Celebrate Recovery Pella

06/04/2026

There's exciting news at Celebrate Recovery of Pella!!
Celebration Place is launching on May 14!!

Kids are like sponges, absorbing so much every single day. This includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you have a hurt, habit or hang-up, chances are your beautiful kiddos do too. When one person in the family is in recovery, the entire family is in recovery.

Celebration place is designed to help your kids from Kindergarden through 6th grade develop life skills that are vital in their times of struggle and in daily life. Children will be equiped with healthy coping skills, stategies and values to prevent the development of unhealthy coping skills that that lead to poor life choices. We like to think of Celebration Place as Pre-recovery.

Here, at Celebration place, we pray that your kids find friendships, learn to lean on Jesus, and expeirience hope and joy.

Celebrate Recovery meets at The Well in Pella every thursday evening starting with a meal at 5:30.

any questions call Bryan at 641-780-4824

06/04/2026

People walk through the doors of Celebrate Recovery for lots of reasons. The common thread? We are all people with flesh; we all have hurts, hang-ups or habits that make life hard.

There are as many reasons for coming to CR as there are people in the room. Addiction, depression, co dependency, anger, eating disorders, anxiety, abuse, po*******hy, grief....Each one of us has healing to do and hope to find.

What happens here at celebrate recovery?

There is fellowship here with others just like you, We support one another with listening ears.
There are testimonies, real-life stories that we can relate to.
We learn the 12 steps and 8 principles and how we can apply them to where we are right now.
There is encouragement.
We see laughter and smiles that haven't been shared in a while,
We see healing.
We see hope renewed.
We see God working.

Come and see for yourself!

We meet every Thursday at 5:30 at The Well in Pella.
5:30-6:00- enjoy a free meal with others
6:00-7:00- large group; we hear a testimony or receive a teaching
7:00_8:00- small groups meet; this is where we share our junk
got littles? There's free childcare for kids under 5 , Celebration Place for kids 5-11

Please enter The Well through the dining room doors.

06/04/2026

05/31/2026

Getting you through life's hurt, hang-ups and habits one step at a time!!

We meet at The Well in Pella every Thursday at 5:30 with a free meal.
6-7 pm large group teaching
7-8 share groups meet
free childcare for your littles

Looking forward to meeting you!!!

Please enter through the dining room door.

05/30/2026

Have you ever lost something?
Something that you really loved?
Something that was important to you?
Something that gave you life?

Six years ago I lost my job. My career. A secondary income. I can even say a part of my identity.
And I was lost, so very lost.

This was all I knew; I had been at this workplace for many, many years. And now......well, now what?

It was time for my yearly evaluation, and I wasn't at all nervous about it. I was doing the same quality of work I had always done ( or so I believed). I'll never forget the unbelief I held when my boss gave me 3 months to improve my performance. How could I improve what I didn't know was wrong?

I worked hard during those months trying to prove myself. SO hard!

And then my final evaluation. Either quit or be fired. Only those two choices.
What? How could this be?

I did my homework and contested the decision. But the the conclusion remained the same. I left that day. No goodbyes, no farewell parties. Just shown the door out.

I'm still working through it, the hurt, the loss, the grief, the anger.

It's not easy, there are so many layers.

It's going to take time to peel the layers of this onion.

Time and people. People I trust. Friends I call family. Friends at Celebrate Recovery. Where there's people, and time.

You don't have to walk alone either.

Please join us at Celebrate Recovery on Thursday evenings at 5:30 pm at The Well in Pella where we walk through hurts, hang-ups and habits one step at a time.

05/23/2026

We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all... Step 8 in Celebrate Recovery

I will never forgive them as long as I live!! I just can't!

My entire life was changed because of them. I lost my career, my idenity , my income as well as people I called friends the day my job was taken from me. How can I let them 'off the hook' when so much was at stake?

It's hard. Oh SO hard. It's been more than 5 years and I remember that day as if it were yesterday. The absolute feeling of betrayal , the numbing pain accompainied by the deep hurt.

But unforgiveness ruins lives. Falling into depression and dispair I continued, probably increased, the number of pills I was already taking to numb my hard emotions. My unforgiving heart caused me more pain and distruction than it will ever cause the people who hurt me.

So, I need to let go. And as I was crying out to God complaining that my job loss wasnt fair! That no one cared!' I asked Him how anyone could forgive when they've have been so wrongly accused !

And then in a small window of silence I heard God say, "I did".

God loves me SO MUCH that He sent His Son to die for me.... and for you.
( John 3:16) A man without sin suffered a horrible death on a cross so that I can live.

He got my attention that day.....

God and I are working on letting go of unforgiveness. It's a process. And I can't do this work alone.

Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to work out any hurt, hangup or habit.

We meet at The well every Thursday evening at 5:30



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