Recovered Alcoholic Clergy Association (RACA)

The current association is a working cooperation of the ministry of the Episcopal Church. We admire ecumenical contacts with convalescing appointed men and women from exceptional customs however that enrollment is limited to gift and prior ministry of the Episcopal Church. 
Any priest, cleric, elder, person from a religious request, or seminarian who has a longing to quit using state of intellect adjusting chemical compounds is certified for enrollment. 
RACA has developed from the first six coordinators in 1968 to 269 in 2015 our forty-seventh 12 months of being traditionally sorted out. 
Contributors are living in practically the vast majority of the U.S. And in addition, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the UK. 
A recovering alcoholic for a very long time, Fr. Golder had led workshops on liquor abuse in a part of the Church's devout theological colleges and for really a whilst had been an individual from the manager Council's Advisory Committee on Alcoholism. Rehashed endeavors by using the Committee to persuade general convention to construct up a a long way achieving liquor abuse application had finished in disappointment. The Advisory Committee used to be damaged down after the general convention in Seattle. Fr. Golder attempted an alternative, individual methodology, and his letter engaged different recouping alcoholic ministry to speak with him. The reaction was once rapid. 
On 24 October 1968, six of the twenty-two ministry who had answered to the letter came to San Francisco from Arizona, British Colombia, California, Colorado, and Montana to share their expertise, nice, and trust. Following two days of examination it used to be chosen to frame a relationship with the identify RACA picked in mild of its Biblical undertones (see Matthew 5:22). Every of the clerics well-known the fitting title of the organization for each conceded their past habits was once "half-witted." RACA'S participation has developed from the first six to 269 in 2015. 
RACA'S object is three-fold: 
shared self growth 
cooperation 
peaceful sympathy toward pastorate with a drinking predicament and their families