CR will be returning to in-person meetings 
​Thursday, June 3, 2021. 

  • 5:45 PM - Snack Supper 
  • 6:00 PM - Worship and Large Group
  • 7:00 PM - Hurts, Hang-ups, and Habits Small Groups​
Our CR Worship Band is called The Wildflowers in a Mason Jar. Click below to listen to a song.
  • Women's Chemical Dependency
  • Men's Chemical Dependency
  • Codependency
  • Starting June 3, Forgiveness
    • The more we hold on to our hurts, anger, and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness. ​ ​
We will also continue offering Zoom to those not yet ready to return.  

Celebrate Recovery Needs YOUR Help

While we were meeting in person, we were able to partially support the ministry through donations received on Thursdays.  Our congregation offered some support on Sundays too.  Like everything else related to budgets, Celebrate Recovery is now running low on funds and needs your help.  Please consider including Celebrate Recovery in your giving.  
To support CR, please click the botton 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.  Unfortunately, the pandemic reduced that number to 11 people, but this small group has been faithfully meeting by zoom every week since the quarantine began. 

​Recently, Through a referral from the national Celebrate Recovery network, one of our leaders has begun providing a 12 Step ministry to a nearby group home for youth suffering from substance use disorders.  
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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