January is Pregnancy Resource Center
Collection Month!

Throughout the month of January, we will be collecting baby diapers and loose change in baby bottles for the Pregnancy Resource Center.  Please drop off your diaper donations in the Global Missions Collection site in the Educational Building.

 

 

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We've had another great week at Front Street Celebrate Recovery.   We experienced a powerful, personal testimony from our brother Billy.   He shared how God delivered him and his whole family from the addiction of alcohol.  Billy was on the brink of losing his family, his career and possibly his life when God's redeeming love removed the desire for alcohol from his life.  He encouraged us to work the Twelve Steps because that is how we get closer to God.   

This Monday Dan will be teaching on Powerless.  We will work Step 1/Principal 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)   Join us for food, fun and fellowship Monday Night 6:30 in the Fellowship Hall.

Did you make a New Years Resolution to start a diet or eat healthier in 2010?    Do you know that Celebrate Recovery can offer you support with dieting and/or food addictions?   Here's some information to help.

The Food Problem

·        Do you struggle with over-eating or constant dieting?

·        Have you been on a diet and lost the weight, but need support not to go back to unhealthy behaviors?

·        Do you ever feel out of control and unable to stop eating?

·        Do you eat out of frustration, anger, fear or boredom?

·        Do you eat to feel comfort?

Throughout our lives many of us have turned to food to ease our pain or fear.  We felt comfort in eating and found ourselves turning to food whenever we were hurt, angry or frustrated.  Food became our comforter, our friend. 

Some of us may have one certain food that we cannot stop eating or are unable to eat only in healthy amounts.  Some may have been emotionally, physically or sexually abused and use food to copy with the emotions of those events.  We may have had healthy eating habits as children or young adults, but at some point in our lives we chose to overeat and lost the ability to discern when we were physically hungry or when we were physically full.  

Some of us may have turned to food after obtaining sobriety in other areas.  Often people that have quit smoking will become over eaters because of changes in the taste of food or as something to do with their hands.    We thought food was Safe, not realizing it could become our "drug of choice".   We have focused on our body image instead of our health.

Many of us have tried various diet programs, exercising, medications or many other ways of trying to control our eating habits.  We have failed over and over and are left feeling guilty, in capable and unlovable.  We have given in to the idea that there is one perfect diet or pill out there than can save us, if we could only find it.

We may in correctly assume that thin people do not struggle with food addiction.  We have also failed to recognize food as our "drug of choice".   As a result o four food addictions we feel out of control and may struggle with many other areas of our lives that are also out of control.   We may have low self-esteem which may affect our motivation, and our relationship with God and others.

You have a choice

Only you can decide if Celebrate Recovery is for you.   Try to keep an open mind on the subject.   Celebrate Recovery Program encourages fellowship and to celebrate God's healing power through the 12 steps and 8 Recovery Principals.   This experience allows us to be changed.   We open the door by sharing our experiences, strengths, and hopes with one another.  We support each other but cannot FIX each other.  We become willing to accept God's Grace in solving our lives problems.  Celebrate Recovery is based on God's Word, the Bible, and emphasizes personal responsibility and spiritual commitment to Jesus Christ.    We utilize biblical truth that we need each other in order to grow spiritually and emotionally.   By working and applying these biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually.   We become free from our addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors.  The freedom creates peace, serenity, joy and, most important, a stronger personal relationship with God and Others.  As we progress through the program, we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power, Jesus Christ, the One and Only True Higher Power.

The Celebrate Recovery Solution

·        We came to realize that we could not control our addiction to food and that we are powerless.

·        We have become ready to face our denial and accept the truth about our lives and our food addiction.

·        We are ready to accept responsibility for our actions and make Jesus the Lord of our lives.

·        We are dedicated to learning about healthy eating.

·        We are committed to learning the difference between physical and emotional hunger.

·        We are willing to turn to God when we are not physically hungry.

·        We will begin to view food as fuel for our body so that we will not eat unless we are physically hungry and stop when we are physically full.

·        We are willing to begin the process of recovery and working through the 12 steps to heal ourselves, and start living the life God has planned for us.

·        We are willing to find a sponsor and accountability partner.

·        We realize our group provides a safe place to share our fears, hurt, anger and is also a place to rejoice in victories.

·        We have become willing to face our character defects and work through these feelings in our group.

·        We are willing to take the focus off of food and focus on God.

·        W recognize that recovery from food addition in not about our body image or what foods we eat, but it is about trusting God and having an intimate relationship with Him.

·        We are willing to believe and trust in God's love for us and to see ourselves as He sees us...."fearfully and wonderfully made."

·        By facing our fears we have realized that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are what we need to overcome.

·        As we surrender our food addiction to God, we will come to know that He is all we need.  We are willing to seek a closer relationship with God.

·        We will continue to seek a daily quiet time with God and will rely on the Holy Spirit as our source of comfort.  We will be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

·        We will use the tools of recovery:  calling our accountability partners, journaling and reading the Bible.

Memorials and Honorariums

YOUNG LIFE/KIT AND AVERY/S.Y.B.A. FOOD PANTRY

By:  Hannah Sunday School Class

HAITI DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS

By:  Gleaners Sunday School Class

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