Saturday, August 27, 2011

The Complete Program for the Sept 24 Christian Recov Summit in Brentwwood, CA

The International Christian Recovery Coalition
www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com

Presents

The North American Summit Conference Meeting #2

Saturday, September 24, 2011, 9:30 AM to 8:00 PM

Golden Hills Community Church—Brentwood Campus
2401 Shady Willow Lane, Brentwood, CA 94513
(925) 516-0653
http://goldenhills.org/




Theme

Using Akron-Cleveland Christian Recovery Model Principles
to Enhance Substantially Today's Christian Recovery Efforts














Contact: Dick B., Executive Director
International Christian Recovery Coalition
PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837
www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com
Email: DickB@DickB.com
Cell: 808 276 4945
The Program

Summit Conference Meeting #2
Golden Hills Community Church, Brentwood, CA

Friday Evening, September 23, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (** We hope you can make this meeting, too)

Workshop meeting with International Christian Recovery Coalition Participants: Details soon!

Saturday, September 24, 9:30 am to 8:00 pm:

Pre-meeting music and hospitality

Commencing prayer

Welcome by Matt Pierce, Pastor of Recovery Ministry, Golden Hills Community Church

Theme presentation by Dick B., Executive Director, International Christian Recovery Coalition

“Christian Recovery Resource Centers and Persons” Worldwide—on the Move!
Learning about the astonishing success of the original Akron A.A. “Christian fellowship” program and how to apply its principles and practices today;
how the early Cleveland program built upon the original Akron program and
set the stage for Christian recovery opportunities today

Break and Music (10 minutes)

Vision presentation by Ken B.

“Christian Recovery Resource Centers and Persons”:
Supplying Critically-Important, Missing Pieces in Modern Christian Recovery Efforts

Lunch Break (1 hour)

Featured Speaker: J. Donald Hall, Don Hall Ministries, 23365 Barnes Lane, Colfax, CA 95713

Long-recovered wayward youth and drug addict
Missionary evangelist and Bible teacher--18 years, serving with Youth With a Mission and
others in over 60 nations; conferences, seminars, retreats, and mission
services –also community programs in schools, prisons, and civic clubs
Graduate of Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, CA (B.A. Degree)
Graduate of California Graduate School of Theology (M.A. Degree)
Founder and former Executive Director of Teen Challenge in Southern CA and Hawaii
for sixteen years
Cited by the Governors of California and Hawaii for his leadership in the fight against
drug abuse and crime among America’s Youth
Senior Pastor of Calvary Assembly, San Jose, California, for eight years
Recent ministries: South Korea Outreach; Sri Lanka Ministry; Singapore; Gulf Disaster Relief

Break and Music (10 minutes)

Speaker Panel 1:

Jeff A. Holt, Men’s Recovery Fellowship, Auburn Church of the Nazarene, Auburn, California

Dale Marsh, Recovery Pastor, Oroville Church of the Nazarene, Oroville, California; International Christian Recovery Coalition Speakers’ Bureau

Dominic DiBlasio, Turning Point Recovery Ministry, Cornerstone Fellowship—Livermore Campus, California

Roger McDiarmid, International Christian Recovery Coalition Speakers' Bureau, Huntington Beach, California

Wade Hess, Training Director, CityTeam Ministries, San Jose, California

Break and Music (10 minutes)

Speaker Panel 2:

Mark Galligan, Leader, “Akronite” Recovery Group, Ontario, Canada

David Sadler, Christian recovery leader serving Golden Hills Community Church, Brentwood, California

Karen A. Plavan, Ph.D., Prof. of Counseling an Chemical Dependency, Director of Oasis Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Bill Boyles, President, Won Way Out Ministries, Wyoming, Delaware

Wayne White, Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, President/CEO, Footprints/Alcoholics Victorious,
Kansas City, Missouri

Dinner Break (1 hour)

International Christian Recovery Coalition Future Plans: Dick B. and Ken B.

