Nar-Anon's Farewell to Dwier Celebration
	The Nar-Anon groups will soon be leaving the Ray Dwier Center. Please join COA and our friends at Nar-Anontomorrow, August 27 at 6:00 pm as we celebrate the many good times we've shared together at 392 Church Street.  If you can, please bring a dish to share. COA will keep a room in the Dwier Center for interventions, family meetings, etc. but some other activities may move. For questions or comments, please contactCityofAngelsNJ@hotmail.com

	Sat., Oct 10: Join COA to Remember Davey Gold
	Davey Gold was a talented DJ as well as a friend & mentor to many. His life ended this summer, far too soon.  Please support COA and honor Davey's life on Sat., Oct. 10 at Cedar Gardens, Rt. 33 in Hamilton. This fundraiser will celebrate Davey's life with the music he loved. There will also be photos and videos, so if you didn't know Davey before, you will by the end of the evening! This man will be missed....Come to support Davey's friends and family, come because you want to help, or just come because it'll be a good time!  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. To buy tickets, click here.  To learn more about Davey, click here.

	New on COA Recovery Radio!
	Let's Talk About Recovery! COA Recovery Radio is the only radio station anywhere that plays recovery talk 24/7/365! All shows are original, uplifting and available on any Internet-enabled device at www.coaradio.com or thru the free smartphone app. Addiction can affect ANYONE! Did you know that 20% of lawyers abuse drugs, compared with 10% of everyone else?  Find out what happens when lawyers get addicted - and how they can get help - in the latest "Your Legal Recovery".To listen to this show, click here. Tune into past episodes of "Your Legal Recovery" for info on handling DUIs, child custody issues, first offenses and more at www.coaradio.com/legal COARR plays all original recovery talk 24/7/365. All COARR shows are online, on demand:  For "Stop Feeding the Predators" with  Lynn McClain, click here.  For "Wellness in Recovery" with life coach Nancy Tilelli, click here.  For "Journey Thru the 12 Steps with the Life Recovery Bible," click here. For "Share Your Scars!" with Vicki, click here. For "Wings Over Water: Creativity in Recovery" with recovery musician Kathy Moser,click here. For "Families and Recovery" with Cathy and Bill,   click here. For "Prosperity in Recovery" with Rich Alexander, click here  . For "Living Clean & Sober" with Johnny Raggs & Ken MacDonald, click here  . For "Solutions" with Michael DeLeon, click here. For "Your Legal Recovery" with Saul Segan, Esq., click here.

