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Michael Liimatta's Spiritual Journey

Submitted by mliimatta on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 17:52.

I grew up in an alcoholic 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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Dean Sherman: God Is For The Alcoholic

Submitted by EvanDonovan on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 14:55.
I am an alcoholic, I know what it is like to burn with a desire to drink that is so overpowering that family, jobs, and friends mean nothing compared to the desire for liquor. I know what it is like to wake up on a hotel room not knowing where I am or how I got there. I also know the joy of complete deliverance from the power of alcohol addiction and never cease to praise God for such deliverance.'Author Jerry Dunn discovered there is indeed hope for the alcoholic. God provided his escape at the end of a two-year drunk, when he picked up a Bible in a Texas prison. God Is for the Alcoholic is the product of that scape.
cover of Dean Sherman: God Is For The Alcoholicauthor: Jerry Dunn
Bernard Palmer
asin: 0802432840
binding: Paperback
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Alcoholics Anonymous

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Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of recovering alcoholics with the primary purpose of maintaining their sobriety and helping other alcoholics to achieve sobriety by sharing their experience, strength and hope.  Its only membership criteria is a desire to stop drinking.  Formed in 1935, AA is the original source of the 12 Steps of Recovery and has served as a model for many other recovery programs.  It is not affiliated with any other group and does not espouse any causes.  There are no membership dues; AA is supported solely by the contributions of its members.

 

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Many faith-based recovery programs strongly recommend that their members also attend AA meetings.  Its 12 Steps of Recovery have helped countless substance abusers to achieve and maintain their sobriety.  This site provides information about AA, its meetings and its literature.  Its main text of recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous, commonly called the "Big Book," is available free online.  The entire site may be viewed in English, Spanish, or French.


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Curriculum in a Box: Middle School Confidential

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This comprehensive boxed-set curriculum for middle school/junior high students focuses on identifying drug resistance skills and building life skills.  It includes 10 videos, 2 teacher resource books, and a variety of worksheets and fact sheets.  The video programs are each under 20 minutes and deal with smoking, spit tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, anger, tolerance, popularity, conflict resolution and time management.  The videos correspond to topics found in the teacher resource books and covered in worksheets and fact sheets included in the curriculum. (The videos can also be purchased individually.) All worksheets are easily reproducible and the curriculum can be used repeatedly. Middle School Confidential is a secular program—faith-based organizations wanting to make the curriculum more faith-friendly or faith-specific would need to complement it with their own materials or exercises of interpretation.

 

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Curriculum in a Box: Middle School Confidential is somewhat expensive initially but contains well-written, quality materials that can be used a number of times.  The videos are engaging, quick-moving and narrated primarily by young people.  Other activities can be selected based upon the goals or grade level of the class and all the materials can be used as supplementary materials for a faith-based prevention program.
 

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Christians United Against Addiction

 
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Christians United Against Addiction is a Christian 12-Step program for recovering addicts and their families in the Philadelphia area.  It offers Workshops on the Road, which are training sessions to assist churches and faith-based organizations to establish their own recovery groups.

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In addition to offering practical help to other faith-based institutions that are interested in establishing a Christian recovery groups, CUAA’s site offers helpful resources such as a description of the symptoms of addiction, a test to help individuals discern whether they have a drinking or drug problem, relevant links, and recovery resources.



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Recovery Ministries of the Episcopal Church

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The Recovery Ministries of the Episcopal Church is a network of pastors, laity, parishes, schools, and agencies. Their members aim to help those in bondage to alcohol or drug addictions to connect with s