Surge isn't for one kind of person. Here's an honest look at who shows up on Thursday nights — and why each of them belongs.
Surge Recovery began as an addiction recovery ministry — and that origin is still real and present. But the room that grew out of it is wider than any one category. On any given Thursday, about half the people in the room are not in active addiction recovery. They came for other reasons. They stayed because they found something they needed.
This page exists to answer honestly: Is this for me? Read through. If something resonates, just show up. You don't have to explain yourself at the door.
You've been through treatment, or you're still in it, or you're white-knuckling it on your own — and you know that sobriety without something deeper doesn't hold. You've tried AA. It helped some things, not others. You want a room where your faith isn't an afterthought, where scripture is actually the tool, and where people have walked where you're walking and didn't stay down. That's the room Jim built. It still exists, and you're still the reason for it.
You love someone in addiction — or someone you love is in mental health crisis, or in a spiral you don't know how to reach. You came to Surge because of them. But you'll find that there is something here for you too. People who understand what it's like to watch someone you love disappear into themselves. Scripture that speaks to the particular grief of being close to suffering you cannot fix. And prayer for you, not just for them.
You have a church. You go on Sundays. But Sunday mornings don't always leave room for honest conversation, for prayer that gets into specific pain, for the kind of community where people actually know how your week went. Surge is a Thursday night that fills a gap many believers feel but don't know how to name. You don't have to be in crisis to come. You just have to want more than surface-level fellowship.
Grief after a loss. Anxiety that doesn't stop. A marriage in serious trouble. A life transition that left you unmoored. Depression that your faith hasn't been able to explain or fix. You don't have to have a tidy category for what's wrong. If life is hard right now and you want to walk through it with other believers who take both Christ and suffering seriously, you belong here. No one will ask you to explain yourself. You can just come and let the room do what it does.
You carry faith — real faith — but organized religion has left marks. Politics. Performance. Judgment. Leaders who didn't live what they preached. You haven't given up on Christ, but you've given up on the institution. Surge is small, lay-led, and built by people who have also been bruised by the gap between what church claims to be and what it sometimes is. There's no membership here. No insider language. No one performing faith at you. Just people trying to live it.
A pastor referred you. A friend brought you. You found this online in a hard moment. You're not sure about God or faith or any of it — but something made you look. Surge is explicitly Christian, and we won't hide that. Christ is the center. Scripture is the tool. Prayer is how we end every evening. But no one will pressure you, quiz you, or make you uncomfortable for being in process. Come once. See what you think. You're not obligated to anything by walking in the door.
We want to be honest about what we are and what we aren't, so no one shows up expecting something we can't give.
If you need detox, inpatient treatment, medication-assisted recovery, or professional counseling, please seek those things. Surge is a community for the longer walk — not an emergency medical response.
There are no steps, no sponsors, no day counts, no anonymous-style rituals. If you need the structure of a 12-step program, Celebrate Recovery or AA may serve you better. We are a fellowship, not a program.
We don't do baptisms, communion, or pastoral oversight. We encourage everyone who attends to be connected to a local church on Sundays. Surge is a Thursday community — a complement to, not a replacement for, regular worship.
Jim and the leadership team lead through lived experience and faith, not clinical credentials. We are peer support, scripture-based community, and prayer. We will tell you honestly when something is beyond what we can offer.
The best answer to "is this for me?" is a Thursday evening. You can leave at 8:30 PM and never return and nothing will be said. Or you can stay, and then come back next week. There is no pressure either direction. The door is open. The food will be there.
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