Celebrate Recovery Festival in Tokyo, Japan 2009

Today was day one of the CR Festa (Festival) in Tokyo www.celebraterecovery.jp. A CR Mission team from Central Christian in Las Vegas are here to share what God has done in our lives through CR. It was so great to hear the testimonies of those that have been through CR here in Japan.

Tonight, we went to the Large Group that was done in Japanese and a couple from our team shared their testimony. It was great! One of the highlights was hearing the 12 Steps and Biblical Comparisons read in Japanese and the Serenity Prayer at the end.

Celebrate Recovery Philippines Summit 2009

What an amazing two days in Manila!!! We had over 200 people come to the 2009 CR Summit in the Philippines. It was awesome to work together with the Philippines National TEAM and our team from Central Christian. This year we spent the first day going through the 8 Principles and Open Share Groups. It was great to see so many people with changed helping others begin the journey of recovery. The second day was split into three different tracks for churches interested in starting CR, those that have established ministries, and those wanting to start Life Hurts God Heals for students. It was great to see God move in so many different ways and help people go to the next level in their recovery and ministry. God is definitely expanding CR in the Philippines and lives are changing!!!

Celebrate Recovery Continues to Grow in the Philippines

A team from Celebrate Recovery at Central Christian Church in Las Vegas just arrived in the Philippines for the 2009 Summit here in South Metro Manila. Last year we had over 400 people in attendance and saw the growth of previous years of training. The ongoing ministries continue to grow and get stronger. Since last year, a National TEAM has been formed and are providing leadership to the ongoing work being done here. We look forward to what God will do over the next few days. The conference will be held at GCF South Metro on March 13th and 14th. From here we will leave for Japan for a two day conference there on March 21st and 22nd.

Conferences set for Norway and Finland

A small team from the US (Dave Dent) and UK (Tony and Val Turner) will be heading to Norway and Finland in early May, 2009. The journey will begin in Norway on May 1st with a Friday night meeting followed by an all day Saturday conference covering a wide-variety of topics and testimonies to help kickoff ministries in this nation. Karl Inge Thomassen and his team from Norway have been busy translating the materials and using them in their local CR group. Karl and his team have made several visits to the Celebrate Recovery Summit in CA and have attended other conference in the UK over the past years in preparation for leading the way for their country. The US/UK team will depart Norway on May 4th and head to Finland where they will repeat the same agenda in efforts to assist a local church and others to get Celebrate Recovery successfully off the ground. Mary Serna Ramos from the Celebrate Recovery group at Radiant Life Church in Sacramento, CA recently moved to Finland and is coordinating the conference. Our team is praying that these two countries will be encouraged and effectively trained to help their countries establish healthy and growing Celebrate Recovery ministries for years to come. We are so grateful to have individuals like Karl and Mary who are committed and dedicated to the ministry and for their efforts in coordinating these ground breaking events.