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 January 16, 2023 @ 7pm Hybrid
Next Meeting:
Mon January 16, 2023 @ 7pm Hybrid
Opening/Mission Statement
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 Phamplet Volunteer:
When you’re a general service representative (G.S.R.) : At district meetings, you join with G.S.R.s from other groups. Perhaps you’ve already worked with an intergroup or central office, where groups band together to help alcoholics just in your locality. But your general service district is the second link in an entirely different chain, which extends much farther. Your district is one part of a general service area. With your fellow G.S.R.s, you elect a district committee member, and all the D.C.M.s make up the area committee. Now, do you just sit back and let your D.C.M. take it from there? No! G.S.R.s stay very much in action in each of the 93 areas in the U.S. and Canada.
Volunteer:
Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.
Volunteer:
Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
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
Secretary Report - Jimmy P.
Treasurer - Paul T/Paul S Group Contributions Form
Committee Reports
Area 30 Services - Position & Committee Descriptions and Contact Information CLICK HERE
Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC) - (2nd Thursday 7 pm) - Kim B.
====Open Positions =====================
Archives - ( 3rd Tues 7:30pm) Group History Form | On Line Form - OPEN
Accessibilities - (3rd Wed 6:30 pm) - OPEN
Chair - OPEN
Corrections - (4th Thu 7 pm) - OPEN
DCM & Alt DCM - OPEN
Grapevine - (4th Sun 1 pm) aaGrapevine.org - OPEN
Joint Treatment Facilities - (3rd Fri 7 pm) - OPEN
Literature - (1 st Mon 7 pm) - OPEN
Public Information (1st Thu 7 pm) - OPEN
Registar - OPEN GSR Change Form or Word Doc | New Group Form or Word Doc | GSR Packets Click to get your GSR Packet PDF
Web Site - (1st Wed 7:00pm ) - OPEN
Community Outreach
Braintree - Kim B | Milton - Jay | Quincy - Chris G. | Randolph - Kim B | Weymouth - Ashley
OLD Business
Open Positions
for 2023-24 Positions
DCM (3)
Alt Chair
Committees positions Volunteer
Alcathon Xmas and New Years 2022-23 Click here to go to Page
Feedback
Treasury Report on Alcathon
Monthly Reminders - Updates
Group Conscience Meetings facilitator - Katherine Service Seminar Chair serviceseminar@aaemass.org
Road Show's Get in Touch With Chris G.
New Business
GSR Packets Click to get your GSR Packet PDF
Continue with Hybrid Meetings in 2023
Zoom Fees $144/Year
Website Fees $308/year Current Account has $219.50 Credit Montly Cost $25.50
Purchase AV Equipment $272.25 Plus Tax
PROJECTOR $169
MICROPHONE $28
USB EXT CABLE $8.99 X 2 - $17.98
TRIPOD $13.38
CAMERA $29
HDMI CABLE 20 FT. $14.89
Tabled Business
Goals for 2022/23
AREA Assembly § Commitment
Building Group Participation in Area Activities
Brain Storming - Carrying the Message
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Meetings with status type “Location Temporarily Closed” will be deleted from our Online Meeting List after Labor Day to comply with a scheduled update as requested by GSO Meeting Guide App Support staff. Please review your meeting information for accuracy before and after Labor Day if possible. Report any inaccuracies to us at BCSC and corrections will be completed ASAP.
The website is updated daily.
Please notify the office on updated information about your group. Contact 617-426-9444 and ask to speak to someone on staff. visit: https://aaboston.org for more information
From Area 30 Bulletin Items in our District
Bulletin 2023
PHONE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day...1 year of sobriety Required. Phone times: 12 Noon 12/24 until 7 pm 12/25
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
NOTICES:
Quincy Walk the Talk Friday Zoom 840 4750 0860 Password: 169145 as of December 1
Weymouth New Journeys Friday @ Unit. Univ. Ch., 83 Sea St. meeting 7-8 pm. No beg. mtg.
NOT MEETING ON DATES INDICATED:
Braintree Eye Opener Sunday Dec18 and Dec 25
Everybody's Group Sunday Dec 25, no Zoom meeting
GROUP ANNIVERSARIES/ Events:
Nov 15 - Braintree Tuesday Night-All Souls Ch., 196 Elm St. Gratitude Meeting 8-9 pm
SPECIAL EVENTS OF INTEREST TO AA MEMBERS:
Jan 7, Serenity Breakfast @ Bay Pointe Waterfront Restaurant 64 Washington Ct. Quincy 9-10 AM $20
CLICK HERE FOR BULLETINS Deadline for Next Bulletin: Dec 20, 2022
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JOINT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES COMMITTEE:
AA GROUPS AND INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED TO BRING MEETINGS INTO JAILS IN Essex and Suffolk counties. If you are interested in doing corrections service in jails or prisons, come to the Joint Correctional Facilities Committee meetings on the 4th Thursday each month at 7 pm on Zoom to learn how to get involved Zoom ID 842 8172 0059 and Passcode 446053 or join the email list by emailing the JCFC Chairperson at kerrimaclaury@gmail.com
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
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 CHART - HOW WE DO BUSINESS
Keeping to the Agenda
Request to be heard
Questions
Motions/ Seconds/ Discussion/Voting/ Minority Opinion/Reconsider
Discussion Limits/Address Questions/Table Issue