Summer Blues

Do you feel like you are having the blues while everyone else is enjoying the summer?  I do. 
In the summer, people have family trips, play golf and go to the beach.  I am working a lot. 
Maybe you don’t have family, or you cannot be with them.  I have a step-son I cannot be [...]

C the J attender makes news

Check out this story at the Chicago Tribune

Melissa has credited Celebrate the Journey in being a huge help in her recovery! Thanks Melissa for sharing your story to help fight discrimination in insurance coverage! Here is an excerpt from the article:
“I was ready to do the hard work,” said Traub, now a junior [...]

In times like these

contributed by Shelley, a Celebrate the Journey leader
It is scary to admit you are not fine. I haven’t been fine. My friends at Celebrate the Journey could see that in me. I even had a coffee and still looked tired. “What is going on with you?” they ask me, “I can tell you are not [...]

Summer Special a Success!

If you missed Tuesday the 17th, you missed a great C the J!
First off, we had an awesome dinner! Thanks to an anonymous donor (Beth) for providing the main portion of the meal and our supplies. We also received donations from Michael’s Fresh Market in Naperville, and The Upper Crust bakery in Lisle. [...]

Celebrate the Journey Summer Celebration

Please Join Us for a Special Celebration!

Come at 6:30 for dinner! 

Extended program from 7:00 until 8:15pm featuring:

a teaching from Glen Wagner
special music selections
video testimony
PUPPETS!!!

Don’t forget to come EARLY for dinner.  Invite your friends, this is an event that you do NOT want to miss!

Progress, Not Perfection

Have you found that you are beating yourself up because you make mistakes?  It is hard to live a perfect life.  It is hard with the pressures of this world.  Especially if you just decided to start changing your life, or perhaps you just began to find out who this Jesus guy is and you [...]

Importance of being here

You don’t have to do this alone.
Whatever it is you are doing, whatever you are going through…
God can do it with you.
God has people who are going through this too, and He wants you to all be together, to help hold each other up.  Come experience COMMUNITY where people are not working on perfection, just [...]

Why groups are important to me…

contributed by Shelley, a Celebrate the Journey Leader
Recently someone asked what was better: the material we cover in groups, or the people in the groups?
Without a doubt I would easily say its the people.  Here is my story:
When I started out in Celebrate the Journey, I was intimidated by strange people.  Not that the people [...]

Spotlight on… Divorce Care

Come and check out our Divorce Care group!  Here is a little bit more about it!!!

Our Divorce Care Group meets all year round.  We offer help and support to people going through the awful pain of divorce.  First we watch a video and then we sit around and discuss it.  We are leaders who all [...]

Right where you are, right now!

Have you ever felt that you would just get to making life better when…
you find that new job?
you finish this or that task?
you get married?
you have kids?
you get divorced?
you quit doing whatever?
and the list goes on….
Well, stop thinking that!  See, God wants to help you make your life better right where you are, no matter [...]