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Al-Anon & Alateen

Alabama, Northwest Florida Area 64

District 15 Meeting Times and Places

Okaloosa, and Walton Counties, Florida

A “Closed Discussion” meeting welcomes anyone – family or friend – who has been affected by someone else’s drinking. Meetings offer a safe place where people can come and talk about dealing with the family disease of alcoholism.

An “Open Discussion” meeting allows attendance by those interested in learning about Al-Anon Family Groups (professionals, students, etc.). All present at an open meeting should be aware that the assurance of anonymity (Tradition Eleven) is essential to our efforts to help family and friends of alcoholics.

District 15 Website

TimeNameLocationNotes
Monday
6:00 PMFt. Walton Beach AFGShalimar United Methodist Church
1 Old Ferry Rd, Shalimar 32579

HYBRID:
F2F: Family Life Bldg: 2nd Floor Room 211; elevator
access
ZOOM: Meeting ID: 4530899757; Password:
welcome		Open Discussion
6:00 PMNew Beginnings Alateen
(Ages 10-18 yrs. only)		Shalimar United Methodist Church
1 Old Ferry Rd, Shalimar 32579
Family Life Bldg., 2nd Floor Room 212, elevator access		Closed Discussion
7:00 PMDestin AFGFirst Presbyterian Church
154 Calhoun Ave, Destin 32541		Open Discussion
7:00 PMA Little Time for Myself AFGPoint Washing United Methodist Church
1290 N CO HWY 395, Santa Rosa Beach 32459		Open Discussion
Tuesday
6:30 PMCrestview AFGCrosspoint United Methodist Church
North Campus
6268 Old Bethel Rd.
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32536
(Meet in front of the church)

HYBRID Meeting:
ZOOM ID: 946 0817 6727
Password: 32459		Open Discussion
7:00 PMBluewater Bay AFGChrist Our Redeemer Catholic Church
1043 White Point Road
Niceville, FL 32578
Building B (the rear building)
Using the carport entry,
take the left-hand hallway to the third door on the left. If arriving after 7:30pm, please knock loudly as the entry door auto locks at that time.		Open Discussion
7:00 PMOne Purpose AFGHYBRID Meeting
Zoom ID: 946 0817 6727
Password: 32459

Physical Location:
Christ the King Episcopal Church
480 N. C. Hwy 393
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32489		Open Discussion
Wednesday
7:00 PMLet It Begin With Me AFGMossy Head Community Center
63 Stewart Circle
Mossy Head, FL 32433		Closed Discussion
Thursday
12:00 PMDaytime AFGFirst Baptist Church
21 First St. SE
Fort Walton Beach 32548
(Room: B17, 1st floor)		Open Discussion
Friday
11:30 AMGirls on the Gulf AFGCorpus Christi Catholic Church
307 Beach Drive, Destin, Florida, 32541		Open Discussion
8:00 PMTGIF AFGTrinity United Methodist Church
403 Racetrack Rd, NW, Fort Walton Beach 35247
(Room 108)		Open Discussion
Saturday
9:30 AMSaturday Serenity AFGCrosspoint Church
519 Helms St.,
Niceville 32578

(Room 802, Chandler Ctr. Bldg., Second Floor, Elevator Access)		Open Discussion
10:30 AMBeginners How It Works AFGThe Camel Club
249 E. Hewett Rd., Santa Rosa Beach 32459		Open Discussion
The 12 Concepts of Service
  1. The ultimate responsibility and authority for Al-Anon world services belongs to the Al-Anon groups.
  2. The Al-Anon Family Groups have delegated complete administrative and operational authority to their Conference and its service arms.
  3. The right of decision makes effective leadership possible.
  4. Participation is the key to harmony.
  5. The rights of appeal and petition protect minorities and insure that they be heard.
  6. The Conference acknowledges the primary administrative responsibility of the Trustees.
  7. The Trustees have legal rights while the rights of the Conference are traditional.
  8. The Board of Trustees delegates full authority for routine management of Al-Anon Headquarters to its executive committees.
  9. Good personal leadership at all service levels is a necessity. In the field of world service the Board of Trustees assumes the primary leadership.
  10. Service responsibility is balanced by carefully defined service authority and double-headed management is avoided.
  11. The World Service Office is composed of selected committees, executives and staff members.
  12. The spiritual foundation for Al-Anon’s world services is contained in the General Warranties of the Conference, Article 12 of the Charter.

Al-Anon’s Twelve Concepts of Service, copyright 1996 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.

The 12 Traditions
  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.
  2. For our group purpose there is but one authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants—they do not govern.
  3. The relatives of alcoholics, when gathered together for mutual aid, may call themselves an Al-Anon Family Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
  4. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend.
    Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another group or Al-Anon or AA as a whole.
  5. Each Al-Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help families of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of AA ourselves, by encouraging and understanding our alcoholic relatives, and by welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics.
  6. Our Family Groups ought never endorse, finance or lend our name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate entity, we should always co-operate with Alcoholics Anonymous.
  7. Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
  8. Al-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
  9. Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
  10. The Al-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
  11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, and TV. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all AA members.
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.

Al-Anon’s Twelve Traditions, copyright 1996 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.

The 12 Steps
  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 others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Al-Anon’s Twelve Steps, copyright 1996 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.