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01/05/2026

Monday, January 5

Good morning! Happy Monday! Today is a good day to have a GREAT day! We are open from 9-5 today. Drop in and see us, hit a meeting, grab lunch, get into treatment, or grab some resources to help maintain your recovery.

12:30 NA

January 05, 2026
Recovery at home
Page 5

"We can enjoy our families in a new way and may become a credit to them instead of an embarrassment or a burden."

Basic Text, p. 104

We're doing great in recovery, aren't we? We go to a meeting every day, we spend every evening with our friends in the fellowship, and every weekend we dash off to a service workshop. But if things are falling to pieces at home, we're not doing so great after all.

We expect our families to understand. After all, we're not using drugs anymore. Why don't they recognize our progress? Don't they understand how important our meetings, our service, and our involvement with the fellowship are?

Our families will not appreciate the change NA is working in our lives unless we show them. If we rush off to a meeting the same way we rushed off to use drugs, what has changed? If we continue to ignore the needs and desires of our partners and children, failing to accept our responsibilities at home, we aren't "practicing these principles in all our affairs."

We must live the program everywhere we go, in everything we do. If we want the spiritual life to be more than a theory, we have to live it at home. When we do this, the people we share our lives with are sure to notice the change and be grateful that we've found NA.

Just for Today: I will take my recovery home with me.

01/04/2026

Tutor, advocate, accompany to appointments, mentor biological parents, use whatever unique gift you have to help kids in foster care; there are so many ways.

Everyone can do something. What can you do in this new year to help? 

01/04/2026

Sunday, January 4

Good afternoon and Happy Sunday. Hope everyone is staying warm and safe! We are closed today.

7:00 p.m. AA

BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE

We feel that elimination of our drinking is but a beginning. A much more important demonstration of our principles lies before us in our respective homes, occupations and affairs.

-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 19

It's usually pretty easy for me to be pleasant to the people in an A.A. setting. While I'm working to stay sober, I'm celebrating with my fellow A.A.s our common release from the hell of drinking. It's often not so hard to spread glad tidings to my old and new friends in the program.

At home or at work, though, it can be a different story. It is in situations arising in both of those areas that the little day-to-day frustrations are most evident, and where it can be tough to smile or reach out with a kind word or an attentive ear. It's outside of the A.A. rooms that I face the real test of the effectiveness of my walk through A.A.'s Twelve Steps.

01/02/2026

Friday, January 2

Good morning and Happy New Year!!! We are coming into 2026 with some very exciting news! Stay tuned . . . More will be revealed!

12:30 AA

January 02, 2026
Unity Keeps Us Coming Back
Page 2

"When we walk into our first meeting and see addicts coming together in unity, the spirit touches us even before the words get through."

Guiding Principles, Tradition One, "Spiritual Principles"

That first meeting. Some of us arrive beaten down, asking for help. Others of us show up because we need that paper signed. Still others come to prove a point to someone else or to ourselves--like maybe we don't need a program, and showing up at a meeting will somehow prove that point. We enter not knowing what to expect, and try to stay on the sidelines, unnoticed. People are chatting, putting out literature, setting up the room, being together. Someone gives us a hug--to be welcoming, not for any other reason. Culture shock!

Our First Tradition tells us that "personal recovery depends on NA unity." We may not fully grasp this concept at first, but even so, unity takes hold of us. Somehow, we sense that we just might belong here. We take up the suggestion we hear at every meeting: We keep coming back. Some of us return to hear more of what members shared or read. For others, the togetherness we witness gets us to that next meeting. We watch as members embrace and let go enough to accept the hugs we're offered. We sense that we are part of something greater than ourselves and our addiction. We let go just a little. Despite our initial skepticism and discomfort, the spirit of unity encourages us to stay.

Later, we attend our first NA convention, where we experience this spirit on a much larger scale. We come together to celebrate recovery, and unity springs from our shared commitment to living clean. Truly, we have found a new way to live. In unity, we reach out to newcomers and show them how we recover together.

