New Jersey-Delaware Valley
We have begun the New Jersey-Delaware Valley SA Intergroup. Our fifth meeting will take place on May 22, and we are working on having an 800 number for phone inquiries.
S.O.
Lovelady, Texas
At our last meeting six of eight members personally expressed agreement with the SA definition of sobriety. We also use SA literature during our meetings. However, being in prison, our members have access to only one group which they may attend. It would be nice to also register with SA since a majority of our fellowship subscribes to the SA sobriety definition. We have extended an invitation … for veterans in recovery to attend our meetings as visitors and would like to extend the same invitation to SA members through the Essay.
H.A.
Pensacola, FL
We remain small. Our group anticipates using the book meeting format to alleviate the meeting being a potential (or actual) dumping ground. Our group is barely staying current, discovering what lust is, and attempting to be honest. Only one member has more than one year of sobriety. As always, please direct any leads or inquiries from our area to us in hopes that some may want what we freely have to offer.
R.B.
Quebec, Canada
SA was rekindled in late 1993 and now brings together two or three regular members with maybe half a dozen other “orbiting” members. But for now we do have abstinence, and maybe a chance to grow. We adopted SA’s sobriety definition because it works for us, and have not yet been confronted with the kinds of questions that divided us in the past. We’re taking it one week at a time.
L.H.C.
Huntsville, TX
Hello from the group here at Ellis 1. I passed [the Essay] along to everyone here, we all get a lot out of it. We all need to know that SA is going strong and that we will have places to help us once we are released. We have about 15 active members that show up for most of our meetings and these people really work on their recovery. As you know we lost our good outside friend J.W. He has been transferred… He attended three of our meetings and we really enjoyed having him. If you have anyone else in either the Houston or Huntsville area we would be happy to contact them and invite them to one of our meetings. I would much rather go to one of their meetings but I feel the officials here wouldn’t agree on that. Oh well, such is life. Keep up the good work, you are needed.
E.N.
Dillon, Montana
I appreciate the ministry you provide … and may it flourish even to a greater measure than increasing sexual compulsivity in our land. We have established a small group in Dillon, Montana.
R.A.
Bland, VA
I’m doing pretty well under the circumstances and our little meeting here at the correctional center hopes soon to have a place to meet indoors… Members in Staunton and Harrisonburg, VA remain in supportive contact, as does the shining light of a sponsor I’m graced with, from GA. I hope the group here will be making a modest donation to C.O. during the second quarter… Though I’m scheduled for mandatory parole in April 1995, I’ll extend into my six months of parole with the “therapeutic community” I came to this center to join, to help support the process of my recovery.
C.H.
