For Home Groups
For Home Groups
Click here for Resources for Meetings & Home Groups – includes printable literature and other resources to support meetings, attendees, and newcomers
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Paper versions of pamphlets and resources may also be available at
Central Office, 638 Papworth Ave Ste A, Metairie
From A.A.W.S.: https://www.aa.org/the-aa-group
SMF-104: Is Your Group Linked to A.A. As a Whole?
F-119W: Contents of Group Handbook List
SMF-169: Researching A.A. Group History
SMF-29 Conference-Approved Literature
More About Home Groups
Reprinted from the A.A. Home Group pp. 15-16, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
The A.A. Home Group
Traditionally, most A.A. members through the years have found it important to belong to one group that they call their “home group.” This is the group where they accept service responsibilities and try to sustain friendships. And although all A.A. members are usually welcome at all groups and feel at home at any of these meetings, the concept of the home group has still remained the strongest bond between the A.A. member and the Fellowship.
With membership comes the right to vote on issues that might affect the group and might also affect A.A. as a whole– a process that forms the very cornerstone of A.A.’s service structure. As with all ground-conscience matters, each A.A. member has one vote; and this, ideally, is voiced through the home group.
Over the years, the very essence of A.A. strength has remained with our home group, which, for many members, becomes our extended family. Once isolated by our drinking, we find in the home group a solid, continuing support system, friends and, very often, a sponsor. We also learn firsthand, through the group’s workings, how to place “principles before personalities” in the interest of carrying the A.A. message.
Reprinted from the A.A. Home Group pp. 18-19, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
What Do A.A. Group Members Do?
“I am responsible … when anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that I am responsible.” In short, when newcomers walk into our meeting rooms, we want A.A. to be there for them as it was for us – something we can do continuously only if we function as a group.
But, for a group to keep going, all kinds of service must be done. It is through the combined efforts and ongoing commitment of group members that:
- A meeting place is provided and maintained
- Programs are arranged for the meetings
- Seventh Tradition contributions are collected, and properly allocated and spent
- A.A. Conference-approved literature is on hand
- A.A. Grapevine and La Vina literature and lists of local group meetings are available
- Refreshments are available
- Assistance in finding A.A. meetings is given to alcoholics in the area
- Calls for help are answered
- Group problems are aired and resolved
- Continuing contact is sustained with the rest of A.A. – locally, through the intergroup (central office), district and area’s general service structure; and nationally and internationally, through the General Service Office in New York.
Meeting in a Pamphlet (Serenity Prayer, Preamble, How It Works, and other readings and prayers to facilitate a meeting, anytime anywhere | To print: Set to “Fit”, “Landscape”, “Two-sided flip on short edge”)