What is Living Waters?

“Where can I go to share my pain and struggle? Will anyone listen to me? How can I find hope in my struggle? I’m alone and afraid to tell anyone what’s really in my heart.” – LW Participant

The discipleship and prayer ministry of Living Waters addresses the roots of relational or sexual issues that ensnare Christians into unhealthy living. Living Waters is about finding a way to admit brokenness, dig deep to understand why we are broken, and finally accept the fact that the only way to wholeness is by discovering the healing power of a relationship with Jesus Christ.

“I never knew I needed this type of healing.  God healed me beyond comprehension.  I learned things about myself that were buried and hidden.  Living Waters helped uncover and reveal much that need to be addressed.” – LW Participant

Frequently Asked Questions

If there is ANY issue that negatively affects your relationship with God, your intimacy with Jesus or your sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, then Living Waters is for you! Common issues are…..

  • Fear and anxiety
  • Insecurity
  • Marital Problems/Betrayal/Abandonment
  • Co-dependency
  • Pornography
  • Effects of abuse
  • Poor boundaries
  • Sexual addiction or promiscuity
  • Isolation
  • Inability to trust
  • Anger or unforgiveness
  • Masturbation
  • Gender identity issues
  • Unwanted same-sex attraction
  • Fantasy
  • Shame and self-hatred
  • Emotional pain from past
  • If your specific issue is not listed, be encouraged to apply if you want to grow deeper in the Lord!

Living Waters provides a thoughtful and safe place to look at the ways we’ve become chained to sin. Through weekly times of worship, teaching, and small group prayer, our program leaders walk with participants in their struggle so they can live in freedom and truth. We pray for God’s healing to restore broken areas of life so that people can “love well” as God intended.

Living Waters is a 24 week closed group for men and women seeking healing in their lives. It is an intensive and unique small group. Ultimately, we learn how to press into Jesus more deeply, allowing Him to meet our needs and transform us for His Kingdom purposes. With groups all over the world, and with over forty years of ministering God’s healing love, the Living Waters ministry is a proven path to peace.

Through the worship, teaching, prayer, and small groups of Living Waters we learn about:

  • God’s powerful love for us and how Jesus is central to our hope for wholeness
  • The depth of our brokenness and our profound need for Him.
  • The power of the cross to restore our souls, identity and relationships
  • The process of walking out our healing so we can be whole again.
  • Our place in the church and loving others honorably

Living Waters is a 20-lesson experience taught in a closed-group format. The leaders have been trained to assist in your healing journey. Living Waters, always provides a safe, confidential, secure, and trusting place for our participants.

Each meeting includes:

WORSHIP – We focus our attention and praise on God rather than our problems.

THE WORD – Living Waters’ teachings combine biblical truths and psychological insights that help us to know God and ourselves better.

THE WORKS OF JESUS – Through healing prayer in large and small group settings, we invite the Holy Spirit to heal our various wounds. We bring our sins, and those committed against us, to the Lord who is faithful to set us free.

BOTH GENDERS REPRESENTED We value men and women working out their healing together. Great healing comes as men and women minister and receive alongside one another in large group worship, teaching and prayer. However, most of the healing time is spent in same gender small groups. This reflects God’s intention and character. Foundational to Living Waters is the reality that God created us in His image as male and female.

You may want to consider participating in Living Waters if the following statements describe you:

  • A desire to deepen your relationship with Christ
  • A willingness to face the sinfulness of your present state and the painful realities that led you there. This involves exploring hurts from your past specifically related to key people in your life, such as your parents
  • A willingness to be open and honest with others about your brokenness, as well as issues of identity and emotional immaturity
  • A desire to grow in the truth that you are God’s gift to others in your gender and sexual self
  • A willingness to receive the healing ministry of the Holy Spirit in these deep areas
  • A desire and willingness to walk out of sinful patterns
  • A desire to grow in your relationship in the body of Christ
  • A desire to become a good gift to your local church

Living Waters uses a detailed guidebook that includes teachings, questions and additional readings that help us move from brokenness to maturity. Some topics addressed include:

