New Heart Place – A Place of Healing and Restoration
June 1, 2009
In 2006 Westgate Chapel opened a residential home for adult men located on five (5) acres in the beautiful Echo Lake area of Snohomish County: New Heart Place.
The passion and vision of the New Heart Place team is not to somehow get a man clean and sober.
The mission of New Heart Place is far more than recovery. It is simply a faith-investment in the promises of Jesus:
“I will give you a new heart with new and right desires, and I will put a new spirit in you.” (Ezekiel 36:26)
Suddenly, it’s not recovery of something lost. It’s about receiving that which is new: a new heart, new desires, a new spirit.
The staff and ministry team of New Heart Place believes every man welcomed into its warm, relational community is marked with destiny:
“I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11
New Heart Place
Healing – Wholeness – Freedom – Destiny
Addiction is lonely!
May 31, 2009
For 23 million Americans, drugs and alcohol are more than personal addictions, destroying the health and future of those held in its devastating grip.
Addiction is a family tragedy, sweeping spouses and children into the whirlpool of its physical, emotional, and spiritual desperation.
The light-hearted fun and friendships of the party lifestyle soon give way to the loneliness and despair; the dark bondage of addiction!
In the hopeless torment of addiction, everything changes…
As the insidious grip of addiction tightens around the addict, the once wide world of fun and friendships and parties narrows to a confined, restricted world controlled by a power so profound everyone and everything is valued only as a means to the “next hit,” the next drink, the next round in the casino.
Step 5 – Shake off all your fears!
May 20, 2009
- Fear is the demon that turned you into a drug addict to start with. When you turn your life over to God you never have to fear again. When Jesus comes to live in your heart, He drives away all fears and doubts.
- Don’t be afraid you will go back to the needle!! God guarantees a 100% cure! As long as you stay with God, He will stay with you. If you forsake God, you will go back. When God is with you—you need never fear.
- Don’t be afraid of your past! When God forgives your sins—He forgets them. He will not hold them against you and He will make society forget them too. Make restitution when you can—but when you can’t, leave it all in God’s hand.
- Don’t ever be afraid that God will drop you. He has never done that and He even promises to send an angel to watch over you in all your ways.
- Don’t ever be afraid of what people will say or think! Keep your eyes on Jesus and you will never be disappointed or confused.
One Way, by David Wilkerson, Regal Books, 1972