The Miracle Hill Podcast

Season 4 Episode 10: Today Ryan Duerk is joined by Steve Vicari, Executive Director of Men's Workforce Development at Homes of Hope, Inc. On This episode Steve and Ryan's focus is on Prayer and Meditation which is the focus of step 11 of the Twelve Steps.

Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

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Homes of Hope

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Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

Today Ryan is joined by Dave Crooks, Executive Director of Evans Training Center, to discuss the Tenth Step in the Twelve Step Process.

About our Evans Training Center:
Evans Training Center is a safe place for Prodigal Son's to come home and be restored.

ETC serves men who come from a lifestyle of chemical addiction who can't yet thrive in outpatient (AA, NA, CR, office visits) or transitional style (halfway house) programs. But instead, require 24/7 supervision in a residential environment and full-time mentorship for an extended period of time.

ETC focuses on helping men to build meaningful relationships with Christ, themselves, and others as well as helping them build the character, integrity, skillsets, and spiritual and emotional wherewithal needed to thrive in post-program recovery.

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Evans Training Center

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Today Ryan is joined by Mike Carlton, Former Program Manager at Overcomers, to discuss the Eighth Step in the Twelve Step Process.

Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

About our Guest:
This episode was recorded before Mike's passing earlier this year. Mike Carlton was with Miracle Hill for over 20 years serving in many areas but finishing his time as Programs Manager and Counselor at Overcomers.

This conversation is rooted in the Eighth step of Making Amends. Is it for other people or is it more about us? Find out in this conversation today.

To find out more about our Overcomers Center please follow the links below.

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Today Ryan is joined by Mike Malone, Senior Program Director of FAVOR Upstate, to discuss the Sixth and Seventh Steps in the Twelve Step Process.

Step 6: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
Step 7: We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings

About our Guest:
Mike Malone is the Senior Program Director at FAVOR Upstate. FAVOR provides free addiction recovery services to individuals and family members suffering with substance use disorders.
Mike has a vast array of experience in various service industries and an educational background in communications and psychology.  He has been an active member of the Greenville recovery community since 2009.  Mike brings compassion, enthusiasm and an extensive amount of recovery knowledge to the position.
At FAVOR his responsibilities include: ensuring the delivery of quality programs at the center, individual recovery coaching, assistance with training and education, and coordination of volunteers.  Mike is an avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast and he will use these avenues to engage participants who struggle with reaching out for help.

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Favor Upstate

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Today Ryan is joined by Jason Cochran, Clinical Director of Canterbury Counseling, to discuss the Fifth Step of the Twelve Steps; Confession.

Step 5 of the 12-Step Program is: “Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”

On this episode Ryan and Jason discuss the importance and also the challenges to confession.

Jason graduated from Columbia International University in 2000 with a Bachelor or Arts in the Humanities. He earned a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Covenant Theological Seminary in 2011. He is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and a Board Certified Christian Counselor by the Board of Christian Professional and Pastoral Counselors. Finally, Jason is a State Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) issued by the State of South Carolina Board of Examiners for Counselors, Therapists & Psychoeducational Specialists. Jason’s interests and specialties are Children and Families: parenting, adolescents, fostering and adoption; Addiction, Sexual Abuse: children and adults who were abused as children; life-transitions, work-related issues, pre-marital and marital counseling. Jason was also a counselor at Miracle Hill before moving on to Canterbury Counseling.

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Komron Saadati has been with Miracle Hill for 23 years and currently serves as a Counselor at our Overcomer's Center. Today he joins Ryan to discuss the fourth step, taking a moral inventory.

Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
(Lamentations 3:40 “let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.”)

This fourth step can often be difficult for anyone going through the 12 Step process, but it can also be the beginning to healing. Join us as Komron recounts his own story of redemption and how to implement the fourth step in one's life.

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On this episode Ryan talks with Bryan Braddock about step 3 of The Twelve Steps.

"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."

Bryan is the Chief Executive Officer of House of Hope of the Pee Dee in Florence, SC. He discusses with Ryan his own history of struggle, what surrendering His will to God looks like, sanctification and what it's like to work with men, women and children experiencing homelessness.

 House of Hope is a Christ-centered community providing hope by serving the needs of men, women and children facing homelessness.
Click here to find out more about House of Hope Pee Dee

"And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." (1 Cor. 6:11)

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Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. (aa.org)

On this episode Ryan sits down with Sarah to talk through step 2 of The Twelve Steps.

Sarah is a graduate of Miracle Hill's Renewal Center. Renewal is Miracle Hill's women's recovery program. Before coming to Miracle Hill Ministries, Sarah had experienced homelessness due to her addition to drugs. With no place else to turn, Sarah entered Miracle Hill's program and found freedom through Christ.

On this episode, Sarah shares her experiences while working through recovery and how submitting to Christ as the Power greater than herself restored her mind and spirit to sanity, leading her to true recovery.

Today, Sarah is married to Bruce and together they have two children. Sarah works on Miracle Hill's stewardship team and continues to encourage others with her story.

“Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:12-13

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Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our human condition and our lives have become unmanageable.

On this episode Ryan sits down with Ken Kelly to talk through Step 1 of The Twelve Steps.

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Welcome to Season 4 of Miracles from the Hill Podcast: a survey of The Twelve Steps.

In this season, we will take a closer look at The Twelve Steps and how Miracle Hill Ministries incorporates this resource into our recovery programs.

When people think about "The Twelve Steps" they may associate this resource with Alcoholics Anonymous or another similar recovery group. While these steps have their history in AA, The Twelve Steps is a resource that can be broadened beyond just the scope of these types of meetings. Miracle Hill Ministries uses an adapted version of The Twelve Steps in our recovery programs. This adapted version of The Twelve Steps puts Jesus at the center of recovery, helping guests think through their story with Christ as the focal point.

Throughout this season, Ryan will sit down with various people on the podcast and talk through the steps in-depth. For listeners, this is a great resource to better understand the journey of Miracle Hill Ministry guests who are a part of our recovery programs as well as contemplating areas in our own lives that may need greater freedom and cleansing. 

This episode is a conversation between Ryan and Brad which broadly discusses the nature of addiction. Brad is the director of Overcomer's, Miracle Hill's men's addiction-recovery facility to launch season 4.

Below are The Twelve Steps taken from Alcoholics Anonymous website. (Linked here.)

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With men, it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." Mark 10:27

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