Celebrate Recovery Vineyard Boise

07/25/2025

WOOHOO it is Friday night and it is time to Celebrate.....oh wait that is next week....Tonight we get to hear from one of our very own leaders. Joetta is going to share with us how to be READY in our journey of recovery. Join us as we work the the five letters of ready, begin to see ourselves as Jesus does and find fellowship in our forever family.

6PM Food and Fellowship
7PM Worship and READY
8PM Small Groups

Child care is available

07/24/2025

We are almost there, it is almost Friday we have climbed our way through another week, another month. And now we get to look forward to another Friday night at Celebrate Recovery. Our Fridays are always an opportunity to lay our week at the foot of the cross and just take time to sit in the presence of our savior, our One Higher Power Jesus Christ. I would encourage you to come tomorrow night and join Joetta as she walks us through how to be READY in our story or recovery.

Join us at 6PM for Food and Fellowship, 7PM for Worship and a lesson, and then 8Pm for small group. We look forward to serving you!

07/23/2025

Our leadership team is going to be attending the national Celebrate Recovery Summit this month. We will see you all this Friday for another teaching our of our journey, and then we will be gone the first Friday of August for CHIP NIGHT. for We will miss you all on Friday and Saturday at our respective CR’s. This is chance for our leaders to meet other leaders from around the country and the world, participate in trainings, and worship together all with idea of making this ministry stronger. We will be back with new ideas, new opportunities, and a refreshed spirit. As a leader if you have never attended one of these I would encourage to do so. Buy your tickets early set back a few dollars a month for the trip in 2026 and get in on a fantastic training opportunity. From our leadership we thank the Vineyard for this opportunity and we will see you next week

07/22/2025

We are drawing a close on this month and with that we will be looking at a new topic in our mental health journey. This month I just wanted to go a little bit further with the idea mental burnout and how we can work through it with the grace and love of Jesus Christ. If you remember we were talking about 1 kings 19 and the journey of Elijah. Today I want to bring in another excerpt from the booklet to think about. “Now I ask you a simple question – what do you need? Take a few minutes and list some things. If you are needing a nudge to get started it starts with “G” and rhymes with odd. Then after listing things like air, water, food, and rest what is next in your life? Now let’s read further into Elijahs story. “Suddenly an angel shook him awake and said, “Get up and eat!”6 He looked around and, to his surprise, right by his head were a loaf of bread baked on some coals and a jug of water. He ate the meal and went back to sleep. 7 The angel of God came back, shook him awake again, and said, “Get up and eat some more—you’ve got a long journey ahead of you.”8-9 He got up, ate and drank his fill, and set out. Nourished by that meal, he walked forty days and nights, all the way to the mountain of God, to Horeb. When he got there, he crawled into a cave and went to sleep.” You noticed the angel didn’t say “Hey you loser, you scaredy cat, why are so afraid of Jezzy?’ This Angel met him where he was and took care of the physical needs by offering him a piece of cake and a nap. Actually a couple pieces of cake and a couple of naps in order to build up the strength for the next leg of the journey. What does God offer us in these moments of our lives? Maybe it is a burger and fries or for others it is a gluten free, non-GMO, vegan, protein bar and a matcha kombucha, and then take a nap. Just remember when this time comes the enemy will attack and tell you that you have too much to do and you made your commitments, that you are being selfish and lazy, that you are letting people down. Don’t let the loud words of the enemy overpower the whispers of God. Even in the Ten Commandments it clearly says to rest.
We may be tested with the shake of our earth, the gushing of the winds of change, or the fires of our life but we will not typically find God there. Earth, Wind, Fire is not where we may find God, just like the 1970’s rock band, they did not find God either. God is in the ordinary, he is the small still voice, he is the moment when we stop and simply pray “come Holy Spirit.” Have you noticed you hear God more when you are quietly doing the dishes, vacuuming, reading, and just enjoying a peaceful sunrise/sunset? God doesn’t have to be loud, because he is always close. God was with Elijah in the cave, not in the heavens above. God whispers to make you curious and to draw you out of the shadows and into the light of His path. God is calling you out of the misery of being burned out, he is calling you to rest, to be still before him, and to possibly adapt to new rhythms of life. He may be calling you to do something different. If you are burning out because of a sedentary lifestyle he may call you to some adventure. If you are always active he may call you to something more serene and quiet. The important thing is to listen and turn you life and will over to the care of God. God may call you to seek a group like Celebrate Community to find community support with like-minded believers. God may even call you to seek professional help in your journey and it is okay to accept this challenge. These professionals are called to help the tired and weary. They are called to help them trade their heavy, burden laden yokes for the light and easy yoke of Jesus Christ. It is okay to say you are not okay.

