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Saturdays, 9:00 - 10:00 AM -
Room 137
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of
men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each
other that they may solve their common problem and help others to
recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire
to stop drinking.
There are no dues or fees for AA
membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is
not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or
institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither
endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober
and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
 We follow a twelve-step program.
Regardless of the road we follow, we all head for the same destination,
recovery of the alcoholic person. Together, we can do what none of us
could accomplish alone. We can serve as a source of personal experience
and be an ongoing support system for recovering alcoholics.
Twelve (12)
Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous:
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We admitted we were
powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Came to believe that a Power
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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Made a decision to turn our
will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
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Made a searching and fearless
moral inventory of ourselves.
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Admitted to God, to ourselves
and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Were entirely ready to have God
remove all these defects of character.
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Humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
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Made a list of all persons we had
harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
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Made direct amends to such people
wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
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Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only
for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
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Having had a spiritual awakening as
the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to
practice these principles in all our affairs.
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