Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers)

Celebrate Recovery, a ministry born at Saddleback Church in California, is a Christ-centered program based on the Biblical principles of recovery given by Christ at the very beginning of in his most famous message, the Sermon on the Mount.

In 2005 2nd Street Community Church, a ministry of Friends in Newberg, OR, launched Celebrate Recovery and soon outgrew its facility. After talking with Newberg pastors, asking them to join us, Northside Community Church offered their building, several other churches offered resources, and in November 2008, we changed our name to “Newberg Community Celebrate Recovery”. Currently 15 area churches are involved in this cooperative program of healing discipleship.

If you joined us on Monday nights you’d find a gathering of people who know they are loved and accepted by Jesus Christ. As we worship, it’s clear we know what we’ve been set free from! Most will be happy to tell you their story; how they came to the end of themselves, how they surrendered to God, and how Christ stepped into their darkness and offered hope to begin their journey of change.

We are a mixed group of people: We are co-dependents, struggling with setting healthy boundaries in relationships; food addicts with lifelong struggles with unhealthy food choices; abuse survivors wounded in childhood, acting out of our pain and loss of self; sex addicts working on sexual purity and the core issues of why we use pornography; workaholics; alcoholics; drugs addicts… and the list continues as people understand they cannot change in isolation and that God, not time, is the healer of all wounds.

We are followers of Jesus Christ who have found a safe place to take off our masks and take the first step to change – surrendering our lives and wills to our true Higher Power, Jesus Christ!

For information on this program, or how to begin your own, contact 2nd Street’s Celebration Recovery ministry director, Becky Emmons. You can reach her at 503/538-9761 or at rebeccalynnemmons @ gmail.com.