PO Box 300
Simi Valley, CA 93062
20 August 1984

To All SA Members,

Hi everybody! And welcome to all the new members!

Our last ESSAY newsletter came out May 20th, and we’re overdue for another. It’s important that everyone know about new changes to the SA booklet; we’ll itemize these. There’ll be a word about the Utah get-together last June and the one coming up in December in Phoenix. We’ll bring up the latest incident with the press. And we’ll take a brief realistic look at where we are today with some suggestions for group and member consideration.

I was going to start this letter off by thinking of a couple of ways our fellowship is tied together at the larger-than-group level. But once I got started, I was surprised how many there were:

• Our common problem
• The common solution
• Our literature
• National and regional get-togethers
• The mails
• The telephone
• Prayer.

Take any one of them and we are blessed indeed! The only question is, How can we make better use of these for our mutual benefit?

As always, we ask that those who receive the newsletter who hold SA group or lead responsibilities see to it that copies are made available to all SA members. We’re still on a very informal basis and have no other way of getting this to everyone.

“Victory through powerlessness by the grace of God.”