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We promote Hope to the Hopeless!

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11/30/2025

Good Morning ATO family! ☀️💙

What does it really mean to love and to be loved? Sometimes we overcomplicate it. We analyze every feeling and forget that love isn’t just an emotion — it’s a way of living, a posture of the heart, a daily choice. We don’t learn how to love through willpower or good intentions alone. We learn it by experiencing love… and by living it out one day at a time. 💯💪💙

When the apostle Paul taught the early church how to live together, he always began by reminding them of God’s compassion and love in Christ. “You’ve already been loved,” he told them (Ephesians 5). We’re God’s children, but we easily forget what love truly is. So Scripture invites us to remember again and again — remember what Christ has shown us about the God who loves us.

And it’s powerful to note this:
1 Corinthians 13 — the beautiful passage we hear at weddings — wasn’t originally written about romance. It was a call to a whole community to cultivate love together. To build unity. To be one body. To love one another sacrificially and consistently as brothers and sisters doing life together.

That’s us.
That’s the ATO family.
A fellowship of survivors. A community of people who overcame the odds and now walk together in God’s love. ✝️💜

Love is both a gift and a way of living.
It’s something we learn side by side, together, as we surrender the envy, anger, self-seeking, dishonesty, and walls we once used to protect ourselves. Those were the tools we relied on before we knew we were truly loved by God.

But now?
Now we walk differently.
Now we love differently.
Now we live differently.

Have a blessed day, family.
I love you all. And as always…
It’s Hope to the Hopeless. 💙🔥🙌

11/30/2025

Keenan Clark 🔥

11/30/2025

New Creation Recovery Church Westwood Community Church

11/30/2025

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11/29/2025

Tonight is New Creation Recovery Church where Faith and Recovery Meet! ❤️‍🩹✝️⛪️

630pm —Doors open for fellowship ☕️
7pm —- Worship 🙌
7:30pm —-Opening Prayer/Announcements 🙏
7:45pm —-Testimony Emiliano Roman
8:15pm —-Closing Message and Prayer

We meet at Westwood Community Church Chanhassen Parking and Entry is in the LOWER LOT

Westwood Community Church
—Chanhassen Campus
3121 Westwood Drive
Excelsior, MN 55331

11/29/2025

Good Morning ATO family! ☀️

It’s easy to think of recovery only in terms of stopping drugs, alcohol, or destructive behaviors. But true recovery is so much more than what we stop—it’s about what we start building.

The best way to let go of old habits is to replace them with new, life-giving ones:
🙏 Prayer
🤝 Fellowship
💙 Service
📖 Daily surrender to God

As we develop new behaviors, we learn to lay aside the old patterns that once controlled us. Real change begins when we repent, turn our lives over to God, and seek His will daily. When we walk in obedience, we find ourselves stepping off the path of destruction and onto the path of purpose.

God helps us exchange our defects for His wisdom. He rebuilds us—piece by piece—into people of strength, clarity, and hope. We step into a new life… one filled with abundance, growth, and freedom.

As always, you already know… it’s Hope to the Hopeless! ☀️☝️✝️🙏🔥💪❤️‍🩹

11/29/2025

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11/28/2025

Let’s congratulate Matt H. on 4 1/2 years of recovery today!

11/28/2025

A City Worth Seeking 🌆

Good Morning! It’s time to wake up and live!☀️

Phililppians 3: 1-9 LRB 1524 📖⚔️🔥

https://atoministries.org/

11/28/2025

This Saturday is New Creation Recovery Church where Faith and Recovery Meet! ❤️‍🩹✝️⛪️

630pm —Doors open for fellowship ☕️
7pm —- Worship 🙌
7:30pm —-Opening Prayer/Announcements 🙏
7:45pm —-Testimony Emiliano Roman
8:15pm —-Closing Message and Prayer

We meet at Westwood Community Church Chanhassen Parking and Entry is in the LOWER LOT

Westwood Community Church
—Chanhassen Campus
3121 Westwood Drive
Excelsior, MN 55331

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11/28/2025

Good Morning ATO family! ☀️💙

Just a reminder today — we don’t have to hold ourselves to impossible standards. Perfectionism can sneak in and paralyze us if we’re not careful. Many of us grew up being judged, shamed, or told we weren’t enough, and now those unrealistic expectations follow us into our recovery. We start expecting more from ourselves than God ever asked of us.

Jesus illustrated this in the parable of the three servants. Two invested what they were given and doubled it. But the third servant hid his gift in the ground because he viewed his master through fear.
He said, “Master, I knew you were a harsh man… I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth.” But the master responded, “Why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I would have gotten interest!” (Matthew 25:24–27 NLT)

Fear, perfectionism, and unrealistic expectations can make us bury our potential the same way. When we compare our recovery to others or demand perfection from ourselves, we become discouraged before we even start.

But hear this clearly: God never asked you to be perfect — He asked you to be faithful.
He asks us to simply do something with what we’ve been given. To show up. To try. To grow little by little.

Even small progress is still progress.
Even tiny steps still move you forward.
Even the least improvement is better than not trying at all.

So today, let’s release perfectionism and choose progress over perfection — one day, one moment at a time.

As always, it’s Hope to the Hopeless! ☀️💪🙌✝️🙏💙

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207 N. Chestnut Street
Chaska, MN
55318

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+16124307613

Website

http://ATOministries.org/

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