Month: March 2016

2016 CFC 13th Annual Workshop – April 2

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Join us for a day of fabulous fellowship plus learn what we do and how to get more involved in sharing the AA message of HOPE inside and outside the walls. Workshop focuses on how we carry the AA message to the alcoholic who still suffers, especially those confined in, or recently released from jails, prisons, and other correctional facilities. Fellowship and food from 8am to 9am. Workshop with lunch 9am to 2:30pm. See the news item or calendar for complete agenda.

District 26 Workshop – March 26

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AA Beyond the Meeting: Service Into Action is a District 26 workshop that is part presentation, part food and fellowship, part small group discussion, and all AA. Share your experience with service in AA, with presentations from representatives from the four entities of service. Learn how service has strengthened the programs of the speakers and AA as a whole. Find out how to get yourself active in general service. March 26, 10am – 2pm, at New Life Church, 3690 N. Stygler Road, Columbus Ohio 43230.

Area 53 2016 Inventory Plan

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The Area 53 Committee created an inventory plan in early 2016 which is attached to this news item. It called for a beginning at the assembly on March 13 to address two questions: “Reflecting on the Area 53 Guidelines (Article VII), is the Area 53 Committee achieving it’s “primary purpose?” and “In a general way, is it possible for it to improve?”

The committee expects to start the area inventory at the June assembly. Please review the attached plan and come prepared to help improve the area.

Should My Home Group Pay?

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If you are a GSR, you might ask your home group if they are willing to cover some of your mini-conference expenses.

Each group is autonomous in this matter. However, it is a common practice for home groups to provide some financial support for the expenses of their trusted servant. This might include the miniconference registration fee and some of the expense for travel, housing and meals. Attendees often share rides and lodging at the
mini-conference to make attending more practical.

Is The Mini-Conference Self-Supporting?

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The mini-conference strives to be self-supporting and registration fee covers planning and events expenses.

Expenses include literature for agenda items to be discussed, printing flyers and agendas, mailing costs and office supplies. Speakers are not paid a fee; their travel and hotel are covered.
At the conference, coffee is served throughout the day. The hospitality room is self-supporting and accepts voluntary donations from conference attendees.

Your Mini-Conference Team

Do We Need A Conference

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“We may not need a General Service Conference to insure our own recovery. We do need it to insure the recovery of the alcoholic who still stumbles in the darkness one short block from this room.

We need it to insure recovery of a child being born tonight, destined to alcoholism. We need it to provide, in keeping with our Twelfth Step, a permanent haven for all alcoholics who, in the ages ahead, can find in A.A. that rebirth which brought us back to life.”

Bernard B. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 1954 (AA Service Manual)

AA Meetings at Mini-Conference?

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Absolutely! We will have speaker meetings on Saturday evening and Sunday morning in the ballroom, and a discussion on Saturday morning with you morning coffee.

Come join us on Saturday morning at 7:30am for the AA Early Bird Meeting chaired by Brenda B. The meeting format will be “dancing gents and single girls,” says Bill Y. We will be in the Scarlet Oak Room – grab a coffee from the Hospitality Room before you arrive.

Saturday evening at 7:00pm the Open Speaker Meeting is in the Ballroom featuring Tommy B., Delegate from Area 19 (Chicago). This is a special meeting you don’t want to miss! Coffee-o-plenty will be served outside the ballroom.

Sunday morning another Open Speaker Meeting will be held in the Ballroom at 8:00am . The speaker will be Calvin L. from Cleveland Ohio, Area 54.

Not enough AA meetings to meet your needs? We have an idea for “AA Meetups on Demand.” If you want to hold your own AA meeting during any times that committees are not meeting or the conference is not in session, send an email to with a suggested time. We will let you know what space is available for you to use.

In my continued sobriety, I recount why Dr. Bob’s story in the Big Book holds such simple truths. His story conveys that Unity (fellowship), Recovery (meetings) and Service (freely giving back so what we have been given) are our legacies. As Dr. Bob quotes, “I take out a little more insurance for myself against a possible slip.” (page 181, Big Book)

Brenda B.
Your Mini-Conference Team

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