New GSRS are invited to a join a Orientation at 9am, regular assembly will begin at 9:30am. This is where we will share with our Delegate how Area 30 feels about important conference agenda items.
- Time: Apr 11, 2021 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Online Meeting: email aaemass.districts.12.13@gmail.com for Zoom information.
Some exciting topics that will be discussed at the General Service Conference this year include, (but not limited to):
- Discuss innovative ways of carrying the message to alcoholics in correctional facilities/programs.
- Review the “Google Grants and the Seventh Tradition Report.”
- Review suggested gender-neutral language options for changes to the A.A. Preamble.
- Consider requests to revise the book Alcoholics Anonymous: Revise the first 164 pages.
- Consider proposals related to possible Fifth Edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous:
- Develop a Fifth Edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous with updated stories and revisions to Appendices III and V.
- Add a proposed addendum to a Fifth Edition foreword of the book Alcoholics Anonymous at the time it is published
- Consider requests to revise the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions: To remove the phrase “opposite sex” from paragraph two on page 117 in the chapter “Step Twelve.”
- Consider requests to revise the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions: To reconsider use of the phrase “lustful enough to rape” in paragraph one on page 66 in the chapter “Step Six.”
- Consider revising the pamphlet “Questions & Answers on Sponsorship”: Change the suggestion that sponsor and newcomer be of the same sex.
- Consider requests regarding participation of online groups in the General Service structure.
- Consider draft plan to develop podcasts.