A Christmas Message From Alcoholics Anonymous Member #1

TO ALL MEMBERS:


Greetings On Our 10th Christmas 1944


Yes, it's in the air! The spirit of Christmas once more warms
this poor distraught world.
Over the whole globe millions are looking forward to that one
day when strife can be forgotten, when it will be remembered that all human beings, even the least are loved by God. When men will hope for the coming of the Prince of Peace as they never hoped before.


But there is another world which is not poor. Neither is it
distraught. It is the world of Alcoholics Anonymous, where thousands dwell happily and secure. Secure because each of us, in his own way, knows a greater power who is love, who is just, and who can be trusted.

Nor can men and women of AA ever forget that only through
suffering did they find enough humility to enter the portals of that New World.


How privileged we are to understand so well the divine paradox that strength rises from weakness, that humiliation goes before resurrection; that pain is not only the price but the very touchstone of spiritual rebirth.


Knowing it's full worth and purpose, we can no longer fear
adversity, we have found prosperity where there was poverty, peace and joy have sprung out of the very midst of chaos. Great indeed, our blessings! And so,-- Merry Christmas to you all-- from the Trustees, from Bobbie and from Lois and me.

Bill W Obviously believed in God. so do we
Celebrate A New Life

Whats a Christian Rehab

Celebrate A New Life and rehabilitation are located in picturesque southern California, just minutes from the coastal communities of the Pacific Ocean. Our centers are designed around our clients needs and offer individualized Christian Drug Treatment plans. Our goal is to offer hope to those who despair, and teach and encourage them to incorporate a proven direction out of the destructive cycle of addiction.

Celebrate A New Life's philosophy of treatment lies in its commitment to the individual: all of this company's resources are utilized to help the next new person checking into drug treatment. People respond well to drug and alcohol rehab programs when they are treated with dignity and respect. When a person feels others care about his plight, when he feels you understand, that is when the best in his character and personality emerge. That is a prime recovery opportunity and it is our responsibility to those who have entrusted themselves to its care, to produce.

Celebrate A New Life is a Christian residential drug rehab and alcohol treatment center, located in the coastal communities of Orange County Southern California. Our faith-focused mission is to minister the love of Jesus Christ to the least, the last and the lost. The pain, turmoil, and devastation caused by addiction needs to come to an end. Help is needed. Help is available. Call us Today! Toll –Free (800) 708-3173

California Drug Rehab

Celebrate A New Life at Hope By The Sea specializes in dual diagnoses.
Many dual diagnoses have a history of being wrongly diagnosed. Mistreatment of this illness, even when a person is in drug recovery, usually results in relapse. These dual disorders can be very successfully treated if holistically approached. That is, treating one in combination with the other. Our best success at Celebrate A New Life at our California Treatment Center is with dual diagnosis because we follow a certain schedule.

Dual diagnosis clients who have a history of these disorders are assessed by Celebrate A New Life and Hope By The Sea staff, psychological history is evaluated. Medical and medication history is also assessed. Proper medication if necesary is prescribed.
While psychiatric care is the priority with a new client, his/her spiritual issues of addiction should be treated with the same emphasis and at the same time. Medication only goes so far; development of the soul and spirit, personality, social skills, and communication lead a person out of dependence on illegal chemicals and excessive medication. We want to achieve a healthy integration of the personality, while at the same time, Celebrate A New Life teaches a direction of self-improvement through one on one counseling,Celebrate Recovery meetings, Bible Study, Worship and the twelve-step process. Many people today live enriched lives and find continued support in Christ-centered twelve-step participation groups and that recovery philosophy.

A great number of people with dual diagnosis have found hope and success in recovery following this formula. Whatever particular mood disorder the client learns to distinguish the nature of his/her conflict, and recognizes the need to accept and work on these issues by eventually feeling like he is a member of a caring group, and learning in turn to care for others, the client more easily finds his way to be honest and communicate his feelings. He is not alone. Relating to others is a powerful tool in the treatment process. Our treatment of dual diagnosis and dual disorder will return you to a healthy and enjoyable lifestyle.