Christian Music Concert

Closing Prayer

Our Sponsors and Endorsers

Christian Denominational Recovery Programs

United Methodist Special Program on Substance Abuse and Related Violence

Rev. Cynthia W. Sloan
Program Associate,
United Methodist Special Program on
Substance Abuse and Related Violence (SPSARV)
New York Office location: 475 Riverside Drive, room 338
New York, NY 10115
phone: 212-870-3699, fax: 212-870-3932
North Carolina Office location:
325 Meadowbrook Drive
Matthews NC 28104-4309
phone: 704-882-0282
email: csloan@gbgm-umc.org
website: http://www.umspsarv.org
Become a “Fan” on SPSARV’s Facebook page
SPSARV Advance Number: 982598

Episcopal Diocese of Texas Recovery Committee

Fr. Bill Wigmore, Chaplain & Former President
Austin Recovery
8402 Cross Park Drive
Austin, TX. 78754
Tel: 512.697.8674
Email: RevBillW@gmail.com
website: www.AustinRecovery.org


Individual Benefactors

Bob J., Kihei, Maui, Hawaii

Philanthropist and long-time Christian recovery and A.A. history collector and benefactor

Rick S.

Long-recovered Christian recovery work supporter
Rick is preparing a sponsor's guide to Alcoholics Anonymous, using the first edition text.
The guide will be published in paperback and on the Internet; and it will have accompanying audio talks of Rick's taking people through the Big Book.

Robert P. Turner, M.D., M.S.C.R.
Associate Professor of Neurosciences, Pediatrics, and Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

Christian Churches

The Crossing Church, Costa Mesa, California, Host, September 17, 2011, Conference

Golden Hills Community Church, Brentwood, California, Host, September 24, 2011, Conference


Endorsing Christian Recovery Libraries and Archives

Griffith Library, The Wilson House – birthplace of Bill Wilson, East Dorset, Vermont

Bonnie Burke (formerly, Bonnie Lepper), President

23,000 historical items donated by Dick B., A.A. meetings, Quiet Time, seminars.
Conducted Tours at East Dorset, Vermont (Wilson House, Griffith Library, East Dorset
Congregational Church—where both the Wilson and the Griffith families and
Bill W. attended—and nearby cemetery where Bill and Lois Wilson are buried)
Conducted Tours to St. Johnsbury, Vermont (Dr. Bob’s birthplace and boyhood home,
North Congregational Church—where all of Dr. Bob’s family attended,
The Athenaeum—the village library containing many historical records,
St. Johnsbury Academy—where Dr. Bob attended, his father was an Examiner,
and his mother had been student, teacher, school historian & Exec. Comm. member)

Dr. Bob Core Library—North Congregational Church (UCC), St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Jay Sprout, Pastor

The entire family of Dr. Bob attended this church and was active in its affairs.
North Congregational Church sponsors this Conference in the context of housing the “Dr. Bob Core Library.”

Ray G., Newton Falls, Ohio, and Seminole, Florida

Traveling archives; and, for 21 years, the Archivist and a Managing Board Member, Dr.
Bob’s Home, Akron, Ohio; A.A. speaker and exhibitor of A.A. historical Items all over the United States and Canada, and on sobriety cruises

The St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Library, Akron, Ohio

Mark Pruitt, Rector

This is the church in which Dr. Bob became a communicant before his death.
Its former rector, Dr. Walter Tunks, was a major figure in the beginning Akron days of A.A.
The library is a source of A.A. historical materials.

Christian Intervention, Treatment, Recovery Ministries, Counseling, Sober Living

Sponsors

New Life Spirit Recovery

Robert T. Tucker, Ph.D., D.Min., Registered Addiction Specialist, MCA & M-RAS)

Founder and Executive Director, New Life Spirit Recovery Christian Treatment Center; President, Association of Christian Alcohol & Drug Counseling (aka: ACADC Institute)
18652 Florida Street, Suite 200, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
(714) 841.1906 or Call Toll Free (866) 543.3361
http://www.newlifespiritrecovery.com/OC_Recovery.html

Rock Recovery Ministry, ABC Sober Living, Soledad House

David Powers, Rock Church recovery leader

810 Emerald Street
San Diego, CA 92109
Contact: david@abcsoberliving.com
619.925.1879
http://www.rockrecovery.org/

Association of Christian Alcohol and Drug Counselors Institute, Redlands, California

