Weekly Schedule

  • 5:45 PM - Supper 
  • 6:00 PM - Worship and Large Group
  • 7:00 PM - Small Groups​
Our CR Worship Band is called The Wildflowers in a Mason Jar. Click below to listen to a song.

Small Groups offered

  • ​Women's Chemical Dependency
  • Men's Chemical Dependency
  • Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits (for life's events that take our joy away)
  • Family Support (for those who want to help their loves ones recover)
  • Celebration Place (for infants - 4 yrs. old)
  • Celebration Place (for children 5-12 yrs. old)
  • The Landing (for students 13-18 yrs. old)
  • The more we hold on to our hurts, anger, and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness. ​ ​

Celebrate Recovery Needs YOUR Help

We are able to partially support the ministry through donations received on Thursdays, and our congregation offers some support on Sundays.  Like everything else related to budgets, Celebrate Recovery needs your help.  Please consider including Celebrate Recovery in your giving.  
To support CR, please click the button below and choose "Celebrate Recovery" in the fund drop-down menu

CELEBRATE RECOVERY - LOVE, GROW, REACH, SERVE

​Celebrate Recovery (CR) has proven itself to be a vital ministry in our community.  Before COVID, we were seeing 40 people in attendance each week.  That’s fantastic when we consider the national average attendance for Celebrate Recovery groups is only 20.  Even with the pandemic reducing the number of people attending, Celebrate Recovery remained faithful. In 2024, Celebrate Recovery sees 20-25 people in attendance weekly.
​Our Group leaders are trained in substance use recovery, codependency, and grief recovery.  Here are some other educational topics we have covered since Celebrate Recovery began in 2017:
  • Addiction as a chronic relapsing disease of the brain
  • Resources available in our community to help with treatment options
  • Persons with lived experience to offer support
  • Naloxone training and distribution
  • Medication assisted treatment
  • Safe syringe exchange programs
  • Suicide awareness and prevention
  • Resources for family members
  • Information for relative caregivers with a special emphasis on seniors caring for grandchildren
  • Harm reduction
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences awareness and care
  • Awareness of current events as they impact substance use disorder and recovery
Networks are important.  Celebrate Recovery is listed on the national Celebrate Recovery page.  FUMC Newport is now recognized by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services as a Tennessee Certified Recovery Congregation.
Here are some of the local community agencies with whom our recovery ministry has worked.
  • Empower Cocke County
  • Cocke County Drug Coalition
  • The University of Tennessee Rural Communities Opioid Response Grant
  • Choice Health Network
  • Freewill Baptist Family Ministries
  • Tennessee Department of Health
  • Drug Court
  • Helen Ross McNabb Center
  • Cocke County Coordinated School Health
  • Advancing Wellness And Resilience Education (AWARE) program serving Cocke County Schools
  • Tennessee Voices for Children and Youth
  • Douglass Cherokee Economic Authority
  • Rural Medical Services​
Children living with loved ones affected by substance use disorder (SUD) face unique challenges. "Celebration Place," the kid-centered companion to Celebrate Recovery, is a setting where children discover the pathway to healing and well-being. It's a place for children whose loved ones have made the courageous choice to begin their own journey toward health and wholeness.​

"The Landing," is a student ministry within Celebrate Recovery. Come and process life, find healing in Christ, and gain valuable tools to live healthier lives.

If you'd like to get more information on our Celebrate Recovery ministry, please contact Marta Coburn, Director of Recovery Ministries, at [email protected]
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Check out the national Celebrate Recovery website for additional resources and material:
celebraterecovery.com/