May 3 - Introductory 4 part Class now available for purchase

This morning, May 3, 2010, our new class "Introductory Foundations for Christian Recovery" became available for purchase. Shortly, details for, and capability of purchase will be posted on my main website front page with paypal opportunity www.dickb.com. But you can purchase it right now, today.

Right now, you will want to contact my son Ken for precise details on the class, our part in helping you, and the purchase price for a one year license. Please contact Ken B. by phone 808 276 4945; or write me Dick B. by email dickb@dickb.com.

This is a Class that will be a must for those who want to make early A.A.'s Original Christian Fellowship program in Akron a part of any kind of recovery effort based on reliance on God. Its point is that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played a deep and specific role in the origins, founding, program, and successes of the early A.A. program. Its point, also, is that they can play the same role today--no matter who the newcomer is, where he starts his recovery, who his instructors or counselors are, or which route he takes--A.A., N.A., rehab, treatment program, prison, mental ward, homeless situation, therapy, pastoral counseling, Christian Recovery Program, Christ-centered recovery program, or a recovery plan or approach within a church.

The Class contents are these:

First, 4 DVD's lasting about one-hour each. They are independent so that you can start a class wherever and whenver you come in, without waiting for a first class opening. All four are vital. Each of the four tells a different aspect of the Christian recovery roots of A.A. All tell you facts about A.A.'s Christian origins, the Christian training our founders received as youngsters, where the Akron program elements came from (and didn't come from), what the program in Akron really was, how it is summarized in DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, how it changed after 1937 when Bill W. began fashioning a new program in his new book, how much more it changed in 1939 just before the Big Book was published, and how none of these factors alters the ability of a suffering newcomer today to seek and rely upon God's help--just as the early AAs did, and just as the abc's in today's A.A. Big Book suggest can be done.

Second, there is an extensive guide for instructors. The instructors may be a sponsor, a speaker, a seminar, a conference, a group, a counselor, a therapist, a recovery program clinician, a pastoral counselor, a recovery group leader, a chaplain, a clergyman, or a program director in a church, treatment program, or charitable agency. This guide introduces the class, it includes the text, and it is accompanied by detailed Question and Answers that can be used to help the instructor and challenge the students.

Third, there is a line-by-line guide for students to read before the class, along with the class, or to take home or to a group for further study.

Finally, to insure documentation for all the points made, the class includes a copy of The Dick B. Christian Recovery Guide, 3rd ed., 2010. This is an indispensable resource that enables student, teacher, and questioner to see exactly where the details came from, how they have been documented, and how the documentation can be used to enrich and pass along accurate facts and understanding. It is also a vital research tool that enables the reader to do his own homework, verification, and growth.

Again: If you want to be an instructed instructor, a knowledgeable teacher, a capable leader or speaker or sponsor, and a well-informed student of Christian recovery and how it can be implemented today, this is the class for you. And you can get a lot of mileage out of the class once you purchase it, present it, and use it in a myriad of situations.

Dick B. 808 874 4876; dickb@dickb.com