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Grapevine – Read > Return > Share Program
To drive awareness of and access to Grapevine, our meeting in print, the Area 56 Grapevine / La Viña committee has launched a read & return program. A handful of generous members kickstarted this program through donations of old Grapevines: Kat M., Bill L., Chuck R., Steve B., and the St. Mark’s Group meeting (7:30pm Saturday). In all 350+ issues…
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…
District Boundaries in Area 56
District 01: From the intersection of I-275 and the Indiana-Ohio border, Northeast on I-275 to I-74, East on I-74 to I-75, South on I-75 to the Ohio River, West on the Ohio River to the Indiana border, North on the Indiana border to the start point. District 02: From the intersection of I-75 and the…
Rotation, Our Spiritual Principle
Now that I’m finishing my second year as delegate and I am finally comfortable in my role, it is time to leave. It has been said a thousand times before, by the time you understand your new A.A. position, it is time to rotate. So, why do we practice such an inefficient policy as…
Traditions can be Fuzzy
My homegroup faced some challenges this year. Even though I was glad that we had the opportunity to apply the traditions, they were really not all that clear. In the fall, I filled in as chairperson. I hate chairing big discussion meetings because I feel, as the chair, it is my responsibility to keep the…
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…
