Who Can Serve as a Christian Recovery Resource Center

Who Can Serve as a Christian Recovery Resource Center
Both Individuals and Organizations

Dick B.
© 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved

Your ability to organize, implement, and maintain a Christian Recovery Resource Center is not limited to churches, buildings, centers, hospitals, treatment facilities, counseling headquarters,
or specific programs and agencies.

You can function as an effective Christian Recovery Resource Center if you do what you can as an individual or in your home or business or office or in a position where you touch the lives of others who, perhaps with their families and friends, are suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction, are receptive to God’s help, and don’t know where to turn to get it.

You can do this individually, in your home or office or workplace or business or school or church. You can do it if you have a status such as the others mentioned below. And you can do it in cooperation with others who share your like-minded desire to point alcoholics, drug addicts, and other affected persons to the role that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible have played for years in the Christian origins, history, founding, original program, and successes of those who wanted and sought God’s help in overcoming and being healed of their maladies.

You can gather and pass along information about Christian recovery people, programs, centers, locations, and approaches in any one or more of the following capacities—plus others you may think of and suggest to us for inclusion:

1. Chaplains—military, veterans, hospitals, educational institutions, Red Cross, sports, prisons, jails, courts, probation and parole officers, half-way houses, police, fire, hospice and grief support, suicide situations, motorcycle, legislatures, market place, retirement homes, and sports.

2. Clergy—churches, seminaries, recovery pastors, church school, Sunday school, deacons, elders, vestry, board members, and lay volunteers.

3. Christian counselors—licensed Christian counselors, pastoral counselors, licensed Christian alcohol and drug counseling institutions, and recovery pastors.

4. Christian retirement homes, sober living facilities, homeless shelters, residential treatment centers, refuge shelters, youth programs, at-risk programs, and schools.

5. Individuals—on the streets, in their homes, at their employment, in their schools, in youth work, sports, coaching, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, therapists, counselors, intake personnel, in social agencies, reporters, columnists, writers, reviewers, authors, talk show hosts, TV and radio commentators, TV and movie producers, bloggers, tweeters, Facebook friends, U-Tube presenters, union representatives, businessmen, receptionists, technicians, salesmen, clerks, managers, legislators, factory workers, film makers, speakers, and actors.

6. Christian Bible study fellowships, Bible study groups, prayer groups, and crisis centers.

7. Christian detox facilities.

8. Christian Treatment and Rehab programs.

9. Christian Residential Treatment Programs.

10. Christian-Track Treatment Programs.

11. Christian Gospel and Rescue Missions.

12. Salvation Army Offices, ARC’s, outposts, headquarters locations.

13. Christian hospitals and clinics.

14. Christian Social Agencies and disaster relief agencies.

15. Christian Sober Living Homes.

16. Christian non-profit agencies.

17. Christian 12-Step leaders, speakers, sponsors, chairpersons, phone-answerers.

18. Christian study, Bible, prayer, Big Book, Step Study, and James Club groups

19. Christian “bridge” and other Christ-centered, recovery-oriented organizations—e.g., Overcomers Outreach, Inc.; Alcoholics Victorious; Overcomers, Footprints, Alcoholics for Christ, and Manna House Ministries

20. Christ-centered recovery organizations such as Teen Challenge, Celebrate Recovery,
NACR, Net Training Institute, and ISAAC.

20 Christian recovery ministries and fellowships such as Rock Recovery, Lifelines at The Crossing Church, Alive Again, Came to Believe Retreats, James Clubs, the Serenity Group at Oroville Church of the Nazarene, Turning Point Recovery Ministry at the Cornerstone Fellowship-Livermore Campus, Golden Hills Community Church, His Place Church, and Steppin' Out at the Church of the Open Door in Glendora.

21. CityTeam Ministries.

22. Charitable and business benefactors, donors, and community leaders.

23. Chambers of Commerce, Visitor Bureaus, EAP organizations, and Information centers.

Many of the foregoing are already offering and performing some of these services and dispensing some of the information about Christian recovery resources in their area.

What can integrate, assist, and coordinate their objectives is a coalition like the International Christian Recovery Coalition.

And what can make a difference is that each of the foregoing can become informed about,
report about, and build confidence in, pointing out to newcomers, families, friends, and others
listed above that: (1) There is a Christian Recovery Resource Center in their area. (2) There is a Christian resource that can meet their need. (3) Christian recovery is not a one-person, one-program, one-center, or one-approach matter. (4) Suffering Christians need the love, power, healing, redemption, forgiveness, guidance, mercy, and grace that can be made available to them as children of the living and true God, and ministered to them by loving, informed, qualified ministers, pastors, apostles, prophets, and teachers.

International Christian Recovery Coalition
www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com

Dick B., Executive Director, DickB@DickB.com; (808) 874 4876; PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753