Faith Partners is a ministry team which provides acceptance, support, education, and resources for the Church community affected by alcoholism and substance abuse.
Jesus's own ministry was so oriented toward inviting the sick and hurting, the broken and wounded, the despised and outcast, that followers actually tore a hole in the roof of a house just to make contact. Never was any turned away who asked for help. As Christians that response to the marginalized, the cast aside, and the rejected is determined to be our model for ministry.
Our vision of the Faith Partners is an environment of healing and wholeness where:
We value recognition of the Holy Spirit's transformational work in recovery and celebrate the changes brought about.
Like Jesus' ministry, we start with our own faith community, the congregation, beginning to open our arms invitationally to any and all in need, and branch out into the surrounding community where we live.
A team of knowledgeable, experienced and compassionate workers can thus participate in planting a flag that says "recovery can be a probable outcome," not just a random possibility. In doing so, we open our doors, engage the community within and without, and advance our church as a healing place.
For more information, send a confidential email or leave a confidential voice mail at 770-573-3720. The email and voice mail is monitored by the Faith Partner's team leaders. You can also email Suzanne Wilhite.
Mt Zion's Faith Partners recovery support ministry invites you to its monthly Discussion Forum on topics of interest to help, healing and support for substance abuse issues and related recovery. Discussions always include frank presentations followed by candid and informal interchange.
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The Faith Partners Recovery Ministry at Mt Zion UMC is part of a larger national network of recovery and healing ministries in churches across different denominations.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Faith Partners focus has been to engage and assist people of faith in the development of caring communities that promote prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse and where recovery from addiction is valued and supported.
To learn more about the Faith Partners organization, including training events and resources, visit their website.
Mt Zion's Faith Partners Recovery Support ministry endorses the Parents Resource Center which is a resource component of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. It provides advice and stories from parents and professionals about drug prevention, intervention and raising healthy teens.
In the context of substance abuse prevention, the following link, Understanding Teen Relationships, offers a brief video discussion to help youth and parents be discerning about what constitutes a good friend.
Alcoholics Anonymous in the metro area is expansive, with hundreds of regular meetings throughout the 15 county area. If you are in need of immediate access to the multitude of services AA provides, try accessing their website. The site has a brief description of the A.A. program, a calendar of upcoming events in the A.A. community, a searchable database of the area meetings, and links to other internet sites of interest. If you can't find what you need on these pages, please call our volunteer help line at 404-525-3178.
Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems. AlAnon believes alcoholism to be a family illness and that changed attitudes can aid recovery.
Al-Anon is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organization or institution: does not engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any cause. There are no dues for membership. Al-Anon is self-supporting through its own voluntary contributions.
Al-Anon has but one purpose: to help families of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps, by welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics, and by giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic.
For more information about AlAnon Family Groups in the Atlanta Area, click to access their website.
Adult Children of Alcoholics is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. This recovering community regularly meets with each other in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledges their common experiences. By way of description, ACA's have several characteristics in common as a result of being brought up in alcoholic or other dysfunctional households.
We were dependent personalities, terrified of abandonment, willing to do almost anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to be abandoned emotionally. We keep choosing insecure relationships because they matched our childhood relationship with alcoholic or dysfunctional parents.
These symptoms of the family disease of alcoholism or other dysfunction made us 'co-victims', those who take on the characteristics of the disease without necessarily ever taking a drink. We learned to keep our feelings down as children and keep them buried as adults. As a result of this conditioning, we often confused love with pity, tending to love those we could rescue. Even more self-defeating, we became addicted to excitement in all our affairs, preferring constant upset to workable solutions.
For more information and access to support groups visit their national website.
