Announcements

Special Business Meeting, 5:30 PM Pacific Time, January 20th: All ECF members, especially all secretaries, are invited to a special business meeting at 5:30 PM (Pacific Time) next Monday, Jan. 20 to decide on how to revise our meeting script, Please come and help us make our basic meeting script work best!

ECF BUSINESS MEETINGS ARE HELD ON THE SECOND MONDAY OF EACH MONTH: Our next regular meeting is Monday, February 10th, 2025 from 5:30 to 6:45 PM. To suggest an agenda item please contact business.manager@ecfaa.org.

PLEASE JOIN OUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION ON Saturday, January 25th AT 9:00 AM (Pacific Time), as we celebrate sobriety birthdays and milestones!

To request a birthday chip, contact birthday.chips@ecfaa.org. Include your full name, address, and the chip (months or years of sobriety) you are requesting.

Our next First Thursday Workshop of 2025 will be on February 6th: This year we will be discussing AA’s 12 Promises, aka the 9th Step Promises, and what it means to be “painstaking about this phase of our development.”

On February 6th, we will discuss Promise 2: “We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.”

Please join us on the 6th at 5:30 PM (Pacific Time).

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.