As announced at Bozeman, Matt W. of Kansas City is SA’s prison coordinator. He is the communication switchboard between SAs behind the wall and members on the outside who wish to correspond with or sponsor those in prison. At present, this involves coordinating well over a hundred SAs inside with those on the outside. This amounts to running a Central Office all its own! Matt needs not only sober SAs who take to sharing their experience, strength, and hope with others in writing, but also those who can attend SA meetings inside prisons. Often, before an SA meeting can be started in prison, there must be one or more SA members on the outside who are willing to “sponsor” a prison group. Those SA members who have done this testify to the great gift it is to them. More than one has said those are some of the best SA meetings they’ve ever been in.

Contact Matt for more information. When you write Matt, please give him a thumbnail sketch of “What it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now” in your sobriety. In other words, provide a brief summary of your story and length and condition of sobriety and also, why you’d like to be on the prison team. Also, tell him whether you’re interested in just corresponding, or also helping sponsor a prison group that may be in your area. Matt already has a goodly group on his team, but could use an increasing number; our prison population wanting and having sexual sobriety is increasing by leaps and bounds! We thank God that we can, through His grace and our fellowship, get and stay sober anywhere.

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“The letters from our brothers in prison so moved me. How can I (we) communicate to them the powerful, integral part they are to our fellowship? Their strength and courage are like a wave moving out to touch us all. I am convinced that the experience, strength and hope we hear coming from the prison groups is going to empower us all even more.”