Saturday, March 23rd, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM our Area 07 Delegate, Mathew L. and other area officers are coming to Clovis, to inform and listen. Items to be worked on at the 2024 General Service Conference in New York will be discussed.

Please note that if you previously had saved the Zoom link to the GSR meeting, that link and meeting details are obsolete. New info:

One-Click Zoom

Meeting ID: 890 5332 0199

Passcode: 19350610 (which is AA’s birthday: 1935-06-10)

Join by Phone – US (San Jose)

tel://+16699009128,,89053320199#,,,,*19350610#

Of course, we always welcome people in-person at 449 East Maple Street Exeter, CA 93221

Of course, all these details can always be found at https://aa-tulareco.org/event/gsr-meeting/

The Tulare County Bridging The Gap committee meets in-person at Central Office in Exeter on the first Saturday of the month. This meeting has been moved from 11 AM to noon. We will also set up Zoom for remote attendees.

Bridging The Gap is a Ninth Tradition service committee where members serve as temporary contacts for newcomers leaving treatment (“bridging the gap between the facility and their first AA meetings”).

If you would like to volunteer for this type of service, please join us at our committee meeting. We are preparing service material so that our committee members learn what we do, what we don’t do, and how this service work is best done.

Take the A.A. Membership Survey now!  Closes November 26, 2023.

We are asking members to complete an A.A. Membership Survey. 

All A.A. members are invited to participate (not just the ones from sampled groups).

So please share this link, and encourage any A.A. member who’s interested to jump on and take the survey. It will only take them a few minutes. 

Closes November 26, 2023.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YNV7DJS

General Service Representatives (GSRs) meet once a month on the first Wednesday of the month. For the November meeting, we will start 30 minutes later than normal, this month only. Attendance may still be in-person at Central Office, or via Zoom. We will have nominations for the election next month, and discuss plans for the Election Assembly in Placerville next month.

Keep It Simple Sunday is an outdoor meeting at Blain Park in Visalia. Because it is an outdoor meeting, we move the time later in winter for warmer weather, and earlier in summer for cooler weather. Come join us – it is a beautiful setting for a meeting.

The Primary Purpose Group is beginning a NEW 12 Step Workshop, beginning Monday October 16th, 2023. This workshop goes for 24 weeks. It is important to get in at the beginning, so put it on your calendar. This in-depth workshop will help you understand and work the Twelve Steps completely.

The Primary Purpose Group chose to delay the start one week, from the 9th to the 16th – so you still have time to get in!

Would you like to be of help with the New Year’s Eve Party? We are having a planning meeting this afternoon at the Central Office in Exeter, from 6:00 to 6:45 PM. If you can’t make it in-person to Exeter, we will also have the meeting on Zoom.

Our wrap up meeting for Soberfest 2023 will be Wednesday the October 4th, 2023. Team captains and volunteers, please plan attend.

A long history of A.A. experience has shown that attending meetings regularly is critical. One of the more “slippery” places in the journey to sobriety is between the door of a treatment facility or institution and the nearest A.A. group or meeting.

In order to bridge the gap, A.A. members have volunteered to be temporary contacts and introduce newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous.

It is suggested that the temporary contact take the newcomer to a variety of A.A. meetings, introduce the newcomer to other members of A.A., insure that he or she has the phone numbers of several A.A. members, and share the experience of sponsorship and a home group.

You too can help by joining our Bridging The Gap committee meeting October 7, 2023 at 11 AM at the Central Office in Exeter. You can also join via Zoom.