Celebrate Recovery Conference

Back from California ... what an amazing trip ... an amazing conference where our team learned more about Celebrate Recovery ... incredible challenges came with every footstep.

Last year there was about 3,000 people ... and I saw an army ... an army of servants called by God ... an army that was being sent out to rescue his people ... armed with the tools from the Celebrate Recovery program that would set the captives free.

This year ... that same army was back for more training ... and while I don't know what the final numbers were ... I heard there was over 3,500 that attended.

God is serious about this ministry. He means business and so do those of us who are called to this ministry.

While I still saw an army -- an army that is steadily growing ... my perspective has changed. Now that I've walked through one year of the Celebrate Recovery program and was able to take this journey with a few others ... I see things differently.

This time I didn't see an army of leaders ... I saw an army of prisoners.

An army of prisoners who have been released from their prisons ... all of us in one stage or another of continuing the process of being released from the past that has kept us chained and imprisoned. Prisoners who are now celebrating their recovery and sharing what they have learned with other prisoners in their communities.

The one phrase that will stay with me ... sums up the experience of Celebrate Recovery.

A God-inspired program that gives me the tools to see WHO I WAS ... so that I can see WHY I WAS ... so that I can see WHO I AM.

FREEDOM FOR THE CAPTIVES!!!!!