Report from Ghana

Celebrate Recovery Ghana was introduce October, 2010 by Norma Murphy and team from Southern Hills Baptist Church, Tulsa Ok USA with the support of Bishop Francis Afotey Odai.  The CR team revisited Ghana again in February, 2011 to established CR Ghana and has since been in progress and active. 

Our CR family meetings are held every Sunday from 4:00pm to 6:30pm.

CR Ghana

The Celebrate Recovery is growing by grace of God and our meetings are very successful. Bishop Odai, the president has always supported us with all the necessary things we need like refreshment every Sundays, this is because most of our members are people who are really challenged with problems and are not in the position to contribute financially towards the group.  Never the less God is working on them through celebrate recovery, we have by the grace of God tried to build confidence in one another by trusting each other with our problems. This is not easy though some members still fine it very difficult to trust anyone because of pass experience.

Apart from that we have completed all the lesson and are ready to move on with step study if Norma and the team are ready to come and help us through it, we also have ministers who will like to be trained to start celebrate recovery at their churches.

CR in South Africa

A 4-Day conference was held in Johannesburg January by Saddleback Church CR.  Eleven churches attended and agreed to start Celebrate Recovery and serve as model CRs in South Africa.  Some churches are new to recovery programs and others are using Celebrate Recovery materials but using their own format.  Most of the participants were pastors, counselors or lay leaders. 

The response overall was very good and the churches were eager to start Celebrate Recovery.  Reports since then been very encouraging in their progress.