This is our Meeting Preamble
After his recovery Bill W. used compassionate service to keep his sobriety and his spiritual experience – his resulting psychic change.
Welcome to sober2service 12-Step Recovery.
This meeting is a work in progress and we invite you to join in our journey to improve Recovery Success. We define success as the fulfillment of the AA Big Book Promises in our lives.
This is a beginner’s meeting for sponsors and sponcees. We are providing a safe and structured environment of instruction and encouragement for the process of change necessary to bring about lasting recovery. We are here to help show how to thoroughly and precisely follow the path laid by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
All are welcome; we are open to anyone who wants freedom from the hopeless state of mind and body that is addiction. We are open to help with difficulties other than alcohol. But, because sober2service is based on AA and uses the AA Big Book for reference, we ask that:
“If you have a problem other than alcohol, substitute your addiction, affliction or compulsive behavior for the word alcohol each time you see it in the readings or hear it during these meetings. If you do this, you too, will recover as the direct result of taking ALL Twelve Steps in these Four Weeks.”
– adapted from pg. 3 Back to Basics by Wally P.
Other books and pamphlets can provide additional information that has proven to be assets in growing from information to understanding followed by application but we believe that they don’t contain the instructions on how to take the 12-Steps. Also, while we hope that our meeting will be a significant part in improving success, this is merely an outline.
“Rarely have We seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed Our path…” We think that path is:
- The careful reading and re-reading of the AA Big Book.
- Regular attendance at weekly group meetings – engaging in fellowship
- Study of the Program
- Daily practice of the Program. – Steps 10, 11 & 12.
- Informal discussion with other members
“This instruction is not a short-cut to A.A. It is an introduction – a brief course in the fundamentals.” – adapted from pg. 158 Back to Basics by Wally P. which referenced Alcoholics Anonymous – An interpretation of Our Twelve Steps (Washington, D.C. 1944)