Celebrate Recovery Pella

11/11/2025

11/09/2025

Time heals all wounds.....

This advise is frequently given......but is simply not true. I suffered mother/father wounds 50 years ago. That's alot of time, and I am still working on healing. My wounds were allowed to fester, and the infection spread. Time made the pain worse.
Now I am not only fighting childhood trauma, but healing from poor choices I made to distract me from the pain. Starting with food by the age of 5, the road of addiction led to people pleasing, perfectionism, self-injury and medication abuse.
But Friends, that road is under repair!! It's hard work. Sometimes I want to quit all I have learned and travel the easier path of addiction; the one where I stuff all emotion and heartache into a pill or a cut on my arms. I can feel now, no barriers are in place, and it's foreign to me. However, different doesn't mean bad. It just means......transformed!!
Celebrate Recovery is part of my story of transformation. God, the steps and the people I've met along the way.....
Do you want some 'road work' done on your path called life?
Celebrate Recovery meets every Thursday night at 5:30 at The Well in Pella.
Yield to God and stop by.

11/08/2025

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! Enter through the dining room doors at The Well

11/06/2025

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 doors at The Well

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11/06/2025

Life can be hard. REALLY hard!!!
Hard enough that you want to give up.
Hard enough that you want to numb with drugs, alcohol, p**n. people pleasing, or (you name your vice) so you don't have to feel.
You feel abandoned, hopeless, overwhelmed, depressed.
You have burned so many bridges that you're standing alone in chest high water.

My friends, there is a place for you.
There's a seat waiting for you at Celebrate Recovery.

Here you are seen,
known,
loved
and met right where you're at.

Here is where you can share freely and without judgement.
Here is where you will talk with people who 'get it' .
Here is where you find hope.
Here is where broken people love broken people.
Here is where you find healing........ one step at a time.

We meet every Thursday at The Well in Pella.
free meal 5:30-600
large group 6:00-7:00
share groups 7:00-8:00

you have littles? no problem we provide free child care

Open the door and come on in. Your forever family is waiting!

Please enter through the dining room doors at The Well

11/02/2025

You're never going to amount to anything.
You are so fat!!
You can't do anything right!!
These words run through my head as I think about my past. Childhood thoughts and fears surface often throughout my adult life. The shame and hurt often presents itself as perfectionism.
Perfectionists strain compulsively toward unobtainable goals that inevitably lead to disappointment.
Yep, that's me. Trying SO hard ......but never being good enough. Not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not talented enough.........
You get the idea.
Its a hard and depressive place to be in.

But ,my friends....God has different words for me.
He says I am beautiful.......
I am precious.....
I am complete...
I am worthy of all He has for me.....
I am redeemed, forgiven, sanctified and loved
Fully loved.
I AM GOOD ENOUGH!!

And so are you. God loves us so much that He made us in His image, And then gave us HIS son, His own son to live with us and die for us!! WOW!!!

And this truth is exampled for me at Celebrate Recovery. I am loved just as I am and supported in my journey of who I am becoming.

The journey is hard, that's for sure, But I can do hard when I feel loved, I can do hard because I am learning that I am worth the work. I am learning that it's OK to make mistakes. And I am cheered for and encouraged to keep trudging on the path to wholeness.

Are you ready to discover you?

Join me at Celebrate Recovery every Thursday evening at 530pm at The Well in Pella.

I cant wait to meet you!!!

11/01/2025

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 doors at The Well