We were very honored to host the July 2023 “In God We Trust” IC as well as the very first in-person General Delegate Assembly outside North America. The beginning was difficult. We had first planned to organize the convention in our capital Warsaw, but found out that we couldn’t afford a venue suitable for this kind of event there. Fortunately, we found a cheaper hotel in Cracow, which turned out to be a really good venue as well as easily accessible from the airport and railway station.

The hotel had enough conference rooms for big and small break-out meetings. It also lent itself excellently for spontaneously organized meetings in the days before and after the convention.

It was great to meet our SA family from so many countries. It was a true festival of recovery for us. We enjoyed going sightseeing with our participants from all around the world. Some numbers:

• There were 414 participants from SA and 53 from S-Anon, coming from not less than 34 countries: Armenia, Australia, Bosnia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Slovenia, Sweden, Croatia, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, UK, Slovakia, Germany, USA, Poland.

• Meetings were simultaneously provided in seven different meeting rooms.

• The general sessions were simultaneously translated via auditory assistance devices into Polish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Slovak, as well as via Zoom into American sign language.