Landing Brochure v.1

CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH

CELEBRATE RECOVERY FOR TEENS

welcome

The Landing is Celebrate Recovery’s student ministry geared towards middle school and high school students. The Landing is a program designed to help hurting teenagers grow closer to Jesus Christ as they learn key principles and habits to live freer, healthier, and more God-honoring lives. The lessons and content we walk through in the Landing are designed to mirror the same lifechanging material as the adult Celebrate Recovery program-–the difference is the Landing is created for students. The Landing exists to provide a safe place for students to process life and the struggles that accompany it, equip them with tools to help live emotionally and spiritually healthy lives, and point them towards the freedom found in Jesus Christ. Through this journey they can come to realize that their struggles matter, they do not have to face them alone, and their true higher power, Jesus Christ, offers them a better way forward that leads to lasting healing, hope, and freedom.

PURPOSE OF THE LANDING

Through the Landing, students can find a safe place for help, hope, and healing through engaging the recovery principles and growing in relationship with Jesus Christ. This ministry allows students the ability to start changing their lives early, so they do not have to walk through more pain later in life, and develop healthy ways to grow through their pain. This program changes lives and can change students’ lives too. There is no hurt, no struggle, or no lie that is too strong for Jesus Christ to carry and heal. The Landing helps students find a better way forward so that through Jesus Christ they can live a life of lasting freedom, hope, and purpose.

SMALL GROUP GUIDELINES

No matter who we are, everyone has struggles and pain that can keep them from living the abundant life that Jesus Christ promised us. Thankfully, true healing can come when students connect to the hope of Jesus Christ and a safe community of people who are willing to love and walk with them. The small groups play a huge part in fostering that connection. Every week in the Landing there will be a genderspecific small group time of sharing. This time is essential to allow students to process through their struggles and hurts, and provides an opportunity to connect what they are going through with the truth they learn here. These groups are an incredible place to find connection, hope, healing, and encouragement, but that can only happen if they are truly safe. In order to ensure these groups are productive and safe, the same five Small Group Guidelines are used each and every week:

1. Focus on your own thoughts and feelings when sharing in the group. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.

2. Please avoid crosstalk. Crosstalk is when two people engage in conversation excluding all others. Each person sharing is free to express their feelings without interruption.

3. We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to “fix” one another.

4. Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group, stays in the group. The only exception is when someone threatens to injure themselves or others.

5. Avoid offensive language; it has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.

Connection Time

Creating connections between students and leaders, building friendships and safe relationships. This typically involves a game or activity.

Worship Time

Oftentimes students’ lives are filled with distractions and obligations that keep them from slowing down and focusing on what God is doing. A time of worship through music provides all the opportunity to connect with and rest in God.

Teaching Time

The Landing leaders will present biblical truths and recovery principles in a way that students can engage with, participate in, and apply to students’ lives.

Small Group Time

The Landing uses the same five Small Group Guidelines (inside) that adults in Celebrate Recovery use in open share groups to keep them safe. The small group time provides an opportunity to walk through a series of questions that pertain to that evening’s teaching time. Small groups give students time to process and personalize the recovery principles they are learning.

Fellowship Time

This time serves as a place for students and leaders to connect, build safe relationships, and continue processing the lessons after the teaching time.