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The Women’s Sobriety Fest returns to Albuquerque in 2023! Email Michele at micheletaos@gmail.com or Shannon at anewthingnm@gmail.com to volunteer (great service work, of course), or simply to get more information.
We are having difficulties with our Meeting Change Form. It is not reliably forwarding to us what you submit. Therefore, please send an email (it will go to our schedule editor) with the following information:
1. Whether you are: Requesting a new meeting; Asking to delete an existing an existing meeting; Or requesting a change to an existing meeting.
2. The Group name.
3. The Meeting time, including day(s) of week.
4. Whether the meeting is in-person, on-line, or hybrid.
5. If the meeting is on-line or hybrid, PLEASE include the URL for the on-line portion of the meeting. The URL looks like this: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89213943363?pwd=NVd1bktNZFZlbEVta05VcXR2ajhpUT09.
Including the Meeting ID and passcode is useful also.
6. If the meeting is in-person, the best possible description of the location where is is held.
7. The type of the meeting. For example, Open, Closed, Men’s meeting, Women’s meeting, and so on.
8. Any contact information for the group (this is not listed publically).
9. Any additional information that can be included as notes about the meeting.
Thanks for your patience while we get this issue sorted out.
If you like reading “Daily Reflections”, but the book slipped behind your night table, our website now offers another way to read it! Go to the bottom of any page (web geeks call this the “page footer”), and click on “Daily Reflections”. You will be redirected to the World Services Daily Reflections page, and today’s Reflection. From there you will also be able to pick any Daily Reflection of the year.
The General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous is asking for stories to be considered for inclusion in the 5th Edition of the English-language and the 4th Edition of the Spanish-language Big Book.
The Preface to the Second Edition of the Big Book explains that revisions to the personal history section of the book were made in order “to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous more accurately, and thereby to reach more Alcoholics.” In that spirit, the 2021 General Service Conference recommended that “a Fifth Edition of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, be developed, including an update of stories to better reflect the current membership, keeping in mind the 1995 Advisory Action:
“The first 164 pages of the Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, the Preface, the Forewords, ‘The Doctor’s Opinion’, ‘Dr. Bob’s Nightmare”, and the Appendices remain as is.”
In response to the 2021 General Service Conference Advisory Action requesting the development of a Fifth edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous, the trustees’ Literature Committee is seeking a wide range of A.A. recovery experience of members in the Fellowship. The trustees’ Literature Committee is searching for recovery stories of our members for possible inclusion in the Fifth Edition which are from a broad cross-section of our local communities, all stories are of value. As Bill writes on page 29 of the book Alcoholics Anonymous: “Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will persuaded to say, ‘Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing.’”
It is the Literature Committee’s shared hope that any new stories from our current membership will help future alcoholics to identify and find recovery in the pages of a Fifth edition. The suggested format for typed manuscripts is 3500 words, double spaced, in 12-point font. Handwritten manuscripts should be approximately 5 to 6 pages.
Instructions for submitting your story (English language) may be found at this website.
A.A. World Services tells us of an error in recently-printed English-language editions of the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. The Spanish- and French-language editions do not have this error.
According to them, “Due to a typographical error, the text of the Long Form of Tradition Eight was inadvertently repeated in the Long Form of Tradition Nine (page 177) in this edition. The accurate full text of Tradition Nine (Long Form) appears on page 178.”
The full statement regarding the printing error may be found here.
The General Service Board of A.A. recently announced that they have a new Post Office Box for contributions. Box 459 remains the address for general correspondence with G.S.O.
Effective immediately, please send contribution checks to:
Post Office Box 2407
James A Farley Station
New York, NY 10116-2407
Central Office is taking a bold step into the 21st century with an all-electronic meeting change form! It can also be used to let us know about new meetings. There’s a link to this form at the top of the Meetings page. You can also get the form here. It is also linked at the top and bottom of the Meetings page, and the bottom of each meeting detail page.
Completing the form will send the information to our Schedule Editor, and the information will be updated in our Meetings page. This will also update the Meeting Guide app, automatically, as well as the schedule at the Area 46 website.
The Accessibilities and Remote Communities Committee of District 12 has put together a fine pamphlet about alternatives to face-to-face meetings. There are options other than Zoom! A.A. has been passing around our experience, strength, and hope in many ways outside of face-to-face meetings since way before the pandemic. This pamphlet is a great summary of some of these alternatives. You can download it here.
If you need a meeting right now, and are willing to do it on-line, here are two sites that have A.A. meetings at all hours. You may find yourself in a meeting in a foreign country! Meetings at these sites use Zoom.
AA Intergroup has listings of on-line meetings meetings worldwide.
A site called “aahomegroup.org” will show you meetings happening right now.
If you need to get Zoom, go here. A quick video tutorial is here.
“A Visual History Of Alcoholics Anonymous: An Archival Journey” has been published by A.A. World Services. It is available at Central Office.
This book was prepared for the July 2020 International, which was cancelled as an in-person event.