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Thank you and I always encourage you to respond to these booklets with your thoughts, input, and suggestions. You can email me at vineyardcrmh@gmail.com. You can also find and respond to these on the Celebrate Recovery Vineyard Boise Facebook group page where you can find these booklets in the files tab to share with others. While you are there please like, comment, and share to help us grow our CR ministry.

Celebrate Recovery is a self-sustaining ministry and all of what we offer is supported by generous donations by people like yourself. If you are able to help support our ministry please leave an offering at your local CR or let us know and we will let you know how to support us remotely.

If you simply want to know more about Celebrate Recovery and what we are all about please check out the Celebrate Recovery website (celebraterecovery.com) and follow us on our Facebook and Instagram pages. We only post once a day so you won’t be flooded with posts.

Our Friday CR at the Vineyard meets every Friday night at 4950 Bradley St, Garden City, Idaho 83714. We have Dinner and Fellowship at 6PM, Large Group Study at 7PM, and Small Group begin at 8PM. We do have childcare available. Come as you are, there are no requirements to participate.

Our Saturday CR at the Experience Church meets every Saturday afternoon at 1450 N Ten Mile Rd, Meridian, Idaho 83642. He have Lunch at 1:00PM, Large Group Study at 2:00PM, and Small group at 3PM. At this time we do not have childcare available.

07/21/2025

Due to a change in schedule we are changing up the formatting of postings. The goal is to post our mental health minute on Tuesdays, announcements on Wednesday, Friday pre-invite on Thursday and then our invite on Friday. Look for the mental health posting tomorrow.....

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07/18/2025

It is the end of the workweek and it is time to close this week with another time of Celebrate Recovery. Tonight we have one of very own leaders that is going to share Lesson 13 – Admit with us. You the crazy part of this lesson is that there is NO acrostic, what?! How will we ever manage???? What we are going to do is learn how to lose those negative feeling in our life by holding on to those little secrets. We are going to learn what we gain by placing those secrets in the hands of Christ. Join us tonight and learn how to let go of those festering little sins and gain support in the forever family of CR.

Psalm 32:3-5 – there was a time when I would not admit what a sinner I was. But my dishonesty made me miserable and filled my days with frustration. All day and all night your hand was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water on a sunny day until I finally admitted all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. I said to myself, “I will confess them to the Lord.” And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.

6PM Food and Fellowship
7PM Worship and Lesson 13 – Admit
8PM Small Group
*Childcare is available

07/17/2025

We have almost made it to the end of the week. This Friday we are going to dive into Lesson-13 Admit. Suzy is going share with us how we can continue to move through our recovery in grace and forgiveness of the Father.
We have all heard the wages of sin is death, but you may not have heard that the wages of sin are never frozen or they are never subject to income taxes. One of the main reasons for that is because most of the wages of sin go unreported! And by the way, if the wages of sin is death, shouldn’t you quit before payday? Join us tomorrow night as we join Suzy on the stage and begin to find freedom in confession and admission.

