Everyone Is Recovering from Something

Recovery Church is a community of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. We gather together for shared support, encouragement, prayer, strength, and hope. All who desire to be here are welcome, because all people are recovering from something. Some of us are recovering from addictions, some from trauma, some from life in general.

While Recovery Church is formed in a Christian, Episcopal tradition, no particular beliefs are required for membership or participation. We hear stories from the Christian Gospel because, as a church, that is how we have come to know God and have come to find healing. We also seek and encourage stories and healing practices from members with other traditions and faiths. We believe if something is of healing, it is of Jesus, and we are ultimately here for healing.

As part of our life together we utilize the 12 Steps of Recovery (see below), adapting them to each person’s need for healing. We encourage partnering with others in working the 12 steps together. Partnering and working the steps is not a requirement, but a suggestion which we have found helpful.

If you are not used to a church community, there are no fees for Recovery Church. We support ourselves through our contributions for this community and the larger Church which supports us.

We meet on the Third Sunday of Each Month

at 5:30 p.m.

We meet in the chapel of Emmanuel Episcopal Church for worship, fellowship, and working together for recovery. The services last about an hour, and then many stay afterwards for coffee and snacks.

The service and time together is relaxed and informal. During the service, people are free to get up, grab some food and drinks, light a candle for prayer, or meditate on some of the images around the room.

3785 Barker Cypress Road, Houston, TX 77084

Twelve Steps Toward Recovery

(from life, the universe, anything)

We admit we are powerless over others, over our sins, over our addictions, over our past traumas, etc.; that our lives have become unmanageable.
Come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity, to peace, to healing, to love, and to wholeheartedness.
Decide to turn our will and our lives over the to care of God as we understand God.
Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
Make a list of all person we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so will injure them or others.
Continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, promptly admit it.
Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our relationships.

The 12 Steps are adapted from the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

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Contact Us

Recovery Church has two Episcopal Priests, the Rev. Lance Ousley and the Rev. Brad Sullivan. Exploring recovery? Wondering about Jesus and the Church? Please contact us, and we’ll be glad to talk with you.

Email us at connect@emmanuel-houston.org

Call us at 281-493-3161

Or, come see us in person at
3785 Barker Cypress Road, Houston, TX 77084