Courses Overview
What is Recovery?

Frustrated with your present relationships? Feel entirely alone? Tired of everyone's expectations of you? There is hope, there is help and new life can be recreated.  What will you find? A safe place. A place of belonging. A place to learn. A place of confidentiality. A place for progress. A place for healthy challenges. A possible turning point for your life.


Restore Hope & Recreate Life

AA 12-STEP STUDY
  • [Support for  those struggling with  substance addiction] 
  • Open on-going meetings using Big Book, 12 & 12, and the 12 Traditions.

BOUNDARIES

  • [When to Say Yes, When to Say No]
  • This video series workshop presents the importance of developing healthy boundaries in order to maintain healthy relationships.
  • Having explored the painful realities about their lives - the family they grew up in, the household they are now in, participants are challenged to accept rightful personal responsibility and ownership in life situations.
  • Setting boundaries becomes a journey of spiritual growth, of challenge to change, or problem solving, of hope.  It offers practical help and encouragement to all who seek a healthy, balanced life.

CHANGES THAT HEAL  (CTH) 

  • [Understanding your  past to ensure a healthier future]
  • One of three alternate starting courses (along with CODA and SHAME/GRACE), this workshop explores how to understand your past to ensure a healthier future in our journey as Christ followers.
  • This video series workshop with Dr. Cloud introduces participants to the work and changes necessary to make in our lives in order to bring about healing.
  • Based on the book "Changes That Heal" by Dr. Henry Cloud
  • This workshop walks participants through a step-by-step process which includes ingredients of growth, bonding to others, separating from others, sorting out good and bad in ourselves and others, and fulfilling adulthood.

CODEPENDENT NO MORE  (CODA) 

  • Understand and change the attitudes and behaviors formed by being in/from a dysfunctional household, especially when impacted by an others addition or power.
  • One of three alternate starting courses (along with Changes That Heal and SHAME/GRACE) this workshop explores how to understand your past and give help in relating to another now involved in an addictive behavior.
  • A co-dependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

DIVORCE CARE (DC)

  • [Divorce Recovery for Adults] 
  • A Christ-honoring adult small group program using a video & workbook series to address the anger, pain, and aloneness of separation and divorce.
  • Included are tools toward reconciling past, or forming new relationships without repeating previous patterns.

DIVORCE CARE 4 KIDS (DC4K)

  • [Divorce Recovery for Children]
  • A 12 week series helping children 6 - 12  yrs. old understand the question, What's happening to my family?
  • This caring environment helps children understand, "It's not their fault" and acknowledge pain and anger and helps them move towards forgiveness.                  

DOOR OF HOPE  (DOH)

  • [Support and Teaching for Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse ]
  • For women who are ready to open the door and look at the past. This class helps women give a voice to the pain and build trust in a safe environment.
  • Facing the most destructive of all childhood wounding takes the greatest of courage, and can give the greatest of rewards for living life as an adult.

FATHER WOUND  (HFW)

  • [Healing the Father Wound]     
  •  For those suffering the effects of absent, abusive , or controlling fathering.
  • Everywhere in America today are those suffering from the effect of father loss, physical or emotional.  Inadequate fathering could be the result of an absent father, an abusive father, a judgmental father, or a distant father.

FINANCIAL PEACE UNIVERSITY*  (FPU)

  • [Transforming Biblical Financial Principles]
  • A biblically-cased accountability curriculum presented by Dave Ramsey, who teaches how to make the right decisions with money in a godly way.  It empowers you to make right financial decisions to achieve your financial goals, teaching you to budget, eliminate debt, save, build wealth, and give away too.

HEALING OF A BETRAYED HEART 

  • [Dealing with betrayal from a female perspective]  
  • A 13 week journey to  gain support from others, grieve losses from the pain of betrayal of a partner who struggles with pornography or sexual addiction, and focus on personal spiritual growth .

HIDING FROM LOVE  (HFL)

  • [Breaking the hiding patterns of protection in relationships]
  •  This 10 week course helps bring acceptance to the whole person so there is freedom to create healthy bonds with others.

JAMES CLUB AA MEETING 

  • [Christian based support for those struggling with chemical substance addiction] 
  • On-going weekly Christian Bible study based on original Oxford Group practices using materials that were the forerunner of today’s AA program.

OVER THE THRESHOLD  (OTT)

  • [Support and Teaching for Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse]
  • For women who have begun the healing process, this course brings understanding into the culture of abuse.  It continues to support the healing process through group sharing, and combines the redemptive work of Christ in the process.
  • Healing from sexual abuse trauma is a journey not to be walked alone.  Together we learn to reclaim the voice, relationships, and power to be ourselves.  through growing we gain skills to help others in the process.

PURE DESIRE  (PD)

  • [Support and teaching for men struggling with pornography or other sexual addictions] 
  • This continuing course provides a safe and confidential group environment with discussion and accountability to promote healing. $40.
  •  Workbook—40 weeks.
  • This is an in depth workshop for men struggling with internet pornography or other sexually addictive issues. We deal with the addictive mind-set, roots, and lifestyle within a safe confidential small group enviornment.

RESPONSIBLE PERSONAL GROWTH  (RPG)

  • This course uses video and the book, How People Grow to lead people to understand how God produces change and growth in our lives.
  • The course covers the keys of the power of acceptance and the warmth of forgiveness and give the essential processes that make people grow.
  • This course also provides material from Dr. Jim Wilder and teaches the five key principles that are effective in changing lives and producing growth, belonging, giving, and receiving life, recovery, maturity, and learning to know our hearts.

SURVIVING THE SECRET  (STS)

  • [Freedom and forgiveness for women wounded by abortion]
  • This 10 week study helps hurting women bring their emotional scars of pain into God’s healing grace

WOUNDED BY SHAME/HEALED BY GRACE   (S/G)

  • One of three alternate starting courses (along with CHANGES THAT HEAL  and CODA) this course explores understanding family dynamics from a biblical perspective.
  • It offers hope to those who feel tired of trying to measure up to the performance expectations of others, and those who struggle spiritually with never feeling "good enough"
  • This video series workshop with Jeff VanVonderen sets the foundation for understanding our neediness and the concept of family dysfunction, while teaching about the reality of God's grace and His view of His precious creation.

To register for a course E-mail current contact information by clicking here or call Jim Cosby at 323-908-6117