Addiction & Recovery Ministry
Helping others through the isolation and darkness of addiction
NA Meetings
Narcotics Anonymous meets in the parish house forum room at 119 North Duke St. every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7:00 - 8:00 PM. All are welcome to attend!
September: Recovery Month
In September, for Recovery Month, we are offering two opportunities to go deeper and engage in the wisdom of the recovery journey, which all can benefit from.
Tuesdays in September 15, 22 & 29;
5:30 - 6:45 PM
Led by Sarah Shelton, Urban Well Yoga Studio Coordinator, and
The Reverend Stacey Carpenter, Associate Rector at Saint James
For more information, click here.
Addiction & Recovery Service
Sunday, September 20 | 5:00 PM
In the Sanctuary
On Sunday, September 20, we will hold our annual Addiction and Recovery Service as part of Recovery Month at our 5:00 PM Vespers gathering. This service is open to anyone whose life has been touched by addiction — those in recovery, those still struggling and the family members, friends and loved ones who walk alongside them. Addiction carries a particular kind of pain — one that is often carried in silence, and one that ripples outward to touch everyone who loves the person affected.
In this service, we hold that pain honestly and without judgment, naming it before God as a community that refuses to look away. And in the same breath, we give thanks for the healing and hope that recovery makes possible: the daily courage it takes, the grace that sustains it, and the deep truth that no one walks this road alone.
Come as you are, bring whomever you carry in your heart and join us for an evening of honesty, compassion and hope.
Through the 12 steps of NA/AA/AL-ANON, we have learned to deal with our disease.
We believe this:
SUPPORT GROUPS
SMART Recovery (behavior modification focused)
Dharma Recovery (Buddhist based 12 step)
Celebrate Recovery (Christian based 12 step)
Al-Anon (12 step meetings for family members/loved ones)
DETOXIFICATION (Lancaster, PA area)
White Deer Run Support Center (866) 769-6822
PA Adult & Teen Challenge (844) 888-8085
GENERAL INFO (Lancaster, PA area)
Lancaster County Drug & Alcohol Commission 717-299-8023
- We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction (or our addicts), and that our lives had become unmanageable.
- We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
We encourage you to keep an open mind during this mass. Let the words, the prayers, and the music speak to you. If you would like special prayers during communion, please go to the rear of the church where ministers will pray with you and for you.
