Welcome to Celebrate Recovery!

CR is a twelve-step discipleship ministry based on biblical principles and addresses all types of hurts, habits, and hang-ups. With newfound freedom, we receive peace, healing, security, joy, and, most importantly, a stronger relationship with God and others toward Whole Family Healing.

We meet every Tuesday night at 711 Valle Verde Ct. Henderson, NV 89014 at GV Christian Center at 6:30 pm. Dinner is at 6pm.

Who needs recovery?

EVERYONE! 

No one should face life alone. We are a Christ-centered ministry, discipling others to overcome life issues by equipping them with tools from God’s Word and teaching them to let go of the past, live in the present, and look forward to the future. It’s a safe place to be honest about our pain with God and others, to draw closer to Jesus, and to find hope, freedom, and Whole Family Healing.

CR Littles (6 weeks-Kindergarten)

CR Littles learn how to recognize and process their emotions in healthy ways. Our curriculum is designed to help them understand that it’s okay to feel and to work through those emotions at their age level.

CR Kids (1st-5th Grade)

CR Kids is designed to help children experience the love of Jesus as they learn to love themselves and others, growing in their relationship with God. We strive to partner with parents to help break the cycle of dysfunction destroying so many of our families. Children also learn healthy coping skills for life’s tough issues. This curriculum is designed to mirror the same material as the adult Celebrate Recovery curriculum.

CR Youth (6th-12th Grade)

CR Youth provides a safe space for our junior and senior high school students (6-12) to process life’s challenges and struggles, equip them with tools to live emotionally and spiritually healthy lives, and point them toward the freedom found in Jesus Christ.

Our students can find a safe place to seek help, hope, and healing by engaging with recovery principles and growing in a relationship with Jesus Christ. Ultimately, this ministry can help students learn how to break cycles of dysfunction and provide them with tools to live free and healthy lives. This curriculum mirrors the same material as the adult Celebrate Recovery curriculum, packaged for students.

The Twelve Steps

Step 1
1 ) We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable.
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Romans 7:18
2)  We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
3) We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God.
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1
4) We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. Lamentations 3:40
5) We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16
6) We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:10
7) We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
8) We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31
9) We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. Matthew 5:23-24
10) We continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! 1 Corinthians 10:12
11) We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us, and power to carry that out.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Colossians 3:16
12) Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore them gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Galatians 6:1

The Eight Principles

Principle 1

1) Realize I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. (Step 1)“Happy are those who know that they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3

2) Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him and that He has the power to help me recover. (Step 2) “Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4

3) Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. (Step 3) “Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5

4) Openly examine and confess my faults, my hurt, hang-ups, and habits to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. (Steps 4 & 5) “Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8

5) Voluntarily submit to any and all changes God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. (Steps 6 & 7) “Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires” Matthew 5:6 

6) Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when to do so would harm them or others. (Steps 8 & 9) “Happy are the merciful.” Matthew 5:7  “Happy are the peacemakers.” Matthew 5:9 

7) Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will. (Steps 10 & 11) “Happy are those who Celebrate Recovery!”

8) Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and my words. (Step 12) “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires.” Matthew 5:10

How Does it Work?

Hangups

Anger

Anxiety

Codependency

Codependent in a Relationship with a Sexually Addicted Spouse

Depression

Doubt

Fear

Guilt

Jealous/Envy

Loneliness

Mental Health

Perfectionism

Pride

Procrastination

Resentments

Self-Worth

Shame

Stress

Trust Issues

Unforgiveness

Worry

Workaholism

Serenity Prayer

“God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next. Amen.” by Reinhold Niebuhr. 

Michelle Killoran

CR Pastor

David Richter

CR Kids Pastor

Jason Varughese

CR Youth Pastor

Careea Richter

CR Littles Director