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JULY 1988

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Enjoy reading all the articles of the current magazine below.

IGC Committee Report and Request for Vote
Included with this issue is the report of the Group Conscience Committee on their proposal for a procedure for taking an SA-wide group conscience. This report summarizes feedback coming into Central Office from responding SA groups since the proposal was issued last December.

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Report From Rochester Convention
I was totally enthralled with how Higher Power brought it all together. It happened in spite of us. It flowed in a way no one could have made happen. I really felt the Presence. It moved me greatly.

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Member News
…I am a high-bottom alcoholic and a low-bottom sex drunk…sexually sober for 14 months. I am eternally grateful…to SA, and to God for my new lease on life. I have received many blessings throughout my life, but my sexual sobriety is the most precious.…

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Member News
I think this program is really good for me. I think SA when I get up and when I go to bed. To me SA is like the…song, You Light Up My Life. Thank you all very much. May God bless you all.

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Member News
…I’m only ten months in the program with half that many months of sobriety and I give thanks to God for steering me back towards life. The phone list, the literature, the meetings, most importantly the Twelve Steps and those that have gone ahead of us, give us hope.

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Group News
The Riverside fellowship celebrated its first birthday as a group on March 7th. We also have had two individual sobriety birthdays and another coming up next week. God has blessed us with recovery and it’s catching! We have doubled our regular membership in the past few months and we have a new meeting in Redlands.…

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“Food For Thought” Feedback
In the May Essay “Food For Thought” column, an elaboration of SA’s sobriety statement was presented for member reaction. So far, only some eight groups and individuals have responded. This small sampling, inconclusive as it is, has created quite a furor. Apparently, people are either very much for it or very much against it.

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Rochester Meeting Quality Workshop
One of the workshops at the recent SA convention in Rochester was on the topic of meeting quality. Those workshop comments are listed below, without evaluation. It was not always possible to neatly separate the comments into those things that detract from good meeting quality and things that help, but this was the general scheme followed in the workshop.

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