Celebrate Recovery is a biblically-based 12-step program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits by discovering the love and healing power of a growing relationship with Jesus. It is only through a loving friendship with Jesus that human transformation is possible.

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  • Hurts, Hang-ups & Habits

    Celebrate Recovery is for everyone.  The issues we struggle with include:

    Perfectionism, Pride, Abortion, Codependency, Eating Disorders, Finances, Gambling, Anger, Depression, Control, Anxiety, Fear, Pornography, Grief, Drug Abuse, Abuse, Despair, Dysfunction, Alcoholism, People Pleasing, Adultery, and Shame.

  • Gatherings

    Celebrate Recovery meetings occur every Tuesday night at 6:30 pm, featuring a Large Group session with teaching or a testimony, followed by gender-specific Open Share groups.

CR Tools & Resources

  • Here, you'll discover the Issue Pamphlets, The Eight Principles of Celebrate Recovery based on the Beatitudes, and the Serenity Prayer.

  • Serenity Prayer

    "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next."

    Amen

    -Reinhold Niebuhr

Issue Pamphlets

Love & Relationship AddictionSexual Addiction
Freedom From AngerFood Addiction
Physical, Sexual, & Emotional Abuse For WomenEating Disorders
Adult Children of Family DysfunctionChemical Dependency
Co-DependencyMental Health
Gambling AddictionDefinitions Of Sobriety
Mixed Issues

  • Eight Recovery Principles

    The Road to Recovery Based on the Beatitudes

    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 5:3a TEV

    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 TEV, NIV

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

    4. Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust. (Steps 4 and 5)
    “Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8a TEV

    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 and 7)
    “Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires” Matthew 5:6a TEV

    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 and 9)
    “Happy are the merciful.” Matthew 5:7a TEV; “Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9 TEV

    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 and 11)

    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 TEV

Celebrate Recovery Ministry Director

Ira Liss

Ira was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles as a reform Jew. He celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at the age of 13 but identified more with Jewish cultural traditions than the religious practices of the Old Testament. After completing law school and becoming an attorney, Ira settled in the Coachella Valley. At the age of 46, he embraced the Jewish messiah and committed himself to being a disciple of Christ Jesus.

However, Ira still struggled with hurts, hang-ups, and resulting dysfunctional habits. Seeking healing, he turned to the Christ-based 12 Step program of Celebrate Recovery. Over the past decade, Ira has experienced profound healing and spiritual growth through Celebrate Recovery. Alongside his wife Jeannine, he now leads this life-changing ministry, rooted in the very words of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount.