone. I continually try to be transparent in my recovery; secrecy was part of my problem.

4. I thought I could easily recover without Gods help. WRONG. I learned when I pushed God away; it only allowed Satan to step in. I remember the moment I hit my breaking point. I fell to my knees and raised my hands to God. I was neck deep in depression, substance abuse and sexual addiction. I prayed and God came to my rescue. He lifted me up and dusted me off. At that moment I learned recovery is just NOT possible without God.

3. God’s plan for me is much more wonderful, much more powerful and much more significant than I can ever imagine. The reason I have another day, the reason why my heart is still beating is because God has an assignment with my name on it and I’m on a quest to find it.

2. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.2 Corinthians 12:9-10

1. I have to stay focused on THE goal. Philippians 3:12-14 (The Message)
“I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I'm off and running and I'm not turning back.”

Grateful Believer,
Kenzie

Fall Retreat

Recently our CR group from MRCC had a fall retreat at Camp Rock Creek in Norman, Oklahoma.  We had a wonderful time!  There is just something amazing about worshiping outside IN nature and praising God!

We arrived to the campsite Saturday, October 30^th around 11 AM and room assignments were given out while lunch was being prepared.  After lunch Sheldon had prepared some games for us, the games required that we work together as a team to accomplish the tasks.  After games we had free time, which mostly consisted of pumpkin carving and letting the kids run around.   

Later that night we had a costume contest for adults and kids!  The kids got to trick-or-treat at each cabin and got a ton of candy!    After trick-or-treat Dan shared with us a wonderful lesson and we were able to praise God once again!  S'mores around the campfire followed our evening lesson – we roasted a lot of marshmallows!!

Several stayed up into the wee hours of the morning playing board games while others stayed awake into the wee hours of the morning due to some coyotes making scary noises out in the woods – very fitting for a Halloween camp out!

Sunday morning we had an amazing breakfast and then got to hear Micah preach on service and giving back.  If you didn’t come this year, you really need to consider joining us next year!!  

We were truly blessed with amazing weather, amazing surroundings, amazing praise & worship, amazing lessons, and had an amazing time that we won’t soon forget!

Well….there are SOME things we wish we could forget…..

Enough said.

Grateful Believers,

Tara & Karyn

Appreciation Luncheon

I’m looking forward to the Appreciation Luncheon this Sunday, November 7th because we really have so many great people who work so hard to put everything together for CR. People may not realize how much work goes into putting on a Friday and keeping our program running smoothly, but it takes a whole group of dedicated people to pull it off. This is a great opportunity to say thank you and appreciate people who serve us on a weekly basis.

Last week’s lesson was on gratitude and being thankful is a great way to keep working your recovery. I am thankful for our dinner team and all the people who contribute to making Friday night not only a comfortable place to be, but a place I look forward to going each week.

Please consider joining us for this great time of fellowship and gratitude!

The cost is $5.00 a person, $3.00 a child or $15.00 for a family. Again the luncheon is this Sunday, November 7th at 12:30 PM in the Summit, final sign ups are this Friday night.  ( If you can't attend but would still like to honor the dinner team you can do so by sponsoring an honoree and making a donation of $5 - $15.  Please see Dan L. on Friday night to make a donation.)

We hope you can make it!

Grateful Believer,
Andrew

James 5:16

I moved into a new office recently. After a few weeks of settling in, there were still a few items left to be tucked away. In a stack of books I found an old pocket-sized Bible tucked inside its original box. I opened the box, pulled out the Bible and began to flip through its pages. The old Bible brought back a lot of memories, good memories in fact; like the semester when I started each morning with God’s word, a banana mocha and a biscuit sitting in a corner booth at the Virtual Bean Coffee Shop . Or the late nights lying in bed face up reading the book of James everyday for a month. It was a challenge set forth by an elder at the Stillwater church of Christ that really impacted my spiritual life early on in my time at OSU. With the pages loosened from its binding it was obvious that this Bible and I had been through a lot…or should I say it got me through a lot.

I thumbed over to James curious as to what God’s word was teaching me at that point in my life. I was surprised to find James 5:16 underlined.

It reads: Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. 

This verse has come to mean so much to me in my recovery, but why did I have it underlined so many years ago? I know I wasn’t putting the verse into practice. It got me thinking about how at that point in life, my pain had not yet become greater than my fear of change. I was living two separate lives at the time. The Nate that everyone knew was active in ministry and growing in God’s word.  I believe that as I read James 5:16, I saw the need to confess my sins- after all I was neck deep in pornography, but Satan had convinced me that if I became vulnerable, that if I put God’s word into practice, that the only thing waiting for me at the end of it was rejection, humiliation and more loneliness.  I didn’t trust that God would actually bring healing to my life.

