Celebrate Recovery Leader's Guide

by John Baker (Zondervan Publishing House, 1998)

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Summary:

The Celebrate Recovery Leader's Guide describes how to implement a Celebrate Recovery ministry in a church. This program is based on eight principles from the Beatitudes. The Guide begins with an Introduction that:

• suggests ways to launch a 90-day kick-off strategy for the ministry;
• offers 7 keys to starting a recovery ministry and keeping it growing; and
• describes meeting formats for small and large groups.

The Leader's Guide contains teaching material for each of the 25 group sessions and also includes a testimony that corresponds to the previous session.  

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

This curriculum was developed by John Baker, a recovering alcoholic who is the pastor of ministries at the Saddleback Church.  This book is an essential for any member of a congregation who wants to be a leader in a Celebrate Recovery ministry.  Faith leaders might also want consider obtaining the complete Celebrate Recovery Curriculum. It includes this Leader's Guide, all four Study Guides, a 20 minute video message to the pastor, and Saddleback Senior Pastor Rick Warren's Road to Recovery sermon series in print, audio, and diskette formats.