Happy Belated New Year!
During December and January schedules were all messed up, meetings on different nights to work around the holidays, but we still held a Celebrate Recovery meeting every week. Attendance was down somewhat, but we still had most of our regulars. It was great to know we all still had Celebrate Recovery during what can be the most hectic time of year.
The last week of December - first week of January instead of having our Celebrate Recovery on Tuesday evening, we moved up our meeting night to Monday, December 31st and joined together with the rest of our church, to have a special night of activities. After our large group meeting and small group CR meetings we were able to stay until after midnight in a safe and wholesome environment. The theme was, “Let God make a transformation in you”. This really touched one of our regular attendees from Celebrate Recovery, who stayed after CR for the New Years Eve Celebration. One of the games that was played involved “transforming” a person from your group into a “Transformer”, this was achieved by using everyday things from around the house such as empty paper tubes and aluminum foil. God really spoke to this gentleman through this silly game on making a transformation in his life this coming year. It is amazing to see how God can work in our live through everyday happenings.
On that note we would like to thank Bethany Baptist Church for inviting everyone to join in with them on celebrating their five year anniversary with Celebrate Recovery. It was great seeing representatives from all of the local CR groups all come together on their special night. CR really works! Great job Bethany and we look forward to joining you on your 10 year anniversary.
Sincerely,
Jim Brietenbauch
Lynda Lee Kersey
Grace Community Church Salem, OR