Christian Alcohol Treatment Center New Program Director

Celebrate A New Life is happy to anounce our new Program Director Randall Smith. Ranys's values and strong Christian beliefs is sure to be a blessing to not only the clients, but to the entire Christian Treatment team.
Randall M. Smith M.A., LMFT
Marraige and Family Therapist, MFC #44602

Randall Smith is a licensed marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) who strongly believes in helping individuals and/or families learn to deal with life in a more positive and meaningful way. He has worked for many years with couples, families, children, adolescents, and individuals. He has experience in dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, family issues, dual diagnosis, and addiction issues, parenting and relationship counseling and coaching. Randall Has a B.A. degree in Religious Studies with a minor in Psychology. Randall has also completed a M.A. degree in Psychology and is licensed by the state as a Marriage and Family therapist. Randall has worked with many clinics, mental health services, school districts, and churches. He also is the Director of The C.A.R.E. dept of Capo Beach which provides mental health services within the church setting. His approach is positive, and encouraging, and offers hope and guidance as he works with individuals and families. He will listen and support you and offer concrete truths to help guide you to understanding your conflicts or issues and find better ways to deal with them. He believes that each individual has strengths and authentic truths that make them unique to this world. He will assist you to better understand yourself and how to communicate your feelings and emotions. Randy utilizes a variety of approaches depending on the client and family. He uses reality based, solution- focused therapy to help solve issues and resolve problems.

Celebrate A New Life is open seven days a week 24 hours a day for admissions. Call Us for immediate help! Call Now Toll Free (800) 708-3173 Help Can't Wait

Celebrate A New Life

Instead of having a hole in you life, now you can Celebrate A whole New Life

Celebrate A New Life is a Christian residential alcohol rehab and drug treatment center located in sunny coastal Southern California. We are an itegrated component of Hope By The Sea, the very best private drug rehab in the nation. We are here to help. Call our 24-Hour admissions department. Help Can't wait, Can You afford to wait? Call Now Toll Free (800) 708-3173


Regardless of worldly success or failure, regardless of pain or joy, regardless of sickness or health or even death itself, a whole new life of endless possibilities can be lived if we are willing to make healing a choice. What's your choice? Pick-up the phone and call now! What are you waiting for, an inventation? Consider yourself, just invited. I'm just saying, why not?
See ya on the internet,
Bobby Nicholl

Celebrate Recovery Summit August 12th through August 14th 2009

Saddleback Church Lake Forest California Hosting Annual Summit


Sixteen years ago, Saddleback Church launched Celebrate Recovery with 43 people. It was designed as a program to help those struggling with hurts, habits, and hang-ups by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through the recovery process. Celebrate Recovery has helped more than 10,500 people at Saddleback, attracting more than 70 percent of its members from outside the church. Eighty-five percent of the people who go through the program stay with the church and nearly half serve as church volunteers.

Our society is becoming more and more complex. Kids now have three sets of grandparents. Sexual addiction for men and women is growing at an exponential rate. Divorce is at an all time high – for Christians. This is our reality.

John Baker, the founder of the Celebrate Recovery ministry, is passionate about recovery because he’s experienced it firsthand. Eighteen years ago, God gave John a vision for a Christ-centered recovery program. Today more than 500,000 people have gone through Celebrate Recovery program in more than 10,000 churches.

John is the pastor of Celebrate Recovery at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., He has served on the Saddlebacks pastoral staff for the last 15 years. He is the author of the Celebrate Recovery Curriculum and his new book Lifes Healing Choices. He is also the general editor or the Celebrate Recovery Bible.

Joining John will be his wife of 38 years, Cheryl, who has worked side-by-side with him since the inception of Celebrate Recovery.

