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Why should addicts avoid new relationships with members of the opposite sex in the first year of recovery?

For addicts, real lasting change occurs only after a long and often painful process of self discovery.  Becoming involved in a romantic relationship too early is a sure fire way to short-circuit the process.  It is actually one of the most frequent causes of relapse.

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About Blazing Grace

       As of February 2008, Blazing urbanministry.org/spiritual_gifts" class="" title="Spiritual Gifts Resources">Grace's ministry and website became part of TechMission's Safe Families program. Mike Genung took a leave of absence from Blazing urbanministry.org/spiritual_gifts" class="" title="Spiritual Gifts Resources">Grace in order to concentrate on other responsibilities. For much of 2009, the pastoral oversight was handed over to urbanministry.org/jayson-graves" class="" title="Jayson Graves (Sermons, Podcasts, MP3s & Books) ">Jayson Graves and his staff at Healing for the Soul. Jayson has long been a friend of Blazing Grace and Safe Families and has been co-hosting the ministry's radio shows for years.  

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Course 406 - Theology of Work

Course 406 - urbanministry.org/theology" class="" title="Theology & Biblical Social Justice Resources">Theology of Work (3 credits) This course will look at the urbanministry.org/theology" class="" title="Theology & Biblical Social Justice Resources">theology of work and how work fits into ministry and God’s Kingdom.

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Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics

Course 414 - Counseling Alcoholics (3 credits ) Provides a complete road map for assessing, diagnosing, and treating alcoholism. Topics include recognizing alcohol problems in clients, understanding the critical concepts of the treatment of alcoholism, the 12-step approach, relapse prevention, and recognizing primary or secondary psychiatric disorders in clients who are chemically dependent.

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Michael Liimatta's Spiritual Journey

Michael LiimattaMichael LiimattaI grew up in an alcoholic urbanministry.org/families-0" class="" title="Resources for Families">family. Both my father and my mother came from alcoholic homes, too. Because I grew up in such a very chaotic home, I was running the streets from an early age. My first drinking experience was when I was just twelve years old. I was "turned on" to pot at age fourteen, and went to jail twice for selling marijuana, hashish, and LSD, before I was eighteen years old.

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Course 419 - Family Issues and Recovery

Course 419 - urbanministry.org/families-0" class="" title="Resources for Families">Family Issues and Recovery (3 credits) (Understanding the importance of urbanministry.org/families-0" class="" title="Resources for Families">family dynamics in recovery, including urbanministry.org/youth-group" class="" title="Youth Resources">youth issues, codependency, plus God given resiliency and self repair.)

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Course 416 - Mental Illness and Addiction

Course 416 - Mental Illness and Addiction (3 credits ) An overview on Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser: clients who have both chemical dependency and mental urbanministry.org/health" class="" title="Health Resources">health issues. Students will learn the most significant predictors of treatment success, how to provide an empathic and continuous treatment relationship, how to distinguish between the criteria of substance abuse vs.

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Doesn’t the “medical model” help addicts avoid taking responsibility for their behavior?

The only people I’ve ever heard using the “disease concept” as an excuse are practicing alcoholics who have no real intention of changing.   I hear something totally different from Christian counselors and other professionals who subscribe to what is also called a “clinical approach” to treatment and recovery.  While recognizing the impact of factors like heredity and brain chemistry in the development of addiction, they know that real change happens only when addicts and alcoholics begin to take responsibility for their lives and truly “own” their own behaviors. 

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Homelessness & Addiction Recovery: A Lasting Solution

2_men_drinking_under_a_streetlightEvery substance abuse counselor has probably at one time or another pointed to the "skid row bum" and said, "You don't have to be like him to be an addict or alcoholic! " While this type of person may represent only 5% of all addicts, Christians who are in recovery have a lot more in common with him than they may think!

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Podcasts

Addiction Recovery Podcast

TechMission's UrbanMinistry.org and its partners provide talks on recovery from addiction.

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Volunteer Opportunities: Addiction/Recovery

Title Organization Name City, State/Country
City Vision Intern - Resident Assistant City Vision
Albany, NY
United States
Medical Placement in Nairobi Tope Consult
Nairobi
Kenya
Faith In Action Volunteer Group Project Hospitality
Staten Island, NY
United States
Children Program Volunteer in Kenya
Kisumu
Kenya
teachers,nurses social workers ,counsellors fundraisers osimlai comumnity based
nairobi
Kenya
Teachers Betty Waweru
Malindi
Kenya
Development Instructor College for International Co-operation and Development
Mozambique
Volunteer/Intern/Travel & Work to Nepal volnepal
Kathmandu
Nepal
social work SAVE AFRICAN CHILD UGANDA
mukono district
Uganda
International/Abroad Program Global Volunteer Opportunities
Arusha, Tanzania
Tanzania
Title Organization Name
Pen Pal Christian Pen Pals
Clothing Drive - Adults in Recovery The Salvation Army
Online Mentor TruthMedia
all area of support need/open Imagery Center for Youth and Family Service
Tutor/GED Coordinator F.A.I.T.H. Ministries, Inc.
Directors of Family Life Promised Land International, Inc.
HOUSE PARENTS & SUPPORT WORKERS Gilead Foundations
Mentoring Program Director KEE
Telephone prayer partner Christian Hope Network
ADMINISTRATORS Gilead Foundations
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Audio: Addiction/Recovery