The MAT
Are you searching for Freedom? Recovery? Hope? Start your journey at The MAT.
The MAT is a safe place to find recovery and to experience freedom and hope. If you’ve struggled with past hurts, addictions, or harmful habits, or if you need more freedom in any area, the MAT was created for you. Our goal is that you will feel love, support, and acceptance at the MAT, no matter where you find yourself along your journey. At the MAT you will encounter people who have been in similar struggles but have allowed God to walk them through His healing process. They want nothing more than to help you do the same. All MAT groups are safe and confidential.
Schedule for the Evening
5:30-7 pm Dinner – $4 per person
6-7 pm MAT Groups
7-8 pm MAT Worship Experience – Everyone gathers together in one room for a time of live music, a teaching on the 12-Steps or other recovery-related topic and stories of personal real life change.
8-9 pm More MAT groups
MAT Group Times
MAT Groups (6 – 7 PM)
Women’s No Stones (closed), Calm for the Storm (open), The Wounded Heart (closed)
MAT Groups (8 – 9 PM)
DivorceCare (open), Women’s Substance Abuse Recovery (open), Men’s Substance Abuse Recovery (open), Revive (open), Codependency (open), ID (open), Men’s Integrity (open and closed), Women’s No Stones (open and closed), Grief Care (open), Breaking Free (8-10pm, closed)
Current Lineup of MAT Groups:
Men’s Substance Abuse Group (8 pm)
Key Facilitator: Bryan Daley
This open group provides support and direction with God’s power for men who want recovery from drug and alcohol abuse.
Women’s Substance Abuse Group (8 pm)
Key Facilitator: Tracy Hughes
This open group provides support and direction with God’s power for women who want recovery from drug and alcohol abuse.
Codependency Group (8 pm)
Key Co-Facilitators: Hallie Gay Bagley
If your family’s dysfunction or addiction affects your life and relationships, or if you find yourself in unhealthy, consuming or people-pleasing relationships, you will find help and hope in this open group.
No Stones (8 pm)
Key Facilitators: Sandra Collins and Liz Skees
This group is for women caught up in destructive sexual or relational patterns, who want sexual integrity restored in your life or marriage. There are currently two closed and one open group.
Men’s Integrity Group (8 pm)
Contact: The MAT
This group gives health and hope for men who seek freedom from any sexual patterns that have held them back from growing with God and others. There is an open group for any man who wants to come and also multiple closed groups on a regular basis. New closed groups also start regularly.
DivorceCare (8 pm)
Key Facilitator: Al Speler
DivorceCare is a weekly seminar and support group for people who are separated or divorced. It’s a place where you can be around other people who understand what you are experiencing. It’s a place to hear valuable information about how to heal from the hurts of divorce.
Freedom Group (8 pm)
Key Facilitator: Robin Meek
This open group is for anyone wanting to understand their identity in Christ, and to learn to walk in freedom in any areas that are keeping them stuck.
Revive (8 pm)
Contact: The MAT
Revive is an open group dedicated to helping women whose husbands or ex-husbands have been affected by sexual integrity issues.
Calm for the Storm (8 pm)
Key Facilitator: Julie Henderson
This group is for women who find themselves engaging in destructive patterns such as relational chaos, self-injury, and anorexia/bulimia. This group is open.
Grief Care (8 pm)
Key Facilitator: Lucy Letton
This group is for people who have suffered grief and loss through the death of a person close to them, and are looking for healing. (open)
Breaking Free: A Journey through the Steps to Freedom (8 pm)
Key Facilitator: Robin Meek
This group uses The Steps to Freedom developed by Neil Anderson, as a tool to meet with Christ so that issues can be resolved through the revelation and power of the Holy Spirit. It is for people who have a desire for change and a resolve to cooperate with Christ’s work in their lives. (closed)
The Wounded Heart
Key Facilitator: Robin Meek
From the book The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse, this group is offered for women who want to work through the complex issues of sexual abuse in a concrete way. This group will work step by step through the process of change: facing the truth about past and present experiences and feelings; wrestling with God, other people, and oneself; understanding the goals and fears that have determined how they relate to others. (closed)
Need More Info?
For more information about The MAT, email us or call the church office at 859.277.2014.
