Just wanted to send you a note about our area’s “Sharing of the Fellowship” retreat May 31. This was our fourth annual retreat and it was an especially wonderful experience of fellowship and recovery.

The Wheeling, WV, and Steubenville, OH groups are part of the Pittsburgh, PA, Tri-State Intergroup. For the past four years our groups have hosted the Pittsburgh area’s Spring Retreat.

As always, the theme of our retreat was “Sharing of the Fellowship.” We spent a day at a local park in the Wheeling area, hearing what it was like, what happened and what it is like now from several speakers.

This year we tried something new — an old-fashioned barbecue luncheon as well as a fellowship fireplace sharing after the formal retreat. It was a wonderful time of getting to know old friends and meeting some new ones.

I am always amazed at the lengths to which people will go to get sobriety and recovery. Two members traveled eight hours, four miles of that on foot, since their religious tradition didn’t allow them to travel by car. Such sacrifices remind us that we must be willing to go to any length to get recovery.

I am also glad to report that we recently received a call from someone who attended who told us that because of something he heard at the retreat, he moved back into his home and recommitted to working the program.

Our area groups would like to extend a personal thanks to the 28 SA members who attended and made it such a wonderful time. We would also like to extend an invitation to the fellowship to join us next spring for our fifth retreat. May God continue to lead you and bless you in recovery.