Meeting Information
Celebrate Recovery meets every Friday, even when Friday falls on a holiday!
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Teaching or Testimony
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Men's & Women's Open Share Groups
All sessions meet at Calvary Baptist Church - Beaumont Campus. It's easiet to use the Folsom Road entrance and follow the signs to Buiding 6, the Epi-Center.
*Childcare is provided.
Weekly Step Study Groups meet on Mondays.
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Celebrate Recovery Workbook and the Life Recovery Bible are utilized in these groups. You must attend Newcomers 101 on Fridays before being assigned to a Step Class.
*Childcare is provided.
All sessions meet at Calvary Baptist Church - Beaumont Campus. It's easiet to use the Folsom Road entrance and follow the signs to Buiding 7.
Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Can:
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Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths and hopes with others who are going through the "Principles" in a Christ-Centered recovery.
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Provide you a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up or habit that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step each week. The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery's "Five Group Guidelines."
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Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner or sponsor.
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Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week, if available.
Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Will Not:
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Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counselors.
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Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.
Small Group Guidelines
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Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
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There will be no cross talk please. Cross talk is when 2 individuals engage in dialogue, excluding all others. Each person is free to express feelings without interruption.
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We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to "fix" another.
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Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group!
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Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered group.
Group Guidelines and Why’s
Focusing on Others: Concentrating on others needs and problems. Analyzing their motives and behavior. Asking questions of others. Telling stories about what he/she did.
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Negative Results: Helps us avoid our own issues. Makes us observers, not participants. Puts a safe (and lonely) distance between ourselves and others.
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Guideline #1: Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
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Guideline #2: We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to "fix" one another.
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Goals: Keeps the focus on ourselves. Share personal needs, feelings, ideas and problems. Allow time for all those who need to share.
Breaking Confidentiality: Telling outsiders what was said or done in group. Gossip disguised as a prayer request.
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Negative Results: Violates trust and safety. Makes members afraid to share risky material.
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Guideline #3: Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group.
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Goals: Celebrate Recovery is a safe place.
Cross-Talk: Interrupting people, asking questions, having a dialogue with one other member of the group.
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Negative Results: Members fear that they won't be able to finish sharing, that their ideas are not valued, or that they won't get a chance to speak.
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Guideline # 4: There will be no cross-talk please. Cross-talk is when two individuals engage in a dialogue, excluding all others. Each person is free to express feelings without interruption.
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Guideline #5: Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.
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Goals: Listen respectfully to what others choose to share.