East Bay Men's Recovery Center

OUR MISSION- East Bay Men's Recovery Center exists to help, heal and care for individuals struggling from life controlling issues in a compassionate and loving environment consistent with the Christian principles on which we were founded. Our mission is rooted in the belief that a person's faith should be utilized, strengthened and nourished. Accordingly, we respect and care for the emotional and spiritual needs of those we serve. For more information go to www.ebmrc.net.

The tomb is empty, He has Risen...and now sits at the right hand of the Father. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? 1 Corinthians 15:55

Good Friday Isaiah 53 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are he...aled. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. 9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. #goodfriday #easter #easterweekend #easybaymensrecoverycenter See more

"My past will remind me, but it will not define me." Anonymous

A huge blessing from Fellowship Church today! God is Good! Thank you for sewing into our ministry!

We have a special guest today for Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Louie Rocha

This is how God works when you surrender it all to him. A year ago this man was in motels in Oakland deep in his addiction & today he bought a new car. #commitment#perseverance#hard work.

RIP my good friend... Mike Gonzalez was a huge part of EBMRC....

East bay men's recovery center's new SLE... almost complete

Check out this powerful message from our recent Graduate Carlos. God is Good!

God is good, two more graduates from EBMRC! Congratulations Carlos and Malachi

Thursday Night at 6:00 PM, we will be having our Open AA Meeting! All are free to attend

Merry Christmas from East Bay men's Recovery CenterMerry Christmas from East Bay men's Recovery Center

Great work by the guys at EBMRC, if you need painting done Please contact us.

Wanna give a huge thank you to Pastor Kim & Pastor Burt & the Whole Worship Center congregation for a generous donation to East Bay men's Recovery Center thank you for believing in what we do and how we're changing lives, #kingdombusiness

Working on GED and ASVAB test prep, personal finance courses, and learning to code. Your support helps us help our students!

I wrote this 3 years ago. The words feel even more true today. Addiction hurts everyone, not just the addict. "Lately there’s been a lot of discussion in my h...ome county about drugs. The reason is simple: drugs are destroying people’s lives. It’s not just here. It’s everywhere. They’re breaking up families, ending careers, and leaving people with a shell of what they once had. The addict and everyone in the addict’s life is affected. You’ve seen it. You’ve probably experienced it. If you’re struggling with an addiction, here’s what the loved ones in your life want you to know. If you don’t like reading, just look at the bullet points. 1. WE KNOW YOU HAVE A PROBLEM. AND WE STILL LOVE YOU. As a pastor I’ve sat with countless people trapped in addiction. I've struggled with it myself. Without fail, the first barrier that keeps a person locked into addiction is the age old problem of SHAME. It leads to isolation, secrecy, and a divided life. Someone has said that guilt is feeling bad about WHAT you DO. Shame is feeling bad about WHO you ARE. Shame develops when you’re doing things you never set out to do and you hate yourself for it. If you struggle with shame you’re probably thinking things like, how could this happen to ME? I never thought I’d be in this place. If only I could go back in time. Shame will lead to one of two things, self-loathing or self-deception. If you want to know if you have shame, ask yourself if you’re engaging in either of these things. When you cope with shame by self-loathing, you give in to the negative thoughts and emotions. You immerse yourself in them. You agree with the message that you’re a pile of trash and not worthy of love or care. When you cope with shame by self-deception, you lie to yourself about the nature of your actions. You make excuses. You justify your behavior. You say you’re not that bad off. Here’s the simple message to anyone locked into shame. You’re human. You’re not alone. Millions of other people are experiencing the same struggle you are. It’s okay that you’re not okay. But it’s not okay to stay that way. So stop hiding. Stop with the self-loathing and the self-deception. You think we don’t know, but we do. You may hide from some people, but you can’t hide from us. We’ve learned to tell when you’ve had your morning drink or your afternoon pill. It’s time to care more about us than your image. Tell us the truth. ADMIT you are addicted. ADMIT your addiction is ruining your life. ADMIT you are powerless to defeat it on your own! We know you have a problem. And we still love you. 2. YOU CAN GET BETTER The second barrier that keeps a person locked into an addiction is HOPELESSNESS. If you’ve struggled with addiction for a long enough time, you probably have a hard time believing things can ever get better. You’ve lost hope and gained despair. You’re discouraged because you’ve made promises to yourself, but broken them all. You’re disappointed in yourself for failing over and over again. And you’ve likely gotten frustrated with God because He hasn’t healed you. If you’ve lost hope you’ve lost the one thing you need to motivate you toward action, a belief that you can get better. Here’s what you need to know. As long as you’re alive, there’s hope. There are people everywhere who have been right where you are, they have been addicted and out of control. But today many of those same people are living in a day by day freedom. Yes, you’ve failed. And yes, we’ve been angry and upset because of it. But help is available. We haven’t given up on you. Don’t give up on yourself. Recovery won’t be easy. It will be hard and long and painful. It will test us. We know that and we’re as prepared as we can be for what lies ahead. We’ll have times of anger and disappointment. But we’ll also have times of love and joy and the one thing we need want you to have hope. You can get better. 3. WE'RE READY TO FIGHT FOR YOU, BUT WE NEED YOU TO FIGHT FOR YOURSELF (AND FOR US). The third barrier that keeps a person locked into an addiction is APATHY. Apathy follows hopelessness. Apathy is the result of repeated failure. Apathy grows when hope fades. If you’re struggling with apathy you may inwardly wish everyone else would give up on you the way you have given up on yourself. You may wish people would leave you alone and let you suffer in isolation. If you have apathy, you know you should care more, but you just don’t. You medicate the pain and the hurt. This is our message to you. The future is in your hands. If you don’t start caring for yourself, eventually others will stop caring for you as well. It will take some people years and years of abuse and betrayal before they get to that point, but everyone in your life will eventually walk out or be pushed out. They’ll still love you, but they won’t be around to tell you or show you. So stop waiting for a miracle. God is probably not going to automatically deliver you. Your countless unanswered prayers are evidence of that. The only way things are going to get any better is if you take action. Any excuse you can give for NOT getting help is ridiculous. Here’s why. You’re going to lose everything anyway. If you say you can’t get help because of your job, you’re going to lose it eventually anyway. Can’t get help because of your image and what people would think? Guess what, it’s already tarnished. People already know. It’s time to stop choosing your addiction over your family. We know it’s not as simple as making a once and for all decision to quit. Getting help now doesn’t mean getting healed now. We know it’s a process. And we know you don’t want to be in the situation you’re in. We feel for you. We really do. But we cannot sit here and watch you toss the rest of your life away because you won’t get help. If you’re thinking, yes, but you don’t understand what I’m going through. Okay, we’ll give you that. We don’t understand what you’re going through. But here’s what we’d ask you to see. You don’t understand what we’re going through either. We’re watching the person we love lose everything they love. We’re watching you die a long, slow, medicated death. And we can’t take that. We want you back. We’re ready to fight for you, but we need you to fight for yourself (and for us)." See more

Today we celebrated another graduate from East Bay men's Recovery Center. Congratulations Kelly Ringue! Perseverance pays off!

A person's steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand their own way? Proverbs 20:24

Saturday is coming!