International Christian Recovery
Coalition
The Blooming, Booming Responses and Expanded Plans of the Christian
Recovery Movement
Dick B., Executive Director
Copyright 2012
Anonymous. All rights reserved
Just since our visits in Southern California in January of
this year, we have had an increasing volume of messages from those wanting to
participate in our planned meetings this Spring. So the following is the way
things are going and being planned as of February 29th.
The Basic Approach is Announced in the Following New Guidebook Title
How to Conduct “Old
School” 12-Step Recovery Meetings Using Conference-approved Literature: A Dick
B. Guide for Christian Leaders and Workers in the Recovery Arena
By Dick B. and Ken B. (2012)
There is No “One Size Fits All” Plan
An A.A. or N.A. meeting listed with a local office may take
a “Group Conscience” stand and establish a regular meeting founded on “Conference-approved”
literature. A Christian recovery fellowship may choose to reach out to
alcoholics, addicts, prescription drug abusers, and others with life-controlling
problems. A Christian, Christian Track, or other treatment program—limited by
expense and time constraints—may decide to prepare “graduates” for the long
haul beyond the discharge date. Groups like Teen Challenge and Celebrate
Recovery may recognize and plan for the “daily” or “24/7” or Christian
fellowship after-care needed to keep Christian graduates in recovery mode,
service to others, and spiritual growth loop. Detox programs, interventionists,
counselors, after-care facilitators, alumni gatherings, and sober living
managers may emphasize a variety of ways in which recovered “clients” or “students”
can build on the strength of First Century Christian and Early Akron A.A.
Christian Fellowship principles and practices.
A Program Content Which Each Servant Can Adopt, Adapt, and then Accept
The emphasis here is on fostering long-range deliverance,
sustained fellowship and service, and effective and continued reliance on the
power, love, forgiveness, guidance, healing, and will of God “in all our
affairs.” Early Christian outreach extended first to the Jews. Then to the
Gentiles. Then to all as members of the “body of Christ.” And then to the lost,
the poor, the sick, the deaf and blind, and then to the very dead who were
still being raised—just as Jesus had raised the dead.
The Present Plans for Implementing This “Old School,” First Century
Christianity Success Story in the Forthcoming Hawaii and California Gatherings
This Spring and Summer
And Here Is Where We
Will be Listening, Assembling, Teaching and Facilitating With You
[Details Still Need
Further Attention and Firming, But Will Show You the Plans]
For Maui, Hawaii:
County of Maui Salvation Army
Partnership with our Coalition to learn the existing 24/7 program at the Lahaina
OutPost, The Salvation Army, 131 Shaw Street, Lahaina, Hawaii, 96761 (Initial
two-hour meeting at our Kihei Office, Friday, March 2 Noon-2:00 PM)
Speaking on the Second Step and
A.A. roots at a regular A.A. “old school” meeting in Kihei, followed by old
school A.A. planning thereafter, Saturday, March 3, (7:00 AM)
For Oahu,
Hawaii
An evening
meeting in Honolulu, Thursday, March 22 (6:00 PM) evaluating and
Initiating Christian
Recovery Movement hands-on outreach to alcoholics and addicts
In three different
Christian recovery effort: (1) The long-standing men’s outreach to
alcoholics and
addicts led by an NA oriented Christian skilled men’s group leader. (2)
The plans of
this leader’s pastor who is extending outreach in Oahu as well in China,
Japan, and the
Pacific Rim (3) The current work of an Oregon-based faith-centered
Christian
fellowship pastor in Germany and Europe. All three are looking for ways to
utilize First
Century Christian practices, early A.A. old school fellowship technique, and
present 12-Step
approaches with individuals needing direct help and structured practices
For Cornerstone
Fellowship—Livermore Campus, Livermore, California
Workshop/Participation/Study
Meeting, Thursday, March 29, evening
For Golden Hills Community Church, Brentwood, California
Workshop/Participation/
Study Meetings with Leaders (Friday, March 30, Afternoon and
evening)
For San
Francisco Bay Area, California –
Dialogue with
leaders of recently renamed CityTeam International and its ministry to the
“lost” in Nicaragua
and West Africa (Either morning, March 29, or on March 31)
In Kihei, Maui,
Hawaii – A meeting of several days with Rob W. from Utah (April 2-6) –
Planning and
funding
Southern
California: We will be in Orange County, California: Arrive on Sunday, May 13
and
depart on
Monday, May 13. Quartered at the beginning and end at The Costa Mesa Marriott,
Hotel, and
during the week at a private home in Orange County. The agenda includes the
following planned:
Individual meetings
with:
Rev. Michael
Liimatta, City Vision College, Kansas City, Missouri
Wally Lowe, Christian businessman,
Vero Beach, Florida
Russell Spatz, Christian
attorney and speaker, Miami, Florida
Robert Turner, M.D.,
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Gary Martin, Mariners
Church Planner “Old School” Meetings, Irvine, CA
Pastor Joe Furey and
Roger McDiarmid, His Place Church, Westminster, CA
Rev. James Moody, Manna
House Ministry, Jamestown, TN
Bob Noonan, Marriage and
Family Counselor, Orange, CA
Danny Simmons, Sons of
Thunder and Book Distribution, Costa Mesa, CA
Richard Skolnik, Recovery
Historian and believer, Nesconset, New York
Other local and out of
area visitors and speakers
Conference on
Friday evening, May 18 and all day Saturday, May 19, at His Place Church,
Westminster, California: focused on participation, panels, workshop, classes,
programs, questions and answers
[Orientation, Leader presentations,
Panel and Q and A – Friday evening;
Main Conference –
Saturday all day – Music, prayer, speaker, orientation, leader speakers, and
panel with Q and A.]
Working with individual and group
Christian Recovery leaders with Guides, Films, Conference-approved literature,
other resources on how best to utilize these resources to help suffering
alcoholics and addicts rely on God for help today; learn the First Century
Christianity practices in Acts of the Apostles; learn how early “old school”
A.A. practiced these principles with such great success; and suggest how these
foundations can be or are being used today hands-on.
The Actual Programs
We Will Be Outlining, Discussing, Formatting, and Planning
·
A program of yours on on How to Train, Teach,
Cooperate, and Disseminate Christian programs, conference information, and
media—programs that will emphasize God’s power and Christian recovery efforts.
·
Sample suggested programs suitable for and
tailored to each particular treatment approach and area
·
Training the Trainers
·
Distributing free literature through benefactors
·
Continuing dissemination by blogs, forums,
newsletters. Films, radio, audio, conferences
Coming Shortly: Dates, Places, Times, Contacts, Programs, Subjects, and
Resources
To produce effective results in the most compact way, we
will welcome your phone calls and emails in advance; welcome any literature or
suggestions you have; welcome your donations to help defray expenses; and
welcome any particular approach you wish to take with your own program,
practice, fellowship, and church.
Gloria Deo
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