2008 Workshop tracksshoptracks

Just Beginning

For those interested in starting a Celebrate Recovery ministry

Forming Your Leadership TEAM

Implementing the 90 Day Kick-Off Strategy

Leading Your Large Group Meeting and Worship Time

Leading Open Share Groups

How to Lead Your Step Study Groups

Up and Running

For Celebrate Recovery programs already active and growing

Small Group Guidelines

Taking Your CR on a International Missions Trip

CR Pod-casts and New Media

How to take Celebrate Recovery Into Prisons

Conflict Resolution and Restoration

Leading a Group Through the 4th Step

How to use the Celebrate Recovery Bible

Accountability Partners and Sponsors

Women Leading Celebrate Recovery

How to start a Lifes Healing Choices Small Group

Worship Part1 & 2

Pathway to Leadership

How to Write My Testimony

Youth

Life Hurts, God Heals

Recovery for Teens

Pastors

Celebrate Pastors Recovery - CPR

Pastors Supporting or Leading Their Celebrate Recovery

Networking Opportunities

You don’t have to start this program alone! Our hope is that while you are learning how to build a Celebrate Recovery program, you will also be building relationships with others who will help and assist you. Unique to the Summit are plenty of opportunities to connect with other Celebrate Recovery ministries in your state and local area. Back for 2008, the Hospitality area with its Regional Tents will provide easy connection with others from your area.



Conference Schedule

Wednesday, Aug. 12

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Worship

Welcome

Key #1: Leadership Training

John Townsend

Key #2: Senior Pastor Support

Workshops

T.E.A.M. Connections

Thursday, Aug. 13

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Worship

Testimonies

Key #3: Fellowship

Workshops

Key #4: New Groups

Key #5: Curriculum

Henry Cloud

Workshops

Friday, Aug. 14

8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Worship

Testimonies

Key #6: Worship

Key #7: Outreach

Workshops

Sunday Shoes Concert

Time of Commitment

Celebrate Recovery BBQ

Celebrate Recovery Service

Solid Rock Cafe



Admission to Celebrate A New Life is the first step to saving a life. Here is how the process works:



Contact Celebrate A New Life by phone (800) 708-3173 Toll-Free, or complete an on-line contact form. All communication is protected by privacy laws.

The Intake Admissions Counselor will guide callers through the steps necessary for admission and answer all questions related to the program, visiting, and what to bring.

The Admissions Counselor will help with all travel arrangements including flight schedules and transportation from the airport.

Financial arrangements are made to reserving a stay with Celebrate A New Life at Hope by the Sea.

Pack for a trip (two to three week stay).

New clients are greeted at nearby airports in Orange County or Los Angeles

Celebrate A New Life staff from day one, right up to the day of discharge, treats each client with dignity, care, love and respect. The first day makes an important impression on the new client and staff members want it to be a positive experience.



Celebrate A New Life operates at Hope by The Sea, a state licensed and certified facility. Celebrate A New Life offers a high-quality program with affordable, individualized treatment plans. To learn more, call (800) 708-3173. “The miracle of recovery can be yours" We will see ya at the summit!

christian drug addiction

Christian Drug Addiction
Be Honest
Tell the addict that you are concerned about his drug addiction and want to be supportive for him while he gets help. Support your concern with examples of the ways in which his drug/alcohol use has caused problems for you, including any recent incidents.



Celebrate A New Life
Christian Drug Addiction has consequences
Tell the addict that until he gets help, you allow him to experiance the consequences of his behavior and will no longer bail him out. Make it clear that you are not trying to punish the addict, but protect yourself from the harmful effects of his addiction.

Christian Drug addiction Listen
During your Christian drug addiction intervention, the addict might ask questions regarding potential treatment. Listen! These questions are a sign that he is reaching for help.

