A Request for Your Attendance and Help at, and Support for:
A New Way Out Leadership Conference with Dick B.!
July 18, 2009
Hope by the Sea, San Juan Capistrano, California
(pre- and post-Conference meetings, July 13-19, at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel)
Please Join Us and “Be a Part of Something Great—to the Glory of GOD!”
The News
My son Ken and I will be staying at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel in Newport Beach, California, and we will be available for personal meetings with Christian leaders and workers in the recovery arena by appointment during the week of July 13-19, 2009. Please contact me in advance by email (DickB@DickB.com) or by telephone [(808) 874-4876] if you would like to make an appointment for a “working chat.”
Through the courtesy of Bobby Nicholl and Celebrate a New Life at Hope by the Sea in San Juan Capistrano, California, we will be holding “A New Way Out Leadership Conference with Dick B.!” from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, July 18, 2009, in a 200-seat auditorium in the Medical Professional Building at Hope by the Sea, 27412 Calle Arroyo, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675. As was the case with “A Nationwide Recovery Conference with Dick B.” held at the Mariners Church in Irvine, California, in May, we will have food and beverages available for purchase on-site during the lunch break.
Within the next few days, we will be publishing the Conference agenda, along with further details of the pre- and post-Conference opportunities and meeting appointments, via Dick B.’s “FYI Messages” and on the new web site for the “International Christian Recovery Coalition” (www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com). Meanwhile, we can report that the Interim Chairperson, Interim Vice Co-Chairpersons, Executive Director, and the Advisory Council of the “International Christian Recovery Coalition” are in place. (We expect to have the details posted on the Coalition web site within the next day or two.) In addition, we have nearly completed a substantial Conference Program document, which also includes Plans and Proposals for the “International Christian Recovery Coalition.”
We are happy to report: (1) Charles P. Mau of Manhattan Beach has donated $600.00 to defray some of the Conference expenses. (2) Bob Noonan has made available a two-hour, in-studio, video taping session on Thursday, July 16, in which Dick B. will be presenting for production as DVD’s:
Specific details concerning the roles that God, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Bible played in the astonishing, documented, 75% and 93% early A.A. success rates (in Akron and Cleveland, respectively) among “seemingly-hopeless,” “medically-incurable,” “real” alcoholics who found or rediscovered God and thoroughly followed the original Akron A.A. program developed by Bill W. and Dr. Bob during the summer of 1935; and
An extended discussion of how the amazingly-successful program and techniques employed in early A.A.–especially in Akron and Cleveland during the mid-to-late 1930’s–may be utilized today to enhance substantially the effectiveness of Christian leaders and workers in the recovery arena–whether they be recovery pastors, pastoral counselors, alcohol and drug counselors, treatment center staff, and/or other kinds of Christian educators, trainers, leaders, and workers.
(3) On behalf of Celebrate a New Life at Hope by the Sea, Bobby Nicholl has arranged for one free night of our stay at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel; has arranged to have our Conference Program, Plans and Proposals document booklet printed free; and has made available the free use of the Hope by the Sea Medical-Professional Building auditorium for the Saturday, July 18, Conference. (4) Vivian Eisenecher of San Diego has again volunteered to arrange for food and beverages. (You potential volunteers please take note: she needs more help. If you would be blessed to help, please contact Dick B. by email or telephone for details.)
Our Needs Relating to the Conference and How You Can Help
“A New Way Out Leadership Conference with Dick B.!” Please join us at “A New Way Out Leadership Conference with Dick B.!” from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, July 18, 2009, at Hope by the Sea in San Juan Capistrano, California. There is no charge for registration at this Conference.
To register for this free Conference, please send to Dick B. by email, telephone or regular mail by July 2, 2009: your name, group or organization (if any), mailing address, telephone number, email address, and web site URL address (if any).
