Return to El Salvador
May 2023
| Home Group
Civil war didn’t end his life, but alcohol almost did. Now he gets to bring AA to help people back home
Helping Our Own
May 2023
| Home Group
No AA meetings, no Big Book, no literature...what was she to do? Home group to the rescue!
In Order to Heal
May 2021
| Our Twelve Steps
As with an individual, there’s nothing like an inventory to help a home group stay healthy, happy and focused
Passing the Torch
May 2021
| Our Twelve Steps
How a well-meaning mission to preach the “right AA” became a beautiful lesson in tolerance and service
One Primary Purpose
May 2021
| Our Twelve Steps
Their group has hot coffee, donuts, comfy seats and all three shades.
But the most important thing of all is the message they carry
But the most important thing of all is the message they carry
Better than Monday night football
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
For a member in Oklahoma, making the trip behind the walls is the best night of the week
What my brother taught me
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
A probation and parole officer learns to love AA from the man whose calls she dreaded most
Sunday school
July 2019
| The Prison Issue
With an open heart, a member helps her pastor understand our Fellowship a little better
Depression
April 1976
All right, we're sober! But what do we do about. . . - Four articles by AAs who have been there
CARRY THE MESSAGE PROJECT
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