Meeting the Needs of Body, Soul, and Spirit Using a Distinctively Christian Worldview
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Program Vision
Equipping the Church as the vehicle of Jesus' truth, compassion and healing power to restore the sexually and relationally broken to wholeness.
Whoever believes in me… streams of living water will flow from him.
- John 7:38
What is Living Waters?
A healing, teaching and discipleship series, Living Waters addresses the reality that we are all broken in our ability to love others well. The goal of Living Waters is to lay a foundation for sexual and relational wholeness in our lives. Through the worship, teaching, prayer, and small groups of Living Waters we learn about:
- God's powerful love for us and how Jesus is central to our hope for wholeness
- The depth of our brokenness and our profound need for Him
- The power of the cross to restore our souls, sexuality, and relationships
- The process of walking out our healing
- Our place in the church and loving others honorably
Who is Living Waters for?
If you can answer yes to one or more of the following questions, then you may be a candidate for Living Waters:
- Do you find satisfaction and fulfillment in your relationship with God, or are you struggling to find other ways to be satisfied?
- Do you feel alone, or that something is missing, and seek relationships with people to ease that loneliness?
- Have events in your life brought brokenness, that requires healing and restoration?
- Do your fear rejection of the "real" you?
- Do you feel that you must perform to be accepted by others?
- Are you striving to live up to images that you perceive you should be?
- Do you struggle with anxiety, guilt, and a lack of joy and passion for life?
- Is it difficult for you to accept the good gift of your sexuality and to allow it to take its normal place in your life?
- Is it a challenge for you to have boundaries that are intended to uphold your personal respect and dignity?
- Do you find yourself having difficulty in your relationships with other people?
- Do you find something is missing, or that there is something more?
Living Waters is particularly relevant to those struggling with homosexuality, sexual promiscuity or addiction, the effects of sexual abuse, codependency, self-hatred, or the ability to love others well. Thankfully, Christ's capacity to touch and restore us at deep levels of shame and brokenness extends to all of us, regardless of the specifics of our issue.
How is Living Waters presented:
Living Waters is a 20-lesson program taught in a closed-group format. The leaders have been trained and a confidentiality policy is in place to help ensure trust and safety in the group. Each meeting includes:
- Worship - We focus our attention and praise on God rather than on our problems.
- The Word - Living Waters' teachings combine psychological insights and biblical truths that help us to know God and ourselves better.
- The Works of Jesus - Through healing prayer in large and small group settings, we invite the Holy Spirit to heal our various wounds. We bring our sins, and those committed against us, to the lord who is faithful to set us free.
Foundational to Living Waters is the reality that God created us in His image as male and female. Therefore we value men and women working out their healing together. Great healing comes as men and women minister and receive alongside one another, thereby reflecting God's intention and character. (Although small groups are single sex, both genders participate together in worship, teaching, and prayer in the large group.)
How to Apply?
Download and complete our applicaiton and mail to Castlebrook Counseling (address below). You may also email your request to LivingWaters@castlebrook.org.
The program and all related materials, including completed applications, are kept strictly confidential. Completed applications must be submitted by August 31. There are a limited number of spaces in the program; so, early application is strongly encouraged.
A personal interview is required for admittance into the program. You must be willing to be honest and transparent in a group setting and attend church regularly. After your application is received, you'll be contacted to arrange an interview.