Pre- and post-Conference appointments with Dick B. Please contact me (Dick B.) by email (DickB@DickB.com) or by telephone [(808) 874-4876], or my son Ken on his cell phone [(808) 276-4945] if you cannot reach me, in order to arrange a pre- or post-Conference meeting with me at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel for yourself (and your small group of associates, if any).
“International Christian Recovery Coalition.” Please send me via email (DickB@DickB.com) your name and/or the name of your group or organization–along with your city, state or province, and country–if you would like to be considered for participation in the free-of-charge “International Christian Recovery Coalition.” (More details about the Coalition will be available shortly on the Coalition’s new web site: www.ChristianRecoveryCoalition.com.)
Please consider becoming a Major Sponsor of “A New Way Out Leadership Conference with Dick B.!” If you or your group or organization would be blessed to support this Conference and its objectives by donating $500.00 or more to help defray our Conference-related, out-of-pocket, organizational, travel, food, lodging, and incidental expenses, we would be glad to:
Give you or your group or organization a featured listing in the Conference Program booklet (which will really be more like a book); and
Post your banner and/or brief description of your godly efforts in the recovery arena on our web sites which will provide Conference details.
Please contact Dick B. by email (DickB@DickB.com) or telephone [(808) 874-4876], or my son Ken by telephone [(808) 276-4945], for details.
Please consider being a Conference Exhibitor at “A New Way Out Leadership Conference with Dick B.!” If you or your group or organization would be blessed to support this Conference and its objectives by donating $50.00 or more to help defray our Conference-related, out-of-pocket, organizational, travel, food, lodging, and incidental expenses, we would be glad to arrange for you a convenient way to exhibit at the Conference your godly materials focused on your Christian-oriented efforts in the recovery arena. Please contact Dick B. by email (DickB@DickB.com) or telephone [(808) 874-4876], or my son Ken by telephone [(808) 276-4945], for details.
If you cannot attend and/or would otherwise like to support this Conference. For a donation of $25.00 or more to help defray our Conference-related, out-of-pocket, organizational, travel, food, lodging, and incidental expenses, we would be glad to send you by email, in an attached file in Microsoft Word 2003 format, the 50-plus-page Conference booklet for the July 2009 Conference, and “A New Way Out Guidebook” by Dick B. and Ken B. from the May 2009 Conference (if you don’t already have it or need another copy). And we would be glad to list you and/or your organization in the Conference Program booklet as an “Endorser” of this Conference, if you would like.
Please send to us (by U.S. Postal Service, UPS, FedEx, etc.) your godly materials (brochures, DVD’s, etc.) reflecting your Christian-oriented efforts in the recovery arena so that we may discuss your materials at the pre- and post-Conference meetings, and at the Conference proper on July 18. Please make sure they arrive at the Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel by no later than Friday, July 10, and please address your envelope or package as follows:
Richard G. Burns, Guest–Hold for Arrival
Fairmont Newport Beach Hotel
4500 MacArthur Blvd.
Newport Beach, California 92660
Please volunteer to help Vivian Eisenecher and her team with the food and beverage dispensation on Saturday, July 18, at the Conference in San Juan Capistrano. Please contact Dick B. by email (DickB@DickB.com) or telephone [(808) 874-4876], or my son Ken by telephone [(808) 276-4945], for details.
Where and How to Donate and Help
To make donations relating to “A New Way Out Leadership Conference with Dick B.!”, please provide to me (Dick B.) by email (DickB@DickB.com), telephone [(808) 874-4876], or by regular mail, the details of your donation; and:
Use the “Donate” PayPal button on in the center column on the front page of my main website (www.DickB.com–a PayPal account is not required); Phone my son Ken at (808) 276-4945, give him the details of your donation, along with your credit card # and expiration date; or
Send your check or money order, payable to “Dick B.” in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank, by U.S. Postal Service (or UPS or FedEx, etc.) to: Dick B., PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837
God Bless, Dick B.
Email: DickB@DickB.com
