Next Step Recovery Ministries

Get ready for the great big GIANT Next Step Garage Sale this June!!! It's gonna be YUUUGGGEEEE!!!!

Purchase your Skweeky Clean car wash ticket from Next Step. A $10 ticket gets you a $25 car wash at any Skweeky Clean location. Call Debbie at 478-284-1422 or [email protected].

The 2021 Next Step golf tournament was a huge success with 23 teams participating!!! It was a beautiful day at Brickyard Golf Club! Thank you to our tournament sponsor Christy Capital Management and all our major and supporting sponsors Raymond James Middle Georgia Freightliner - Isuzu Cadence Bank Tire Distributors of Middle GA, Jesse Whittle, Spivey Pope Green LLC and individual donors and countless volunteers! Thank you Sarah Ozment for catering! We appreciate EVERY individual who played!

Raffle tickets available! $100 will give you 20 chances to win a St. George Island beach vacation, a St. Augustine Beach vacation, or an Igloo Mega Cooler. Tickets are $5.00 each. Call to purchase your tickets. You do not have to be present to win! 478-284-1422. A GREAT way to support Next Step!

Each year Next Step has been blessed with the gift of a beach condo on beautiful St. George Island as part of the Golf Tournament Raffle. This is a beach front condo with a pool. You can participate in the raffle even if you are not playing in the golf tournament. Tickets are $10 each -- you do not have to be present to win! Drawing will be Monday, April 26th at the end of the golf tournament. Call to purchase your tickets! 478-284-1422

ONE WEEK from today is the 5th annual Next Step Recovery Scott Peace Memorial Golf Tournament! We still have room for a more teams! Can't play?? Would you consider sponsoring the tournament? Recovering from the 2020 slump in fundraising and we need YOU! Contact us today to sign up for play or to sponsor! 478-284-1422

Here's an easy way to support Next Step. Our new book MORE THAN RECOVERY is now available on Book Baby (link below). Orders through Book Baby really help us to kick start our book sales and we receive money faster than going through Amazon and other larger retailers. Order your copy today! https://store.bookbaby.com/bookshop/book/index.aspx

Give A Guy A Gift Instead of Christmas Stockings this year, please consider donating $25 for our Give A Guy A Gift. Your donation will purchase a gift for one of the men in our home. We need 30 donations of $25. Donate at the Info Desk at church this Wednesday night or call to make your payment over the phone. 478-284-1422

On this Giving Tuesday, would you consider helping Next Step? As a non-profit, every donation helps us to continue to operate. All donations are tax deductible. You can give through our website www.nextstepmin.org or call us 478-284-1422. We are so thankful for all those who continually help us help others!

THIS is what it's all about! Men being committed and graduating from Next Step, while others in the program following Christ in Believer's baptism!

Next Step expresses a great big thank you to everyone who contributed to our annual Thanksgiving cake auction! We are truly blessed by our cake makers, bidders, donors, and support. We raised $4,900 breaking last years record of $3500.

It's that time of year again!!!

WE HAVE LIGHTS! After weeks of working on the electrical we finally have power in our new warehouse. The warehouse will be the home for the Next Step transitional housing program... a worship and meeting center, job training, and storage!

The 2020 Mercer Bears basketball schedule posters are out and Next Step is on top! I have several of these posters that I’d like to put up around Macon and local businesses Let us know if you’d like one by commenting here.

Today, we say THANK YOU!

Next Step is committed to helping others, but we cannot do it alone. Will you partner with us in the fight against drugs and addiction? Contact us today for firewood, Men at Work, Belk Charity Day tickets, or to make a Yard Sale donation. Your gifts are always tax deductible! 478-284-1422

Friday at Belk in Macon ... The guys are here till 6 o’clock selling tickets Come out and support them!

Firewood season is here! Text us at 478-442-7002 or 478-538-2152 $80 delivered and stacked.

Throughout the years there have been many days that have changed the course of history for America. 19 year ago --- we were forever changed. We watched in horror as another country killed our fellow countrymen --- friends, family, mothers, brothers, fathers, sisters --- Today, we stop and remember those who died, and those who so fiercely fought on the frontline to help. We remember our military who fight for us EVERY day, both on home and international soil. May we truly never forget!

ADDICTION FACTS: Tobacco use (nicotine), impacts the central nervous system and negatively affects your mental processes. Smoking is not only bad for your physical health, but can do tremendous harm to your mental and emotional well-being. Many people smoke in order to cope with mental and emotional challenges, yet they are actually worsening their problems.

The Belk Charity Day sale fundraiser provides a large percentage of our revenue each year. Due to COVID-19 we lost the Spring Charity Day sale, but the Fall sale is back and it's even better! Buy a $5 ticket and the coupon is worth $10 (in addition to great savings October 9-11). Greater savings over more days! We will be selling in store, but you can purchase yours by calling 478-284-1422. We can take credit and debit cards.

Next Step is getting ready for firewood season! Call us for your firewood needs. 478-442-7002 or 478-538-2152.

Many people misuse drugs and alcohol in order to "self-medicate" their underlying emotional and mental health issues. While they believe the drugs are helping them the reality is they only increase and worsen emotional and mental health problems.

WHY DOES THE ADDICT CONTINUE TO ABUSE DRUGS EVEN IF HE/SHE WANTS TO QUIT: Often the addict will continue to misuse drugs or other harmful behaviors even though it is no longer pleasurable. At this point we would say that the person is trapped. He wants to quit but he can’t. Why? Dopamine is a tricky neurotransmitter in the brain. While dopamine is often thought of is the pleasure chemical in the brain, it is also the wanting chemical in the brain. It drives us to want things, even if we might not like them. When you think about it, you might not actually like going to work, but your Dopamine causes you to want to go in order to meet your financial needs. Dopamine, on a very basic level is intended for our survival and our pleasure.

Need answers? We can help you find them. #morethanrecovery

Big clean up day for Next Step It’s hot!