Posted April 24, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Mary
Hello, my name is Mary. I am a grateful believer in Jesus Christ who Celebrates Recovery from an Eating Disorder and struggles with Abandonment Issues. Celebrate Recovery’s lesson on Action, reminded me of a time, which I feel compelled to share with you, that God led me into active healing. In...
Posted March 30, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Mary
As an engineer, I enjoy theories, plans and hypotheses but as a woman on a journey towards healing, ACTION is my travel companion. Recovery progress and action go hand-in-hand. Both in my profession and my recovery circles, I see stagnation every day. The people who want things to be perfectly...
Posted March 23, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Laurie Jean
Men! What are you waiting for? This class starts next Wednesday March 28 7:00-9:-00 pm in room 1109 Life's Healing Choices, by John Baker Life's Healing Choices offers freedom from our hurts, hang-ups, and habits through...
Posted March 16, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Mary
The overreaching purpose of my job is to find ways to improve the company’s performance, processes and profit. I commonly find one statement crossing my mind and my lips: “Fish See Water Last” It is not an extremely intuitive statement but if one takes a minute to think, it portrays a...
Posted March 2, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Mary
Recovery is not easy, it takes work and persistence but every now and then we can look back at the road we have been traveling and SEE REAL PROGRESS! My silver lining while working through the hurts, habits and hang-ups is the moments when things fall into place. I had one of these “aha”...
Posted February 24, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Laurie Jean
Special Guest Kathleen Carnali tonight at Celebrate Recovery!! Kathleen Carnali is an International touring artist, whose ministry spans the globe as she brings to the world a strong message of love, hope and new life in Christ. With three albums: Kathleen Carnali, All to You, Dangerous...
Posted February 24, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Mary
In John Chapter 1 (Northland’s Bible reading for this past Wednesday) Nathanael exclaims, “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” in reference to Jesus. Nathanael is skeptical of Jesus because of where Jesus came from. I have this question about myself much of the time. I KNOW MY PAST and...
Posted February 17, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Carl
Use of the terms codependent and codependency started about 30-years ago in "addictionology." The original intent was to describe someone whose life revolved around an addict. The addict's life, of course, revolved around a drug or alcohol. It can be easily illustrated by drawing a simple graphic...
Posted February 15, 2012 | Category: Local Service, Local Sites, Longwood, Ministries, Children's Ministry | Written by: Dana DeVries
Northland's Daddy-Daughter Dance is right around the corner! It is an amazing evening designed to provide dads with the opportunity to take their little girls out for a very special time of dancing, food and wonderful surprises! It takes hundreds of volunteers to make this big event happen ......
Posted February 10, 2012 | Category: Celebrate Recovery, Local Sites, Longwood | Written by: CR - Mary
I am learning that sometimes 'recovery' is much harder than addiction. The first week into my stay at a treatment center, years ago, someone tried to console me with the words, "If you don't feel worse than you did when you got here; it's not working." I looked at that person with horror as I...