New Beginnings
The new beginnings ministry was founded in April 2003 and serves as an extension of the International Community Development Corporation. The mission of New Beginnings is to help men and women abandon harmful lifestyles and addictions through biblical teaching, mentoring, and discipleship. We seek to help individuals and families that are:1. Transitioning from correctional facilities into civilian life.
2. Involved in any type of substance abuse. (Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, etc.)
3. Victims (past or present) of physical or verbal abuse.
4. Involved in (past or present) pornography or sexual abuse.
2. Involved in any type of substance abuse. (Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, etc.)
3. Victims (past or present) of physical or verbal abuse.
4. Involved in (past or present) pornography or sexual abuse.
Our foundation scripture is Romans 12 which reads: 1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. (2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Through many years of experience, we have found 12 steps towards freedom. We list them below:
12 STEPS TO FREEDOM
1. We admit that we are powerless over our addictions - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We have come to believe that the power of God, in the person of Jesus Christ, can restore us to wholeness in every area of our lives.
3. We will make a decision today, to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, in the person of Jesus Christ.
4. We choose to search and make a fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly ask Him to help us in our weaknesses.
8. We will make a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We will make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We will continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, we shall promptly admit it.
11. We must seek, through prayer and meditation, to improve our conscious contact with God, in the person of Jesus Christ, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. As a result of our spiritual awakening through implementing these steps, we will carry this message to other bound by their addictions, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
1. We admit that we are powerless over our addictions - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We have come to believe that the power of God, in the person of Jesus Christ, can restore us to wholeness in every area of our lives.
3. We will make a decision today, to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, in the person of Jesus Christ.
4. We choose to search and make a fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly ask Him to help us in our weaknesses.
8. We will make a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We will make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We will continue to take personal inventory and when we are wrong, we shall promptly admit it.
11. We must seek, through prayer and meditation, to improve our conscious contact with God, in the person of Jesus Christ, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. As a result of our spiritual awakening through implementing these steps, we will carry this message to other bound by their addictions, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
If you would like more information or know someone who would benefit from our program, please contact Minister Antonio Wicks at 210.710.9254.
Antonio Wicks, Director