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Our Mission Statement

Extending the Vision of Christ-Centered Treatment at CFTH

CFTH continues to extend the vision first laid out in 1970 by our founder, Bob Bearden, to establish a drug and alcohol treatment facility based on Christian principles.   Janis Holmes, a previous Executive Director, helped expand the vision with new facilities for women and children in 1996.  Today, as a Registered Faith Based Treatment facility, we’re developing one of the finest teams and curriculum to be found anywhere.  This purposeful, ongoing effort is being pursued to bring our staff together around the basic principles of the Word of God connecting scriptural truths with the 12 steps of AA.  We make no apology to AA when we insist that the higher power could only be the God of the Bible revealed through Jesus Christ, His Son.  We make no apologies to the churches when we insist that the 12 steps are built on solid Biblical principles.

CFTH is an intentional extension of the ministry of many local churches serving in evangelism and discipleship with a specifically needy group in the midst of our culture.  We have found fertile hearts among those who are addicted: hearts crying out for the intimacy and relationship that only God can give.  We point them to Jesus through a variety of teaching and mentoring settings.  Our Bible-based parenting materials, for instance, discuss, among other things:  What is a Father?, What is a Mother?, and What is a Child?   This curriculum includes a lesson built around the innovative concept that some knowledge is quantitative knowledge (measurable according to the amount one has absorbed) and some knowledge is qualitative knowledge (not measurable as do its amount but essential due to its quality).  Within this discussion, a question similar to this is posed, “What good is it to know that 2 + 2= 4 if you don’t know how to be happy?”

Our Spiritual Mentoring program has exploded over the last year with the addition of many new mentors who accept the relationship boundaries defined in our mentoring guide, and agree to work with us according to defined roles.  Due to the manipulative nature of many of our clients, it is essential that Christian role models be completely warned and informed before they accept a mentoring assignment.

Our philosophy is that Jesus Christ is the most important person in our institution.  The second most important person is the person each client is becoming as they surrender their lives to Jesus Christ.  The third most important person is the other clients around them, and the fourth most important person are the people who support this ministry through prayer, visits, and financial and in-kind donations to help the work continue.

CFTH attempts to create an environment that is conducive to recovery and rules designed to lead clients to accept responsibility.  Forgiveness and salvation establish God’s grace as a way of looking at one’s self through new eyes.  Discipleship using the 12 steps brings the client to a point of realizing that changes in thoughts and actions must take place if recovery is going to be real.

The focus of CFTH, then, is evangelism and discipleship specifically designed to meet the Spiritual needs of addicted men and women.  As we emphasize the costly and precious nature of God’s gift of salvation, we also emphasize the costly and precious nature of the gift of ourselves back to God as disciples.

An ongoing effort is being made to get out the message that those who are addicted can recover through the power of Christ.  The present Executive Director is writing songs and poems that tie the 12 steps back to Scripture.  A sample of this work is found on this website and a CD of the first four steps with other songs should be available by June of 2006.