MISSION STATEMENT
“To build recovery culture within our
church communities.”
It is our mission to build a network of apostolic recovery ministries in which we can work together to become equipped and supported to reach the hurting world in which we find ourselves.
What is Recovery Ministries?
Recovery Ministries is essentially a fellowship of recovering people who have found freedom from alcohol, drugs, gambling, sexual addictions, and destructive patterns of behavior through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the shared experience of the members of this body.
Recovery is a community of people in existence to bring individuals together with Jesus Christ and with each other.
Why Recovery Ministries?
From the beginning of time, when God saw that it was not good for man to be alone (Genesis 2:18), it has been His plan that we live in community with each other. His ultimate plan – for us to experience the abundant life that can only be found in Him – is that we facilitate that abundant life by our relationships with each other.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (KJV)-Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
In the world in which we live – and especially in the world of the addicted and recovering - meaningful relationships are hard to find.
RECOVERY exists to make life-changing relationships—with Jesus Christ and with others—accessible to everyone.
Addiction (regardless of whether its drugs, alcohol, or some other “hurts, habits, and/or hangups”) is isolating.
RECOVERY creates community.
RECOVERY binds us to Jesus Christ and to each other through meetings, messages, sponsorship and sharing. In times of prayer and times of teaching, both in relation to the Word of God and the 12 Steps, we are connected.
Acts 5:42 (NIV)-Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.”
OUR RECOVERY is different.
OUR RECOVERY is different than other recovery groups and meetings in that it is a Christ-centered, Spirit-filled and Spirit-led recovery group. In that Book of Acts church, it was in “small group meetings” that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was spread. Recovery is our “house” – and we, like them, will never stop teaching and proclaiming the Good News that Jesus is the Messiah –and that He came to break every chain of addiction and sin.
RECOVERY is:
1. A place to CONNECT:
“Yes, whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him.” (I Corinthians 9:22, TLB)
RECOVERY provides a place for addicted/recovering individuals and/or their family members to connect with others, to share life in all its successes and failures, and to grow in faith together.
2. A place to PROTECT and BE PROTECTED:
“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 John 3:16 KJV)
RECOVERY is a safe place for sharing their stories. It is a place where no failure is final and the smallest win is a cause for celebration.
3. A place to GROW:
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17 NIV)
RECOVERY provides a place for addicted/recovering individuals and/or their family members to become more firmly grounded in their recovery and deliverance by growing in their relationship with Jesus Christ, to become more like Him and to reach the potential God has placed inside them.
“Our goal is to provide an atmosphere conducive to deliverance and recovery in which the Holy Ghost can minister healing to the hurting and hope to the hopeless.”
The Word of God motivates – both leaders and members.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16 KJV)
“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10 KJV)
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9 KJV)
If you should wonder “why” we do RECOVERY, we recognize the need for a viable ministry into the addiction/and hurting community among us. We see the importance of living out the “not willing that any should perish” among people who are in great danger of perishing without even a chance to come to repentance.
We want people to come into the rooms of RECOVERY and find deliverance, to walk in recovery, and allow the Holy Spirit to minister healing and hope to them in every aspect of their lives.
Jesus taught that we must be born again and invited us into a new life free from the compulsions of the flesh and its desires (John 3:3). His redemptive power offers freedom from both the snare of addiction and the limitations of our biological tendencies, calling us to live in victory through His Spirit.
As Apostolics, we are called to proclaim that in Christ, we do not have to be enslaved by our flesh or its sinful desires. Jesus has set us free (Galatians 5:1), and through His transformative power, individuals can overcome any addiction, whether rooted in biology, behavior, or a combination of both.