Good Day!! My name is Anthony H. and I am a grateful recovering alcoholic.  I would like to share my experience, strength, and hope regarding Sponsorship. 

First of all, I would like to say that having a sponsor is the first and foremost when it comes to communication with other members.  For me personally, I was court ordered into the fellowship by the Dayton, Ohio Montgomery Common Pleas Courts simply because I committed drug related crimes.  I also had a mental illness as well.  To be honest with all of you, having a sponsor is a person who is capable of assisting me and giving me advice while in the program. 

I know that my very first sponsor and I got into a fist fight because he was too demanding.  He really did not know how to be a sponsor and he got mad at me because I was in the streets too much for him. 

Even though, I had completed the 12 Steps, I was a person who was a follower of the streets.  I was transitioning out of the street gang culture, and it was very hard at first, but I had to take care of myself and my own family. 

Sponsors are people who are experienced in the AA Program.  I will admit that I am a Sponsor myself and the people who I am sponsoring are involved in street gangs.  There are 3 of them who had recently relapsed and I told them that I will be there for them after they are released from treatment.

  I had advised and suggested to the men to attend meetings on a daily basis.  I also told these men that they have to avoid having a sexual relationship for one year.  They had to abstain from having a relationship with a woman. 

 These men had to get themselves together first and foremost.  I help them with things that pertain to Alcoholics Anonymous.  My suggestion to a newcomer in the Fellowship is to attend 90 meetings in 90 days, read the 164 pages of the AA Book.  I also tell newcomers to also call me if they are interested in me as a sponsor.  I also tell newcomers that they will have to establish a relationship with a Higher Power or God. 

My objective as a sponsor is to help each person and myself to get through the 12 Steps.  I can only advise and suggest to another fellow alcoholic.  I cannot tell them what to do.  I can show them a better way of life that is much better than drinking and getting high.  My name is Anthony H. from Dayton, Ohio and I am a grateful recovering alcoholic.  My topic is Sponsorship.  My sobriety date is May 2, 1990.Thanks for allowing me to share.

Good Day Everyone!  My name is Anthony Joseph Hopkins & I have been clean and sober for going on 35 years now.   I want to inform all of you that my 2025 year has been very difficult for me.   Although, I have contracted COVID-19 while I was incarcerated at the Dayton Ohio Montgomery County Jail.   I was arrested for an assault charge.  I was in Jail during the week of Christmas and New Year’s 2024.  I was released from Jail on January 7, 2025 at 3:00PM.  I also got evicted out of my apartment on Tuesday January 21, 2025.

Finally, I want to say that I have a lot of gratitude about life itself.   Sponsorship is very important to me because I have an opportunity to share my experience, strength, and hope all of the time. 

I still have some character defects that I need to receive prayer from everyone who is in any form of recovery.  I have to ask God to bridle my tongue because; as of late, I have been using a great deal of vulgarity towards my family members as well as those who are responsible for computer hacking me, while I am online each day of the week.  I will admit that I have been acting like a newcomer in the AA Fellowship.  This is because I have been behaving like a toddler.  I want to inform everyone that I will be 60 years old on June 24th of this year.  Please pray for me & my family members, so that as a family, we will learn how to acknowledge each other as a member of a family unit.  Jeremiah 10:23 says: O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.   This means that God is doing for us more than we are doing for ourselves. 

My name is Anthony Joseph Hopkins and I am a Born-again Christian Man, and a Grateful Recovering Alcoholic.  Thank you & God Bless You .   Please have a wonderful day.