  • Acknowledging our need for God
  • Receiving God’s love
  • Discovering who we are designed to be as relational beings made in God’s image
  • The power of the cross and confession
  • Renouncing our idols
  • Reconciliation between men and woman
  • How to deal with the pain in your life
  • The power of forgiving others and ourselves
  • Learning how to set healthy boundaries
  • Healing of parent wounds
  • Healing from abuse and trauma
  • The roots of gender brokenness
  • Understanding and overcoming addiction
  • Embracing the church as our healing community
  • Building healthy relationships over the course of a lifetime

“God used Living Waters to expose the roots of the broken patterns in my life so I could truly begin to heal for the first time.” – LW Participant

Living Waters tuition is $300 for the 24-week program. This tuition enables the program administration and facilities and includes materials and snacks. The tuition engages program commitment which benefits individual & fellow participants and leaders, creating a safe environment for healing.

Once the application is submitted, you will be contacted for an interview to discuss readiness, outside support, and commitment.

An application fee of $50 is due at registration with the balance to be paid after your interview and acceptance.

Yes. Living Waters is indeed a 24 -week program. The length of the program allows for participants to deepen trust in God and others, and untangle and heal many years of brokenness.

Living Waters is a closed-group format. A confidentiality policy is enforced to ensure trust and safety in small groups.

CrossCurrent, a condensed Living Waters, runs twice a year, August- September, and January – March. CrossCurrent is an open, Christ-centered prayer and healing group for those seeking truth and grace in their relationships and brokenness.  Chapters include: Unfailing Love, Getting Real, The Cross and the False Self, Getting Clean, Getting Healed, Becoming Secure in the Father’s Love, Loving Others, and Beyond Brokenness. Many who complete this class, go on to seek deeper healing in Living Waters, if their schedule allows. CrossCurrent is an 8 week, Tuesday night class that costs $10. No application is needed.

Download the CrossCurrent Brochure | Register Here

Personal, Biblically informed guidance and counseling is available upon request by contacting our office to schedule an appointment. Our team specializes in:

  • Premarital counseling and marriage guidance
  • Life and spiritual coaching
  • Blended families counseling
  • Substance addiction counseling
  • Anger management
  • Resolution counseling

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When

  • Tuesday Nights, October 3, 2023 – March 26, 2024
  • 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
  • STS Loft

How

  • Register/Apply before September 15, 2023
  • After September 15, email bgeary@apostles.org or bcerbone@apostles.org for possible availablity
  • You will be contacted for an interview
  • Once accepted, submit payment

Questions?

If you have additional questions about Living Waters, please email:

Bruce Cerbone | bcerbone@apostles.org

Beth Geary | bgeary@apostles.org

A PROVEN PATH TO HEALING!

Living Waters 2023 is celebrating 20 years of transformed lives at The Church of The Apostles!

What Others Have Said

Through Living Waters, God has given me an increasing confidence in my manhood, faith, talents, relationships and my place in the Christian community. I no longer cower away from God and church because I struggle with certain sins, but run to Him stronger because He offers comfort and strength in my weakness.”

I have felt burdens released through prayer. So many chains were broken, sins forgiven and forsaken, generational sins broken, hurtful words prayed against. . .I will never forget the healing that has taken place in Living Waters.”

I have struggled with anger at women, but Living Waters healed areas, and helped me honor my wife and women in general. In fact, I have learned that God embodies both the masculine and feminine, and both are blessed.”

“It was transformative for me. Following a horrible divorce, I was so broken and on the verge of suicide. Living Waters helped save my life by helping me realize my identity in Christ and learn how to really believe it for the first time. I had realized that part of my Christianity was missing.”

“At Living Waters, I was able to break down the walls that I had built to protect myself and lay my pain at the foot of the cross with my Lord & Savior, the only one who can heal me of all my wounds: mentally, spiritually and physically. I am blessed beyond words!”

“I understand better that hurt people hurt people and that they didn’t do better because they didn’t know better. I understand people better. I understand my own past better. I understand the importance of forgiveness and the true meaning of forgiveness. I learned that I need to find my identity in Christ instead of boyfriends, parents, siblings, or friends. I found a new love for God, and for talking to him. I believe that I am a completely different person because of Cross Current and Living Waters.”

“Through the Living Waters ministry God graciously held the mirror of His word up for me to see myself. God me showed me that, since birth, He has been with me at every moment my brokenness. God has delivered me from the shame of my past and has created a beautiful life-giving path for me to follow for the rest of my life.”

Testimonies

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