What a Christian Recovery Resource Center Needs to Do and Be

What a Christian Recovery Resource Center Needs to Do and Be

A participant, at no cost, in the International Christian Recovery Coalition www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com.

A voluntary, listed Christian Recovery Resource Center of the International Christian Recovery Coalition.

Furnish our International Christian Recovery Coalition office in Maui with the following:

Your full name as an individual or as an entity.

Your mailing address; and, if different, your Center's street address, city, state, and zip.

Your phone number; and—if you have one—your email, website, and Facebook page.

Your primary area of Christian recovery interest and service

The Christian recovery services you provide now—taken from our list, including
Assessment and Qualification of newcomers; Interview; Intervention; Detox, and medical help; medical supervision; Christian counseling; Christian treatment; Christian Track treatment; Christian residential treatment; family issues; Christian after-care; Christian sober living; Christian recovery fellowships; Chaplain-Recovery Pastor-Licensed Christian counselors; individual and group Christian counseling and therapy; Bible teaching and study; individual and group prayer sessions, and Quiet Time; alcoholism and addiction education; orientation to the origins, history, founding, original program, successes, and later changes in the A.A.-12 Step movement; the original Akron A.A. “Christian fellowship” program and 14 practices of the A.A. pioneers in Akron; Instruction in the Big Book and how to “take” the 12 Steps; a Christian recovery Library; Training in discipleship and sponsorship; A.A./N.A. meeting attendance; Christian and Christ-Centered group attendance; Christian recovery speaker meetings; relapse Prevention; music and singing; medical aspects of alcoholism and addiction; exercise, nutrition, and wholesome recreation; fellowship with like-minded believers; witnessing and carrying the Christian recovery message; routing the alcoholic and addict to health, job, housing, financial, veteran-military benefits and care, vocational and educational training, and social agencies and services in the community and area; church services, sermons, pastoral and recovery help, religious convocations, seminars, conferences, church fellowships and study groups and membership activities; Follow-up help with continuing communication, Christian centers, youth centers, retirement centers, rehabs, athletic activity, volunteer work, sober clubs, sober centers, sober activities, athletic and fitness work, new hobbies and interests; wholesome dances, picnics, camp-outs, beach activities, sports events, movies and plays, musical events and concerts, winter sports and activities, golf, tennis, football, baseball, soccer, rugby, basketball; fishing and hunting; travel and sight-seeing activities; participating in community services through the YMCA, Scouts, Big Brothers, Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Toys for Tots, Little League, service clubs, food distribution; continuing and adult education; continuing job training and education; and organizations like Future Farmers, bands and choruses and orchestras, hiking clubs, hobby clubs, surfing and canoe clubs, horseback riding, swim clubs, marathons, racing, bicycling and motorcycle
clubs.

Literature, flyers, brochures, tapes, CD’s, DVD’s, newsletters, program information

Names of Christian recovery resources in your community and area or organization
to whom you will refer newcomers and families

Charges, fees, costs and expenses to others in connection with your services

Other centers, agencies, programs, leaders, facilities, and people we should contact or
whom you will contact to help us expand the network of resource centers.

Be a message-carrier in and to your community and area, disseminating information about Christian recovery, Christian recovery resources, Christian counseling, and Christian Recovery Resource Centers, notifying:

Schools and colleges; prisons and jails; hospitals and mental institutions; churches and clergy; charitable agencies (like the American Red Cross), the local office of the American Medical Association, nursing associations, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the United Way, the YMCA, athletic teams, clinics, newspapers, radio shows, TV shows, columnists, producers, reporters, editors, visitors bureaus, service clubs, womens clubs, trade associations, unions, business and professional associations, bar associations, chaplains, the Salvation Army, health organizations, religious associations, government offices, legislators, government health agencies, police, fire departments, suicide prevention, visitor centers, educators, scientists, researchers, speaker groups, local offices of other national organizations, dentists, and psychologists and psychiatrists.