I attended Faith Alive’s inaugural ‘Celebrate Recovery’ class last weekend, and who should appear on the introductory video but the American pastor from Saddleback Church – Rick Warren. After nearly six weeks immersed in Nigeria landscape, people, and pronunciations, I was surprised to see a video that might be shown in my Colorado church. The recovery message is universal, but I’m not sure how the Hawaiian shirts translate.
Anyway, there’s a need at Faith Alive to offer healing from addictive habits, hurts, and hang-ups. At least ten staff members lead the class in addition to their full-time roles. One of our Save-A-Life patients is battling alcoholism and it was encouraging to see him at the class. Keeping him sober allows his anti-retroviral drugs to fight his HIV and fulfill his life’s purpose (which would surely please Rick!).
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