Next Meeting

Meeting ID: 884 7243 7705           Passcode: GSRD8

3rd Monday of Every Month  7 pm - 8:30 pm

Quincy Point Congregational Church, 2nd Floor

444 Washington Street, Quincy MA 

District 8 Business Meeting
Next Meeting:
Mon June 19, 2023 @ 7pm Hybrid

Opening/Mission Statement 

Read by Chair  

Declaration of Unity  **Read by ALL 

This we owe to AA’s future; to place our common welfare first; to keep our fellowship united. For on AA unity depends our lives, and the lives of those to come.

Introductions

State your Name, Disease and Group Affiliation and Role in the District.  Zoom Please Change your name to include Position and Group 

New GSR's and Interested AA's be sure to provide your Name  email and phone in the Chat to be added to the Email Lists.  GSR Packets Click to get your GSR Packet PDF 

Anniversaries

Any AA Birthdays since we last met or you attended. 

GSR Role  

GSR Pamphlet   Volunteer:

When you’re a general service representative (G.S.R.) : Because you’ve made a special point of studying the information listed below, you can help when your group faces a problem involving one of the Traditions. You don’t have to know all the answers — no one member possibly could — but you learn where to look for good suggestions, drawn from broad A.A. experience.

Click here for your current issue of Box 4-5-9

Volunteer: 

Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual. An A.A. group, as such, should never go into business. Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups. Hence such facilities ought not to use the A.A. name. Their management should be the sole responsibility of those people who financially support them. For clubs, A.A. managers are usually preferred. But hospitals, as well as other places of recuperation, ought to be well outside A.A.—and medically supervised. While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied. An A.A. group can bind itself to no one. 

Volunteer: 

On behalf of A.A. as a whole, our General Service Conference has the principal responsibility for the maintenance of our world services, and it traditionally has the final decision respecting large matters of general policy and finance. But the Conference also recognizes that the chief initiative and the active responsibility in most of these matters should be exercised primarily by the Trustee members of the Conference when they act among themselves as the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous.

GSR Reports

What's going on with your groups?
Report Back on the Groups you might have visited this month?

Monthly Reports ~ with motions to accept and vote

Committee Reports

Area 30 Services - Position & Committee Descriptions and Contact Information  CLICK HERE

       Area Committee Page - Area 30 Calendar

Community Outreach

Braintree - Kim B | Milton - Mike | Quincy - David | Randolph - Kim B | Weymouth - Marie


OLD Business

11 years before NERF returns to Massachusetts


Monthly Reminders - Updates


New Business

May 21 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pmHosted by Hispanic District #27

WHERE: EAST BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL

ADDRESS: 86 WHITE STREET EAST BOSTON , MA 02128

TIME: 10:00 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m.

ORIENTATION: 9:15 a.m

Tabled Business

Area 30 Bulletin 2023 - Link


Central Service Committee, 12 Channel St., Suite 604, Boston MA 02210
Office: 617-426-9444 Book Orders Only: 617-426-4807 Area 30 Web Site: aaboston.org and  Area 30 Contact Information

COMMITTEE MEETINGS:  Check for updates >>  https://aaboston.org/monthly-bulletin

May 17 Wed Delegates Meeting Central Service, 12 Channel St., Suite 604, 7 pm
May 19 Fri Joint Treatment Facilities Zoom 829 7226 6742 Password: 659976 7 pm
May 25 Thu Joint Correctional Facilities Zoom ID 850 8064 9068 Password: 872145 7 pm
Quincy Thu- Burn The Boat- now called BTB Dad’s New Way Recovery 85 Quincy Ave. 6-7 pm

NEW GROUPS/MEETING/CHANGES - DISTRICT 8
Quincy Friday- 11th Step- St. Chrysostom’s 1 Linden St. 7 pm OSD
Braintree Tue- 30-60-90 no longer hybrid live meeting Emmanuel Church 519 Washington St 7-8 pm

SPECIAL EVENTS OF INTEREST TO AA MEMBERS:
none in district

Price increase on hard cover Big Book and Living Sober effective July 1st Hard Cover Big Book $12 Living Sober $6 Prices on all literature available from both G.S.O and Grapevine have been increased. 

Boston Central Service will delay increasing prices as long as current inventory holds up 


 CLICK HERE FOR BULLETINS              Deadline for June Bulletin:  JUNE 20, 2023          Business office closed Monday June 19th

Whats on your Mind

8:20 Time Check  - Call from Chair for meeting extension if needed.. Members will identify MUST do items for this month and then vote on meeting extension if needed

Ending read by ALL

I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help,
I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible

How we Do Business   Roberts rule of Order

General overview of Roberts Rules of order - FLOW CHARTHOW WE DO BUSINESS