Delegate’s Corner

*Area 56 held its 3rd Assembly of the year today. In addition toOfficer Reports, DCM Reports, Committee Chair Reports anddiscussion on the Budget and Calendar for 2025, we also tookinventory. We did this by the ‘divide and conquer’ method.We broke up into small groups, addressed one question pergroup and then had a spokesperson share our…

“A.A.” is the common shortcut used when writing about Alcoholics Anonymous.  In all our literature, when these initials are used when referring to Alcoholics Anonymous, it is printed “capital A period, capital A period”.  Now what about “AA”?  AA without the periods means Alcoholic in Action.  As your Delegate for Area 56, the first months…

In the US and Canada there are approximately 2 million AA members.There are about 29 million still suffering. What is our message to those inneed? Know that the message comes from us.Our East Central Regional Trustee, Cathi C., said, “I hope you will seein me and my service, a reflection of what AA has done…

It’s finally here! After years in development THE PLAIN LANGUAGE BIGBOOK – A Tool for Reading Alcoholics Anonymous has been published. Thebook is available at Central Office, or you can order directly from aa.org.This is the First Edition, First Printing of the PLBB, as it is commonly called.I purchased one for myself for personal use…

September 2025 Delegate Newsletter (click above to read)

I am attending the 74th General Service Conference of AA, “Connecting with Love, Unity and Service.” I am amazed, *and I am only halfway through!You know what our upside-down triangle looks like, right?This week the bottom portion of that triangle is working together on all the agenda items that were selected this year.I am grateful…