Rick Warren pays tribute to Celebrate Recovery co-founder John Baker
RNS When he first came to Saddleback, John Baker’s life was unravelling. A successful businessman and Air Force veteran, Baker, who died unexpectedly this week at 72, once dreamed of going into ministry. After the military, he got a job in the corporate world but stayed involved in church working as a youth leader. Celebrate […]
John Baker, founder of the Christian support group Celebrate Recovery, has died
RNS John Baker, co-founder of Celebrate Recovery, an evangelical support group that helps people with “hurts, hangups and habits,” has died. The ministry, started at Saddleback Church in the 1990s, announced the news of his death Tuesday on social media. Celebrate Recovery founder John Baker. PICTURE: Hope for Mental Health “John Baker co-founder of Celebrate Recovery made […]
OPIOID CRISIS: IN THE MIDST OF AN EPIDEMIC, US CHURCHES OPEN THEIR DOORS TO NEEDLE EXCHANGES
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on how churches in the US state of North Carolina – including Green Street United Methodist Church – are hosting syringe exchanges in what some see as a controversial response to the nation’s opioid crisis…