Start a recovery community at your church—with a partner who stays.
423 does more than train leaders and supply curriculum. We host the recovery system with your church—caring for members, coaching leaders, managing onboarding, and helping carry the difficult situations that arise over time.
You do not need a finished team, a counselor on staff, or a fully built ministry before you call.
Four steps from “we need help” to a weekly group.
Every launch is adapted to the church, but the sequence stays clear. You will know what happens next, who owns each task, and what must be ready before the first meeting.
Start the conversation
A pastor, care leader, or ministry champion meets with 423. We learn your church context, current care gaps, and the first population you hope to serve.
Establish the partnership
We confirm pastoral covering, choose a meeting rhythm, identify local champions, and discuss the practical and financial commitments that sustain the ministry together.
Train leaders and build the roster
Church leaders complete the 423 launch pathway—or 423 prepares to facilitate the first 12 weeks. We receive applications, conduct intake, and build the initial group roster.
Open the group—and stay connected
The weekly community begins inside the 423 system. We continue caring for members, coaching leaders, onboarding new people, and helping the church navigate the ministry year after year.
Not another class. A Witnessing Community.
A 423 group is a structured, gender-specific community where people learn to become fully known without being abandoned and deeply loved without being left unchanged. The goal is not simply to stop a behavior. It is to form a durable community of confession, discipleship, repair, and freedom.
The Witnessing Community is the relational container. The curriculum serves the people inside it.
Witnessing Community
Members are seen, heard, and accompanied through an intentional weekly rhythm that disrupts secrecy and shame.
- Recovery-line reflection and honest check-in
- Confession without humiliation or moralism
- Story, attunement, compassion, and prayer
- Learning to receive truth inside safe relationship
Equipping & Formation
Members receive a shared language and practical pathway for understanding the behavior, healing the heart, and rebuilding life.
- Introduction to Recovery: Foundations course
- Scripture and theological formation
- Neurobiology, attachment, and recovery tools
- Story work, relational repair, and relapse prevention
A community to belong to.
Support to keep growing.
Membership brings together meaningful relationships, professional guidance, and practical recovery resources. Your church’s members enter a living recovery community that supports them through the everyday work of healing and change.
Led by trained leaders.
Weekly groups combine Witnessing Community with Equipping & Formation—creating space for honest check-ins, compassion, accountability, and growth.
Open access to coaching.
Members have open access to at least two free, 60-minute group coaching sessions and workshops each month, led by a trained professional sex addiction coach.
Access discounted professional coaching
For individuals, couples, parents, and teens.
Included with membership.
- A recovery workbook libraryAccess 50+ professionally curated workbooks throughout membership, with exercises and practical tools to work through individually or alongside your group.
- Past workshops, available year-roundAccess the library of past recovery workshops throughout membership, revisiting teaching and support as new needs arise.
The Foundations course
A clear pathway into recovery, with more than 123 lessons bringing together video coaching, guided exercises, reflection, and practical tools for everyday life.
- Video coaching that helps members understand recovery
- Exercises that turn learning into daily practice
- Guided reflection to bring into their community
Learn between meetings. Practice in daily life. Process together in community.
A clear place to begin
Personal onboarding, orientation, and group placement help members enter the community with clear next steps and a place to belong.
Tools for everyday recovery
The Recovery Line, boundaries, trigger awareness, emotional regulation, and relapse-prevention practices help members build healthier daily rhythms.
Formation beneath the behavior
Biblical teaching, guided reflection, and story work help members explore identity, shame, attachment, and the wounds and patterns beneath their struggles.
Connection between meetings
The online 423 Men’s Community connects members with their group, courses, resources, and ongoing opportunities for learning and accountability.
Care as needs change
Ongoing member support helps people navigate setbacks and next steps, including pathways to disclosure support, betrayal care, and clinical referrals when appropriate.
Leaders who are supported, too
Continued training, coaching, and consultation help group leaders care well for members and navigate difficult situations with support from 423.
A living, supported recovery ecosystem—relationships, professional guidance, and practical formation throughout the journey.
Benefits shown reflect 423 Men’s ongoing community membership. Other 423 programs follow their own formats and care pathways.
We do not train your leaders and step away.
Training is only the beginning. 423 remains an active part of the day-to-day ministry—walking with pastors, strengthening leaders, caring for members, and helping protect the health of the community over time.
A specialized recovery partner
Pastors have a trusted team to consult when disclosure, betrayal, escalation, clinical needs, safety concerns, or difficult ministry decisions arise.
Ongoing care and development
Leaders receive coaching, check-ins, continuing training, group consultation, support through difficult dynamics, and help preparing the next generation of leaders.
A complete pathway into care
423 receives applications, conducts intake, places and onboards members, provides resources and workshops, and helps people discern appropriate next steps.
Health, continuity, and growth
423 helps sustain the structure, safety, culture, leadership transitions, conflict response, and long-term development of the hosted community.
423 is already part of the care pathway.
When a member relapses, a marriage crisis escalates, a leader becomes overwhelmed, a disclosure creates new questions, or a safety concern emerges, your church is not starting from scratch. 423 helps leaders and pastors understand the situation, establish responsible next steps, coordinate appropriate care, and protect the health of the group.
One ministry. Two clear responsibilities.
The church anchors the community locally. 423 carries the specialized recovery system around it. That shared ownership allows the ministry to remain both deeply connected to the church and consistently supported by people who understand recovery care.
Your church anchors
The local presence, pastoral covering, and relationships that make recovery part of the church’s discipleship culture.