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Today I will celebrate the spirit of unity that keeps me coming back by offering my support to a newer member.

12/31/2025

Wednesday, December 31

Good morning and Happy New Year's Eve! At Bomar, we are enthusiastic about 2026 and the opportunities it presents. We are currently developing several new and exciting initiatives for the upcoming year. We encourage you to approach the New Year with intention rather than expectations. Please join us today for a traditional New Year's Dinner, as our establishment will be closed tomorrow in observance of the holiday.

12:30 FELLOWSHIP
7:00 AA

DAILY RESOLUTIONS

The idea of "twenty-four-hour living" applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 284

A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes — a time to consider directions, goals, and actions. I must make some plans to live a normal life, but also I must live emotionally within a twenty-four-hour frame, for if I do, I don't have to make New Year's resolutions! I can make every day a New Year's day! I can decide, "Today I will do this . . . Today I will do that." Each day I can measure my life by trying to do a little better, by deciding to follow God's will and by making an effort to put the principles of our A.A. program into action.

12/30/2025

Tuesday, December 30

Good morning. We are open today from 9 AM to 5 PM. We invite you to visit us.

We also offer rental space for any 12 step meetings, along with AA and NA meetings that are currentlyheld here. Please contact us at 304-372-3722 for additional information.

December 30, 2025
Action and Prayer
Page 380

"...growth is not the result of wishing but of action and prayer."

Basic Text, p. 37

Sometimes it seems as if our recovery is growing much too slowly. We struggle with the steps; we wrestle with the same problems; we labor under the same uncomfortable feelings day after day. We wish that recovery would move a little faster so we could find some comfort!

Wishing doesn't work in recovery; this isn't a program of magic. If wishes cured addiction, we all would have been well long ago! What does give us relief in recovery is action and prayer.

Narcotics Anonymous has worked for so many addicts because it is a carefully designed program of action and prayer. The actions we undertake in each of the steps bring more and more recovery to each area of our lives. And prayer keeps us connected to our Higher Power. Together, action and prayer keep us well-grounded in recovery.

Just for Today: My recovery is too precious to just wish about it. Today is a good day for action and prayer.

12:30 PM NA
6:00 PM NA

12/29/2025

Monday, December 29

Good morning! Today is a good day to have a GREAT DAY! We are open from 9-5 today. Stop in, get some resources, make a decision to make today the first day of the rest of your life, grab some lunch, and hit a meeting. Don't wait until the New Year or the perfect time, it may never come.

12:30 NA

December 29, 2025
Remaining Steadfast
Page 375

"We learn what is true for us, and that sets the direction for our lives."

Living Clean, Chapter 2, "Connection to a Higher Power"

Early in recovery, each of us grapples with some troublesome truths about our addiction and our lives. Coming to terms with our powerlessness marks a vital shift in our perspective, and we strive to accept this reality on a daily basis. Many of us do this consciously in prayer or while meditating. We read today's JFT. We write in our journal. We go to a meeting and say, "I am an addict." Or all we do is not use that day and go to sleep clean again. Commitment to these practices, however it looks to any of us, on whatever day, is steadfastness.

Reckoning with our powerlessness leads to our unearthing many other truths. We develop new values and beliefs as we complete and share our Steps, participate in our recovery, and stay open-minded. We come to understand who we were, who we currently are, and who we want to be. We strive to live in accordance with spiritual principles we pick up along the way. Steadfastness is our anchor when we're driven to act on a defect, harm ourselves, or lash out at others. We find that we're better able to tame our worst tendencies or to bounce back more quickly and make amends when we do falter.

We learn some difficult lessons, too, especially when our firmly held beliefs and values are challenged. Other people can be equally steadfast in adhering to NA principles in their own ways and may have beliefs we perceive as being in conflict with our own. Being steadfast doesn't mean we're inflexible. Rather, we attempt to find balance in those circumstances that call for a steadfast commitment to being reliable, practical, flexible, and compassionate--yes, all at the same time! We discover ways to coexist with others with whom we disagree and contend with life on its own terms, all while standing up for our beliefs.