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	Were you impressed by the sportsmanship shown by a teen this past year? Did the youth coach of your child’s team take the time to demonstrate the meaning of healthy competition? Now is the time to honor your local student athlete and youth coach. In conjunction with Major League Baseball Charities, we are recognizing outstanding student athletes and youth coaches in any sport – on and off the playing field – who embody the spirit of teamwork and healthy, drug-free competition. Nominate your community’s youth sports heroes for the 6th annual Commissioner’s Play Healthy Awards contest! The awards are a part of our joint efforts, including the Play Healthy website, to educate families about the risks of steroids and performance-enhancing substances.   “I cannot begin to thank you for giving youth such a fulfilling experience and opportunity. It will forever lead her, inspire her, shape her future and commit her to serve others in her community and (what will undoubtedly be) her long, splendid life." -Holly Jordan, nominated Kelsey Barrett, student-athlete winner of the 5th annual Commissioner’s Play Healthy Award One winning youth coach and one student athlete will receive prizes, including a trip for themselves and one special guest to New York City.   Plus, join us in spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter with these sample posts: #PlayHealthy #Contest! Nominate extraordinary coaches & student athletes for chance to win trip to NYC & more! http://ow.ly/Ri3VT Inspiring #studentathlete & #youth #coach can win trip to NYC & more! Find out how http://ow.ly/Ri3VT #PlayHealthy
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Women for Sobriety, Inc. The passing of fourcwoman August 26, 2015 Dear WFS Members and Friends, It is with such great sadness to share with you that our beloved fourcwoman, Nancy Cross, has passed away last night.  Her increasing ill health in the last few years had taken so much of her energy and time away from the WFS forum and chat room that she created and loved so very much.  She had unrelenting devotion and commitment to getting Women for Sobriety online in a format that would bring together women from all across the world to share and connect with one another as they traveled the road to recovery using the WFS “New Life” Program as their guide. Nancy became WFS’s “Internet Liaison” from the very moment she was able to set up chat room meetings way back in 1998.  As a member of the Women for Sobriety Board of Directors and a Certified Moderator, leading face-to-face meetings in Cincinnati, Ohio, she worked very closely with the WFS office and the board members to create the requirements needed for women to become Certified Chat Leaders and creating the guidelines and rules to participate on the WFS forum and in chats.  Nancy became WFS’s first CCL.  I remember way back in 1998 when she first told me about this social site on AOL, where you type messages back and forth in real time, and we both checked it out and thought it was the most fantastic thing on the World Wide Web!  Soon the first official WFS chat was underway on AOL, with 25 women attending!  There have been many changes and locations since that time…from Yahoo groups to MSN to our current location through a website company dedicated to online forum and chat software.  And because of Nancy’s passion and patience and unrelenting enthusiasm to help women learn about WFS and gain a foundation into recovery, we currently have over 10,000 women registered at the WFS forum site:  http://www.womenforsobrietyonline.com/.  There are also 7 formal chat meetings each week, led by dedicated Certified Chat Leaders who volunteer their time and share their experiences and hope. Please be reassured that her legacy will continue on!  With Nancy’s blessing, prior to her passing, the WFS office will take on the responsibility of managing the online community; and, with the support of the WFS Board of Directors, embrace the forum and chat as an official part of the Women for Sobriety organization.   I have been working with the Chat Leaders and designated members of the online community to insure that the message boards, chat meetings, and the online community will remain a positive place to gather and share in a nurturing environment, learning and growing as women embrace the WFS “New Life” Program into their sober lives. To honor Nancy’s devotion and love for the online community, WFS Chat Leader, Julie Lambie will be creating a message board on the forum devoted to Nancy, called “The Wisdom of fourcwoman”.  She will pull together all of Nancy’s posts over the years, like her MondayMessages, so the past and current online members can read and continue to be inspired by Nancy’s wisdom and experience with using our program.  We will also dedicate an upcoming edition of the WFS newsletter, Sobering Thoughts, for all who wish to share a special moment in time you shared with Nancy or remembering the first chat meeting with her…or how she may have helped you through a difficult time….share with us how the wisdom of her words or her gentle voice reached you at a time you needed it most.  Please email me at becky@womenforsobriety.org with your reflections and I will gather them through toSeptember 21st. I have received information on her funeral service and her obituary; also for those who wish to leave an online message for her family, please visit this site  My husband and I will be traveling to the service to share our love and respect for Nancy and to be able to, at some level, express to her family how much we treasured her as a member of WFS, a friend, a mentor, an inspiration to never give up hope and to try one more time.  We also want to reconnect with her face-to-face group members and share in their grief as they work through this difficult time.  Please join me in holding thoughts of love and care for her family and her devoted group members; especially for a dear WFS sister who continues to lead Nancy’s meetings and has been such a close and caring friend all these years; a bond of friendship that is now experiencing a great loss. We will be forever grateful to Nancy for her inspiration to start this huge movement for WFS to get ‘online’.  Every one of us in WFS still feels that same empowering positive energy that is created when there is a gathering of WFS women on the internet.  And, so, her loss is so very hard for us to take in our hearts and to accept.  She has touched so many lives; she has made a lasting positive imprint on our memories.  We have not lost our fourcwoman; her spirit lives on with our online community and in the words and stories she has posted over the years. Her family has shared with us that in lieu of flowers, sending a donation to WFS in Nancy’s memory would be welcomed.  In fact, your donations will help us to continue supporting her dream to see the online community live on and thrive for many years to come.  If you also wish to send a sympathy card to her family, please send it to the WFS office and I will be honored to pass that along to them.  And, if you wish to attend Nancy’s service, please let me know so that I may share more details of our gathering. Rest in peace, beautiful fourcwoman; thank you for your kindness, your generosity and your loving service to WFS, to all of us.  I will miss you, my friend. In deepest sympathy, Becky Fenner, WFS Director Women for Sobriety, Inc. PO Box 618 Quakertown, PA 18951 To send a donation using a credit card, please visit our catalog page at: www.wfscatalog.org/Donations_c16.htm

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August 25 CHP 107 v 29 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS

HE CALMS THE STORM , SO ITS WAVES ARE STILL !

(GODS BIG BOOK)

STEP 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Being a long term Recovery member does not mean I have it all under control and I am exempt from Relapse . It does mean that if I am willing to pray trust and work with GOD I will have no fear when the storms of life come. In this verse GOD is making a Promise that HE WILL CALM THE STORM! GOD has kept HIS promises 2000 years plus so you can count on HIM. Step Eleven does not mean that your a professional RECOVER EEE , it means you have been broken and humbled in ways most folks will never experience and you have developed a Relationship with your creator GOD ! Continue to trust HIM and when life Hits the fan don't get cocky remember your pain and pray . BE STILL AND KNOW HE is your GOD and HE will CARRY you THROUGH ! 

GOD, GRACE ,AND GRATITUDE ! 

1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit.

(GODS BIG BOOK) By Joseph Dickerson

Cincinnati Hospitals Will Test All Mothers, Babies for Opiates - Partnership for Drug-Free Kids

Cincinnati Hospitals Will Test All Mothers, Babies for Opiates - Partnership for Drug-Free Kids