Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centred, 12 step recovery program for anyone struggling with any hurts, habits or hangups. CR runs in St Andrew’s Church on a Tuesday evening from 7.30pm and a Thursday morning from 11.30am.

You can watch a short video about CR below and we have hosted some of our prayers and the 12 Steps themselves on this page so you can engage with some of the tools we use every week.

If you would like to get involved or to find out more about the programme, please contact Kallie

The Serenity Prayer

“God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a
pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world
as it is, and not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your Will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You
forever in the next.
Amen.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

Prayers

The 12 Steps

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We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviours, that our lives had become unmanageable.
We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviours, that our lives had become unmanageable.

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.

Romans 7:18

We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

Philippians 2:13

We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship.

Romans 12:1

We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

Lamentations 3:40

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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

James 5:16a

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:10

We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Luke 6:31

We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First, go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

Matthew 5:23-24

We continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
We continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!

1 Corinthians 10:12

We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.
We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.

Colossians 3:16a

Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.

Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore them gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.

Galatians 6:1