Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices

Grow your Celebrate Recovery Ministry through Life’s Healing Choices.

LIFE'S HEALING CHOICES

A RECOVERY EXPERIENCE

Freedom from your hurts, hang-ups and habits

The new campaign event from Saddleback Church &

Pastor Rick Warren.

A note from Pastor Rick Warren:

“Offering real hope and a real future one healing choice at a time. At Saddleback Church we’ve learned that every person deals with pain in their lives. Our goal has always been to move people past their hurts and struggles toward making the decisions that lead them to be more Christ-like in character.

Join us this fall, starting September 26th, as we embark on our newest campaign, Life’s Healing Choices, a study of eight healing principles from the Beatitudes taught by Jesus. Your congregation will be changed in dramatic ways as they find true happiness by learning to overcome their hurts, hang-ups and habits - allowing God to enter their lives with healing and growth.”

The Life’s Healing Choices small group material includes:

· Eight studies from Pastor Rick Warren in a special Fall edition of the Purpose Driven Connection curriculum.
· Sermon transcripts, outlines and audio files for each of the eight weeks of the campaign.
· Life’s Healing Choices, the book from Pastor John baker.

There will be no better outreach opportunity for your CR than to participate. This national event will reach more people for Christ as well as inform them about your Celebrate Recovery. Get ready to grow, “for no eye have seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9)

Sign up now on https://www.lifeshealingchoices.com/

Celebrate Recovery Resources

Celebrate Recovery Order Reference Guide

Every week I receive dozens of e-mails asking, "Tina where can I find_____?" Since we have over 10,000 people checking out my training blog each week I thought I would save you a few minutes writing me e-mail and provide you with a list of CR tools and where to find them! As a trainer I like to work efficiently!

Celebrate Recovery Tools http://www.saddlebackresources.com
1-800-723-3532/1-877-727-8677
Celebrate Recovery Program Starter Kit
Celebrate Recovery Leaders Guide
Celebrate Recovery Participant’s Guides
Advanced Leadership Training Guide (ALT)
Celebrate Recovery Journal
Celebrate Recovery Bible
Life’s Healing Choices
The CR Invitation - CD
Senior Pastor’s Support Video
Testimonies To Go – Volume’s 1-8
Celebrate Recovery “Words”
CD’S, Recovery Music
Spanish Resources

Celebrate Recovery Visual Kits (Power Points) www.eyeeffectsworship.com
Visual Kit 1 – Power Point of 25 Lessons/Worship/8 Recovery Principles
Visual Kit 2 – Celebrate Recovery graphic’s/images/logo’s
Advanced Leadership Training Visual Kit – Power Point coincides w/ the ALT

Celebrate Recovery Chips www.celebraterecoverygear.com
30, 60, 90 days, 1 year, etc…
CR Shirts/Banners/Logo’s/lanyards

Life Hurts, God Heals www.simplyyouthministry.com
Recovery for Jr High and High School students

On-Line Registration www.celebraterecovery.com
1-Day Seminars; 7-keys & ALT’s
Annual 3-Day Summit – August 12-14, 2009

Celebrate Recovery Official Website! www.celebraterecovery.com
Free Pod-casts
Where to find a CR Group
Links to CR Blogs

I hope this helps you achieve your ministry goals a lot sooner!

Celebrate Recovery and Life's Healing Choices

5 Ways to Use Life's Healing Choices In Your Celebrate Recovery®

▼ Outreach tool
Just as the rest of the Celebrate Recovery curriculum, Life's Healing Choices should be available on your resource table for purchase by your Celebrate Recovery participants. This will provide them with an outreach opportunity to purchase the book and give it to someone they want to invite to Celebrate Recovery. This is a great tool to reach more people for Christ as well as inform them about Celebrate Recovery.

▼ Overview for newcomers
When someone new comes into the program, they can be completely overwhelmed. By reading Life's Healing Choices they can get a quick, solid understanding of the Eight Principles and what Celebrate Recovery is all about. This is not to be a replacement for working the program, but it can serve as a great way to help the newcomer get started.

▼ Deepen all participants’ understanding of the 8 Principles
It doesn't matter where someone is in their Celebrate Recovery journey, if they are a newcomer or have been attending for years; Life's Healing Choices presents the 8 Principles / 8 Choices in fresh new ways. We can all afford to learn more about these Biblically based principles. Also, the 16 testimonies contained within are a great source of encouragement to those in the program.

▼ Additional resource for Step Studies
Using Life's Healing Choices in Step Studies as devotional reading and as outside assignments allows participants a chance to dig deeper into the Principles and find more healing through the Bible verses and references.

▼ Teaching the Celebrate Recovery lessons
Those who teach the lessons from the Celebrate Recovery Leaders’ Guide will find a wealth of knowledge in Life's Healing Choices. Celebrate Recovery teachers will find material in the book not covered anywhere else. There are insights found in Life's Healing Choices that will provide teachers with new illustrations and teaching opportunities.

Celebrate Recovery Podcast "The Predictable Pattern of Relapse"

Hello Everyone,

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and Christmas isn’t far behind. For many of us, the holidays can be rough. Because of this, Bob and Johnny sat down and talked about the Predictable Pattern of Relapse. The Four C’s come right out of Pastor John’s new book, Life’s Healing Choices. Make sure to check it out!

You can listen to the podcast here, or you can subscribe to it in iTunes.

Celebrate Recovery and Life’s Healing Choices

Use Life’s Healing Choices as a compliment to the 25 Celebrate Recovery lessons. (For a copy of Life's Healing Choices, written by John Baker, Founder of Celebrate Recovery, go to www.celebraterecovery.com)

Tonight I will be teaching VICTORY Lesson 15, from the CR Leaders Guide. Teaching is actually a challenge for me; let me rephrase that: it's terrifying! I know my way around the ALT backwards and forward but for me, teaching stretches my faith. In spite of my fear I am trying something new tonight. I am incorporating Life’s Healing Choices in my lesson. Here’s how:

I read through Choice 5, Making Changes, (page 129.) For my introduction I summarize the main elements with my personal experience, which sets up the VICTORY acrostic beautifully! I continue through each acrostic fill-in and scriptures, from the CR Leaders Guide, editing a couple of the existing illustrations with a few of my own and adding additional fundamentals from LHC's. Then I wrap up the lesson with the 3-action steps as described on pages 144-148 of LHC's.

Incorporating Life’s Healing Choices into my CR Lesson does 3 things:

1. Teaches me more about my character defects
2. Brings a fresh perspective to Principle 5
3. And, keeps the acrostics and scriptures remained in tact!

The only thing I really understand about public speaking is this: Capture the attention of the participants with an introduction that keeps them listening, and end with “an task", a tool a participant is able to apply to their recovery.

To better equip your participants, I highly recommend making Life's Healing Choices available on your information table along side the CR Bible and 4 Participant's Guides.

I hope this helps!