Preview of Dick B.’s Christian Recovery
Radio Interview on June 27 of Mark Galligan, Christian Recovery Leader From
Canada
Dick B.
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Our guest Mark Galligan is a long-recovered alcoholic and
very active in A.A. He is a businessman. He lives in Canada. He is a Christian
Recovery Leader and a participant in International Christian Recovery Coalition
since its inception in July of 2009.
Mark attended our international conference in May of 2009 at
Mariners Church Community Center in Irvine, California. He was one of the
speakers and watched over our substantial exhibit table in company with a
professor of medicine from South Carolina. He was attracted to our original
printers manuscript of DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers which is an A.A. General
Service Conference-approved book we acquired from its owner Dennis Cassidy of
Connecticut.
This manuscript is particular importance because of the
written changes and the full names of the early AAs it describes and quotes. It
is filled with material on early A.A. Bible study, old fashioned prayer
meetings, Quiet Times, surrenders to Jesus Christ, and the original A.A.
Christian fellowship founded in Akron in 1935. Mark began making plans to
obtain, make copies of, and digitalize it so that it could be seen all over the
world. He also endeavored to acquire this and a host of other A.A. historical
materials and support our project at Dr. Bob Core Library in Dr. Bob's boyhood
village of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Mark will tell us a little about himself, his family, his
drinking days, his activity in A.A., and his large group of A.A. Fellowship
members who call themselves the "Akronites." This group is very
oriented to community outreach, passing out A.A. Conference-approved
Co-Founders Pamphlet P-53, helping newcomers get well, and making
it possible for them to become children of God by new birth.
Mark brings many new AAs to Akron--where A.A. was founded
and had its Christian Fellowship, and we are eager to hear from this hands-on
man of A.A. love and service.
dickb@dickb.com
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