Drug Rehab Christian and Alcohol Treatment

When as a family member or friend wants to help someone who is caught in addiction, a Christian Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center is the best place to start. We want the best for those we care about. So it's only natural to consider the Christian Rehab as the best option. While many traditional Drug Rehabs are good; good is the enemy of the best At Celebrate A New life at Hope By The Sea is the best of the best Drug Rehab in California.
Celebrate A New Life integrates a scriptural, Christ-centered access to therapeutic, restoration, and reconciliation to God, family, and to one's own self-respect and self-worth, in a homelike, safe, ocean surrounding.
Celebrate A New Life clients are transported to Saddleback Christian church for Celebrate Recovery® Meetings, Worship, and Bible studies. There, client’s fellowship with others and to celebrate God's healing through the program's 8 Recovery Principals. Present-day Pastor, Rick Warren, states this experience permits those who go through the program to receive fundamental life changes and freedom from their ‘hurts, habits and hang-ups’.
Celebrate A New Life operates at Hope by The Sea, a state certified and licensed facility. Celebrate A New Life offers a high-quality program with affordable, personalized treatment plans. To learn more, call (800) 708-3173. “The miracle of recovery can be yours

California Christian Alcohol Rehab

The miracle of recovery can be yours. Christian Alcohol Rehab in California just doesn't get any better than Celebrate A New Life intensive residential program.
Celebrate A New Life is a Christian residential drug rehab and alcohol treatment center, located in the coastal communities of Orange County Southern California. Our faith-focused mission is to minister the love of Jesus Christ to the least, the last and the lost. The pain, turmoil, and devastation caused by addiction needs to come to an end. Help is needed. Help is available. Call us Today! Toll –Free (800) 708-3173

Celebrate Recovery 11th Annual Summit

Celebrate Recovery 11th Annual Summitt Celebrate A New Life will be bringing clients and staff alike to the summit. Last year I was so blessed. The Summit is designed to help churches of all sizes launch and grow a Christ-centered recovery program. You'll learn from John Baker, John Townsed, Henry Cloud, Kay Warren and others
You will have an opportunity to explore sevaral new, exciting and. You will prove show them the best of the best. Call Us (800) 708-93173
Bobby Nicholl

Christian Alcohol Rehab California Drug Treatment

Celebrate A New Life is a Christian Alcohol Rehab and California Drug Treatment Center. We offer high-quality residential treatment in the coastal communities of Southern California. We can see that a relationship with Christ as the only way to true healing. In the early days of A.A. that is the message that was taught. This is the message that we teach at celebrate a New Life.
The foregoing three sets of facts need to be learned and known today. There is a vital need for a Great Spiritual Awakening in the recovery community, in recovery programs, among churches and clergy, and in recovery fellowships. There is a need to restore our Heavenly Father, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and the Word of God to the center of recovery programs, recovery efforts, and recovery literature. For the premise of early A.A.—still to be found in the Big Book—is that the alcoholic cannot manage his own life, that probably no human power can relieve him of his alcoholism, and that God can and will if He is sought. The basic ideas for A.A. came from the Bible, and the potential is described in Hebrews 11:6:

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

As A.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob explained to a member the meaning of the slogan “First things first,” Bob pointed to Matthew 6:23 in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount:

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Christian Crack Rehab

Treating crack addiction through a Christian Rehab is another speciality of Celebrate A New Life at Hope by The Sea.

Clients who are participating in Celebrate a New Life, will also participate in all the other activities, relapse prevention, recovery planning offered at Hope by the Sea, including 12-step workshops and meetings, recreational activities and gym membership. Our clients are very much a part of Hope by the Sea.



When only the best drug rehab will do, give us a call. We are available seven days a week twenty-four hours a day. Call Toll Free (800)708-3173
Til next time, see ya on the internet,
Bobby Nicholl

Dual Diagnosis - Co-exisitng Disorders

Services for Dual Diagnosis & Disorders
Professional treatment for all co-exisitng disorders and dual diagnosis is speciality and passion of Celebrate A New Life. Up to 40% of people entering drug and alcohol rehab treatment today have a co-existing disorder joined with drug abuse or alcoholism. The dual disorder can include anxiety, a eating disorder, a bipolar mood disorder or depression. Get help now for dual disorders and diagnosis.

