Do you and your family miss the camaraderie that military culture provides?

Celebrate Recovery and the Welcome Home Open Share Groups can help you fill this void in your life. 


Meeting every Wednesday evening at 1st United Methodist Church- Maryville

804 Montvale Station Road (across from Maryville Junior High School)


7:40 pm (Share Groups)

5:30 pm (Light Meal)

6:30 pm (Worship)

Who can benefit from Welcome Home Groups?

Life after the military does not make sense. Just like any other organ in our body, our brains are subject to malfunction from time to time. In the same way that a heart, lung, or kidney can malfunction, our brains can malfunction.

This can lead to feelings of

  • DEVASTATION
  • ANGER
  • LONLIENESS


Often the result is a feeling of

  • ISOLATION
  • LOSS OF CONTROL
  • and HOPLESNESS

Frequently, in an attempt to ease these overwhelming emotions, people will use unhealthy coping skills. This can be through unhealthy relationships, at-risk behaviors, and subsance abuse. 


The Welcome Home group is a Christ-Centered safe place for healing from Military induced problems with:

  • PTSD
  • ANXIETY
  • DEPLOYMENT BOREDOM
  • LONELINESS
  • ANGER
  • DEPRESSION
  • SEXUAL INTEGRITY
  • ALCOHOL

How can Celebrate Recovery & 

Welcome Home Help?

In 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV), we see God telling us, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." This tells us that when we are feeling weak, God steps in to fill the gap for us if we let Him.


Celebrate Recovery is a tool to help us experience the freedom that comes when we allow God to stand in the gap for us. Utilizing the 12 Steps for Recovery and their Biblical comparisons, along with the 8 Principles based on the Beatitudes, we allow God to work in our lives. In Step 3,


We make a decision to turn our lives and our wills over the care of God.


God gives us the ability to come out of the darkness that weighs so heavily on us. WE are able to feel what it is like to walk through life with hope for a better tomorrow. We are able to start building relationships with others that are healthy. 


We learn positive tools for coping with frustrations and then incorpoarte these tools into our lives. Celebrate Recovery cannot promise physical healing from your mental health issues, no more thean it can promise healing from cancer .