Addiction Recovery Ministry
If Jesus sets you free, you will be free indeed.
- John 8:36
Our Vision
People from many cultures are trapped in the vicious cycle of addictions. We want to be a resource to local ethnic churches to help the addicted discover Jesus Christ, experience His power to overcome their com- pulsive behavior and inspire others in their recovery.
Our strategy is to use standardized curriculum taught in a transferable way in the power of the Holy Spirit in an atmosphere of evangelism. We will see lives transformed as people find hope and healing in Jesus Christ. This in turn brings new life to the local church.
Typical Evening at ARM
| 6:45-7PM | Coffee |
| 7:00-8PM | Large group session Lesson or personal testimony |
| 8-8:15PM | Coffee & Desert |
| 8:15-9PM | Open share small groups Men's and Women's groups Gender and Issue specific |
To get started ...
...attend a one-day addiction recovery seminar
- Get an overview of this effective program. Call us about attending a one-day addiction recovery seminar.
- Learn how to start and strengthen your ministry, find and train leaders, structure fellowship events, reach out to the community, implement the curriculum, and build a God-exalting worship experience.
- Meet your ARM coaches. John and Linda's testimony will show the power of God's healing hand. You will learn best practices and pitfalls to avoid as you start your ministry, gleaning from their 35 years of experience.
- Who should come? People who have come through a 12-step recovery program themselves and have a heart to reach out to others for recovery. Pastors and lay ministers interested in implementing this program.
Twelve steps and their biblical comparisons
- We admitted that we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behavior, that our lives had become unmanageable.
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. - Romans 7:18
- We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
For it is God who is at work in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. - Philippians 2:13
- We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God.
Therefore I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. - Romans 12:1
- We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. - Lamentations 3:40
- We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
Therefore confess your sins to each other, and pray for each other, so that you may be healed. - James 5:16a
- We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up. - James 4:10
- We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John1:9
- We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Do to others as you would have them do to you. - Luke 6:31
- We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Therefore if you are offering a gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. - Matthew 5:23-24
- We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
So, if you think that you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall. - 1 Corinthians 10:12
- We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. - Colossians 3:16a
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you may also be tempted. - Galatians 6:1