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Interactive Area Maps Are Online
Have you ever wondered in which District your home group is? An interactive Area 56 Map is now online that can help you figure it out. It was developed by the Communications Committee using Google My Maps and includes boundaries or push pins for all of the Area Districts. You can interact with the map…
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Important Information from Our Delegate
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Is Your Group Listed With G.S.O.?
Box 459 August/September 2006 Issue A.A. “has been called an upside-down organization because the groups are on top and the trustees on the bottom” of the service structure. Singly, each of the nearly 61,000 groups in the United States and Canada is autonomous. Yet paradoxically, when linked together all these groups “hold ultimate responsibility and…
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Group Business Meeting: Where A.A. Service Begins
Reprinted from Feb./Mar. 1990 issue of Box 4-5-9. The 85,000 groups comprising A.A. today [108,000 in 2011] hold what co-founder Bill W. called “the ultimate responsibility and final authority for our world services.” But where does this ever-lengthening chain of responsibility begin? Who has the authority to make it happen? The entire structure of…
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Box 459 12 Concepts Article Fall 2011
A.A.’s Twelve Concepts for World Service Looking back from the vantage point of over 75 years, it can be difficult to imagine how uncertain A.A.’s existence was in its early days. Difficult problems related to money, property and prestige plagued the early members and the question of how this group of alcoholics could best get…
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Service is not work – Service is an opportunity
I recently heard a great analogy about being in A.A; it is like having a RV trailer. In the trailer, you’ve got your home group, your sponsor and sponsees, A.A. meetings, the Grapevine and all the A.A. events you regularly attend. Life is good. In the back of the trailer is a door that…
Upcoming Events
Dayton Intergroup is an association of representatives from any official AA meeting within its area. The area covered is Xenia, Ohio west to the Indiana State line. The southern border runs through Middletown. The area extends north to Troy. Within this area there are more than 400 meetings per week at 160 locations.
The purpose of Intergroup is to support the activities of the individual groups through committees:
- Central Office (operates a bookstore and offers walk-in, telephone and email support to people seeking information about Alcoholics Anonymous)
- Archives (preserves local AA history)
- Unity (monthly publication of area information for AA members)
- Public Information and Professional Relations (provides speakers, etc. to non-AA groups or institutions)
- Corrections (provides services to prison inmates and judicial programs)
- Treatment Facilities (sponsors meetings in treatment facilities and provides contact for persons leaving treatment programs)
- Special Needs (handicapped accessible meetings available)
- Hearing Impaired (provides ASL services to hearing impaired members upon request)
- Mobile Meetings (provides meetings to homebound members)
- General Service Representative (coordinates with other Intergroups)
- Grapevine and Literature (provides information about literature available to members and groups)
- Special Events (annual spring banquet and fall breakfast)
- Membership (introduces new Intergroup Representatives to Intergroup purpose, structure and activities)
- Chairperson
- Vice Chairperson
- Treasurer
- Secretary
Greater Cincinnati Intergroup Council Meeting
We meet the 2nd Monday every month, except there is no intergroup meeting in July.
- New Rep Orientation @ 7:00 PM
- Intergroup Meeting @ 7:30 PM
- 2nd Monday of Each Month
Greater Cincinnati Intergroup Council Meeting
We meet the 2nd Monday every month, except there is no intergroup meeting in July.
- New Rep Orientation @ 7:00 PM
- Intergroup Meeting @ 7:30 PM
- 2nd Monday of Each Month
Dayton Intergroup is an association of representatives from any official AA meeting within its area. The area covered is Xenia, Ohio west to the Indiana State line. The southern border runs through Middletown. The area extends north to Troy. Within this area there are more than 400 meetings per week at 160 locations.
The purpose of Intergroup is to support the activities of the individual groups through committees:
- Central Office (operates a bookstore and offers walk-in, telephone and email support to people seeking information about Alcoholics Anonymous)
- Archives (preserves local AA history)
- Unity (monthly publication of area information for AA members)
- Public Information and Professional Relations (provides speakers, etc. to non-AA groups or institutions)
- Corrections (provides services to prison inmates and judicial programs)
- Treatment Facilities (sponsors meetings in treatment facilities and provides contact for persons leaving treatment programs)
- Special Needs (handicapped accessible meetings available)
- Hearing Impaired (provides ASL services to hearing impaired members upon request)
- Mobile Meetings (provides meetings to homebound members)
- General Service Representative (coordinates with other Intergroups)
- Grapevine and Literature (provides information about literature available to members and groups)
- Special Events (annual spring banquet and fall breakfast)
- Membership (introduces new Intergroup Representatives to Intergroup purpose, structure and activities)
- Chairperson
- Vice Chairperson
- Treasurer
- Secretary
Dayton Intergroup is an association of representatives from any official AA meeting within its area. The area covered is Xenia, Ohio west to the Indiana State line. The southern border runs through Middletown. The area extends north to Troy. Within this area there are more than 400 meetings per week at 160 locations.
The purpose of Intergroup is to support the activities of the individual groups through committees:
- Central Office (operates a bookstore and offers walk-in, telephone and email support to people seeking information about Alcoholics Anonymous)
- Archives (preserves local AA history)
- Unity (monthly publication of area information for AA members)
- Public Information and Professional Relations (provides speakers, etc. to non-AA groups or institutions)
- Corrections (provides services to prison inmates and judicial programs)
- Treatment Facilities (sponsors meetings in treatment facilities and provides contact for persons leaving treatment programs)
- Special Needs (handicapped accessible meetings available)
- Hearing Impaired (provides ASL services to hearing impaired members upon request)
- Mobile Meetings (provides meetings to homebound members)
- General Service Representative (coordinates with other Intergroups)
- Grapevine and Literature (provides information about literature available to members and groups)
- Special Events (annual spring banquet and fall breakfast)
- Membership (introduces new Intergroup Representatives to Intergroup purpose, structure and activities)
- Chairperson
- Vice Chairperson
- Treasurer
- Secretary
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