CELEBRATE RECOVERY

www.celebraterecovery.com

UCC CELEBRATE RECOVERY IS ON HIATUS UNTIL 2012

Contact information:
Rick Geddie, 310-4329
Charles Stewart, 799-2944

HISTORY OF CELEBRATE RECOVERY

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.
Beginning with only four Open Share Groups—Men’s and Women’s Chemical
Dependency, and Men’s and Women’s Co-Dependency—the ministry has
grown to over fourteen groups today. Over 8,500 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 around the world and it is growing. We are part of a
movement that is bringing the hurting and broken to the healing power of
Jesus Christ.

In addition, Celebrate Recovery is not just 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.
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