Walking on with the overcomers

I haven’t talked about Overcomers Outreach a whole lot on this blog since I mentioned it back here. But it has been bubbling away in the background, and I have been attending the meetings each month and meeting up with and emailing Penny. All I can say is that I am getting such an education and being challenged in ways I never would have expected, both by the sermons in the healing service (last week's on forgiveness was excellent), the content of the meetings and the stories of the people.

One of the jobs I was going to do when I finished on the EQUIP book club, because I just didn’t feel like I had the time before that, was to give the workbooks a makeover. Then before I got to it a graphic designer offered to do all the formatting and design free of charge. This was a blessing for me and a great blessing for the workbooks! – we have a mock up of the new format and they look fantastic. (Said graphic designer, who also made the logo, came along to one of the meetings and was deeply affected and came back with something in no time at all.)

Then on Monday night I had dinner with Penny and her husband and another fellow who has been sober for about two and a half years to go through some of the content of the workbooks. It was such a fascinating evening (and I got a grasp on some of the factors involved in alcoholism in a way that I hadn’t before). I just love working with these people and this material. Sometimes I wonder how in the world I got myself into it, but I am very grateful that I did!

I am actually writing something else, to be published later, on Overcomers Outreach, so I am going to finish that first before I say too much here, and sort out my thoughts and all the many things there are to write about (I got armloads of extra material the other night) in the process. I’m looking forward to working through it all now that I have a little more understanding of what goes on. But watch this space!