Our Primary Purpose Forum Newsletters
OPPF

The love of the OPPF newsletter has prompted us to revive as many issues as we can locate. Here we have revised, edited, and altered the newsletters to be more user friendly on the internet. If you have a copy of an edition we do not have online please send that to us so we can have a more complete archive of these valuable newsletters.


Original OPPF Newsletter home page

OPPF Vol 1 No. 1 --July 1994

     1.  Editorial Statement

OPPF Vol 1 No. 2 --September 1994    ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. OPPF Intergroup Meetings
  2. The Counsel of Fear?
  3. Dear Jim: Singleness of purpose?
  4. ALCOHOLICS IN THE MINORITY?!?
  5. THE WAY IT WAS
  6. CC vs. AA
  7. Next Workshop In Atwater
  8. It's up to not-so-oldtimers to step up
  9. Contribute
OPPF Vol 3 No. 1 --January 1996.
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. "Experience with Alcohol"
  3. TRADITIONS 6 & 7
  4. LETTER TO THE EDITOR
  5. From the Editor
  6. OPPF workshop committee
  7. Workshops
  8. "Our Common Bond"
  9. Directory of AA Groups for REAL Alcoholics
  10. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 3 No. 2 --February 1996
  1. OPPF Newsletter Meetings
  2. Problems Other Than Alcohol
  3. TRADITION 8
  4. Three Legacies Group
  5. Singleness of Purpose Workshops
  6. Primary Purpose Newsgroup Committee Presentation
  7. OPPF FINANCES
  8. FROM THE NET
  9. Annual Conference: Fourth Edition of the Big Book
  10. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 3 No. 3 --March 1996
  1. OPPF Newsletter Meetings
  2. Letter to the editor from Jim A.
  3. Names and Addresses for I.W.S and Seccion Mexico
  4. THE 1996 GENERAL SERVICE CONFERENCE
  5. Letter to the Editor
  6. Singleness of Purpose Workshops
  7. Letter from Betty P.
  8. OPPF FINANCES - HELP!
  9. Letter from Jim H.
  10. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 3 No. 4 --April 1996
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. Letter to the Editor
  3. The Fourth Edition of the Big Book
  4. Dear OPPF
  5. Editor's Note
  6. Dear Jim
  7. Singleness of Purpose Workshops
  8. Powerful Sedatives
  9. HELP STILL NEEDED
  10. FROM THE NET
  11. Directory of AA Groups for REAL Alcoholics
  12. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 3 No. 5 --May 1996
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. TRADITION 9
  3. Hello Jim
  4. Editor's Response
  5. Singleness of Purpose Workshops
  6. OPPF FINANCES
  7. FROM THE NET
  8. Ireland's 50th Anniversary
  9. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 3 No. 6 --June 1996
  1. OPPF Newsletter Meetings
  2. Dear Jim
  3. Editor's Note
  4. Singleness of Purpose Workshops
  5. Questionnaire
  6. Dear Friends of Our Primary Purpose Forum
  7. Getting in Touch with OPPF
.OPPF Vol 3 No. 9 --September 1996
  1. OPPF Newsletter Meetings
  2. EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH, AND DOPE
  3. EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH, AND DOPE comment
  4. It is misleading
  5. Watering down of A.A. is not just an American phenomenon
  6. Bring A.A. back into focus
  7. Steps in the wash of psycho-babble
  8. Confine our membership to alcoholics
  9. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 4 No. 1 --January 1997.
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. From a Reader
  3. Editor's Note
  4. Frog AA
  5. IDENTIFICATION -- THE ESSENCE OF OUR COMMON BOND
  6. THE MIRACLE IS STILL AROUND
  7. From the Editor
  8. Freedom from Alcohol
  9. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 4 No. 2 --February 1997
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. "Gresham's Law and Alcoholics Anonymous"
  3. Possible Fourth Edition
  4. To the editor
  5. "Problems Other Than Alcohol"
  6. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 4 No. 6 --June 1997
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. CORRECTION PLEASE
  3. Spamming
  4. To the Editor
  5. Editor's Note
  6. Home at Last
  7. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 4 No. 7 --July 1997
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. The Decided, the Antagonistic and the Irrelevant
  3. Real Alcoholic?
  4. A Reader Objects
  5. From the Big Book
  6. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 4 No. 8 --August 1997
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. AA -- How Long Will It Last?
  3. SELLING MIRACLES FOR FUN AND PROFIT
  4. From readers
  5. From the editor
  6. OPPF STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
  7. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 4 No. 9 --September 1997
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. CHANGING TIMES
  3. A RETURN TO THE BEGINNING
  4. MONEY, MONEY
  5. THE FOURTH EDITION
  6. Building a Web Site
  7. OPPF STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
  8. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 5 No. 1 --May 1998
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. WE'RE BACK
  3. WEB SITE NOW OPERATIONAL
  4. About the Fourth Edition
  5. WHY ANOTHER EDITION OF THE BIG BOOK?
  6. HAVE YOU TALKED WITH YOUR DELEGATE LATELY?
  7. More About a Fourth Edition
  8. The German Situation
  9. ABOUT FINANACES
  10. Getting in Touch with OPPF
OPPF Vol 5 No. 2 --July 1998
  1. Newsletter Committee Meetings
  2. AN EMBARASSMENT OF RICHES
  3. FREE BIG BOOK DISTRIBUTION
  4. WHAT IS OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE?
  5. MY HIGHER POWER
  6. Getting in Touch with OPPF

