Kingsport Community Church, Kingsport, Tennessee

At Kingsport Community Church, the purpose of our Celebrate Recovery ministry is to find freedom from life’s destructive hurts, hang-ups, and habits. We do that as we celebrate God’s healing and redemptive power in our lives through the Biblically based “8 Recovery Principles.” (See below).

We encourage you to check out Celebrate Recovery as we meet each Tuesday evening at 6:00 at the church fellowship hall. Our goal is for you to experience the freedom that brings peace, joy, strengthening relationships with others, and a stronger personal relationship with God.

Signs will point the way as you enter the front parking lot. At the front door someone will be waiting to welcome you and give you a name tag on which you place first name only. At 6:00, a light, nutritious meal is served followed by singing and worship in preparation for either a lesson or testimony on recovery. Afterwards, you may choose to attend one of the gender specific support groups. On your first visit you are to attend Celebrate Recovery 101 orientation during group time to explain how you might fully benefit from the program. The evening is capped off by a return to the Oasis Café (Fellowship Hall) for dessert and fellowship.

For more information about Celebrate Recovery at Kingsport Community Church, send an e-mail or call us at 423-246-2212.

Eight Principles 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.

2. Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover.

3. Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.

4. Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.

5. Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.

6. Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others.

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.

8. Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words.