Brandywine Intergroup Website: www.brandywineintergroup.org
For submissions to Recovery, send by the 20th of the month prior if possible: brandywineintergroup@gmail.com
Please share your news, experience, strength, and hope.
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From the Editor
This newsletter is for you, the members of our local BIG meetings, and you make it yours by sending in your own stories, thoughts, prayers, poems, favored readings that express your experience, strength, and hope. You may include your first name and last name initial, or leave anonymous.
Send to BrandywineIntergroup@gmail.com and I will get them in as soon as possible.
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Information regarding "The BLAST"
"The BLAST" news update of the Brandywine Intergroup is sent out once a month. It is meant to precede the monthly Intergroup meeting which is held on the 2nd Saturday of the month. Submissions forThe BLAST must be received no later than one week BEFORE the Intergroup meeting.
Please send all submissions to:theblastfrombrandywine@gmail.com
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Chair's Corner
Consider subscribing to our OA magazine Lifeline; it is filled with wonderful stories of recovery. One of our area members had a story published in a recent edition. You can submit your story, too.
http://www.oalifeline.org
OFFICERS
Co-Chairs: Cathe S and Marilyn
Ex Officio: Mary Frances
Vice-Chair: Louisa
Treasurer: Laura W
Corresponding Secretary: Linda R
Recording Secretary: Irene
October Minutes
Brandywine Intergroup Meeting – 2nd Saturday,10am-11:30am
Paoli, PA 19301
255 West Lancaster Avenue Board Room 206
Paoli Hospital Board Room
A speaker meeting follows the intergroup meeting from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm. All are welcome! (Bring a brown bag lunch.)
Do you or does your meeting have a voice? If no one from your group attends Intergroup meetings, you have no OA voice outside of your group. All are welcome to attend to check it out. Please consider being a representative for your group if no one is currently in that role.
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Thank You!
The Board would like to thank the following meetings which made financial contributions in the past few months:
Sunday - Malvern
Monday - King of Prussia
Monday - Media
Tuesday - West Chester
Wednesday - Devon
Saturday - BIG Speaker
Saturday - Downingtown
Note on donations: Donations are down at both our local intergroup and the national levels.
Automatic Recurring Contribution (ARC) is available for our World Service Office here.
Please give to keep our Fellowship thriving.
(https://www.oa.org/files/pdf/seventhtradition.pdf)
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Region 7 Convention, Nov. 2-4 (flyer)
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Speaker's Bureau
Speakers sharing their experience, strength, and hope are a great benefit to members. If you would like to obtain a speaker list for your regular OA meeting, please contact Carolyn M; she can be reached at 267-255-2639 (call-text) or carolynmcgill@comcast.net.
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Important Meeting Notices
NOTE: THE BRANDYWINE INTERGROUP MONTHLY MEETING WILL NOW BE ON THE 2ND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH, SAME TIME AND LOCATION.
A Vision for You meeting on Sundays!
A Vision for You, Big Book meeting.
Sunday at 6:30, Grove Methodist Church in West Chester. Group Contact: Louisa 215-796-4323
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When I make time for daily reflection (Step Eleven), I experience that Higher Power as a loving voice that guides me to do the next right thing. I have “tapped an unsuspected inner resource” (Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pp. 567-568), which I now identify with my own conception of a power greater than myself. (Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition)
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Step Twelve also reminds me I need to practice what I preach.
(Overeaters Anonymous, Third Edition)
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You don't have to understand the Steps to work them.
You work the Steps to understand them.
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What works for me is to get out of my head and into action, working the Steps and using those wonderful tools: a plan of eating, meetings, telephone, literature, sponsorship, writing, and service. I can abstain, no matter what. Thank you, OA!
(Voices of Recovery, Dec. 25th)
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