Three James Clubs in Norco California
Reject Censorship by Central Office
Dick B.
This message was received June 5, 2013 from John S.
And it is right on target for many att ending
The First International Alcoholics Anonymous History Conference. The
A.A. bleeding deacons were claiming the Bible was not Conference approved and “thought” they were eliminating the Norco groups
The Message from John S. to Dick B.:
“I remember when we first started The James Club in
Norco CA. We were harassed by central office and inter group .Meetings in the
area changed their format as to not allow us to announce our meeting. We kept
on and inter group reps would come to our meetings, they new we were breaking
an AA tradition because we had a Bible on the table.It took a while for them
and after a few special inter group meetings it was finally settled on at AA
central office that we were violating the tradition which states no outside
issues(The Bible is an outside issue I guess). I wish I could tell you some
great story but truth is we told them to "shut up and go away" and
they did we are still in the directory we still use a Bible at our meeting. The
only thing that changed is we got so big we split into three groups and many
members only go to James Club Meetings which is unfortunate I think it's
important to be involved in all aspects of AA ;gives us a firm grounding, AA
saved my life(I took a 30 year chip last week 5/23/83) It's where I met Jesus
Christ. Been almost ten years sense we started the James Club and you know what
I miss all the controversy, maybe I need to start something it's to quiet .
John Sorrells James Club Norco”
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