What is Celebrate Recovery?
Celebrate Recovery was started in 1991 at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. Today there are thousands of churches worldwide offering people this way of finding hope in dealing with their issues. Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find friendships and healing from habits, hurts and hang-ups that have become unmanageable in our lives.
It is not a program, but a Christ-centered life style where we can find others who have been through some of the same things we are experiencing and a place to find serenity and freedom.

Who can benefit from Celebrate Recovery?
Anyone who has something in their life that has become unmanageable, and knows there must be something better for them. It offers a chance for hope and transformation to those who feel they have been abandoned, abused, neglected, addicted or suffer from compulsive behavior. Are you tired of your “little secret”? Are you tired of thinking you can do this on your own?  We offer a safe place to talk about it.

How does it work?
We start the evening by having dinner and fellowship. We then have worship time, then we either have a lesson or a testimony each week. Then we break into small groups with men with men, and women with women. In these small groups we practice confidentiality so we can open up more about what we are going through.
We learn to love and to be loved, for who we really are, regardless of what we have done. We get real and start genuine friendships with people who share our experiences or can relate to what we are going through.
We put our trust in Jesus Christ…the only true Higher Power, who demonstrated his love for us. We teach the principles of the Bible His written message to us.

Weekly Meetings and Agenda

Meeting held on Mondays
The Crossing
150 S. 48th Street
Quincy, IL 62305
South parking lot entrance
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Meeting held on Tuesdays
The Crossing
810 E Shepherd Ave
Kirksville, Mo 63501
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Meeting held on Thursdays
The Crossing
1600 West Jackson St.
Macomb, IL 61455
5:45pm - 7:45pm

Meeting held on Fridays
The Crossing
929 Monroe St
Quincy, IL 62301
6:00pm - 8:00pm

For More Info:
Call Jim Dennis
217.224.6374
jimd@thecrosing.net

The 12 Steps and Scriptures

Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behavior; 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 NIV

Step 2: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.For it is God who is at work in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
PHILIPPIANS 2:13 NIV

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our life and our will 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 NIV

Step 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 NIV

Step 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.
JAMES5:16 NIV

Step 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 NIV

Step 7: We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins
and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 JOHN 1:9 NIV

Step 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 NIV

Step 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
offering there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your
brother; and then come and offer your gift.”
MATTHEW 5:23–24 NIV

Step 10: We continued 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 NIV

Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
COLOSSIANS 3:16 NIV

Step 12: Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these
steps, we tried 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 him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
GALATIANS 6:1 NIV