Since 1957 – Gamblers Anonymous
Fort Worth Fellowship
Hope, support, and recovery for those struggling with compulsive gambling. The first step is to call or attend a meeting.
You don’t have to do this alone.
If You Are in Need of Immediate Assistance
GA Fort Worth Hotline
National GA Hotline
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
About Gamblers Anonymous
The fellowship of Gamblers Anonymous is the outgrowth of a chance meeting between two men in January 1957. These men had a history of trouble and misery due to an obsession to gamble.
They began to meet regularly and found that by sharing their experiences with each other, they were able to stay away from that first bet. They discovered a simple fact:
one compulsive gambler could somehow affect another in a way that no one else could.
Gamblers Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from a gambling problem.
The first step is attending a meeting. See below for in-person and online options.
In-Person Meeting
Open Meeting
- Day:
Mondays - Time:
7–8 PM - Location:
Wedgwood Baptist Church
5522 Whitman Avenue
Fort Worth, TX 76133 - Entrance:
Enter using the door marked EAST ENTRANCE and look for our signs. Once inside, take the first right and then the first left. - Who can attend:
This is an Open meeting. Gamblers, family, and friends are welcome. - Format:
GA literature is read, and attendees share their experience, strength, and hope.
You are Fort Worth It Online Meetings
These online meetings are separate from our in-person meetings and are a great resource for you. Please note whether the meeting is Open (anyone may attend) or Closed (gamblers only).
Join the meeting by computer, phone or tablet by clicking the link. You can choose whether to be on camera or not.
All Are Welcome
1st Sunday of Month: Speaker Meeting
Last Sunday of Month: Clean Time Celebrations
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Recovery Program
Here are the steps which are a program of recovery:
- We admitted we were powerless over gambling – that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this Power of our own understanding.
- Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.
- Humbly asked God (of our understanding) to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- 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.
- Having made an effort to practice these principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers.
GA Fort Worth Contact Information
- Phone:
(817) 371-0624 - Email:
[email protected] - Mailing Address:
FWGA
PO BOX 51101
Fort Worth, TX 76105 - National GA Website:
gamblersanonymous.org
Testimonials
One of the first things I found with GA was hope!
It has been two wonderful gambling-free years for me and my life is much better now.
Not only am I now abstinent for over 3 years, but all my relationships are now better than before.
The fellowship of GA has given me a new lease on life.
Compulsive Gambling
Compulsive gambling is an illness, progressive in nature, which can never be cured, but can be arrested. Before joining Gamblers Anonymous, many people with gambling issues saw themselves as morally weak or simply “no good”. The Gamblers Anonymous view is that these individuals are very sick and can get better by following a simple program that has proven successful for thousands of other men and women facing similar gambling problems.