Did you know that there is much evidence that faith-based recovery programs have greater success rates than secular programs? Adult and Teen Challenge USA offers Christ-centered, faith-based solutions for youth, adults, and families struggling with life controlling problems such as addiction.
On Saturday, July 14, Calvary Baptist Church, located at 156 Main Street in downtown Springfield invites you to learn more about Adult and Teen Challenge USA, their mission in New England, and what they have to offer the Springfield community. Please join us for an evening of fellowship and encouragement beginning at 6 p.m. with dinner. At 7p.m. the Men’s Choir will perform and share their personal stories about how Teen Challenge has helped them overcome the perils of addiction. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information please call the church at 802-885-2349, find us on Facebook, or visit the church website at www.calvarylovesspringfield.com.
Adult and Teen Challenge USA faith-based solutions with addiction June 27, 2018 SPRINGFIELD, Vt. – Adult and Teen Challenge USA offers Christ-centered, faith-based solutions for youth, adults, and families struggling with life controlling problems such as addiction. Did you know that there is much evidence that faith-based recovery programs have greater success rates than secular programs? On Saturday, July 14, Calvary Baptist Church, located at 156 Main Street in downtown Springfield invites you to learn more about Adult and Teen Challenge USA, their mission in New England, and what they have to offer the Springfield community. Please join us for an evening of fellowship and encouragement beginning at 6 p.m. with dinner. At 7p.m. the Men’s Choir will perform and share their personal stories about how Teen Challenge has helped them overcome the perils of addiction. This event is free and open to the public. For more information please call the church at 802-885-2349, find us on Facebook, or visit the church website at www.calvarylovesspringfield.com.
Here's some background information. I'm disappointed at Texas' turn away from assuring professionalism in recovery groups (check the Effectiveness and Public Policy sections):
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Although my faith in Christ has been the foundation of my recovery for 27 years now, I have encountered many wolves in sheep's clothing. The best program I ever saw was the one I worked for. It was secular, and was created by criminal psychologists, AND IT WORKED. Don't get me wrong, faith in a "higher power" (as they say in AA) is the foundation of most of the successful recoveries I've seen. There are also a lot of phony power-trippers out there. I've heard bad things about Teen Challenge from people who went through it, SO BE CAREFUL!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to hear a Christian with an unbiased opinion. Make no mistake about it, Teen Challenge is a fundamentalist cult. Hide your kids, hide your wife and lock your doors. They boast an "80% success rate," but what they don't tell you is only 10% of the people that enter the program actually complete it. There is zero clinical or professional procedure to anything they do. They use confrontational tactics to scare people into giving their life to Jesus. Students are forced to sign up for food stamps, and that's how the program feeds its students; sort of a head scratcher when families pay a stupid amount of money to send their loved ones there for "help". Teen Challenge takes the very best of young men and women that need help and manipulate, exploit, and or otherwise use them for their own gain. There are 2 typical outcomes of Teen Challenge: they push you until you break, they humiliate you until you fold, then when you've had enough you leave in a worse place mentally than when you first took the bull by the balls and then overdose; or, you surrender, choose to reduce yourself to nothing, abandon all self worth, and drink the Kool-aid, if you will. So I'll ask you, what is worse, a life of self destruction and vice, or a life of institutionalized delusional bliss?
ReplyDeleteTeen Challenge also makes the claim that it is a non denominational ministry. That's a lie, they are 100% Assemblies of God Pentacostal. It's what they were founded on, and its their approach to salvation. That little Calvary Baptist countryside church has no idea who it's inviting in those doors and donating money too. They're gonna trip when they all start speaking in fake tongues and babbling about the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. If there's one thing TC is not, it's Baptist. Calvary Baptist church aught to reconsider this invitation.
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