Praise God, He didn’t give up on me. He stayed faithful to me through the following years and as my pain slowly became more than I could bear, He revealed His promise to me once again. Celebrate Recovery is an answered prayer in my life. Its the fulfillment of a deep longing for healing and change that, in my case, goes back more than 15 years. I remember the first time that James 5:16 was brought up at C.R. Its as if a light bulb went off in my head. It clicked. I got it. Forgiveness comes through confessing to God and healing comes through confessing to each other!  

I’m so thankful for these lessons learned and for the gentle whisper of the Father in Heaven,  who loves us enough to keep bringing us back to the same life lessons, the same promises and the same scriptures over and over and over again, until our hearts finally comprehend.

Grateful Believer,

Nate

The Rest of the Story

Lying, cheating, manipulation, using whatever I had to, to get my way!  Controlling situations and being so self centered that I took no one else into consideration, I only thought of myself, what I needed and wanted.   You may think I’m reading a script from Desperate Housewives, but I’m not...It’s my testimony!

Be there, this Friday night, 7:00 PM for the rest of the story….

Grateful Believer,

Karyn

The Beginning of CR@MRCC

God works in mysterious ways.  Often times, he works in ways we cannot see, but sometimes he works in ways you simply cannot deny.  In the summer of 2005 one of our elder’s wives approached me about starting a recovery ministry at Memorial Road.

I told her that I would “pray about it,” which was my way of politely saying, “Leave me alone about it.”  However, over the course of the next few weeks God brought three other people it my life requesting the same ministry.  It was then that I started to consider how God might use me to start a recovery ministry at MRCC.

I was five years into my own recovery from alcohol at this point.  My recovery beginning was in AA; but, I was not convinced AA would be helpful for others who were not alcoholics.  So, with the help of these three other people we began to research recovery programs across the nation.  This is when we found out about Celebrate Recovery (CR).

CR was exactly what I was looking for.  It was not only recovery for the person with the hurt, hang-up or habit, but it was also for their entire family.  Also, CR was not only for people with addictions.  It was for people with any kind of life struggle.

We were encouraged and excited about CR.  We found out about it in July and booked our airplane tickets and conference admission for the 2005 CR Summit at Saddleback Church in August.  We took seven people on this research trip.  It was an amazing experience to see over 3,000 people at the Summit hungry for Jesus’ grace, healing and forgiveness.  It was here that we learned how to kick-off CR in the proper way.   

2006 Kick-off

Friday night, January 13, 2006 was our kick-off service.  With much anticipation we awaited what would happen.  We had 12 people who had completed a step study and were committed to leadership for the first year of our program.  We really had no idea what to expect on that first night.

God blessed us with about 55 people that first night.  We had folks with all kinds of hurts, hang-ups and habits show up.  Some were from our church family, but we also had many from the community show up to see what CR was all about.  Over the course of the first few weeks something happened that we did not expect.  People who had left the church for various reasons were showing up at CR; and, I am humbled to share that many of them are now faithful members of the church due to what Jesus did in them at CR.  It was a great beginning to a ministry that continues to change lives in the name of Jesus Christ!

What God has done and continues to do… 

In my wildest dreams, I could have never imagined all that Jesus has done through CR.  The biggest blessing for me is that my life is changed as I have the opportunity to witness life change in others.  In the past five years, countless individuals and couples have come to CR and Jesus has given them hope, strength, healing and freedom from all sorts of hurts, hang-ups and habits.

Marriages have been saved.  Individuals have found their way out of darkness. The chains of pornography, drugs, depression, anger, resentment, alcohol, codependency among other life struggles have been broken through the power of Jesus Christ.  And as Jesus sets us free from these life struggles, he restores us and prepares us to be servants in this wonderful ministry.  CR is a leadership factory; but, not just any kind of leader.  I believe Jesus equips servant-hearted leaders out of CR.  Why?  When I experience the amazing grace, forgiveness and healing of Jesus and see that come to fruition in my life, I am in response ready and willing to share those gifts with someone else.

And that is why I love CR.  It is a Christ-centered recovery program that provides the opportunity for anyone to find freedom from any of life’s hurts, hang-ups or habits; but, in return, the Lord through this ministry calls us to “give it back.”  We do not keep recovery to ourselves; instead, we share it with as many people as we possibly can.

My prayer is that the Lord will continue to bring people into our lives that we can share the good news with.  That Jesus will lead us to some soul today and that we would share with that person how Jesus has changed our lives forever.  Please join us this Friday night and experience this Jesus who has changed my life, and I believe will change yours too.

Grateful Believer,

Micah

Welcome to CR@MRCC

We believe in the power of this Biblical program to change lives. We open the door to sharing our experiences, strengths and hopes with one another. In addition, we become willing to accept God’s grace in solving our lives’ problems.

Join us Friday night at 7 PM!