First Century
Christianity:
Documented from A.A.
General Service Conference-Approved Literature, and
Applied in Recovery
Today
Dick B. & Associates
(Dick B., Author and Historian;
Ken B., Executive Producer)
© 2013 Anonymous. All rights reserved
How you can help us immensely
as a volunteer who can provide either technical assistance; clerical
capability; website design, search engine optimization, and maintenance;
personal contacts and communications; and social media outreach
What We Have Which Cries for
Volunteer Assistance
We have produced 46
titles, 1,500 articles, thousands of blog items, hundreds of newsletters, radio interviews and talks, and YouTube
presentations. We have published material on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, In the
Rooms, and Cyber Recovery Social materials (among many others). We have done research
and investigations; we have visited historical sites, archives, libraries, and
private collections; and we have developed support organizations and presented conferences.
Our materials are
included in several recovery library collections at The Wilson House in East
Dorset, Vermont; at Dr. Bob’s North Congregational Church of St. Johnsbury,
Vermont; in the traveling exhibits of Ray G. (long-time archivist at Dr. Bob’s
Home in Akron); at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; at St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron; at the Seiberling Gate Lodge in Akron, Ohio;
at Brown University; at A.A. General Services in New York; in A.A. state
archives; at various treatment facilities and organizations.
In total, our
materials represent 27 years of experience in A.A., programs, conferences,
books, collecting historical manuscripts and papers, distribution of over
200,000 books, and frequent telephone calls, emails, Facebook and Twitter
messages, forums, and travels.
The Volunteers Who Have Helped
Us through the Years
Among the volunteers
who have helped us over the years are many of the 100 or more A.A. men and
women I have sponsored, treatment program, archivists and librarians, young men
(e.g., a computer, web, and graphics expert from California; a marketing talent
from the Los Angeles area; individual AAs from Canada, Vermont, Connecticut,
Illinois, Hawaii, Texas, New York, and more; a very talented researcher,
writer, and author writer who was here on Maui for a number of months; a
philanthropist sponsee on Maui who provided funds, office space, and endless
pieces of work; a strong A.A. young man who served as cook, trainer, dietitian,
mover, driver; and several men and women who actually lived in a sponsee home
here on Maui and served as a fellowship, sponsors, Bible students, and general
helpers.
But Now We Are Embarking upon a
New, Demanding Outreach Program
We hope to have
helpers who are good with computers, graphics, web, research, writing,
hands-on, contact, knowledgeable Christians and Bible students, interns,
communicators, advisors, knowledgeable marketing and advertising talent,
communication skills, Christian viewpoints and recovery experience and success,
plus knowledgeable recovery leaders, workers, and newcomers.
Our task now is to
recruit and be helped by every kind of outreach workers to condense, design,
distribute, disseminate information about, and use the Internet, radio, TV,
webinars, personal meetings, traveling seminars and conferences—all to the end
of serving and glorifying God, and providing needed information and resources
for alcoholics, drug addicts, other addicted people, trainers, facilitators,
recovery pastors, physicians, clergy, counselors, interventionists, and
treatment leaders, workers, and newcomers.
And we deeply hope for physical help, whether
on Hawaii, on the Mainland or in other countries, through computers and phones
and emails.
Better still, your
suggestions plus your free help can be of great assistance in our outreach
efforts. Fund-raising has never been our focus because we have had so many
benefactors assist financially; but individual honoraria, stipends, donations,
and hands-on help are a true blessing still.
Respectfully,
Richard G. Burns
(Dick B.)
PO Box 837, Kihei,
HI 96753-0837
www.dickb.com; www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition; http://drbob.info; www.ChristianRecoveryRadio.com; Facebook, Twitter, http://MauiHistorian.Blogspot.com
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