recovery

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Please contact Tom Kragt at tom@egm.org if you or someone you love needs help or has questions about our Recovery Ministries.

Recovery Ministry and EverGreen

When AA was founded by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith a new day dawned in the treatment of Alcoholism.  Many historians consider AA to be the most significant spiritual development of the last century.

-Over the years many churches have graciously allowed AA and other 12 Step programs to use their facilities.  This has been a welcome development, but often it has left the church without embracing or enfolding recovering people into the life of the local church.

Others in the Christian community have looked more skeptically at AA because of its openness to people of all faiths.  Well meaning Christians have also believed that only the church can offer the kind of healing needed for recovery.  This approach has proven to be unhelpful and harmful to many suffering from addiction.  We have much to learn from our friends in the 12 Step communities.  A great opportunity for ministry exists if we can muster the humility to listen and learn from others.

To add to the challenges of helping people with addictions there exist a disconnect between the church and other helping professions. 1. Clergy as a whole lack sufficient training in addiction to understand the need for treatment and 12 Step groups.  2.  Social workers often lack sufficient understanding and confidence in the power of religion to heal and give hope to recovering people.

In reaching out to hurting people, EverGreen seeks to be a bridge between two communities that should be friends. Our 12 Step Bridge to Life meeting attempts to be a safe place where people with open minds can explore the power of 12 Step recovery and faith in Christ.  Bridge to Life is not endorsed by AA/NA or Al-Anon.  We do consider ourselves a friend of these groups and we see participation in them as essential to personal recovery.  We are pleased that Bridge to Life, along with fourteen other 12 Step Groups, calls EverGreen home.

We also invite you to join us for recovery worship services on the 1st and 3rd Sunday evening of each month. May‘s recovery services will be on May 6 and 20. The services begin at 6:00 pm.

The 12 Step Bridge to Life meeting is held every Sunday night at 7:30 pm.  Child-care is provided.  Confident Kids is a ministry to children that meets every Sunday at 7:30 pm. 

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Meetings We Offer

We offer Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Bridge To Life, Gamblers Anonymous (GA), Over Eaters Anonymous (OA), Al-anon & Alateen, and Sex Addicts (SA)* meetings.  Attendance at all meetings is confidential.

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Schedule of 12-Step Meetings

Sunday – 7:30 pm Bridge to Life (Open)

Monday – 12:00 pm AA (Open)

Tuesday – 10:00 am GA (Open) | 12:00 pm AA (Open) | 7:00 pm Bridge to Life (Open)

Wednesday – 12:00 pm AA (Open)

Thursday – 10:00 am OA | 12:00 pm AA (Open) | 7:00 pm Al-anon & Alateen (Open)

Friday – 12:00 pm AA (Open)

Saturday – 8:00 am OA | 8:30 am AA (Open)

*Call or email for SA (Sex Addicts) meeting times

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