Happy New Year!

And what a year we have to look back on and forward to!

• Sexual sobriety is on the increase in SA, and that’s the best news of all. Sobriety as we have come to define it. And with roughly half our membership single, this is validating our stand on sobriety. It seems to take sobriety to make sobriety, and this is what seems to be happening. And the joy that results is beginning to be catching.

• There have been a record number of new SA groups starting, including one in Iceland. Also, several new S‑Anon groups have been forming internationally; that has to be good news for suffering spouses.

• As Roy reported in Oklahoma City in December, SA has been self-supporting from its own contributions for the last six months! (See enclosed financial statement.) That’s a first for SA, even though we closed out 1985 with some $1700 in the red. We’re finally coming up to being responsible to our Seventh Tradition. And the cry of joy that went up in Oklahoma City when the announcement was made indicates this is dear to our own personal recovery as well as the well-being of SA as a whole. We thank God for this consciousness raising and personal commitment of groups and individuals. It’s really helping tie us together, make us one, and carry our message more positively and with one voice.

• 1985 had to be the year of Retreats. First it was the marvelous breakthrough in Seattle, then the Cleveland Marathon and the Vancouver Retreat, then Oklahoma City. Ahead of us in March 7-9 we’ll have the Northwestern Regional in Portland, and our next International Retreat will be in Kansas City June 6-8. And they’re beginning to talk about a Northeastern Retreat in New York now.