Change.

Who moved my cheese?!  Okay, I know we don’t do book referrals at CR…so I’m not referring it, just referencing it!  Who Moved My Cheese is a book about learning to accept change.  It’s been awhile since I have read it, but with all of the changes at our Celebrate Recovery program lately I think I need to pick it up again!

Our first change will be happening this week, we'll be moving over to the Summit for the summer months.  It's a change we make to make it easier for the church to host the over abundance of summer weddings. So, watch for that change this week! 

The second change is obviously the upcoming move of The Hobbs Family.  Micah and Tara moving is creating a huge gap!  Travis is the Ministry Director now and will be filling the gap there, but both Micah and Tara were sponsors, small group leaders, step study leaders, and a ton of other things.  It will be a challenge to replace them in all of these areas.  Not to mention maybe the most important….their friendship!

Change is often difficult to deal with.  Satan will use this opportunity to create division, and attack our personal recoveries.  I have already experienced this myself.  However, as I said, Travis is our Ministry Director and is fully capable of tackling the job.  In addition, Angi is our female Ministry leader, working together Travis and Angi compliment each other well.  One is educated and articulate and other is Angi.  I’m kidding! If you’ve ever met Angi you know that’s a joke.  But seriously, they each bring valuable talents to the TEAM.

Speaking of the TEAM, Travis and Angi aren’t alone.  They have Sheldon and Christi as Training coaches, who have an immense amount of knowledge and experience to train.  Nate and Karyn are our talented, creative Assimilation coaches, who are always thinking about ways to promote CR.

And then there is Jen and I, the Encouragement coaches.  Our main job is to sit around and smile while everyone else does the work.  You know, go with what you’re good at!

Aside from the TEAM we have several step study leaders, small group leaders, the dinner team, and several other dedicated volunteers.

Celebrate Recovery at Memorial Road will continue.  Change is scary.  But change can be good too.  The most important piece of the puzzle as we go forward is that each of us is truly working our recovery.  And don’t forget prayer!  Pray for the program, the leaders, and participants.

Use this opportunity to work your own recovery and maybe even step up in volunteer positions or leadership.  Look to see what needs to be done and pitch in!  This is an exciting time and there is a lot of work to do.

There is plenty of opportunity to complain and be negative about change, first when something happens you don’t like or agree with, I encourage you to pray and then bring it to leadership.  None of us is perfect, but if we all work together we can make this a positive experience for everyone!

To show you that change can be okay, Travis has agreed to stop shaving his head so be on the lookout for that!

Grateful believer,

Andrew