Celebrate Recovery® is a Christ-centered recovery community helping others celebrate freedom from all types of painful hurts, habits and hang-ups. Celebrate Recovery® utilizes the biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spiritually and emotionally. Together we experience lifechanging transformation as we learn to apply the Twelve Steps along with biblical comparisons and Eight Recovery Principles based on the teachings of Jesus. God's healing power leads us to a life of serenity, joy and most importantly, a strong personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We learn to break free from our need to rely on our dysfunctional, compulsive, and unmanageable behaviors as a 'fix' for our pain, and turn to Christ, our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power.

Who Should Attend?

We all struggle! Anyone who desires a new way of managing life should consider attending Celebrate Recovery.® Participants may include people who struggle with anger, fear, loss of a loved one, desperate, co-dependency, sexual/physical abuse, various addictions, compulsive over/under eating, spending compulsively and any other hurt, habit or hang-up that keeps us from becoming the people we are called to be.

The evening begins with food and fellowship and flows to a Large Group fellowship with worship, prayer, a reading of the steps or recovery principles, and a Biblically based teaching or a testimony. Gender specific support groups immediately follow the Large Group fellowship. We share our experience, strength and hope in an open share fashion. Step studies, an in-depth concentrated study of the steps and recovery principles are periodically offered throughout the year. Step studies are gender specific, but include people working toward freedom from a variety of recovery issues.

What is Expected of Me?

Come as you are! No registration is needed. Celebrate Recovery® is an anonymous recovery meeting. No matter your hurt, pain, or struggle you are welcome. You are free to share or not to share inside the support groups. All meetings are open to anyone who desires change, but anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements.

We encourage you to visit five or six times before deciding if Celebrate Recovery® is right for you! Celebrate Recovery® does name and celebrate Jesus Christ as our Higher Power, but anyone seeking a new way to manage life is welcome. Come with an open heart, an open mind and ears ready to listen. Newcomers are always welcome!

Where Are Meetings Held?

Celebrate Recovery® meetings are held on Saturday mornings at Ripley Church of Christ in Big Prairie, Ohio.   There are never any dues or fees, but donations are accepted and appreciated. No registration or sign up is necessary; come just as you are.

8:30 - 9:00 am. Recovery Cafe'

9:10 - 10:00 am. Large Group Fellowship
10:00 - 11:00 am. Support Group Meetings
11:00 - 11:30 am. Recovery Cafe'

Types of Present Groups

New groups randomly form. Current groups include:

Men's Survivors Recovery Group
Women's Survivors Recovery Group
Men's Chemical Abuse Group
Women's Chemical Abuse Group
Men's A-Z Recovery Group
Women's A-Z Recovery Group