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Whether it's the truth of our powerlessness over our addiction, over other people, or over life's difficulties, I can remain steadfast in the recovery practices that help me deal with it.

12/28/2025

Sunday, December 28

Good morning. Happy Sunday. We are closed today and look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow. We anticipate sharing some exciting news in the new year. Please stay tuned for updates regarding new programs and additional staff.

7:00 P.M. AA

SUIT UP AND SHOW UP

In A.A. we aim not only for sobriety—we try again to become citizens of the world that we rejected, and of the world that once rejected us. This is the ultimate demonstration toward which Twelfth Step work is the first but not the final step.

-AS BILL SEES IT, p. 21

The old line says, "Suit up and show up." That action is so important that I like to think of it as my motto. I can choose each day to suit up and show up, or not. Showing up at meetings starts me toward feeling a part of that meeting, for then I can do what I say I'll do at meetings. I can talk with newcomers, and I can share my experience; that's what credibility, honesty, and courtesy really are. Suiting up and showing up are the concrete actions I take in my ongoing return to normal living.

12/27/2025

Saturday, December 27

Good morning all! Hope that you are having the most wonderful Christmas vacation. We are closed today.

6:00 NA

December 27, 2025
Harmony and Our Connection to Each Other
Page 373

"We see ourselves as part of something greater, and seek to live in harmony with it."

Living Clean, Chapter 3, "Spirituality Is Practical"

The connection we share with other addicts in recovery is undeniable. We bond as we share about our difficult pasts and learn to laugh at ourselves. The common solution we've found in the Twelve Steps of NA keeps us grounded and growing. We need each other to stay clean. We lean into this truth in the beginning and through the rough patches that life brings. "Together we can," as the saying goes. That's at the heart of the simplest, most profound conception of a power greater than ourselves.

Belonging to something greater than ourselves is sweet, and we want more. We see the wisdom--sometimes with 20/20 hindsight--of the common refrain: "If you want more out of this program, you've got to put more in." We seek opportunities to share the freedom we found in NA. We may pick up an extra slot on the phoneline or make a point of supporting a struggling group. These actions are symbolic of our commitment to "something greater." They contribute to the harmony in the rooms and in our heads.

We're motivated, at least in part, by the good feelings and good times that doing service makes possible. While some of us love doing H&I work, others may be better suited to serving on the events or activities committee or maintaining the website. Some of us simply want to do anything other than speak at a meeting, but we will do that, too, if we are asked. There are as many ways to carry the message as there are addicts in recovery. Each member has strengths that will contribute to the work of carrying the message. When we serve together, sharing recovery from the disease of addiction, we sustain our primary purpose. Living in harmony with others brings us freedom, but we can only keep it by giving it away.

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I will contribute to the harmony in Narcotics Anonymous. I will help other addicts find their part in something greater, and I will enrich my own freedom by being of service.

12/26/2025

Friday, December 26

We are closed today. We will see everyone on Monday.

12:30 AA
7:00 AA Speaker meeting

ACCEPTING SUCCESS OR FAILURE

Furthermore, how shall we come to terms with seeming failure or success? Can we now accept and adjust to either without despair or pride? Can we accept poverty, sickness, loneliness, and bereavement with courage and serenity? Can we steadfastly content ourselves with the humbler, yet sometimes more durable, satisfactions when the brighter, more glittering achievements are denied us?

-TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 112

After I found A.A. and stopped drinking, it took a while before I understood why the First Step contained two parts: my powerlessness over alcohol, and my life's unmanageability. In the same way, I believed for a long time that, in order to be in tune with the Twelve Steps, it was enough for me "to carry this message to alcoholics." That was rushing things. I was forgetting that there were a total of Twelve Steps and that the Twelfth Step also had more than one part. Eventually I learned that it was necessary for me to "practice these principles" in all areas of my life. In working all the Steps thoroughly, I not only stay sober and help someone else to achieve sobriety, but also I transform my difficulty with living into a joy of living.

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