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July 12 KC CENTRAL OFFICE DELEGATE MEETING—24 & 7 Group, 11 E Gregory # 100, Kansas City, MO 64114

REGULAR DISTRICT AND SERVICE

Dist. 9 : GSR’s and Service Mtg. 2nd Thursday each month, 7pm Bethel Group 7856 Leavenworth Rd. Kansas City, KS

Dist 10: GSR and Service Mtg. 6:30pm 1st Thursday each month, Leawood Group 2715 W. 83rd, Leawood , KS

Dist. 3 GSR’s and Service Committee Mtg. 2nd Sunday each month. 2pm at the Liberty Group, 1323 E. H Highway. (except for Mother’s Day)

Dist 6 Business Mtg. has changed their meeting dates for '08. The next meeting is 2 weeks before the next Assembly date. 1:30pm KCMO #1 Group. 311 W. 80th Terrace, KCMO

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE—THEY WILL BE MISSED

Neal J. Wing & A Prayer

Mark W. New Tongie

Wayne C. Alive Again

Things we can not change

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Ways to support your Central Office

1. Birthday Contributions—it is suggested a $1.00 per year of sobriety; some give more, the limit set by your General Service office is $3,000.00 per year.

2. Group Contributions—the office has about 240 groups listed. Group contributing to Central Office on a regular basis is about 13% of the 240.

*3. Anonymous Contribution—An individual can contribute on a monthly basis. With the same limit as #1 states. Some other Central Office have a “faithful fiver club” in which individual members contribute or pledge a certain amount to be donated on a monthly basis.

4. Pay for your literature orders when you get them. Some groups are not paying their bills for 60 to 90 days. Which makes the cash flow slow down.

If you have other ideas that could be considered, please, we would like to hear from you. Central Office needs your help.

*We have started a monthly contribution called Central Office Angels. Those who would like to commit to a regular amount can put it on your credit card. You need to come by and fill out and sign a form to let us charge the monthly amount to your card. Thanks for helping us to help others.

Thoughts ….While…..Shaving

I got a funny feeling listening at our AA meeting the other night. We were talking about the importance of attending AA meetings. (Is there anything that should be more important in our lives?).

One fellow said he sure agreed that they were important!! He went on to say, though, that he didn’t want anyone to tell him he had to go to meetings or forcing him in any way to attend meetings. He said he didn’t like being forced to do anything against his will. Then came the real kicker! He said he was sitting around the house that night and didn’t have anything planned, so he decided to come to an AA meeting—and here he was! Well, hot dog and hooray for him! He didn’t have anything better planned to do so he came to the meeting!

I thought to myself, how lucky I have never walked away from an AA meeting without having been glad I attended, and this meeting was no exception. In this case, this man reminded me that this kind of attitude could embrace me with all its subtlety, if I would let it. I was reminded that I must continue honestly trying to keep AA where it belongs in my life—FIRST! So this meeting did its job for me, and somehow or other, I have faith that next week’s meeting will again work its’ wonders on me and my attitude.

I was reminded that I must continue to attend my weekly AA meeting. I was reminded that I must continue to try to live by the 12 Steps daily and not just when I am in the mood. I was reminded of the enormity of this task and that I must daily ask our Higher Power for the help and the guidance needed to carry this out.

We can all find excuses for skipping a meeting or two. That’s easy! I suspect we can even find excuses for even eliminating them altogether. I just wonder, however, if we can find reasons to skip or eliminate them other than we are consciously or unconsciously rejecting this way of life—this life without booze! I think this thought is really something to think over. We may not realize that we are rejecting in the beginning, and the next thing we know, because of the insidious nature of the illness, we’re trapped again!

If we get to thinking that we can stay sober by our own efforts alone, without the help of God and AA, it seems to me that we are again trying to work our way back into the driver’s seat. We forget what a poor job we once did as the driver.

Another thought comes to me about attending meetings. I wonder if we have even started to catch on to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous until we realize that maybe, our attendance could be helping someone else. If we keep coming to meetings with only our own self-centered interests at heart, I think we are like the man with one leg. We’re living with an awful handicap. We must remember that “our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.”