Advocating for Recovery
Advocates serve within the global ministry of Celebrate Recovery (CR), with the purpose of building connections between specific people groups and the ministry of Celebrate Recovery.
CR Advocacy teams are led by a dedicated director and team who provide resources, training, and encouragement to help Celebrate Recovery ministries reach every person with the hope and healing found in Jesus Christ.
Areas of Advocacy
Mental Health
The Mental Health Team’s mission is to equip local Celebrate Recovery ministries to empower individuals to achieve serenity with their mental health. We also aim to raise awareness of mental health, create a safe place to continue conversations and implement Mental Health Ambassadors at each CR location. We encourage Christ-centered sponsorship, provide tools such as the Mental Health Agreement form, Colors of our Mental Health cards, the CR Suicide Protocol along with mental health forums. While Celebrate Recovery may not eliminate Mental Health struggles, these tools are aimed at helping equip leaders and sponsors to walk alongside participants as they learn to struggle well. Celebrate Recovery is not a replacement for professional counseling, therapy, and/or medical treatment. We provide encouragement and support to supplement those efforts.
Directors: Sarah Stanton, Roger Stanton
Email DirectorCultural Communities
The Cultural Communities Team’s mission is to cultivate a space where all people experience recovery and reconciliation regardless of ethnicity or race. We facilitate Celebrate Recovery step studies for people of color led by people of color. [Black, Latino, Indigenous, AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) communities] Our goal is to one day eliminate the need for Cultural Communities inside of Celebrate Recovery by bringing everyone along into maturity and unity in our faith.
We know that in every community, families wear badges of honor and pride because of their deep heritage. Unfortunately, there are those in these same families who also wear bandages to cover a multitude of hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Pain, addiction, disappointment, and hopelessness do not discriminate. Neither does the journey that leads toward Christ’s healing power. Life change, fresh vision, renewed strength, restored hope, and relationships are experienced as individuals take intentional steps toward accepting God’s grace and forgiveness.
Director: Cheryl Luke
Email DirectorOpioid
The Opioid Team serves to change the way we view opioids, by providing individuals with the proper means and necessary resources to be successful in slowing the growth of our nation’s epidemic. We need to take an immediate look at opioid-addiction and overdose prevention on a global scale. The path forward is to increase awareness and prevention to help reduce opioid related deaths. It may be impossible to reverse the effects that we have endured, but by placing Opioid Ambassadors around the globe, we are working to overcome statistics. There is no better way to change the world than by helping to change one life at a time and making a difference in the lives of our fellow humans.
Director: Nick Olson
Email DirectorWelcome Home
The mission of the Welcome Home Team is to help veterans know that Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to work on their hurts, hang-ups, and habits.
Life after the Military does not always make sense. The loss of a sense of brotherhood and the loss of being part of something important and bigger than myself can lead to feelings of frustration, isolation, emptiness, boredom, anger, or loneliness. In an attempt to cope with the pain of these overwhelming emotions, sometimes veterans turn to unhealthy relationships, at-risk behaviors, or substance abuse.
Whether you served during peacetime or war, if you experienced combat, or never heard a shot fired in anger, all veterans are welcome at Welcome Home!
Director: Tony Campbell
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