York, Pennsylvania
I would like to take this time to express my thanks for all the help and prayers from C.O. Our Sat. night group is still going strong. We made some bad decisions and mistakes, but God in his wisdom has been with us the past few months. We have three regulars each week, and the important thing is that we are very serious about SA and our lives. I want to urge all new groups to heed what C.O. says about running ads in any newspaper. This almost destroyed our group. Our intentions were right but it didn’t work for us. We had people coming to our meetings but we didn’t have any experience, strength, and hope. Someone said that there’s a difference between carrying the message and spreading the disease. And if you were to look the word disease up it would say “an abnormal condition that impairs normal functioning.” That is in a sense what we were doing; we were getting people that were just looking for something new to do on a Saturday night. But thank God we got off this endless merry-go-round when we did. Thanks for sending “Publicity and the Twelfth Step” because it saved our group. God doesn’t make mistakes, but we do. Our group learned one very important lesson: to let God be God and let him decide when we are strong and able to have a larger group.
T.G.
West Palm Beach, Florida
Things were going rather slowly during March at our new meeting in West Palm Beach. We have been averaging four people on Saturday nights. Last week I went out of town and in my absence several newcomers showed up. Tonight…there were ten people. This is a “Big Booklet” meeting, and we have sold most of our big booklets.… Next Saturday we will have to share books if everyone shows.…
Fairfield, Connecticut
We have a happy problem: we keep on running out of literature. The CT meetings—we have three now—have expanded to 10–15 people per meeting. We are beginning to need to organize a bit more.… Sobriety is certainly growing. SA is our true lifeline.
One of our members—who has two years of sobriety—said: “If you stay sober, you grow like a weed.” So true. As individuals and as a CT fellowship, we are growing and feeling more alive.
W.E.
Olympia, Washington
Meetings have been running 9–12 people with highs of sixteen.
Astoria, Oregon
Last September, with the help of SA groups in Portland, we started a local group here in Astoria. We now have five regular members and just got a PO Box.… We are not a very affluent group, but we will try to send an occasional check to help.…
Seattle, Washington
We are growing all the time and we need the big books as soon as possible.
