Dick
B. wrote:
Request for Details on Your Christian Recovery Program
From Dick B.
Executive Director, International Christian Recovery
Coalition
PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837
DickB@DickB.com;
1-808-874-4876
The International Christian Recovery Coalition makes no
attempt to certify or endorse or recommend a particular program or technique
for recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction, or other life-controlling
problems. (Please see www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com.)
It does receive phone calls, emails, and letters from all over the world.
Typically, inquiries are from mothers, wives, and relatives of an afflicted person.
The inquirer states he or she is a Christian; and states that the afflicted
person: (1) may be or want to be a Christian; (2) is in dire straits with a
seemingly-medically-incurable problem; (3) is in revolving treatment; and (4)
is at his or her bottom. The inquirer asks if we know of Christian
interventions, treatment, counseling, after care, sober living, and/or
family-concerned efforts; and if we know Christian leaders or workers or
fellowships who can help.
International Christian Recovery Coalitions “Participants”
are located in every state and several other nations (http://christianrecoverycoalition.com/ICLC-Participants.shtml).
They pay no dues and charge no fees in connection with their Coalition
participation. They seek to tell others the role that God, His Son Jesus
Christ, and the Bible played in the origins, history, founding, original
“Christian fellowship,” and successes of early A.A. They also endeavor to show
how the lessons learned from “old-school” successes can be applied in the
recovery arena today. Most “Participants” are conversant with, or actually
operating, Christian recovery efforts. And we try to keep them in touch with
each other, with treatment resources, and with inquirers who want Christian
help for themselves or their afflicted people.
This is to
request that you send us by mail, phone, email, brochure, or information
flyer details on the following questions we deem important when we suggest
possibilities to Coalition “Participants,” to Christian leaders and workers in
the recovery arena, and to the afflicted today.
1.
Is your CEO or Program Director a Christian? Yes
2.
How many of your staff members are Christians,
and what are their roles in treatment? All are Christians
4.
Do you offer a full, substantive Christian
recovery program?
Online recovery services
5.
Does your program teach about the Christian
organizations and individuals who preceded A.A. and helped drunks, such as: (a)
the Salvation Army; (b) rescue missions; (c) the Young Men’s Christian
Association; (d) great evangelists like Moody and Sankey; and (e) the Young
People’s Society of Christian Endeavor?
Yes
6.
Does your program teach about the Christian
upbringing of A.A.’s cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob?
Yes
7.
Does your program teach about the original A.A.
“Christian fellowship” program founded in Akron in 1935? Does it teach the
summary of that program reported by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s representative
Frank Amos and published on page 131 of A.A.’s DR. BOB and the Good
Oldtimers.
Yes
8.
Does your program teach about the 16 Christian
practices which characterized the original A.A. “Christian fellowship” program
and which are summarized in The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, 3rd
ed. (2010)?
Yes
9.
Does your program teach about the astonishing
success rates of the original Akron program and of the Cleveland Fellowship
which began in 1939?
Yes
10. Does
your program teach about how even today’s A.A. General Service
conference-approved literature explicitly covers and tells the details about
the roles played by God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible in early A.A.’s
astonishing successes?
Yes
11. Does
your program teach about how all of the original AAs who were not already
children of God were required to profess a belief in Almighty God and to come
to Him through His Son Jesus Christ?
Yes
12. Are
you willing to incorporate material such as that which was touched on in
questions 4-10 above in your curriculum, whatever your technique, program, or
approach?
Yes
13. Do
you conduct a full-time, substantive Christian recovery program which
emphasizes: (a) God; (b) His Son Jesus Christ; (c) the Holy Spirit; (d) the
Bible; (3) prayer; (f) Quiet Time; (g) Christian devotionals; (h) Christian
recovery literature; (i) Bible study; (j) faculty or facilitators who have
substantial Christian recovery training as clergy, recovery pastors, chaplains,
Christian recovery program directors, and/or Christian recovery fellowship
program leaders; (k) the power, love, healing abilities, guidance, forgiveness,
and deliverance aspects of Almighty God and His Son Jesus Christ? (l) the
renewed mind; and mj) walking by the Spirit of God rather than by the flesh.
Yes
14. Do
you have worship services, Bible study, prayer meetings, Christian counseling,
and recovery background classes on your premises?
All on Internet. Bible Study, Prayer Meetings,
15. Are
you holding yourself out as a full-time, complete, healing Christian recovery
program or facility?
Yes
16. Would
you consider examining and perhaps even using the material researched and
written by author Dick B. as a writer, historian, retired attorney, Bible
student, CDAAC, and active recovered AA for over 26 years of continuous
sobriety, and publisher of 46 titles and 1,250 articles on Alcoholics Anonymous
history and the Christian Recovery Movement?
17. Yes
Christians
in Recovery
P.O. Box 4422
Tequesta, FL 33469
Alcoholics Victorious
P.O. Box 4422
Tequesta, FL 33469
P.O. Box 4422
Tequesta, FL 33469
Alcoholics Victorious
P.O. Box 4422
Tequesta, FL 33469
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