| Celebrate Recovery started in 1991 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. At that time, the church was meeting at a high school gymnasium. John Baker wrote Pastor Rick the "now famous concise 13-page single-spaced" letter outlining the vision God had given him for Celebrate Recovery. After reading John's letter, Pastor Rick said, "Great John, go do it!" The first night 45 people attended, and Celebrate Recovery was born. Over 10,000 people have gone through the program at Saddleback Church, and many of them are now serving in Celebrate Recovery and the church. Celebrate Recovery has become the number one outreach ministry at Saddleback Church, with over 70 percent of its members now coming from outside the church. The first ten years were the birth stage of Celebrate Recovery, and now God is calling us to take it to the world. There are now thousands of Celebrate Recovery® ministries meeting weekly around the world and it is still growing. We are part of a movement that is bringing the hurting and broken to the healing power of Jesus Christ. The Celebrate Recovery materials were written by Pastor John Baker and his pastor, Rick Warren, and today hundreds of thousands of courageous individuals have completed the Celebrate Recovery program. Celebrate Recovery is not only growing in churches, but in recovery houses, rescue missions, and prisons around the world. New Mexico was the first state to adopt Celebrate Recovery into their state prison system. Now, New Mexico has Celebrate Recovery pods in all their state prisons. In August of 2004, Celebrate Recovery was announced as California's state approved substance abuse program for prisons. This is an exciting and growing outreach opportunity for every Celebrate Recovery. Faith Center offers a weekly Celebrate Recovery Bible Study to the women in the Humboldt County Jail. Celebrate Recovery has currently reached 45 countries around the world. March 2010 Faith Center leaders trained hundreds of pastors and leaders in Abuja and Lagos to begin Celebrate Recovery in Nigeria, Africa. For more information about Celebrate Recovery visit www.celebraterecovery.com |
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