A.A. Hanoi

Introduction

Welcome to the Tuesday at noon 12 Steps and 12 Traditions meeting for Hanoi AA. We are glad you are here, you are welcome, wanted, and needed. Reminder to please silence your phone.

Preamble

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from Alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

Anonymity and Confidentiality are vital principles of any Twelve Step Recovery group. Everything that’s said in the group meeting, and member to member, is private. All that is spoken is to be respected with strictest confidence. In this way we are truly freed and trusting to say what is in our hearts and minds.

We keep our shares free of crosstalk, which means that we do not interrupt any person while they are sharing, and we do not respond directly to another person’s share.

Please be mindful of the time spent sharing, so that as many people as possible will have the opportunity to share.

The 12 Steps

Will (person to the right) please read the 12 steps starting at “here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery…”

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Reading from The 12 x 12

The format of this meeting is that we will each take turns reading a paragraph from the 12×12. Once we have each read, those who wish to may share for 3-5 minutes about their experience from the reading or with recovery from alcoholism. Out of respect for the meeting’s purpose and each member’s time, we will conclude the meeting after each person has had a chance to share. We are on page:________(pass book to the left)

End of Meeting 

7th Tradition

The 7th Tradition reminds us that all AA groups should be fully self supporting, declining outside contributions. In our Hanoi Group your contribution goes towards rent, literature, maintenance of the website and disbursements to regional and world AA offices.

A Vision for You

We will close the meeting with a reading from page 164 in the Big Book, the chapter entitled “A vision for you”. Will someone please read the last 2 paragraphs on page 164? 

“Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little. God will constantly disclose more to you and to us. Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick. The answers will come, if your own house is in order. But obviously you cannot transmit something you haven’t got. See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others. This is the Great Fact for us.

Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.

May God bless you and keep you—until then.”

AA Announcements and Birthdays

Are there any AA related announcements?

Are there any AA birthdays? (If so, tell us how you did it.)

Anonymity

Do not forget that this is an anonymous program. Please respect the anonymity and confidentiality of those you see here.

Serenity Prayer

Close with the serenity prayer

“God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”