- A pastor or trusted ministry liaison
- A consistent, private meeting space or approved online plan
- Clear communication that makes the pathway visible
- Relational care and connection within the local church
- Help identifying future leaders as the community grows
423 carries
The recovery expertise, systems, and ongoing ministry support that your church should not have to invent or sustain alone.
- The Witnessing Community model and equipping pathway
- Leader training, certification, coaching, and consultation
- Applications, intake, placement, onboarding, and member care
- Pastoral consultation and support through complex situations
- Curriculum, workshops, workbooks, tools, and referral pathways
- Operational hosting, leadership transitions, and group continuity
Find the right beginning for your church.
Both pathways become fully hosted 423 communities. The difference is whether trained leaders from your church facilitate from the beginning or 423 establishes the initial group while local leadership is developed.
Train your leaders. Open the group.
Best for churches with one or two aligned leaders who are ready to learn the 423 model and begin facilitating the community locally.
- Leaders complete the 423 Training Launch Program
- Training covers the model, safety, facilitation, member care, and launch readiness
- 423 prepares the member pathway and initial group roster
- Once trained, church leaders open the group and begin meeting weekly
Let 423 establish the first group.
Best when the need is immediate but the church does not yet have trained leaders ready to facilitate the initial community.
- 423 establishes and facilitates the initial weekly rhythm
- 423 receives, onboards, and cares for the first members
- The Witnessing Community culture is formed from the beginning
- 423 works with the church toward sustainable local leadership
Together, we make this care possible.
423 Communities exists to help local churches offer Christ-centered recovery and care to people navigating sexual brokenness and betrayal. As a nonprofit ministry, we depend on financial support from partner churches and donors to sustain the training, resources, member care, and ongoing leadership support behind each community.
As your church considers bringing this ministry into its life, we invite you to consider how you can help sustain our shared mission of equipping local churches and making recovery community available to those who need it.
During our conversation, we’ll walk through the launch options, financial commitments, and opportunities to support the work together, so your church knows what to expect before moving forward.
Start with one clear pathway. Expand when the community is healthy.
Your church does not need to launch every program at once. We will help identify the most responsible first step and build toward additional care pathways as trained leaders emerge.
423 Men
Year-round recovery community for men seeking freedom from pornography and unwanted sexual behavior.
Explore 423 Men423 Women
Gender-specific recovery for women navigating sexual brokenness, compulsion, secrecy, and shame.
Explore 423 Women423 Sisters
Trauma-informed care for wives and partners navigating betrayal, rupture, stability, and healing.
Explore 423 Sisters423 NEXT & Parents
Age-appropriate support, formation, and practical guidance for teens, young adults, and parents.
Explore 423 NEXTProgram formats differ: 423 Men and 423 Women are designed as ongoing weekly communities, while 423 Sisters, youth, and parent pathways may use cohort-based or program-specific rhythms.
You need less than you may think.
Do not delay the first conversation because every detail is not settled. The launch process exists to help your church resolve those details responsibly.
You do need
A few clear commitments that establish safety, consistency, and pastoral alignment.
- Pastoral approval and one named church contact
- A consistent two-hour weekly meeting window
- A private room or approved virtual meeting plan
- A small core of interested participants or referral need
- Willingness to follow the 423 structure and safety standards
You do not need
Specialized expertise or an internally built ministry system before beginning the process.
- A counselor or certified clinician on church staff
- A completed curriculum or custom recovery model
- A large volunteer team before the first call
- A database, intake process, or member-management system
- A church-wide campaign before a launch plan is established
What church leaders usually ask.
Does 423 step away after our leaders are trained?
No. Leader training prepares people to facilitate the local gathering; it does not transfer the entire ministry to the church. 423 continues hosting the recovery system, receiving and caring for members, coaching leaders, consulting with pastors, providing resources, and helping the community remain healthy over time.
How does financial partnership work?
As a nonprofit ministry, 423 depends on financial support from partner churches and donors to sustain this work. We discuss launch and ongoing financial commitments as part of the church partnership conversation, alongside the pathway and support involved. Your church will understand what to expect before moving forward.
What happens when a difficult member or pastoral situation arises?
423 helps the pastor and leaders assess what is happening, clarify appropriate boundaries and next steps, determine whether outside clinical or emergency care is needed, and protect both the individual and the health of the community. 423 is a ministry and recovery-care partner, not an emergency-response or clinical treatment provider.
Who handles applications and member onboarding?
423 does. Members enter through the 423 application and intake pathway, receive orientation and placement, and remain connected to the wider member system, resources, workshops, and care pathway.
How does member participation fit into the partnership?
Individual member participation is separate from the church’s financial partnership. Members normally maintain their own monthly membership, and churches may choose to sponsor members who need assistance. We’ll explain membership and available scholarship pathways during our conversation.
Is this our church’s group or a 423 group?
It is a 423-hosted recovery community located within and pastorally connected to your church. Your church provides the local home, covering, and relationships; 423 provides the recovery model, member pathway, leader development, systems, and ongoing specialized support. It is a shared ministry partnership rather than a licensed curriculum handoff.
Can people from outside our church attend?
Yes. A church-hosted 423 Community can become a trusted regional pathway while remaining under clear pastoral covering and the shared safety standards of the partnership.
Bring recovery ministry into your church without carrying it alone.
Tell us what your church is seeing and who you hope to serve. Together, we’ll explore the right launch pathway, talk through the support involved, and consider how your church can help sustain this shared mission.