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New Group News
Sign up for our mailing list and get our monthly news letter emailed to you with announcements, events, new resource links and links to AA stories and information. Here is a preview of what to expect. Sign up for our Mailing List Your information will remain anonymous, and will not be used for any purpose…
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Secular in a Spiritual Program
Joe talks to Sam and Olis about being secular in a spiritual program. There’s listener feedback from Penny on the different types of AA meetings, and Aaron writes in about his favorite line from the Big Book, which is tattooed on his forearm. While we provide the podcast at no charge, we do have expenses.…
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Lorna K
Lorna K (August 12, 1945 – June 15, 2016) from NYC. She was 39 years sober at the time of this qualification at the Rule 62 Roundup in Hebron, Kentucky in August of 2015. Lorna helped allot of people in her professional and personal life eventually working with Mother Theresa. After living with cancer for…
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Language of the Heart
By Bill W, From the Grapevine book AA Today, published on the occasion of AA’s twenty-fifth anniversary in November 1972 My workshop stands on a hill back of our home. Looking over the valley, I see the village community house where our local group meets. Beyond the circle of my horizon lies the one world of…
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Service Beyond the Coffeepot
Learning about service in AA Hosted by Bronx/Upper Manhattan District 701. Learn the basics of service below the group level. Guest speakers: Paola A (SENY Chair) and JoAnn M (SENY Delegate). It will take place Saturday, May 4th at St. Margaret’s Church, 6000 Riverdale Ave, Bronx, NY at 11am. Parking is available, and bagels will…
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AA’s 89th Anniversary
Join us for our founder’s day three-speaker open meeting known as The BIG Meeting Saturday, 1st June, 2024, 1-3pmAll Souls Church1157 Lexingron Ave.(near east 80th Street)New, York, NY 10075 Please pre-register to attend, seating is limited.More information and speaker nomination forms are available. Contact: New York Inter-Group307 Seventh Ave. Room 303New York, NY, 10001Phone: 212-647-1647www.nyintergroup.org…
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What is the point of getting sober?
The following excerpts are highlights taken from the first of five talks given by Allen McG at the Brentwood Beginners Meeting in Los Angeles, July 4, l968 (Allen passed on November 15, 1972). Why do we insist that there be a “point” to sobriety? In our culture, sobriety is seen as a virtue by drinkers…
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“Drop the Rock” Sandy B.
Sandy B.’s story shared in Palm Springs, CA. 1976. (1931 – Sept 28, 2014) passed on Sunday, September 28, 2014 in an AA meeting while reading from Step 1 in the Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions. On December 7, 1964 (Pearl Harbor Day) Sandy stopped drinking and began a deep and lasting belief in the…
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Homework: Writing Inventory on the Twelve Steps
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail” – Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Pg. 89. Below are links to inventory work sheets from writings and talks by Dennis F., et al from the Unity Insures Recovery through Service…
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What does it mean to take an inventory?
In the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous you may hear someone use the phrase, “taking an inventory” in relationship to doing step work or “working the program”. Taking an inventory is a tool in the recovery journey, specifically outlined in the fourth and tenth steps of the AA program. It’s a process where individuals take a…
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Florida Round Up
May 15, 2024 – May 19, 2024 all-day The Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort321 North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 Come join us May 15th-19th 2024! Florida Roundup started in 1984 to bring together the entire LGBTQIA+ Community in Recovery! We’re happy to continue this year providing a program of events for the sharing…