Pastor Mike Belzman, Ph.D., Chairman and Founder

Jeff Jay and Debra Jay, Grosse Point, Michigan

Nationally-known authors, lecturers, interventionists,
Authors of Love First: A Family’s Guide To Intervention—Updated
Tools and Techniques to Help Loved Ones Heal from Addiction, 2d ed., rev & exp.
(Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2008)

Publishers

Sponsors

Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services, division of Hazelden Foundation
Center City, Minnesota, www.Hazelden.org; publisher of recovery books, including:

The Book That Started It All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous
Bill W.: My First 40 Years
Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks

Dover Publications

publisher of many books, including Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition,
with an Introduction by Dick B.: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486480593.html

Our Exhibitors and Displays

United Methodist Special Program on Substance Abuse and Related Violence (SPSARV)
http://www.umspspserv.org

New Light Spirit Recovery, Huntington Beach, California
http://www.newlifespiritrecovery.com/OC_Recovery.html

Association of Christian Alcohol and Drug Counselors Institute, Redlands, California

Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services, division of Hazelden Foundation
www.Hazelden.org


Our Featured Speaker and Panelists

Featured Speaker: J. Donald Hall, Don Hall Ministries, Colfax, California
(See details in this program about his education; his work with Teen Challenge and Youth With A Mission, his pastoring of churches, his work as a Missionary Evangelist and Bible teacher, and his speaking engagements in 60 nations.)

Speaker Panel 1:

Jeff A. Holt, Men’s Recovery Fellowship, Auburn Church of the Nazarene, Auburn, California

Dale Marsh, Recovery Pastor, Oroville Church of the Nazarene, Oroville, California

Dominic DiBlasio, Turning Point Recovery Ministry, Cornerstone Fellowship—Livermore Campus, California

Roger McDiarmid, International Christian Recovery Coalition Speakers' Bureau, Huntington Beach, California

Wade Hess, Training Director, CityTeam Ministries, San Jose, California

Speaker Panel 2:

Mark Galligan, Leader, “Akronite” Recovery Group, Ontario, Canada

David Sadler, Christian recovery leader serving Golden Hills Community Church, Brentwood, California

Karen A. Plavan, Ph.D., Prof. of Counseling an Chemical Dependency, Director of Oasis Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Bill Boyles, President, Won Way Out Ministries, Wyoming, Delaware

Wayne White, Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, President/CEO, Footprints/Alcoholics Victorious,
Kansas City, MO

Acknowledgments

Our Conferences could not have taken place without leadership and help from:

Randy Moraitis, Executive Pastor of Ministries, The Crossing Church, Costa Mesa, CA

Matt Pierce, Pastor of Recovery Ministry, Golden Hills Community Church, Brentwood, CA

David Powers, Rock Recovery Ministries Leader, Rock Church, San Diego, CA

The Lifelines Band, Costa Mesa, CA

The Musicians at Golden Hills Community Church

Roger McDiarmid, Huntington Beach, California

David Sadler, Lafayette, California

Karl Kramer, Brentwood, California

Our Sponsors

Our Endorsers

Our Exhibitors


Thank you!

For Further Participation in and Support of the Projects of International Christian Recovery Coalition

Dick B. and Ken B., The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, 3rd ed., 2010

http://christianrecoverycoalition.com/christian-recovery-guide.shtml

The “Introductory Foundations for Christian Recovery” class by Dick B. and Ken B.

http://dickb.com/IFCR-Class.shtml
(The class includes four DVD's, a class instructor's guide, a student's guide, and
The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, 3rd ed.)

“Christian Recovery Resource Centers and Persons” Worldwide

http://christianrecoverycoalition.com/christian-recovery-resource-centers.shtml

The 29-volume “Dick B. A.A. History and Christian Recovery Movement Reference Set”

http://www.dickb.com/titles.shtml

The International Christian Recovery Coalition Web site:

www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com

The International Christian Recovery Coalition Blog

http://internationalchristianrecoverycoaliti.blogspot.com/

International Christian Recovery Coalition Forums Website

http://www.christianrecoverycoalition.com/forums/

Other Christian Recovery and A.A. Historical Resources

FREE: Over 650 articles by Dick B.: http://www.dickb.com/articles.shtml

FREE: Over 175 recorded audio talks by Dick B.: DickB.com/Audio-talks.shtml.

FREE: Follow Dick B. on Facebook, on Twitter, and on the Dick B. Blog.

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