Christmas Eve – Monday, December 24th Cancellations:

• Women’s Group, 1:00 PM, East Gate Alliance Church, 550 Codd’s Road
• 12&12, 8:00 PM, St. Gabriel Church, 55 Appleford Street
• Remember When, 8:00 PM Christ Risen Lutheran Church, 85 Leacock Drive
• Pinecrest Group, 8:00 PM, Our Lady of Fatima Church, 153 Woodroffe Avenue

Christmas Day – Tuesday, December 25th Cancellations:

• 12 & 12 Lunch Bunch, 12:00 PM, Nepean Baptist Church, 135 Woodfield Drive
• The Podium/Hill Group, 12:15 PM, St. Andrew’s Church, 82 Kent Street
• Sisters Of Sobriety, 7:00 PM, St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, 971 Woodroffe Avenue
• Beacon Hill, 8:00 PM, St. Gabriel Church, 55 Appleford Street

New Years Eve – Monday, December 31st Cancellations:

• Women’s Group, 1:00 PM, East Gate Alliance Church, 550 Codd’s Road
• 12&12, 8:00 PM, St. Gabriel Church, 55 Appleford Street

New Years Day – Tuesday, January 1st Cancellations:

• 12 & 12 Lunch Bunch, 12:00 PM, Nepean Baptist Church, 135 Woodfield Drive
• The Podium/Hill Group, 12:15 PM, St. Andrew’s Church, 82 Kent Street
• Sisters Of Sobriety, 7:00 PM, St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, 971 Woodroffe Avenue
• Beacon Hill, 8:00 PM, St. Gabriel Church, 55 Appleford Street

Send your cancellations to info@ottawaaa.org to have them added to this announcement.

The Fellowship Group meeting normally held on Saturdays at 8:00 pm at Parkdale United Church, 429 Parkdale Avenue will be cancelled on December 15th.

Effective January 5, 2019, The Saturday Morning Big Book Meeting at St. Stephen’s Church, 579 Parkdale Avenue, will begin at 9:30 a.m. instead of 11:00 a.m.

The Hope in Recovery Meeting, normally held on Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at the Hometown Grill, 1525 Bank Street is cancelled on Sunday, December 16th.

ANNOUNCING NEW MEETING IN ORLEANS

NAME: LOVING-KINDESS MEDITATION MEETING
WHEN: TUESDAY EVENINGS
WHERE: ORLEANS UNTIED CHURCH, YOUTH LOUNGE, 1111 ORLEANS BLVD. (PARKING REAR ENTRANCE)
TIME: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
DETAILS: The meeting will be open and based on Step 11 with a silent 30 minute meditation and brief sharing of the meditation experience afterward.

NOTE: In respect to those attending, once the meditation begins, the door to the lounge will be locked; and no access will be given for the duration of the meditation.

Click here for printable poster to use for your home group announcements.

Monday, December 3rd, 7:00 p.m.
3955 Old Richmond Road at Moodie
Bells Corners United Church

Ho, Ho, Ho, and So, So, Sober for the Holidays!

Going through the Holidays and attending parties without liquid spirits can be a fearful event for many, especially in our first year of sobriety. Crossroads is again hosting a meeting on this very subject! Three speakers who’ve had many holiday seasons in sobriety will share their experience, strength and hope for 15 minutes each, and offer suggestions to maintain sobriety and joy through the holidays. We can have an all-round ball in recovery ……”We are not a glum lot!”

Potluck Meeting – Open to all

Door Prizes:

Living Sober Book – Crossroads will be donating 3 copies of Living Sober. Members in their first year of sobriety will receive a ballot for a raffle. Donations of this book or any AA approved literature from other groups for the raffle are welcome and appreciated.

Join us before the meeting for a potluck. Snacks and Christmas baking appreciated.

Proceeds of the 7th tradition will be donated to the Alkathon.

Wishing all a safe and sober Holiday!
Crossroads Group

The Back to Basics meeting, normally held at St. Elizabeth’s Church, 1303 Leaside Ave., Saturdays at 8:00 pm will be cancelled on December 8th.

Looking for a great service opportunity? The Alkathon Committee is looking for volunteers and food donations will be needed!

Committee meetings are held at 1:00 PM at the Bronson Center (211 Bronson Avenue) in Room 109 – here is the schedule of remaining meetings: Nov 18th, Dec 2nd, Dec 9th, Dec 16th, Dec 23rd.

For more information, along with online forms to host a meeting or to volunteer, visit alkathon.ottawaaa.org

Please submit your forms to host a meeting by November 23rd.

The From the Heart Group Meeting has moved to:

180 Percy Street
McNabb Community Centre
Meeting Room B
Day: Thursday (same)
Time: 8:00 PM (same)

Due to damage incurred at École secondaire de l’ile, 255, rue St-Rédempteur in Gatineau, three French meetings have been affected.

