We started meeting online because Covid-19 had driven the ALANO Club in Myrtle Beach SC to close. This was just the in person meeting online with 2-8 participants most days. We followed the format and the traditions of that in person meeting.
There were visitors from Raleigh NC, Sag Harbor NY, and Up Up Up state New York that had visited the meeting in Myrtle Beach in person. They were glad to be able to attend from their permanent homes.
The New Day Group of Myrtle Beach continued to meet in person as our online group grew with more and more “out of towners”
There was a gnawing fear that “in person” meetings would come back and our “fellows” would be separated by geography again when online meetings became “obsolete”
In December of 2020 we organized ourselves as the most unlikely kind of meeting. We didn’t have either a resentment or a coffee pot.
We made a list of the things we liked so we could retain them. We are very close with many members here every day. We have a literature focus. We stick to Conference approved literature. We talk about God at most meetings. We open with the Serenity Prayer and close with the Lords Prayer.
We hope you will join us as more is revealed and you trudge the road to happy des
From page 17 of Alcoholics Anonymous:
“We are average Americans. All sections of this country and many of its occupations are represented, as well as many political, economic, social, and religious backgrounds. We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain’s table. Unlike the feelings of the ship’s passengers, however, our joy in escape from disaster does not subside as we go our individual ways. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined.