Celebration Station by Rick Warren and John Baker (Bible Study Review)
From the authors of the much celebrated and best-selling resources entitled Purpose-Driven Life and Celebrate Recovery comes another Christian curriculum kit called Celebration Station.
Celebration Station is the kids’ edition of the highly successful Christ-centered recovery program, Celebrate Recovery, tailor-fitted for children aged five to thirteen. Celebrate Recovery is designed to minister to adults using the eight Beatitudes to bring about healing, wholeness, wellness, growth, spiritual maturity, and recovery by overcoming hang-ups, hurts, and habits. In 1991, John Baker founded Celebrate Recovery after overcoming alcoholism. All over the world, about 700,000 people have undergone this program and it has proven itself to be liberating in the life of each individual applying it.
The Celebration Station series by Rick Warren and John Baker by Group Publishing is a 52-week children’s resource originally created to go alongside with the Celebrate Recovery. The kid’s parents may undergo the Celebrate Recovery while at the same time the child may be processed though Celebration Station. The principles remained the same except that Celebration Station by Rick Warren and John Baker is for the young ones written in their language, vocabulary, experience and spiritual level and understanding.
The Celebration Station kit is a complete resource of teaching and media materials and each kid needs a Celebration Station Journal. Celebration Station ushers celebration—the amazement and joy in living, God’s loving presence, and His promises in the future. There will be lessons on grace, mercy, forgiveness, powerlessness, denial, and so much more.
The Celebration Station Journal facilitates processing of a child’s feelings per weekly session. The take-home portion of the journal helps a child to talk to other kids, to God, and his parents on each specific topic for the week. Through this journal, children and parents can have a dialogue thereby paving the way for healing of family relationships.
The Celebration Station music and lesson videos are excellently produced capturing the heart of each weekly session. Each lesson is well-prepared and crafted to assist volunteers in applying each section of the lesson guide. I felt the heartbeat of God in every lesson as the heart of each kid has been addressed through Scriptural stories, music, and videos for him to align his character to the character of God which in effect produce the kind of children God wants them to be and become godly adults in the future.
Rick Warren, the author of 30 million-selling Christian book, The Purpose Driven Life, and the Senior Pastor of America’s Eight Largest church, Saddleback Church, has once again proven His anointing to minister to the body of Christ through discipleship and evangelism literature through this Celebration Station.
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About the author: Haydee
I have a passion to love God above all else. It is my desire to worship Him and to serve Him for the rest of my life. He is my first love. In Him, I live and move and have my being. I am His child, His treasured possession and His ambassador to reach souls for His kingdom. I am currently the Book Reviewer for CBB and in-charge of CBB book marketing here. God called me to be a Prayer Minister in Healing Rooms and IAHR Online Healing Rooms and connected with Wholeness Ministries and Elijah House.