A sponsor is an alcoholic/addict who is following the recovery program and shares that experience on a continuous, individual basis with another alcoholic/addict who is attempting to attain or maintain sobriety through the 12 step program.

When we first begin to attend PAN Fellowship meetings, we may feel confused, sick and apprehensive. Although people at meetings respond to our questions willingly, that alone isn’t enough. Many other questions occur to us between meetings; we find that we need constant, close support as we begin learning how to “live sober and clean.”

So we select another PAN Fellowship member with whom we can feel comfortable, someone with whom we can talk freely and confidentially, and we ask that person to be our sponsor.