Two will be held at alternate addresses as shown below:

Hull Central – Mondays at 8:00 PM, 17, rue des Groseilliers, Église St-Pierre-Chanel (Coin Mont-Bleu)
Sagesse – Tuesdays at 8:00 PM, 13, rue Sainte-Bernadette, Église Sainte Bernadette (as of October 23rd)

The third meeting will be cancelled until further notice:

La belle étoile – Saturdays at 8:00 PM

Attention young people and people who are young at heart!

Click the link below for a printable pre-registration form for the OSYPAA Conference being held from November 30th to December 2nd at the Double Tree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland, Oregon. Visit osypaa6.com for more details.

Printable form.

To make a Group Contribution via credit card to the Ottawa Area Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous please click “Contribute” below to make a secure credit card contribution enabled through Paypal.

Your contributions support the following Intergroup Functions:

• maintain a central office with a postal address, and a telephone listing in the Ottawa-Hull telephone directory
• maintain a telephone answering service
• publish a meeting list
• publish a newsletter
• stock and sell medallions and A.A. conference approved literature
• sponsor a Spring Conference
• sponsor a Fall Conference known as the Eastern Ontario Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous
• sponsor a Sunday morning open meeting (McNabb)
• maintain a website
• assist and advise in the formation of new groups or meetings

Ottawa Area Intergroup has negotiated the renewal of this valuable program for our groups. If you had to purchase a similar policy for your group on an individual basis, the minimum premium would be $540.

Please note, that the $100 premium for $2,000,000 Liability is an annual minimum premium and cannot be pro-rated. The Master Policy runs from November to November, and certificates are issued for that term.

FOR THIS YEAR ONLY, if a group needs coverage between now and November, the insurer has agreed to charge only $50 plus tax to issue a certificate of insurance.

Insurance premiums are GST exempt, but PST is still charged. When writing your cheque, please make it out for $108, including the 8% PST, or $54 if you are taking a short-term policy.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND THE APPLICATION TO THE INTERGROUP OFFICE! The address is to be found on the attached form. Click here to download it.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Harry B at vicechair@ottawaaa.org

Effective July 18th, Change We Must, previously held on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. at Rothwell United Church, 42 Sumac Street in Beacon Hill has closed. A note has been added to the online meeting list as well.

* Announcement Reissued August 17th* Rothwell United Church staff reached out to let us know that people have continued to arrive on Wednesday nights expecting a meeting.

The Ottawa Area Intergroup of AA is looking for a Newsletter Coordinator. Monthly editions of “Our Primary Purpose” are to be compiled and published by a committee of volunteers to be set up by the Newsletter Coordinator.

Requirements:
– Working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat
– Basic working knowledge of Word Press
– Strong grammar and writing skills
– Clear understanding of AA Traditions and Concepts and how they apply in publishing AA material
– An ability to work with others
– Ability to establish and act as Chair for a Newsletter Committee that reports to the Board
– Legal capacity to sit as a member of the Board
– A Home Group
– A Sponsor
– Minimum of 5 years of sobriety

In keeping with AA Traditions, anyone can put their name forward for a position at an election. The person running has to be able to convey to the membership that they have the skills necessary to do the job.

If you are interested in standing for the Newsletter Coordinator position, please email chair@ottawaaa.org and/or attend the next Intergroup Meeting on Wednesday, July 11th at 7:00 p.m. at the Bronson Centre (Mac Hall).

Ottawa West District 62 will be facilitating a 12 Concepts Study/Workshop starting in July. We hear about them, we might have even seen them, but do we know what they are all about? Here’s an opportunity to find out in a Group setting.

2nd Monday of every month until the end of the year at 6:00 pm
The Ottawa West District 62 hall
All Saints Church, 347 Richmond Road – Westboro
Parking on Madison Ave. behind the Church

First meeting: Monday, July 9th

Bring a Service manual if you have one. ALL MEMBERS WELCOME!!!

Click here for a printable flyer to bring to your groups.

To all members of Home Groups hosting AA Meetings at the Ottawa Withdrawal Management Centre this announcement is for you!

It is very important that the meeting guidelines are followed carefully and we’d like to advise you that an updated document has been posted here (click link to open).

Please print it for distribution and discussion at your business meetings.

For more information, or how you or your group can get involved, contact the OWMC Coordinator via email at owmc@ottawaaa.org

As we neatly tie a bow around another year at Intergroup, we wanted to share how you, “the fellowship”, thought we did this year and what you identified as Intergroup’s Opportunities and Challenges moving forward in 2018.

Click here to view the 2017 Intergroup Inventory Results

Thanks again for your input, support, dedication and indeed direction of this past year.

Wishing you and your family much Peace, Love, Friendship and Health.

2017 Board of Directors
Ottawa Area Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous

Credit cards are now accepted at the Intergroup Office for Literature purchases

Call before heading down to the office to make sure a volunteer is on-site