Available Online Sponsors
A.A.'s booklet "Questions & Answers on Sponsorship" contains information for people who are looking for a sponsor as well as for people who want to be a sponsor. The following two questions and answers give brief guidance:
How does sponsorship help the newcomer?
It assures the newcomer that there is at least one person who understands the situation fully and cares - one person to turn to without embarrassment when doubts, questions, or problems linked to alcoholism arise. Sponsorship gives the newcomer an understanding, sympathetic friend when one is needed most. Sponsorship also provides the bridge enabling the new person to meet other alcoholics - in a home group and in other groups visited.
How should a sponsor be chosen?
The process of matching newcomer and sponsor is as informal as everything else in A.A. Often, the new person simply approaches a more experienced member who seems compatible and asks that member to be a sponsor. Most A.A.s are happy and grateful to receive such a request.
An old A.A. saying suggests "Stick with the winners." It's only reasonable to seek a sharing of experience with a member who seems to be using the A.A. program successfully in everyday life. There are no specific rules, but a good sponsor probably should be a year or more away from the last drink - and should seem to be enjoying sobriety.
- From the pamphlet, Questions and Answers on Sponsorship." 1983, p. 9.
May a newcomer change sponsors?
We are always free to select another sponsor with whom we feel more comfortable, particularly if we believe this member will be more helpful to our growth in A.A.
- From the pamphlet, Questions and Answers on Sponsorship." 1983, p. 11.
Women who have volunteered to sponsor
GROW members
- Hilarie L.
Mount Shasta, CA USA
DOS: April 4, 2014
hilarie.lamie@gmail.com - Laurie B.
Mesquite, NV USA
DOS: December 9, 2007
rubylaurie@gmail.com - Lynn H.
Michigan, USA
DOS: September 30, 1996
lilitaliangal@yahoo.com - Michelle M.
DOS: September 22, 1987
m.martin2226@gmail.com - Nydia B.
Beligium (CET)
DOS: August 13, 2008
Nydia701@gmail.com - Mary Dianne K.
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
DOS: August 15, 2017
marydiannek@gmail.com - Ruth F.
Vermont, USA
DOS: Febuary 14, 1999
serenity9918@gmail.com