07/14/2025

This month we are continuing our series on Mental Burnout. Many people are struggling with mental health issues and they are just simply not willing to face those dragons in their life, they feel like they will be labels or stigmatized by them. But the truth is, if we openly talk about these issues then we can find freedom in them, we can find acceptance not rejection, we find relationship – not loneliness. If you continue to bury the mental health issue then you are giving the enemy a front row seat to your life and he will use this stigma against you. Think of it this way, if I was to break my arm and show up an event, or work, most people will come up and start a conversation about it, maybe even ask if they can sign the cast. But when we have a mental health break nobody is going to come up to you and start a conversation about it and then ask if they can sign your forehead in the same way. More commonly if I express a mental health concern many people, even those closest to me, may turn a walk away. They may even respond with church hurt like “You are not praying enough, just get into your Bible more” or “the church is not a counseling center and we don’t do counseling so you can’t talk about this here” or worse you go your recovery group and they complete shun mental health recovery as part of your recovery. The truth is in all reality, the church was called to be the place where we find the greatest healing in mind, body, and spirit. I am sure we have all heard the term “the great counselor” as reference to God and Jesus, as a church, as a Christian we should walk in that light of our savior. What does all of this have to do with Mental Burnout? Mental burnout is just one face of our mental health recovery journey that we have to be aware of in our journey or recovery and even more so in our ministry.
Look at Elija standing in front of 850 false prophets and called fire down from the heavens in a competition and comply burned down the alter. He did this through an undying faith in God. This after all of the other miracles and trials he endured under King Ahab. He was ministering under the full authority of Jesus, he was a mighty warrior and man of God, but he was human and he found his breaking point. It was here that he burned out, he had nothing left, so he ran, and ran, and ran, under he found himself alone under a broom tree begging God to take him away, to end his life. Like Elijah what is our breaking point and how do we respond? Do we hit that point in our own journey where we have simply had enough and we can’t go on? We feel defeated? Then what, do we run to our addictions? Our internal or external isolation? One statistic I will share here that is not in our monthly booklet…In March of 2022 it was estimated that 42% of all pastors were experiencing burnout and ready to leave the ministry calling. There is also a direct correlation that for these pastors having a desire to leave their calling, other dimensions of their lives are at risk equally as well.
Next week let’s continue the story of Elijah, of mental burnout, and see how we can overcome this challenge in our lives and find though our relationship with Jesus a way to overcome the musings of the enemy in our lives.
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Thank you and I always encourage you to respond to these booklets with your thoughts, input, and suggestions. You can email me at vineyardcrmh@gmail.com. You can also find and respond to these on the Celebrate Recovery Vineyard Boise Facebook group page where you can find these booklets in the files tab to share with others. While you are there please like, comment, and share to help us grow our CR ministry.
Celebrate Recovery is a self-sustaining ministry and all of what we offer is supported by generous donations by people like yourself. If you are able to help support our ministry please leave an offering at your local CR or let us know and we will let you know how to support us remotely.
If you simply want to know more about Celebrate Recovery and what we are all about please check out the Celebrate Recovery website (celebraterecovery.com) and follow us on our Facebook and Instagram pages. We only post once a day so you won’t be flooded with posts.
Our Friday CR at the Vineyard meets every Friday night at 4950 Bradley St, Garden City, Idaho 83714. We have Dinner and Fellowship at 6PM, Large Group Study at 7PM, and Small Group begin at 8PM. We do have childcare available. Come as you are, there are no requirements to participate.
Our Saturday CR at the Experience Church meets every Saturday afternoon at 1450 N Ten Mile Rd, Meridian, Idaho 83642. He have Lunch at 1:00PM, Large Group Study at 2:00PM, and Small group at 3PM. At this time we do not have childcare available.

07/08/2025

We have made it through our Small group Guidelines and it is time to close this part of Celebrate Recovery walk. Let’s take a moment and summarize the 5 Small Group Guidelines so that we understand why we read these at the beginning of every meeting. Simply put – it keeps our group safe! We all come to C.R. with hurts, habits and hang-ups that can be very uncomfortable to talk about in public. Therefore, by following the Small Group Guidelines, we, as a group, create a secure atmosphere in which we may all share openly. Here is a reminder on the Small Group Guidelines, to help you understand the importance of each one a little better.
1. Keep your sharing limited to your own thoughts and feelings. Limit your sharing to three-to-five minutes.
2. There is no cross talk. Cross talk is when two individuals engage in a conversation excluding all others. Each person is free to express his or her feelings without interruption.
3. We are here to support one another, not “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. Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery program.
Thank you for following over the past few weeks as we took a deeper dive into the guidelines

07/04/2025

If you just need a safe place to be tonight join us at Celebrate Recovery. Not only can you celebrate our nation's freedom but you can join our forever family on Chip Night and celebrate your own freedom from your hurt's hang-ups and habits. We know it is a time of celebration with our families, we also know there are those that need this time in a safe place as well. We will kick off at 6PM with Food and Fellowship. 7PM we will have our Worship and Chip Celebration, 8PM we will have a half-time of more food and fellowship and then we will kick off our Small Groups at 8:15. Yes, we will have childcare available. We should be done by 9PM so if you still want to catch the fireworks shows they will still be going. See you tonight for CHIP CELEBRATION and time with our forever family