As of February 1991, I started an SA group here in Blackwell. I am very grateful for the four members of SA at Wichita, KS for coming to Blackwell and helping me to get started. I am very grateful for SA and my recovery. I've been in recovery since June of 1988 when I found out I was a sexaholic and started attending SA.
Sorry for being so long in payment of the White Book—it is some heavy book. The group is going well. We have four regular members who are really working hard on their sobriety.
Our regular Friday meeting has been doing quite well in terms of attendance, and while we still do not boast of numbers we see in other fellowships with similar addictions, we feel our group has generated a level of intimacy and open honesty that most of us have never been exposed to in the past.
Our group fluctuates in numbers… Some move from the area, others seem to be unable to connect with the program and the life of recovery. At the present time we normally have six to ten at our meetings. These are the core group of those who “keep coming back” because the program is working for them.
As we enter into spring…we see continued new life in our SA groups. We have three meetings a week in Syracuse (all growing in numbers, praise be to God!) and have begun a meeting once a week in Binghamton, NY, 70 miles south of us. We have members with one, two, and three years of sobriety, and we are constantly scrutinizing our meaning of sobriety, and the quality of our recovery.
No matter how small your group, please notify Central Office with a contact name and a telephone number. This information will be used to help inquirers make contact with the group nearest to them. Thanks for your help.
[Convention planners decided that the convention business meeting, traditionally dealing only with matters pertaining to conventions, would, in this case, also bring up other matters. It was stated at the beginning of the business meeting that any suggestions or recommendations made on such other matters would be suggestions only, not binding on the fellowship.—Ed.]
[A member in Germany shares his concerns about length of sobriety required for voting in SA business meetings.]
The overwhelming response to the survey shows how SA is passionately concerned about the issue of how sexual sobriety is interpreted. Over 75% of responding groups hold to traditional SA sobriety (see the report inside). However, over 18% hold to non-traditional sobriety; we have a house divided.
In 1985 and 1988 Roy K. was asked to give seminars at the Walther Lechler Psychosomatic Klinik in Bad Herrenalb, Germany. He told his story and discussed the program of recovery to mixed audiences of persons in various Twelve Step programs, including SA.
