Guiding Light Recovery is an intensive addiction rehab program designed to give men structure and the opportunity to engage in change.
Join us for an acoustic benefit concert featuring Michigan artists on February 15 from 4-6:30.
The Guiding Light Women’s Recovery program offers a residential experience tailored for women, focused on a dynamic culture of community, comprehensive programming, and peer support.
For over 95 years, Guiding Light has served individuals struggling with hopelessness, homelessness, hunger, and addiction. With our main facility located downtown Grand Rapids, we are dedicated to helping men and women WAKE UP to new life as they recover from addiction and the associated chaos of a life consumed by substance abuse. Learn more about our team, our board of directors, 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 to God, restored to family, safely housed, and active in service. Learn more about Guiding Light’s comprehensive and innovative recovery services for men and women.
Learn about featured artists, event time, parking, silent auction, and our wonderful sponsors here! Get your tickets today! 
Fox17 talked with David Madiol, our Director of Development & Communications about an exciting event: a first-ever benefit concert with a great lineup of artists at the historic treasure of St. Cecilia’s.
Fox17 Morning Mix talked with Elisha Ash, our Women’s Program Manager, and Brian Elve, our Executive Director, about Guiding Light updates! 
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.
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. 
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!
Guiding Light’s comprehensive continuum of care for men and women is made possible by YOU. Thank God for your partnership in moving men and women from death to life, dark to light, and self to service. Our programing, workforce development, and housing is focused on living life in a new way! It’s focused on transforming
48.7 million people in the U.S. struggled with substance use disorder in 2022 according to The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the federal government. That’s 17.3% of the country’s population. Think of 20 individuals who you know: neighbors, friends, coworkers, family members, and even the person next to at church. Statistically, 3-4
AN EXCERPT FROM OUR FIRST WOMEN’S FOUNDATIONS GRADUATE “Hello everyone. My name is Selena, and I am honored to be here with you all today to celebrate Thanksgiving here at Guiding Light. I am grateful for my sobriety and a new way of thinking. The woman that I am today is not the same woman
Read about Kendra’s House in our 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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