What We Do
Social Activities:
First and foremost, the CFI Community of Daytona Beach provides support, events, and activities for the nonreligious community in our area.
Educational Outreach:
We strive to promote reason, fact-based analysis, ethical alternatives to religion, and discussion of social or public policy issues. Discussion groups within our community, formal public events, and networking with audiences outside of our community are just a few of the ways we achieve these goals.
Activism & Collaboration:
Many of our community members are active in promoting and defending the secular humanist outlook. We also gladly collaborate with anyone who promotes and defends reason, democracy, and freedom of inquiry in Daytona Beach.
SOSSecular Organizations for Sobriety(In Daytona Beach since 1995) A non-12 step program
Meeting at 3 pm Sundays at the City Island Library, Daytona Beach[East on I-92 (International speedway Blvd) to Route 1 (Ridgewood), South on Rt. I one block and then East on Magnolia to dead end - the library is on the left.] Meeting at 7 pm Thursdays for male inmates only at the Volusia County Correctional Facility. We're looking for someone to conduct some of the current meetings at the facility, and someone to conduct a woman's program. We also have a State Prison in Daytona Beach [ Tomoka Correctional Institution], and we'd like to have a one hour weekly program there. It's more rewarding than you would guess. SOS, the world's largest non-12 step addiction recovery program, was founded by James Christopher and is overseen by a Board of Directors of persons with an international reputation for expertise in the field of recovery from addictions. VISIT: http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=sos&page=index ******************************The following is the basis of almost all recovery program in the United States -- EXCEPT SOS: The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: 1 We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable. 2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5 Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7 Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8 Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10 Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11 Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12 Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. From: ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS The Story of How many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism NEW AND REVISED EDITION (Second Edition) ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS PUBLISHING, INC NEW YORK CITY 1955 pp. 59-60 |
