Posted: May 8th, 2012 | Filed under: aa news |
LAST MONTH! Central Office in Nanaimo has been holding a sale on “Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions” this spring. All available versions are marked down by 20%. Sales ends May 31st.
Alcoholics Anonymous first published Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions in 1953. Bill W., who along with Dr. Bob S., founded A.A. in 1935, wrote the book to share 18 years of collective experience within the Fellowship on how A.A. members recover, and how the A.A. society functions. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions–or “the 12 and 12″ as it’s often called–is often a primary text, along with the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, used in Step study groups and in working the Steps.
Central Office has several versions available and the sale prices are: hard cover $11.40; gift edition $11.20; soft cover $10.80; large print $12.00; and pocket edition $8.40.
Posted: May 8th, 2012 | Filed under: events, recovery, service, unity |
Saturday May 12, 2012, from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm at the Harewood Activity Centre, 195 Fourth Street in Nanaimo. Includes a potluck lunch.
Want to know what the 12 Concepts are? Come & find out! This event will also include a Conference Report by our BC/Yukon (Area 79) Delegate, Scott H.
The Delegate represents Area 79 at the annual General Service Conference meeting, in New York, and brings back to the area the results of that meeting. It is also the delegate’s responsibility to serve the US/Canada Conference as a whole. As voting members of the Conference, delegates bring to its deliberations the experiences and viewpoints of their own areas. Yet they are not representatives of their area in the usual political sense; after hearing all points of view, and becoming fully informed during Conference discussion, they vote in the best interest of A.A. as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 8th, 2012 | Filed under: recovery |
“When I came around I used to walk from Lantzville to Brechin Church to a meeting because I wanted to stay sober”
Interview with Steve B, an A.A. old-timer
How and where did you get sober?
I got sober in Nanaimo…here in Nanaimo in 1983. And I’ve been sober going on 29 years. It was very difficult in the beginning because I had no skills and no education and so I started coming to A.A. For the first five years it was go to a meeting every day and I needed to learn about the Steps, Traditions, and the Big Book. The Big Book is a textbook, so I studied the textbook and did the Steps and have been sober ever since. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 20th, 2012 | Filed under: events |
Saturday April 28 at Brechin United–meeting at 6 p.m. and show at 7 p.m.
Come out to Nanaimo’s first annual AA talent show on Saturday April 28 at 6 p.m. There will be a meeting at 6 followed by the talent show from 7 to 10pm. We have over 15 performers from Nanaimo and Victoria lined up with talents ranging from story tellers to guitarists and from actors to barbershop quartets. There will be a concession serving refreshments (as well as free coffee) and 50-50 tickets being sold. Tickets are $5 at the door. The event is hosted by NANYPAA (Nanaimo Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous) and BCYPAA (British Columbia Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous). Download the poster in PDF here. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 24th, 2012 | Filed under: aa news |
A.A.’s Big Book, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions now available in eBook format
NEW YORK–Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (A.A.W.S.) is pleased to announce that our two central texts describing the A.A. program of action for recovery from alcoholism are now available in eBook format in English, French, and Spanish.
Publication in this digital media format will give broader distribution and access to A.A.’s basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous, known popularly as the Big Book, which has helped millions of men and women throughout the world, and in all walks of life, find a new and satisfying way of life without alcohol. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 17th, 2012 | Filed under: events, newsletter, recovery, service, unity |
“Give them the gift of sobriety. That’s your job.”
Nanaimo’s 44th annual AA rally was held over the last weekend in January, providing a venue and many opportunities for AA members from across the mid-Island region to share their recovery with one another—and to invite newcomers into the Fellowship.
Under the theme “A gift that grows,” five keynote speakers from Alcoholics Anonymous and partnering Fellowship Al-Anon shared their experiences with sobriety—the “gift that grows”—with hundreds of rally-goers. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 10th, 2012 | Filed under: newsletter, unity |
5th Annual District 7 AA Traditions Study
This 12 week study uses the AA book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. New this year: a different speaker will share about the tradition being studied each week.
The Traditions study is being held on Sunday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:30 pm, beginning on Sunday February 5 and ending on Sunday April 22. Location: the Fireside Room at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 100 Chapel Street, Nanaimo. This study is an Open Meeting; everyone is welcome. Bring your own tea or coffee. For more information, contact your home group’s general service representative (GSR), speak to Melinda (the alternate district committee member (DCM) for District 7) or contact central office.
Posted: January 5th, 2012 | Filed under: events, recovery, service, unity |
44th annual Nanaimo AA rally
Fri. Jan. 27, Sat. Jan. 28, & Sun. Jan. 29
The 2012 rally theme is inspired by the reading for June 26th in Daily Reflections*:
A Gift That Grows With Time
For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. –Alcoholics Anonymous, p.151
The longer I chased these elusive feelings with alcohol, the more out of reach they were. However, by applying this passage to my sobriety, I found that it described the magnificent new life made available to me by the A.A. program. It “truly does get better” one day at a time. The warmth, the love and the joy so simply expressed in these words grow in breadth and depth each time I read it. Sobriety is a gift that grows with time. Read the rest of this entry »
LAST MONTH! Central Office in Nanaimo has been holding a sale on “Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions” this spring. All available versions are marked down by 20%. Sales ends May 31st.