Dual diagnosis is a term that refers to the presence of one or more psychological disorders co-existing with alcoholism or drug addiction. Many of these are considered 'mood disorders' and can represent inner conflicts developed in the past, or developed as a result of active addiction or alcoholism. Some dual diagnoses are more severe and a person may have a long history of psychiatric treatment, medications, and even institutionalization.

Dual disorder and diagnosis ranges from mild affliction to extreme. Each category may include: Eating disorders, anxiety, depression, bipolar, A.D.D., rapid cycling, and there are many more. Some require medications, some require long term sobriety. A large percent of people in treatment today displayed symptoms of bipolar while they were drug addicted. It turns out, however, that instead of psychiatric services, and medications, all they really needed is total abstinence from illegal drugs, personal growth, personal success, and a direction in life that makes them happy.

In other disorder cases, we find severe cases of mental and emotional states that require psychiatric assessment and medication to achieve 'balance.' Once the proper medication is discovered, these people respond very well to addiction treatment just like anyone else.

Historically, people with dual disorder problems have not done well in drug rehab treatment until recently. Before these co-existing disorders were truly understood, treatment centers commonly made the mistake of a misdiagnosis and either over managed the psychiatric approach to the exclusion of the recovery approach; or, the reverse was true. Treatment centers would ignore the symptoms of a co-existing disorder and rationalize, "sobriety will take care of it all." This is simply not the case. Treating a dual diagnostic client is not that simple. Celebrate A New Life incorporates a holistic treatment philosophy.

A responsible treatment program must assess those with psychological conflicts thoroughly. At Celebrate A New Life, our counselors are experienced with any of the mood disorder afflictions, and make a recommendation for psychological counseling. If psychiatric services are needed, our treatment team psychiatrist assesses and evaluates the client extensively. Psychological history, medications, institutions, and personal history are taken into consideration, and required medications are prescribed. Call Today (800) 708-3173
See ya on the internet,
Bobby Nicholl

Celebrate Recovery Celebrate A New Life

Celebrate A New Life and we will Celebrate Recovery. Lives are changing! Over 600,000 people have gone through the Celebrate Recovery program in more than 12,000 churches worldwide. Clients at Celebrate A New Life enjoy attending Saddleback Church where Celebrate Recovery first started. Celebrate Recovery is a program designed to help those struggling with hurts, hang-ups, and habits by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through the recovery process. For more information, give us a call anytime at: (800) 708-3173
/See ya on the internet,
Bobby Nicholl

Celebrate Recovery Christian Rehab

Celebrate A New Life is a Christian Rehab where our clients get the privlidge of attending Celebrate Recovery at Saddleback Church. Pastor John Baker is the founder Of Celebrate Recovery, a ministry born out of the heart of Saddleback Church. The Celebrate Recovery program is now being used in thousands of churches nationwide. In 1993, John and Pastor Rick Warren wrote the Celebrate Recovery curriculum which has been published and translated into several languages.

Our clients personal relationship with Christ Jesus is the most important issue of recovery. Pastor John also wrote, "Life's Healing Choices" a component of Celebrate A New Life. Please visit our web-site at www.celebrateanewlife.com

Give us a call, anytime Toll Free (800 708-3173
See ya on the internet,
Bobby Nicholl

Drug Abuse Christian Treatment

What is the cost of quality Drug Abuse Christian Treatment today? When one considers the risk of not investing in a loved ones wellness and salvation, it's never too much. A matter of fact, when one considers the cost and tolls of untreated drug abuse; Christian Drug Treatment is quite affordable indeed. Finances
Credit cards, bank transfers, cashiers check or cash are acceptable. The quality of care at Celebrate A New Life at Hope By The Sea and personal care for client is equaled by none. Celebrate A New Life offers reasonable prices. We would like you to call other high-quality programs to price-compare; we feel Celebrate A New Life will be the obvious choice.
Call Now! Toll Free (800) 708-3173
See ya on the internet,
Bobby Nicholl