RU at a Glance

Reformers Unanimous at a Glance
Founded: 1996
Chairman: Dr. Paul Kingsbury
Founder/President: Steven Curington
Headquarters: Rockford, Illinois Number of Chapters: 650
Number of students involved: 40,000
Number of adult leaders: 2,000
Residential Treatment Facilities: 2
Countries: 12

What Exactly is Reformers Unanimous?

Reformers Unanimous is a Christ centered addictions program that directs the intemperate back to God's support group the local church. The program touches thousands of lives each week through addictions classes in over 650 cities in the United States and several foreign countries. We are available to help your Church, community or loved one. We have a complete line of curriculum, men's and women's treatment facilities, and an institutional program to serve those who are incarcerated.

The History of Reformers Unanimous

Small Beginnings
Reformers Unanimous began in April, 1996, with just one student. That person left after one week, and the next four weeks were spent teaching just spouses. After those weeks four new people began to attend (Jill, Gene, Todd, and Kevin). These four attended for the next two years. They became the foundation that we would build on: food addiction, crack cocaine, alcohol, and pornography. Four different people, four crippling addictions, yet only one need: Jesus Christ!  We began to grow as the Truth began to set people free.

Exponential Growth
In year two the addition of counsel leaders and group counsel time to support the students during the week caused Reformers to grow exponentially. In 1999 Brother Curington authored the beginning curriculum: a program guide of the weekly lessons and tapes to follow along, and a handbook that encourages students to read the Bible, memorize the Bible, study the Bible (essays), and hear the Bible (church attendance). These a became the building blocks that Christ uses to change lives. The attendance began to explode.

National Headquarters
In 2002 the acquisition of increased staff and more chapters led the ministry to ask God for larger facilities. The answer came in the form of the Spafford Building which was generously donated to us by a Christian business man. This allowed the ministry to begin opening chapters at an increased rate of up to one hundred per year. Another generous donation also led to the purchase of a larger facility for our Schools of discipleship. Allowing the addition of a woman's program to our previously existing men's program.

Steady Growth
In 2005 a steady growth pace continued with over 200 students a week in the Friday night class, and the Schools of Discipleship filled to capacity. Such explosive growth in the schools of discipleship demanded a larger facility to meet the ever increasing needs of the addicted. This need was met by a miracle from God- the donation of a hundred bed facility that was formerly a nursing home.

Present Day
After over a decade of serving the addicted, Reformers Unanimous has 50 full time employees, 150 men, and women in our discipleship homes and over 700 chapters. The ministry is now growing at a rate of a hundred chapters per year. In addition we now have a full line of curriculum in Spanish, institutional programs for the incarcerated, and ever increasing numbers of people in our Schools of Discipleship.

Mission Statement

Reformers Unanimous Ministries- “We Help Anybody”
Reformers Unanimous Ministries exists to help anybody worldwide who wishes to experience a life of victory over difficulty.  This victory is obtained and retained not through an experience of ongoing effort, but through a once in a lifetime decision to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and a subsequent dedication to developing a dynamic love relationship with Him.

Steven Curington: President/Founder
Steven Curington had what most people would say was the perfect upbringing. His family attended church nearly every Sunday and put me through a Christian School. However, within two years after graduation, He was addicted to cocaine and alcohol. Addiction stripped him of all self-esteem, a prosperous career, and crippled him with debt.

At the age of 28, he nearly died in a drunk driving accident. With a punctured lung quickly drowning me in his own blood, He cried out to God, "I don't want to die!" His memory went blank from that point on. A lifesaving call to 911 rescued him from death. Later he would find the reasons for God's divine intervention that night.

Three months later he stepped back into the church where he worshipped as a child. That is when God began to change his life. The lessons learned over the next six months are the foundation of the Reformers Unanimous program. Steve went on to found Reformers Unanimous an international addictions program.

Steven Curington is the husband of Lori and the father of their five children: Charity, Chase, Channing, Chance, and Cherish. He is the founder of Reformers Unanimous, International, a faith-based, local-church discipleship program that ministers to the addicted, both within and without the body of Christ. Steven travels extensively, presenting the ministry and starting chapters of this fast-growing support group and discipleship classes in Bible-preaching churches all over the world. He also holds Regional Training Conferences for churches to meet the needs of the addicted in their own communities. He is a popular conference speaker and is available for meetings on the hidden life.

More information about Reformers Unanimous is available at his web site: www.reformu.com. Reformers Unanimous International is headquartered in the historic downtown district of Rockford, IL. Steve Curington Ministries involves both the preaching and print ministry for Brother Curington’s teachings on the “hidden life.” These are not warmed over truths culled from a book, but these are truths that God has given Steve, and he has a distinct burden to disseminate these truths through evangelistic meetings, MP3 sermons, and the printing of books.