Appleton, WI
We’ve started a new group in Neenah, WI with 6 to 8 regular members each week! (A group is also going to start in Green Bay soon. Along with Appleton, that makes three for this area.) Also, how would our new group formally register with the Central Office?
H.H.
[Just write to SA, PO Box 300, Simi Valley, CA 93062, giving preferably two names and phone numbers of those who may be contacted by inquirers.—Ed.]
Castanea, PA
We are now holding a regular Thursday night meeting in Central Pennsylvania…in Williamsport.… Please keep up your wonderful and also hard and long hours of work for us and you.… Please accept half of my gift for this year now, and I will send the other half later. We will send a second basket around our meeting table soon.…
W.P.
Manly, IA
Our chapter is growing in North Iowa. We have a total of eight—up two in just the last month. Also, we are mailing brochures and a letter to every pastor and therapist in the area.…
B.L.
Boulder, CO
Our Boulder group made the decision to pass the collection a second time each week for the GSO, starting April 20th.… Thanks so much for rerunning your Aug 1985 letter. It states the case so well, and several responded eagerly.… We got your note about the big book going up to $10. We have no objection if it is an effective way to help.… Just let us know.…
R.S.
Berkeley, CA
Here is a…donation to be used in the best way you see fit. We are very proud to be able to send this. Though our group has experienced growing pains, we are indeed growing in unity and strength…sound familiar?…
R.G.
Henryetta, OK
…We [Tulsa] now have three weekly meetings…8-10 attend each meeting. Good, steady members. Not very many drifting in and out this time.…
D.H.
Fort Valley, GA
Our Middle Georgia Essay Group continues to struggle for membership, but I’m convinced there are a lot of folks in the Macon area who need the program.…
A.B.
Camarillo, CA
…One of our members has been blessed with 4 to 5 months sobriety. We hope he continues because we sure need some success…looking forward to Bozeman.… May God bless us all.
F.P.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Thank you for your friendship and the service you render. Here in Ottawa [new group—ed.], the group is staying the same. Working the program. We are not growing at this point, at least not in size. We have some members with good sobriety, and we know God is active within our group.…
N.G.
Riverside, CA
Last Wednesday night [4-8-87] was the first meeting of SA in Riverside.… The sharing was strong on sobriety and gratitude. T.E. shared how he couldn’t imagine how other people struggled through life without the regular support and intimacy of an SA group. It is the only place we can freely disclose our true selves (if we could only have this kind of intimacy with our wives and family, that would be heaven on earth!). We closed the meeting and then joined hands in prayer—thanking God for a local fellowship and asking Him to make it a blessing to our area. There was such a loving feeling between us that it carried on out into the parking lot.
[And, from a more recent letter:] [Riverside] is growing by leaps and bounds. However, we lack depth of sobriety and recovery. The sharing is consistently honest and searching and God is there. There are many friends of SA who are not among us who are praying for our recovery and continued growth. They affirm with us that Our Lord “can and will” if He is sought.
G.G.
