Announcements

Two new Friday meetings as of August 23, 2024: We will now have a new in-person meeting at noon every Friday at the Veterans Hall located at 6401 Stockton Avenue, El Cerrito. Also starting on August 23rd, we are starting a Beginners Living Sober meeting to be held online every Friday at 5:30PM. Please join us in supporting these new meetings.

2024 GSR Conference update: You can read the Top Ten Takeaways here.

Secretary and Tech Training and Support is Available: Thanks to everyone who attended our secretary workshops. To get on-going help or support, please contact business.manager@ecfaa.org and we will arrange to get you the support needed.

Our next FIRST THURSDAY WORKSHOP will be held on September 5th at 5:30 PM: On Thursday, September 5th our panelists and participants will discuss the principles we associate with Step 9. Please join us. We encourage questions and lively conversation.

PLEASE JOIN OUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION ON September 27th AT 9:00 AM (Pacific Time). Yes, we now have a new day and time to celebrate sobriety birthdays and we have plenty in the month of September, so please join us on the 27th at 9AM.

TO REQUEST A BIRTHDAY CHIP please contact birthday.chips@ecfaa.org. Include your full name, address, and the chip (months or years of sobriety) you are requesting.

OUR NEXT REGULAR BUSINESS MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MONDAY, September 9th, 2024 FROM 5:30 TO 6:45 PM: To suggest an agenda item please contact business.manager@ecfaa.org. Here are last month's meeting minutes, and September's agenda.

SPONSORSHIP: If you are currently available to be a sponsor, please type your name and the word "sponsor" with your phone number in the chat box at any online meeting. More information is available in the pamphlet  "Questions and Answers on Sponsorship" at aa.org. Another way to find a sponsor: listen to others in several different meetings. Sponsors will have more than a year sobriety; have a sponsor; have “worked the steps” and are available to be a mentor for you.

H&I SERVICE: AA members are needed to take A.A. meetings into jails, recovery centers, shelters and hospitals. This is 12th Step work at its most basic and vital, and a great opportunity to bring our program of hope to those who may be truly suffering. “It is the great paradox of A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away”. (12&12, p. 151).

See the Area 53 (Oakland/Alameda) Roster for opportunities. Attend an orientation on Zoom on the first Wednesday each month at 6:30.
Meeting ID: 317 259 5765
Passcode: ACTION

Please contact our H&I Rep at handi@ecfaa.org if you have any questions or need more info.

NEWCOMER LITERATURE: If you are new and need literature, please contact literature@ecfaa.org for a newcomer packet.

COURT CARDS - ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION: Send an email to secretary.coordinator@ecfaa.org. Include your name, date and time of the meeting you attended, and name of the meeting secretary. Your attendance will be verified within 24 hours.