Rebirth of Publication

OPPF Edition 1 Issue 1 --March 2005   ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Editorial Statement and Introduction
  2. The Seventh Tradition
  3. The Grapevine Incorporated
  4. A.A. Conventions and Roundups
  5. Religious AA Roots and the Seventh Tradition
  6. In the next issue
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 2 - April 2005 Special Edition on Litigations   ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Bill W. talk to the 1956 General Service Conference
  2. Report on Litigations, Area 46
  3. The “L” Word
  4. LITIGATION (OR, IF THE SUIT FITS, WEAR IT)
  5. LITIGATION (OR, THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF “RIGHTS”)
  6. GSB Trustee Report on trip to Sección Mexico
  7. For more information...
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 3 May 2005   ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Bill W. talk to the 1956 General Service Conference
  2. Editorial Statement
  3. Topic Editorial --German Litigation Ruling
  4. Strange Things For A Spiritual Fellowship
  5. General Service Section
  6. From The Archives
  7. Contact and use of OPPF Content
  8. Dr Bob's Rx for Alcoholics
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 4 -- June 2005   ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Bill W. talk to the 1956 General Service Conference
  2. Editorial Statement
  3. What Is An AAWS And Who Voted For Them Anyway?
  4. Minority Report - International Convention Kickbacks
  5. Changing the AA Fellowship One Conference At A Time
  6. Contact and use of OPPF Content
  7. Minority Opinion Links
  8. Money Property Prestige Triangle
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 5 July 2005    ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Editorial Statement
  2. Report on Sección Mexico Convention from Norm D.
  3. Report on Sección Mexico Convention from John G
  4. Report on Sección Mexico Convention from Dennis M.
  5. Report on AA International Convention from Mary O.
  6. Minority Opinion Links
  7. Contact and use of OPPF Content
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 6 August 2005    ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Bill W. talk to the 1956 General Service Conference
  2. Editorial Statement
  3. Editorial Introduction: Spiritual vs. Material in today's AA
  4. An Awakening of the Educational Variety- International Convention Corruption
  5. ALCOHOLICS IN THE MINORITY?!?
  6. THE WAY IT WAS
  7. Eleventh Tradition - not so much...
  8. It's up to not-so-oldtimers to step up
  9. Tribute to OPPF Editor Jim H..
  10. Alcoholism is not an addiction
  11. Loses all control..., once he starts to drink.
  12. Contact and use of OPPF Content
  13. Minority Opinion Links
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 7 September 2005.    ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Bill W. talk to the 1956 General Service Conference
  2. Editorial Statement
  3. Hurricane's Katrina & Rita
  4. Inez McD *R.I.P*.
  5. Inez's Love for Drunks
  6. Inez's Story About Young Atheist Girl
  7. Inez: Basic 12-Step work
  8. Inez: We kept them at home and in meetings.
  9. Inez: That is what we did...
  10. Inez: Go out and find a new one.
  11. Inez: Her joyful humor with wet drunks
  12. Inez: Carney Mary's Bug Juice:
  13. Inez: 14th Step
  14. Inez: That first drink won't hurt you...
  15. Inez: Is it in the BIG BOOK? be careful...
  16. Inez: Trust God, Clean House, Help Others
  17. Inez: Dear Abby: We Lost our Authority...
  18. Inez: Dear Abby: Our "Right of Appeal?"
  19. Inez: Giving:
  20. Inez: Thoughts to remember...
  21. Contact and use of OPPF Content
  22. Minority Opinion Links
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 8 November 2005    ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Right of Appeal
  2. Alcoholics Anonymous at the Crossroads - Conferenece or Not?
  3. The GSC of AA plan... - a bad idea, by Royal S. Trustee
  4. Contact and use of OPPF Content
  5. Minority Opinion Links
OPPF Edition 1 Issue 9 January 2006    ---   *Original PDF Version*
  1. Right of Appeal
  2. Alcoholics Anonymous at the Crossroads (Part 2) - Conferenece or Not?
  3. A Statement of Principles... of the Alcoholic Foundation
  4. A commentary on Statement of Principles... of the Alcoholic Foundation
  5. Contact and use of OPPF Content
  6. Minority Opinion Links