Three Large A.A. History and Roots
Conferences by Dick B. and Ken B. To Take Place in Maine, Arizona, and the San
Francisco Bay Area Soon
Dick B.
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As the interest in
the International Christian Recovery Coalition has grown since July of 2009, as
the number of meetings and conferences have increased, as the research trips to
Vermont, Cleveland, and Akron have been completed, and as books and articles on
the “finds” have been published, there has been a large growth in Christian
recovery groups, in A.A. history studies, and in the resources that are
available and/or yet to be plumbed.
My son Ken and I
have therefore been invited to speak, meet, and brainstorm with some fine
Christian, long-sober, experienced AAs in three major areas of the United
States. They are free, international in scope, and loaded with fine
participants. The funding has been made available. And the timing of the
Conferences has been set:
1. The
First Nationwide Alcoholics Anonymous History Conference in Portland, Maine, on September 6-7, 2013 where Dick and Ken
will also be available for personal meetings and workshops. The conference is
free. Registration is required. Excellent participants are already volunteering
to be present and share. And we hope to see you who are hungry for reliable
facts and a comprehensive historical picture you can apply in recovery today.
2. The
South San Francisco Bay Area Conferences and Meetings Just Following the Maine
Conference and Held Before We Return to Maui:
(a) One event will take place at Cornerstone
Fellowship in Livermore, California. It will feature Dick B.’s telling his own
recovery story vis a vis his years of research, writing, traveling, and
publishing during his continuous sobriety since April 21, 1986. Also, one of the
Cornerstone groups will produce a play depicting events at the earliest A.A.
meetings in Akron—script arranged with Dick B.
(b) Another
event will take place at Higher Power Celebration in Foster City, California. Here are the details thus far: Friday night Higher Power grandad in
area (150 – 300 attending;) Great
worship band (top music: DC Blues; very good professional): 45 minute
(7:15-8:00) host 3 minutes; Dick B. at about 8:03 pm for 45-50 minutes; 15
minutes for sharing at the end; speaker/testimony/teacher "Christian in recovery" and/or 20
years last year Steve Aurell book
"Steps to Faith" A few
thousand people 3 campuses. Foster City
is the main campus; Recovery houses bring people to the meeting; “not over
churchey,” sell AA Big Book NA Big book & Life Recovery Bible (10 people on leadership--all sorts of time)
(c) Pending
also are a number of meetings and events in the San Jose, California, probably involving collaboration by Serenity
Group of Oroville, California; Los Gatos California Calvary Church; and some of
the San Jose and Northern California Christian recovery fellowship leaders and
groups.
3. A
Two-Header A.A. History-Christian Recovery Conference has just been scheduled
for Phoenix, Arizona, and Tucson, Arizona where the new Arch Builders program
will be launching its nationwide new program. Dick B. and Ken B. are scheduled to be staying
at Scottsdale Plaza Resort in Phoenix October 9 -12, 2013; and at Hilton Tucson
East in Tucson October 12-14, 2013. This
new growth in the Christian Recovery/A.A. 12 Step Field in Arizona has been in
the planning stage for almost a year; and involves listed A.A. meetings.
Flyers, continued
blogs and announcements, emails, and further details will be available on all
these events over the next four months.
For further
information, contact Dick B., 808 276 4945; dickb@dickb.com;
PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837; and
follow Dick’s main blog at http://MauiHistorian.Blogspot.com;
and his Facebook comments on https://www.Facebook.com/MauiHistorian,
as well as Twitter and other social media such as WordPress, Tumbler, Hub
Pages, In the Rooms, Cyber Recovery Social, Daily Recovery, Chritian Recovery
Social, Linked-in, and others..
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