You Are Invited!
We Want You!
Host Your Own Forum
on the International Christian Recovery
Coalition Forums
Memo from Dick B., Executive Director
International Christian Recovery
Coalition
© 2011 Anonymous. All
rights reserved
The Opportunity
For some time now, the International Christian Recovery
Coalition has maintained forums so that Coalition Participants could introduce
themselves, network, hear about projects, locate each other, and see
suggestions for participation. But we have always wanted a much stronger
networking presentation for Christian Recovery Resource Centers and Persons in
particular and for those who have long been supportive of, and active in, the
International Christian Recovery Coalition.
The Plan
Our good friend and supporter Tammy has established and
maintained a good many Web sites and forums. She set up our International
Christian Recovery Coalition Forums for us, and they have been active. We
engaged her to make it possible for a number of selected Christian leaders and workers
in the recovery arena who are Coalition Participants to host their own forum
under the umbrella of the Coalition Forums. To begin with, the selected
Participants could introduce themselves, and their Christian Recovery
outreach(es) and material(s). And then they could write as often as they would
care to about their Christian Recovery efforts. This would give the
Participants a “voice” and allow forum viewers to interact with them by leaving
comments in response to posts on the forum. Tammy set up a forum for me—“A.A.
History and the Christian Recovery Movement with Dick B.” so you could see what
yours might look like and how it would function: http://www.christianrecoverycoalition.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=9.
We found at our two summit conferences in California in
September 2011 that there are some extraordinarily accomplished, experienced
Christian recovery leaders and workers who are actively involved in the Christian
Recovery Movement. Some are interventionists. Some are counselors. Some are
treatment providers. Some our Christian recovery fellowship leaders. Some are
bridge organizations. Some operate Christian Recovery Resource Centers and
Persons in various parts of the world. Some are involved in Christian Recovery
leadership training. Some are involved in outreach to prisons, the homeless,
ex-convicts, and street people. And more. Most have been active Participants
and substantial supporters of the International Christian Recovery Coalition
mission and projects.
We have long wanted to present these Christian leaders and
workers with the opportunity to introduce themselves fully. To tell us details
about their programs and service. To tell us about their locations. To tell us
about their specialties. And to receive comments, suggestions, and questions
from other Coalition Participants and from those needing help. From others who
are helping and serving, and from members of the afflicted and affected community
who want to know more about them.
Let More People Hear Your Voice!
We will also be inviting these and other Coalition
Participants to speak at conferences. We will be urging them to utilize a
presence on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Web sites, and other forms of social
media. We hope to interview them on our proposed radio show. We would like to
let others know of their work and notices and articles on our blogs, outreach
newsletters, Web sites, and posts.
This Opportunity
to Host a Coalition Forum Is for You!
This forum on the International Christian Recovery Coalition
Forms is for you to make known your Christian Recovery efforts. You will be the
moderator. The forum will be open to all who are Participants in the Coalition
and are actively serving others in the Christian recovery arena and elsewhere
relative to helping people learn about A.A. history, A.A.’s Christian roots,
the Christian Recovery Movement that is on the move, and locating needed help.
Selected forum hosts can introduce themselves and their work
at length. They can publish notices, articles, and informative matter. They can
invite communications. They can network. And they can love and serve others.
Here Is What We Are Doing Right Now to Get the Ball Rolling
We will try to communicate right away with the following
supportive, serving Christian leaders and workers in the recovery arena, and
ask them to get in touch with us if they would like to host a forum on the
International Christian Recovery Coalition Forums. Right now, they can see the
basic format on my existing forum, “A.A. History and the Christian Recovery
Movement with Dick B.” And they can provide and let us review and possibly edit
their proposed name and listing. Here are some examples of possible listings:
“Rock
Recovery Ministries and Soledad House with David Powers”
“Lifelines
at The Crossing Church with Randy Moraitis”
“Marriage
and Family Counseling with Bob Noonan”
“The
Turning Point Group at Cornerstone Fellowship--Livermore Campus
with
Dominic D.”
“Serenity
Group at the Oroville Church of the Nazarene with Dale Marsh”
“New Life
Spirit Recovery in Huntington Beach with Dr. Robert Tucker”
“Texas
Episcopal Diocese Recovery with Fr. Bill Wigmore”
These are just examples. Each person can adopt his or her own
listing and submit it to me for review. And here are the folks we plan to
contact and invite—and there may be more:
David
Powers, San Diego
Rev. Randy
Moraitis, Costa Mesa
Bob Noonan,
Orange
Dominic D.,
Livermore
David
Sadler, Antioch
Rev. Matt Pierce,
Brentwood
Dale Marsh,
Oroville
Rev. Wade
Hess, San Jose
Russell
Spatz, Miami
Steve
Foreman, Winter Park
Wally Lowe,
Florida
Ray
Grumney, Ohio and Florida
Dr. Robert
Turner, Charleston
Dr. Karen
Plavan, Pittsburgh
Rev. Dr.
Jay Geisler, Pittsburgh area
Dr. Jean
LaCour, Orlando
Jeff and
Debra Jay, Michigan
James
Moody, Jamestown
Fr. Bill
Wigmore, Austin
Wally Camp, Maine
Bonnie
Burke, The Wilson House
Chaplain
Leonard Grubb, Illinois
Dr. Darv
Smith, Boulder
Roger
McDiarmid, Huntington Beach
Walter
Santos, Carlsbad
Bobby
Nicholl, San Juan Capistrano
Gary
Seymour, Escondido
Jerry
McDonald, Betty Ford
Rev. Dr.
Mike Belzman, Redlands
Rev. Jerry
Liversage, Garden City
Rick S.,
San Jose
Scott
Craven, Honolulu
We can’t do these all at once. We will proceed one at a
time. You will see them on the International Christian Recovery Coalition
Forums as they are added. Others will come along as they speak, support, and
appear in the arena. And no new prospective forum host need take offense if not
accepted. We need to know what they do, how they serve, and how much they are
willing to move the mission of the Coalition forward—as each of the above has
already done.
Cost to Hosts: Zero
There are expenses. We hope to compensate Tammy as we go
along. And there are other Web and computer expenses involved, and labor
needed.
Donations: Welcome
If you would like to support our new Forums work, please
consider using Paypal on the “Help Support Our work in the center column of the
front page of Dick B.’s main website, www.DickB.com;
or call Ken at (808) 276-4945. Specify your name, address, amount, and
purpose—e.g., “to support the Forums work.” And we will gratefully acknowledge
your help, large or small. Checks or money orders made payable to “Dick B.,”,
cash, and credit or debit cards are all welcome.
Gloria
Deo
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