Guiding Light Recovery is an intensive addiction rehab program designed to give men structure and the opportunity to engage in change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
This year, we want to invite you to a standing breakfast open house on the last Wednesday of each month.
Join us for a short, casual breakfast with staff and clients at 7:30. We’ll provide pastries and coffee and conversation!
January 31st is our first breakfast open house of the year. RSVP to David at David@GuidingLightWorks.org if you’re interested in joining us or you want to learn more.
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!
Jon is a veteran of treatment programs. By his calculation, he has been through as many as 15. Starting with his first, after a car crash at age 25, each one has followed pretty much the same sequence. Stop drinking for a while. Relapse. Start drinking again. “I wasn’t doing anything to maintain my sobriety
“I wasn’t spiritual at all before coming here. I grew up with no religion in my life. When I was a teenager, I was very against God and the idea of God. But believing in something that’s bigger than yourself gets rid of believing you’re in control of everything around you when you’re not.”
“Being donor-funded is something I’ve never experienced before and it’s amazing. We get three meals a day, a place to stay, and there’s not just an end goal to where you reach a certain point and you’re out. You go to Iron House and there are guys who have been there for a year or
Kevin walked into Guiding Light and was met with structure – and some tough love – that he hadn’t had since he was a teen living at home. “I think I knew I had a problem. I just didn’t want to admit it. I always just joked about it,” says Kevin. “For me not to
Read Elisha’s story, along with articles about Jon, Mike, and Guiding Light’s 95 years of ministry, in our latest newsletter.
Through the guiding light of God’s Spirit, Guiding Light partners with individuals to fulfill their God-given potential through rescue, recovery and re-engagement in the community.
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