Celebrate Recovery Pella

05/23/2026

Getting you through life's hurt, hang-ups and habits one step at a time!!

We meet at The Well in Pella every Thursday at 5:30 with a free meal.
6-7 pm large group teaching
7-8 share groups meet
free childcare for your littles

Looking forward to meeting you!!!

Please enter through the dining room door.

05/23/2026

We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all... Step 8 in Celebrate Recovery

I will never forgive them as long as I live!! I just can't!

My entire life was changed because of them. I lost my career, my idenity , my income as well as people I called friends the day my job was taken from me. How can I let them 'off the hook' when so much was at stake?

It's hard. Oh SO hard. It's been more than 5 years and I remember that day as if it were yesterday. The absolute feeling of betrayal , the numbing pain accompainied by the deep hurt.

But unforgiveness ruins lives. Falling into depression and dispair I continued, probably increased, the number of pills I was already taking to numb my hard emotions. My unforgiving heart caused me more pain and distruction than it will ever cause the people who hurt me.

So, I need to let go. And as I was crying out to God complaining that my job loss wasnt fair! That no one cared!' I asked Him how anyone could forgive when they've have been so wrongly accused !

And then in a small window of silence I heard God say, "I did".

God loves me SO MUCH that He sent His Son to die for me.... and for you.
( John 3:16) A man without sin suffered a horrible death on a cross so that I can live.

He got my attention that day.....

God and I are working on letting go of unforgiveness. It's a process. And I can't do this work alone.

Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to work out any hurt, hangup or habit.

We meet at The well every Thursday evening at 5:30



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05/21/2026

There's exciting news at Celebrate Recovery of Pella!!
Celebration Place is launching on May 14!!

Kids are like sponges, absorbing so much every single day. This includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you have a hurt, habit of hang-up, chances are your beautiful kiddos do too. When one person in the family is in recovery, the entire family is in recovery.

Celebration place is designed to help your kids from Kindergarden through 6th grade develop life skills that are vital in their times of struggle and in daily life. Children will be equiped with healthy coping skills, stategies and values to prevent the development of unhealthy coping skills that that lead to poor life choices. We like to think of Celebration Place as Pre-recovery.

Here, at Celebration place, we pray that your kids find friendships, learn to lean on Jesus, and expeirience hope and joy.

Celebrate Recovery meets at The Well in Pella every thursday evening starting with a meal at 5:30.

any questions call Bryan at 641-780-4824

05/21/2026

People walk through the doors of Celebrate Recovery for lots of reasons. The common thread? We are all people with flesh; we all have hurts, hang-ups or habits that make life hard.

There are as many reasons for coming to CR as there are people in the room. Addiction, depression, co dependency, anger, eating disorders, anxiety, abuse, po*******hy, grief....Each one of us has healing to do and hope to find.

What happens here at celebrate recovery?

There is fellowship here with others just like you, We support one another with listening ears.
There are testimonies, real-life stories that we can relate to.
We learn the 12 steps and 8 principles and how we can apply them to where we are right now.
There is encouragement.
We see laughter and smiles that haven't been shared in a while. We see healing. We see hope renewed.
We see God working.

Come and see for yourself!

We meet every Thursday at 5:30 at The Well in Pella.
5:30-6:00- enjoy a free meal with others
6:00-7:00- large group; we hear a testimony or receive a teaching
7:00_8:00- small groups meet; this is where we share our junk
got littles? There's free childcare

Please enter The Well through the dining room doors.

05/17/2026

There's exciting news at Celebrate Recovery of Pella!!
Celebration Place is launching on May 14!!

Kids are like sponges, absorbing so much every single day. This includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you have a hurt, habit of hang-up, chances are your beautiful kiddos do too. When one person in the family is in recovery, the entire family is in recovery.

Celebration place is designed to help your kids from Kindergarden through 6th grade develop life skills that are vital in their times of struggle and in daily life. Children will be equiped with healthy coping skills, stategies and values to prevent the development of unhealthy coping skills that that lead to poor life choices. We like to think of Celebration Place as Pre-recovery.

Here, at Celebration place, we pray that your kids find friendships, learn to lean on Jesus, and expeirience hope and joy.

Celebrate Recovery meets at The Well in Pella every thursday evening starting with a meal at 5:30.

any questions call Bryan at 641-780-4824

05/17/2026

05/16/2026

God, grant me the SERENITY to accept the things I cannot change,
the COURAGE to change the things I can,
and the WISDOM to know the difference.
the serenity prayer

My parents hurt me. Not physically, but emotionally they were absent. All I wanted to hear was I love you good job. I didn't. I wasn't special enough to take time out of their day to read me a book or play a game. In fact, they seldom paid attention to me. I grew up feeling unworthy, unlovable, not good enough.
My Child's heart believed that if I worked really hard in school, and pretended I was always happy Mom and Dad would be happy too.
That didn't work.
Now I am over a quarter of a century old and struggling to find my worth and my emotions. I blamed my parents. It is their fault that I needed to work so hard to find my way in this world. I was full of anger and what-ifs.
Friends, the blame game just doesn't work. there is no true peace in revenge. I can't bring my childhood back and change it. Would I really even want to?
The only person that I can hold accountable is me. The only thing that I can change is me. There's serenity in that wisdom. It's hard work. It takes courage. It's God sized.
I am so grateful that I serve a really big God!!!!

Celebrate Recovery is a 12 step God centered program that helps me work through this pain offering support and encouragement. We meet every Thursday evening at 5:30 at The Well in Pella. Come and discover renewed hope!