What is Sponsorship
As stated in Tradition Five, carrying the message of recovery is OA’s primary purpose. A sponsor is an OA member who shares this message — and their own program of recovery — on an ongoing, individual basis with another member often called in our region a sponsee. Sponsors are OA members who are living the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to the best of their ability. They are willing to share their recovery with other members of the Fellowship and are committed to abstinence.
We ask a sponsor to help us through our program of recovery which includes using the tools of the program to guide us through the Twelve Steps. By working with other members of OA and sharing their experience, strength, and hope, sponsors continually renew and reaffirm their own recovery. Sponsors share their program up to the level of their own experience.
Styles of sponsorship vary from person to person. We are each free to approach it in our own way.
Ours is a program of attraction; find a sponsor who has what you want and ask that person they are achieving it. A member may work with more than one sponsor and may change sponsors at will.
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