![]() We added a speaker meeting to our schedule before the end of September 2020 - Saturday Night Live! We added a fourth meeting to our schedule in March 2021 - a Big Book study. In the fall of 2020 other groups began opening back up and what was to be our "WANS" membership began to gel - and grow. ![]() It was common to have 60 or more people in attendance - even when authorities advised great caution for public gatherings. In that first month we were one of the very few groups with in-person meetings in all of Dallas. Our first meeting, opened to the broader public, was Tuesday, September 1 2020.we had a full house. We started with two meetings per week - Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7pm. Within two days over 100 people had joined that facebook group. In August 2020 a private facebook group was created to "get the word out". Wearing face coverings and going through temperature checks at the entrances, we began meeting in-person. It allowed for adequate social distancing for members to come together. The location, building and room were perfect. It was soon realized that a living room in someone's home wasn't going to be large enough to meet the needs of this emerging fellowship.Ĭentral Christian Church was contacted and they came to our assistance - opening up their large auditorium for our use. ![]() In the fourth week, fifteen people were to show up for a meeting. Something needed to be done but no known, established groups were holding in-person meetings yet.Ī first meeting was called. Zoom meetings were being held by most groups to try to cope, but they were leaving some with a feeling of being alone and there was a sense of missed connection for many. The We Are Not Saints group of Alcoholics Anonymous was started in the living room of one of our members in July of 2020 - at the height of the pandemic. Even one of the most trying times for humanity in modern history can have some silver linings. The birth of our group, in the midst of the COVID 19 global pandemic of 2020/2021, is just another example of the resilience and importance of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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