Comprehensive. Relational. Innovative.
This is recovery reimagined.
Men's Recovery
Guiding Light Recovery is an intensive addiction rehab program designed to give men structure and the opportunity to engage in change.
Women's Recovery
The Guiding Light Women’s Recovery program is officially open! Our 4-month, trauma-informed, residential experience creates a dynamic culture of community, peer support, and accountability.
Be a Donor
Your donation provides help for today and hope for tomorrow: basic needs like food, clothes, and shelter and programming, structure, and resources to empower individuals in sustainable recovery for the rest of their lives.
Who We Are
Guiding Light is a donor-funded Christian non-profit dedicated to helping individuals recover from addiction and the associated chaos of a life consumed by substance abuse. Learn more about our team, our board, and our guiding values.
What we Do
Guiding Light provides tools, relationships, and support to empower individuals in living a new life of recovery, where they’re back to work, reconnected, and safely housed. Learn more about Guiding Light’s recovery services for men and women.
Wake up
This is what we want for the men and women you help us minister to: Wake up and live! Wake up to a new life, one free from addiction, one based in responsibility, hard work, and relationship with God.
Latest News
Wood tv8 feature on guiding light women's recovery.
Grand Rapids’ Wood TV8 news recently interviewed Guiding Light Executive Director Brian Elve and Women’s Recovery Program Manager Elisha Ash to talk about our growing programs. Check it out above.
Thank you to st. george's antiochIan church!
On September 24 Grand Rapids’ St. George Antiochian Church’s annual Middle Eastern Lunch was held to raise funds for local charities. This year we are happy and incredibly grateful to have been named the beneficiary. Check it out on Wood TV 8’s EightWest above.
Guiding Light 5k Run & Walk
Guiding Light is proud to host our third annual 5K Run/Walk located in Millennium Park on October 19, 2024. This is a great opportunity to support your local community, while being active and participating alongside our organization. Each runner/walker will receive a swag bag and a Guiding Light Strides 5k Run/Walk t-shirt. We hope you bring your friends, family, and dogs to support and have fun! If you are interested in sponsoring this event we have some great perks and recognition opportunities. All race proceeds support Guiding Light programming.
Women's Recovery is HERE!
The Guiding Light Women’s Recovery Program is officially open! We opened our doors June 10th 2024 and accepted our first intake the same day! Due to the generosity of this faithful community, Guiding Light’s innovative and successful residential recovery program is now available to women struggling with addiction, hopelessness, and homelessness at NO COST to participants. Our vision is to awaken the woman with addictions to the possibility of becoming successful, independent, and spiritually transformed. Our goal for men is lifelong recovery and a new way of being in relationship with the world. Learn more here!
If you know someone that needs help call our direct line at:
616-881-4790
RECOVERY PROGRAM ALUM IN THE NEWS
Andy came through the doors of Guiding Light over 4 years ago hopeless, homeless, and addicted. Through the innovative, intensive programming of the recovery program, Andy found an entirely different way to live in this world: Awake! Responsible! Connected!
Check out Fox17’s piece on Andy, the new owner of Wealthy Street Bakery and Hall Street Bakery, and read more in our latest LightPost newsletter!
We’re so proud of the man, father, son, and friend you’ve become, Andy! Congratulations on this next huge step in life!
Stories
Founded by Women, Serving Women
October 1, 2024
Guiding Light was launching a residential recovery program for women, Kendra’s House. But it needed a place where clients could go during the day to day to attend class, meet with life coaches, therapists and spiritual directors.
“We’re Building a Community”
October 1, 2024
As house manager at Guiding Light’s new recovery program for women, Kendra’s House, Heather is helping other women discover that same accountability.
Kendra’s House: ‘What a legacy for her to leave behind’
October 1, 2024
Kendra’s own battle with alcoholism inspired her Aunt Melody to make the purchase of the home possible for Guiding Light. Kendra’s House opened this summer with room for 11 women.
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“Kendra fought hard against alcoholism, but alcoholism is not who she was. She had a very caring nature about her, and her laughter will echo in our hearts forever... So today we stand united, offering our love and support to those who walk the arduous path towards healing."
Read about Guiding Light’s new transitional house for women, Kendra’s House, in our latest newsletter.
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