Lifeline of Eastern Kentucky
Lifeline is a ministry of Teen Challenge International.
Lifeline of Eastern Kentucky offers community-based, non-residential ministry support groups that are designed to
reach out to people facing everyday challenges of life that can become overwhelming, such as addiction to alcohol and other drugs, as well as any other life-controlling problem. These ministry groups also provide support for their families
by implementing the five components of recovery: decision, positive peer choice, accountability, boundaries, and consistency.
A Life-Controlling Problem...
is defined as "anything that masters our lives."
"Everything is permissible for me' -- but not everything is beneficial. 'Everything is permissible for me'--but I will not be mastered by anything." [1 Corinthians 6:12]
Life-controlling problems fall into 3 categories:
1) Substance -- drugs, alcohol, food, prescription medications
2) Behavior -- gambling, pornography, outbursts of anger, etc.
3) Relationships -- co-dependent, unhealthy, or enmeshed relationships
Lifeline Groups offered include:
Insight -- This small group discusses the Upward Path to Christian Character as described in 2 Peter 1:3-11 and covers
the definition and phases of a life-controlling problem, delusion and denial, walls of defenses, care-fronting and leveling, as well as ministering to one another.
Concerned Persons -- Specifically targets families of those struggling with addictions and covers enabling,
boundaries, co-dependency, as well as comfort, hope, and letting go and letting God.
Stepping Into Freedom -- A 12-step faith-based recovery group that implements the 12 steps of AA, yet applies scripture
to each of the 12 steps.
Restoring Families -- A small group ministry helping famiy members come to grips with abuse and family violence,
while seeing the healing of wounded emotions.
Optional Groups -- Crossroads; Choosing the Path to Sexual Purity; Understanding Depresssion; Handling Loss and Grief; Anger; Our Master or Our Servant; and Seeing Yourself in God's Image.
Teen Challenge
Teen Challenge is faith-based residential recovery.
The mission of Teen Challenge is to evangelize people who have life-controlling problems and to initiate the discipleship process to the point where the recipient can function as a Christian in society applying spiritually motivated Biblical principles to relationship in the family, local church, chosen vocation, and the community.
Teen Challenge is one of the oldest, largest, and most successful programs of its kind in the world. Established in 1958
by David Wilkerson, Teen Challenge has grown to more than 300 centers in the United States and over 1000 world wide.
To learn more about our local residential Teen Challenge center located in rural Clay County, click link below:
Additional Info.
Lifeline of Manchester / Clay County:
Place: Community Church - Manchester, KY
Facilitator(s): Steve & Leslie Collett, (606) 599-6102; John Becknell (Concerned Persons), (606) 813-6064.
Time: Mondays @ 6:30pm
[Groups for Men, Women, and Families]
*We also have Lifeline Ministry Groups in Leslie County that meet at the Presybeterian Church in downtown Hyden, KY on Monday nights @ 6:00pm. Facilitator(s): Scott & Shannon Asher, (606) 596-0100 & (606) 275-2600.
To find a Lifeline near you, go to: www.lifelineconnection.org
For more information about Lifeline / Teen Challenge, including How to Start Lifeline or Lifeline Groups in Your Area, please contact the Kentucky State Director, Clayton Arp, via phone or e-mail at (502) 541-9478 or teenchallengeky@juno.com.
Or you may contact, Doug Abner, Lifeline Director of East Kentucky at:
Community Church Ministries
c/o Doug Abner
P.O. Box 280
Manchester, KY 40962
(606) 598-8871
communitychurch@windstream.net
Lifeline
www.lifelineconnection.org
www.teenchallengeky.com
