Dear Pastors & Emerging Leaders in Recovery Ministries:
I’d like to let you know about our upcoming Came to Believe Retreat in Nevada City, California. This will be a great opportunity for you as a pastor to learn more about and understand the people you are trying to reach in your local recovery community. Last year drug overdose deaths increased in California by nearly 100%. This is a problem which appears to only get worse year after year. The Church is in a unique position to minister to people in a way the rest of our society cannot.
This will also be a great chance for you to help an emerging recovery leader to be better equipped to lead a recovery ministry. Recovery Ministries of the Sac District, in working with Darlene Franks and the SDMI board would like to help you or a couple of your potential recovery leaders to join us at the upcoming retreat. If you have any questions about the retreat and how it might fit with our teachings and theology, I’d be glad to answer them at any time.
Be blessed,
Why will this help recovering persons?
This will give them the chance to learn the early Christian methods of AA.
It will help them with their step work.
It will give them confidence to share their faith in other twelve step recovery meetings.
They will have a chance to meet folks who have been leading Christ centered meetings for many years.
How will this help the ministry of my church?
Just maybe, a seed will be planted to help your church begin a drug and alcohol recovery ministry. This will demonstrate to recovering persons in your church family, your commitment and support for their on-going sobriety.
If you’re interested, please feel free to contact me and let me know the names of the folks you are sending. I would like to set up a separate zoom meeting with them after the retreat to debrief on what they have learned. I can also assist them in learning how to be more confident and effective in sharing their faith at other twelve step meetings.
We have been using the Came to Believe recovery materials at OroNaz for the past seven years and have found them an excellent way to bring people to Christ and have a positive impact on our local recovery community in general.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns at any time.
Yours in Him,
Rev. Dale Marsh
Recovery Pastor
Oroville Church of the Nazarene
2238 Monte Vista Ave.
Oroville Ca 95966
dale@oronaz.org
530-680-2040
sacnazndi.org 