May 2024 Joe, Matt, Tim, Mike, Jacob, and Jordan celebrated their first full year of abstinence-based sobriety. Guiding Light hosts a Year Sobriety Celebration several times a year to celebrate the hard work these men (and soon women!) have put in to life life in a different way. These men completed the four-month Guiding Light … Read more
When Brian discovered Guiding Light, he found a program committed to him for the long haul. A staff that truly cared about helping him.
Last year Guiding Light Recovery participant Ben walked through our doors seeking a way into a new life. After spending years struggling with addiction and homelessness, he finally had enough and asked for help. “Having a warm, safe bed and a door that locked,” was one of the most important gifts he received at Guiding … Read more
On February 22nd 2024, Guiding Light – a non-profit serving Grand Rapids for 95 years – got approval from the city to open housing for women that will be served by the Guiding Light Recovery Women’s Program. The program will provide women with free, long-term, in-patient substance abuse treatment and aftercare. To learn more here!
Guiding Light’s programming has seven foundational focus points: Willingness, Honesty, Vulnerability, Self-Awareness, Self-Compassion, Responsibility, and Spiritual Formation.
In January 2024, Guiding Light Recovery graduates Ben, Tom, Adam, Quinn, Ian, Tim, and Jared had a chance to formally celebrate reaching one year of sobriety. They each share a testimony of how their lives have changed over the past year, they formally nail their name onto our wall of 100 other men who have … Read more
On January 18th 2024, Guiding Light celebrated seven former clients who recently reached a year of sobriety – this is Adam’s speech.
Dexter was one of the first names added on our Year of Sobriety wall. Recently, he received his coin commemorating eight years of sobriety.
Tim came to Guiding Light 14 months ago trying to, by his own admission, avoid going back to prison after a parole violation. Although when he arrived he had no intention of changing and was “fully intent on gaming the system,” he found the support he needed from the community to truly turn over a … Read more
Tim spent nine years in federal prison, his lawyer had “the magnificent idea” that he enroll in Guiding Light. “I’ve seen that everyone here seems to care.”
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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