Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting
AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at
home in an
AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with
AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to
AA: Before contact with
AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about
AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.