Green Oak Ranch Ministries
Adult, residential, faith-based healing community
Struggling with chemical addiction?
Want to quit? We can help!
Chemical addiction can be broken. However, until broken chemical addiction takes a huge toll and may even cost the user his/her life.
Addiction is no respecter of persons. It affects men and women regardless of race, religious affiliation, or socio-economic standing.
The typical pathway of an addict/alcoholic who denies his/her condition is as follows:
deterioratinmg physical and mental health
unemployment and economic dependence
forfeited privileges, e.g., vehicle and driver’s license,
jail or prison
homelessness
disconnection from children, family, and friends
despair and hopelessness
loss of dignity and self-respect
death
Unchecked addiction is progressive. It gets worse, never better.
Addiction first goes to work on a person’s ability to clearly see the path ahead. Early stages of addiction are often characterized by rationalizations, excuses, denial, and claims that he/she can quit “whenever I want to.”
Only after dependence has settled in and can no longer be denied will the user consider the possibility that he/she has become addicted. Hopefully, the admission that there is chemical dependency will be joined with receptivity to treatment.
This critical point in the journey through addiction is called it “rock bottom.” It’s an important milestone becase its the point the addict/alcoholic determines by action or inaction that the downward spiral will either end or continue. Sadly, for some ”rock bottom” only comes after jail or prison, life threatening illness, homelessness, or total alienation.
But, it doesn’t have to be this way!
“Rock bottom” is wherever you determine it to be. It’s the point in the downward spiral where you determine you don’t want to go beyond, and where you truly ready to undertake a new life style. It’s when you decide it’s time for new friends and a supportive surrounding community.
If you’ve reached your “rock bottom” we would like to talk to you. If you are not yet at this point yet, we hope God will grant you at least one more opportunity to decide.
When we talk we will explain how our Christ-centered community operates, and how you can join with others who -like you- are “sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
If you are interested in our healing community read the following summary of our intake and community procedures. Read it carefully. Pray about your decision. Ask God to give you clarity to make a good choice.
If that choice involves Gereen Oak Ranch, here’s what you must do:
GREEN OAK RANCH MINISTRIES INTAKE PROCEDURES AND COMMUNITY LIFE
From: Green Oak Ranch Ministries, Inc.
Thank you for your interest in Green Oak Ranch. Pertinent information of a general nature is found on our website, www.greenoakranch.org.
Mary L. Fielstra is our Intake and Program Director. Specific intake and community-life questions should be addressed to her in care of: Green Oak Ranch Ministries, Inc. 1237 Green Oak Road Vista, CA 92081 (760) 727-0251, Ext. 305 cadcmlf@sbcglobal.net.
Intake procedures require the potential program associate to keep in direct contact with Green Oak Ranch. Calls must be placed once every 24-hours, weekends and holidays included. (Leave a message if our office is not open). If incarcerated, the individual should write to us at least once per week.
We do not work through third parties when considering applications for residence.
In-custody interviews are sometimes arranged if the individual is incarcerated in the Vista Detention Facility ( San Diego County ).
Persistence is a noted quality for intake purposes. Readiness for residential restoration is measured beginning with initial contact. We want to be persuaded that the prospective resident strongly desires to affiliate with a Christ-centered restoration community. Therefore, applications for residential association are not typically offered by mail. Only after demonstrating a pattern of persistence is a potential resident invited to come to Green Oak Ranch to complete an application for residential association.
Community sponsorship ($400.00 per month) is required, ideally sponsorships are provided by by a supportive congregation in the Body of Christ that will remain in contact with the individual during residential association (mail contact only for first 60-days of residence), and be prepared to receive the individual into fellowship upon completion of residential association. $50.00 of the monthly $400.00 sponsorship fee is returned to the program associate at the rate of $12.50 per week for the purchase of incidentals.
Those interested in joining our community are asked to commit to not less than nine-months of residential association. Additional community association in ”half-way house” status is offered to residents who have satisfactorily progressed through the first nine months of residence, and who require extra time to transition back into the societal mainstream.
Acceptable items a resident may bring with him/her into our community include: personal clothing (conservative attire containing no drug/alcohol or sexual references), appropriate reading material, e.g., Bible, and appropriate photos. We offer no residential storage, and closet space is very limited. Items not allowed include, but are not limited to: drugs/alcohol in any form (including mouthwash containing alcohol), computers, musical instruments, televisions, DVD/CD players, i-Pods (and similar devices), sexually explicit reading material, knives and/or weapons of any kind, motorized transportation, and other items deemed (in our discretion) to be inappropriate for the orderly operation of our community or a social model, Christ-centered restoration environment.
Residents should “travel lite!” Those accepted for residential association sign an agreement stating that any items “left behind” when a person’s residential association ends, for whatever reason, are deemed abandoned and therefore subject to disposal.
Individuals with histories of violent crimes, arson, and/or crimes against children are not eligible for admission. All program candidates must satisfactorily pass a Live-scan fingerprint check of criminal history.
I encourage you in your journey.
Blessings,
Carl J. Fielstra
RESIDENTIAL INTAKE INFORMATION
(760) 727-0251
8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday
EMERGENCY ONLY: (760) 802-4583
Green Oak Ranch Healing Community
We are like-minded people living in a community setting under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We are mutually committed to each other in battling chronic, debilitating, addictive relationships with people, places, and things. As followers of Jesus we are first called to love God and to then love one another.
We welcome good friendships with quality people in the socio-economic mainstream.
What occurs in our community is offered as a public witness of God’s ability and willingness to heal and restore.
GREEN OAK RANCH MINISTRIES
Vista, California 92081-7890