Christian Recovery Resourc Centers - Launching Plan

Christian Recovery Resource Centers

Launching Plan Outline

Dick B.
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First: The plan to organize, sponsor, and implement the establishment of Christian Recovery Resource Centers worldwide is the plan and program of the International Christian Recovery Coalition with headquarters in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com

Second: All those who wish to join us in establishing a Christian Recovery Resource Center as part of their recovery outreach must, unless they have already done so, become (at no cost) a participant in the International Christian Recovery Coalition. Contact Dick B. at dickb@dickb.com. We need your name, ministry, city, and state in order to list you as a participant.

Third: The mission statement of our Christian Recovery Resource Center program—a statement to which each Center subscribes—is identical to that on The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, 3rd ed. (http://DickB.com/Christian-Recover-Guide.shtml):

“To glorify God by: (1) sharing accurate information with Christian leaders and workers in the recovery arena about the roles played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in early A.A.’s astonishing successes; and (2) showing those leaders and workers how they can substantially enhance their effectiveness by including in their Christian-oriented recovery efforts the lessons learned by the early A.A. Christian pioneers.”

Each Center, whether organized, maintained, and implemented by an individual, a program, a group, a church, a fellowship, or some agency or organization, is expected to pursue Christian recovery in whatever way meets their own Christian recovery effort or ministry. Each is also expected to help the alcoholic and addict who still suffers to learn all the Christian resources available to him for recovery, and—if not conducted by the Center—to provide information and referral (without charge) to centers and programs conducted by other Christian Recovery Resource Centers in the community, area, and outreach worldwide.

Fourth: In addition to continuing an existing effort, service, or ministry, each Center will be expected to learn, inventory, and provide the following resources:

Issue a specific statement to ICRC of what a Christian Recovery Resource Center does do
Preferably, the statement should be available by phone, media, advertisements,
listings, brochures, pamphlets, websites, facebook, and newsletters.

Circulate that information to other Centers, to media, and as widely as possible
to the public at large. Every possible recovery resource should know of the center and its
services—12 Step Fellowships, Study groups, Bridge organizations, churches, clergy, physicians, treatment professionals, treatment programs of all types, counselors and chaplains, hospitals and rehabs, military and veteran facilities, business-labor-information organizations, Christian recovery fellowships, United Way agencies, Chambers of Commerce and Business bureaus, and others we list.

Answer inquiries from alcoholics and addicts, concerned others, and the public as
what Christian recovery resources are available, which the Center provides, and where
other Christian recovery resources can be found by them.

Provide resources describing what 12 Step Fellowships do and don’t do; explaining the
Christian origins, history, founding, successes, and changes in the A.A. program; highlighting what today’s Christian recovery resources can do; urging those who want God’s help to seek a comprehensive, tolerant, effective, complete Christian recovery program.

Establish a library which explains what A.A. is and isn’t, what the history of Christian
Recovery and A.A. are, what the various Christian recovery resources say, and have on hand The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, “Introductory Foundations for Christian
Recovery” www.dickb.com/IFCR-Class.shtml; and make available free as many Dick B.
titles as they have, buy, or we send.

Become acquainted and familiar, and network with other Centers and leaders.

Donate to us $500.00 for help fund our work. We can arrange for tax deductibility.

Fifth: Read our summary of “Who can Serve”—both individuals and organizations, homes, offices, facilities, and online. See our attachment with the material previously circulated on this point.

Sixth: What you need to tell us about yourself (including any website and brochures):

Name of individual or organization
Contact person
Mail, email, and phone address; URL; Facebook
Your major activity
Those specific Christian and/or recovery activities in which you are engaged (we will list
possibilities)
Your willingness to establish, maintain, and implement a Center
Which of our Christian and/or recovery resource activities you will undertake
Which you are willing to outsource – and some specific examples
Your understanding that, once listed, you will be part of our worldwide information
network. This means: (1) An informative listing on the International Christian
Recovery Coalition website, Facebook, newsletters, audio talks, flyers, and basic
book. (2) Supplying us with resource information you need. (3) Telling us the areas and people to which you will actually refer people. (4) Contacting our other centers providing them with your details, capabilities, and needs. (5) Establishing a website, email, phone, Facebook page, and full mail address information. (6)
Establishing a Christian recovery resource Library which we will help furnish
with Christian recovery materials and which will give you material to draw on. (7) Circulating in your area, community, circle of contacts, and major organizations
your own status as a Christian Recovery Resource Center, what you do, and what
they can expect. (8) Contact by every convenient means the churches, clergy,
recovery pastors, Christian counselor institutes, Christian counselors, Christian
treatment programs, Christian track treatment programs, Christian recovery
fellowships, chaplains, military and vet centers, sober living homes, detox centers,
12 Step Fellowship offices, and Christian leaders—telling them what you do and
how to reach you for help and guidance. (9) Contact newspapers, columnists, TV
and radio producers, national recovery organizations, and (10) Arrange with
outsource centers to make use of or refer others to their detoxes, counseling
facilities, churches, clergy, Christian Fellowships, Speakers meetings, treatment
programs, sober living programs, and other service outlets that will expand the
scope of your service and improve its quality.

Seventh: Send us a donation of $500.00 (which we can arrange to be made tax-deductible) for
permanent listing as a Christian Recovery Resource Center. Get the The Dick B.
Christian Recovery Guide (http://DickB.com/Christian-Recover-Guide.shtml) and
the “Introductory Foundations for Christian Recovery” class on four (4) DVD's
(http://DickB.com/IFCR-Class.shtml), if you do not already have them. We will
furnish a free assortment of Dick B. books to start your library.

Eighth: Work with us personally to establish, improve, and expand your own Christian
Recovery Resource Center. This can be done by phone or email, by a visit with us
on Maui, or even by your funding a trip to your area for a substantial workshop if
that is within your means.

Finally: We regard our role in this whole project as one of stimulating, consulting on,
facilitating, and establishing networks of service that will emphasize and
provide the role, need, and proximity of Christian recovery help throughout
the world. Our job will be to inform. We will not set standards on, endorse,
or attempt to control what you do. Much of what we have learned in the last
20 years of researching, meeting, speaking, and publishing has come through
the help of others. And we want to make available to the Christian recovery
arena as much of our findings and materials as we have been able to gather.

If you want to ask questions, make suggestions, obtain further information, or discuss this plan—prior to your signing on—please feel to contact Dick B.: dickb@dickb.com; 808 874 4876; PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837; or Ken B. at 808 276 4945.

Gloria Deo