St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Bovina

The Twelve Step program at St. Alban's provides a systematic framework to investigate the work that we can do to allow God to work more fully in our lives.

Make no mistake, there is nothing magical about the Steps. They simply list in a systematic way the work we must do to allow God to work more fully in our lives. But it is precisely this breaking things down into small achievable goals that constitutes the great value of the Steps. These Steps give us a "handle" on the spirituals life.

These steps are studied each Wednesday morning at 7:00 am in the St. Alban's Parish Hall.

1. Admitting Our Powerlessness

� Powerlessness and Sin
� The Roots of Selfishness
� Practicing Step One
� Questions for Reflection

2. Trusting in a Higher Power

� Faith and Reason
� Jesus as Our Hope
� Peace Beyond Understanding
� Working Step Two
� Questions for Reflection

3. Centering in God

� Who Is Your God?
� Surrender of the Will
� Surrender of Our Lives
� 'Me Inner Struggle
� Loving in the Spirit
� Questions for Reflection

4. Knowing Ourselves

� Values and Choices
� The Inventory
� A Suggested Format
� Questions for Reflection

5. Admitting Our Wrongs

� Letting Go
� The Fifth Step Counselor
� Sacramental Reconciliation
� Taking the Fifth Step
� Questions for Reflection

6. Eliminating Character Defects

� Understanding Emotional Pain
� Identifying Character Defects

� Time for Change
� Questions for Reflection

7. Letting Go, Letting God

� False Ego Needs
� True Needs
� Tending the Garden
� Questions for Reflection

8. Making Peace in Relationships

� Make a List
� Be Willing to Make Amends
� Questions for Reflection

9. Making Amends and Forgiveness

� Approaching Others
� Forgiveness
� Promises of the Twelve Steps
� Questions for Reflection

10. Living One Day at a Time

� Inventory and Amends
� Commitment to Growth
� Questions for Reflection

11. Meeting God Through Prayer

� Relationship With God
� Essentials of Prayer
� Contemplative Prayer Forms
� Change and Growth
� Questions for Reflection

12. Walking the Walk

� The Value of Spirituality
� Stages on the Spiritual Journey
� Giving and Receiving
� Daily Living
� Questions for Reflections

Twelve Steps to Spiritual Wholeness