Adults who know I attend Celebrate Recovery will ask me “what’s the Landing about?” Or they will say, “My kid doesn’t NEED recovery.” First I’d like to clear up a big misconception the Landing is NOT a recovery program. YES, it was created by the same team that created Celebrate Recovery and the book does say The Landing (Celebrate Recovery for Students) BUT I wish it said “The Landing - for teens based on CR Principles”.
What we do is we give kids tools so they can learn how to….admit when they’re wrong, learn how to forgive, how to turn to God first, how to listen, how to obey, how to make amends, how to fill the void with Christ instead of other things, how to stop denying, how to be kind, how to seek Christ first, how to make good choices and how to take time daily to talk with God. What kid doesn’t NEED that??? Geeze, I wish my 3rd grader could be a part of some of these lessons.
I equate it to Friday night church camp. We use practical fun lessons to get their attention and make them think about how they can apply some of these tools in their lives!
The other night at The Landing, we played a little game to represent the stress in our lives. We took books and white Styrofoam cups. The goal was to see how many books we could stack on top of a Styrofoam cup before it crushed it, I think the winner had 7 books on the cup! It was fun!! The books we we’re using to crush cups represents stress in our lives. We all have stuff in our lives that brings stress. When we try to hide that stuff, the stress of hiding it adds to the stress of our secrets. However, when we admit our problems or admit that we’re stressed and get help, we’re better off. James 5:16 “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so you may be healed…”
Please let your students give the Landing a try…and let God do the rest.
Grateful Believer,
Karyn Johnson
High school Girls Landing Leader
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