Jesse L. has made the suggestion that the writing and revision effort on the SA booklet should be frozen where it is, with the exception of going back to the original wording of the statement on sobriety and including the First Step Inventory.
Jesse L. has raised the question of going back to the previous wording of our sobriety statement on page 4 of the SA booklet. The revised statement currently reads:
We need stories from regular SA members with uninterrupted sobriety of one year or more according to our SA concept of sexual sobriety. This means no sexual experience with the self or others other than the spouse and progressive victory over lust for at least one year.
Seven pieces have been included with this newsletter for your perusal. Make whatever use of them you can, and if you care to, please comment.
The next Western Regional Convention—open to the whole fellowship, of course—is being hosted by the Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Vancouver, and Victoria groups and is slated for June 7, 8, and 9.
First off, Rick and Jeannette want to “thank everybody for making it possible.” And we want to thank you, Rick and Jeannette, and all the anonymous ones we don’t have names for who helped put it together and made it work. And we thank God for helping us all!
To All SA Members, Hi everybody! And welcome to all the new members!
We were just about to get this letter out when we got a call from J.A. in Brunswick, Georgia, telling us about the new SA group there, which we didn’t even know existed. She was sharing a recent experience with me and then read what she’d written during it. I asked her if she’d share it with all of us in this letter.
1. Leaders lead and sharers share. Leaders of meetings are servants of that meeting; they don’t “carry” the meeting; they merely facilitate it.
Here are some principles thrown out for suggestion/feedback: SA members commit themselves to SA Meetings. They attend every SA meeting they can. On time. Meetings; on time. Why this emphasis?
