Al-Anon & Alateen

Alabama, Northwest Florida Area 64

District 4 Meeting Times and Places

Blount, Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby Counties, Alabama

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.

Time	Name	Location	Notes
Monday
12:00 PM	Vestavia Noon AFG	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), 2nd door	Closed Discussion
6:00 PM	Monday At A Time AFG (Please NO observers)	Gardendale Prebyterian Church 200 Tarrant Drive, Gardendale, AL	Daily Reader' Study Group
6:30 PM	Crosshaven AFG	St. Stephens Episcopal Church 3775 Crosshaven Drive, Birmingham	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Alabaster Alateen	First United Methodist Church of Alabaster 10903 Hwy 119, Alabaster Enter door at portico	Alateen
7:00 PM	Alabaster AFG	First United Methodist Church of Alabaster 10903 Highway 119, Alabaster	Open Discussion
7:00 PM	Center Point Night AFG	Pinson United Methodist Church 4507 Bud Holmes Road, Pinson 35126	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Valleydale AFG	Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church 4987 Valleydale Road, Birmingham In person & hybrid	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Vestavia Monday AFG	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), 2nd door	Closed Discussion
Tuesday
10:30 AM	Vestavia Day AFG	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), 2nd door	Closed Discussion
6:00 PM (CST)	Hope Virtual AFG	ZOOM ID: 281 170 036 Passcode: 082321 Dial-in No: 301-715-8592 Passcode: 082321	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Tuesday Men's AFG	Bluff Park Community Church 2269 Chapel Rd, Hoover 35226	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Mt. Olive AFG	Mt. Olive Alliance Church 1270 McCravey Lane, Mt. Olive 35117	Closed Discussion
Wednesday
12:00 PM	Wonderful Wednesday AFG	South Highland Presbyterian Church 2035 Highland Avenue South, Birmingham	Open Discussion
12:00 PM	Vestavia Day AFG	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), 2nd door	Closed Discussion
5:30 PM	Lakeview AFG	Independent Presbyterian Church 3100 Highland Ave. Birmingham 35205 (enter on Highland Ave., take stairs to 3rd floor, turn left, last door on right)	Open Discussion
7:00 PM	Trussville AFG	First United Methodist Church 120 Chalkville Mountain Rd., Trussville (house directly behind church on Linden St.)	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Vestavia Wednesday AFG	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), turn right and look for the Al-Anon symbol (triangle w/a circle in the center)	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Vestavia Alateen	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), 2nd door	Alateen
Thursday
10:00 AM	Pinson Day Group AFG	Pinson United Methodist Church 4507 Bud Holmes Rd., Pinson, AL 35126 Enter on the right side of the Sanctuary building, under the covered drive. Second room on the right across from the church office.	Closed Discussion
10:30 AM	Vestavia Day AFG	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), 2nd door	Closed Discussion
6:00 PM	Hope Virtual AFG	ZOOM ID: 281 170 036 Password: 082321	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Alabaster AFG	Alabaster First United Methodist Church 10903 Highway 119, Alabaster	Open Discussion
7:00 PM	Pathway to Joy AFG	First United Methodistl Church 2200 3rd Avenue N., Room 206, Pell City	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Oxmoor AFG	Trinity United Methodistl Church 1400 Oxmoor Road, Homewood Small Dining Room. Enter on Clermont Dr. side, go through doors with Trinity United Methodist Church sign above.	Closed Discussion
Friday
12:00 PM	Vestavia Day AFG	Vestavia Hills United Methodist Church 2061 Kentucky Avenue, Birmingham "Support Group" side of church (west), 2nd door	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Huffman Open Door AFG	Huffman United Methodist Church 711 Gene Reed Road, Birmingham 35235	Closed Discussion
Saturday
8:00 AM	Early Risers AFG	Canterbury United Methodist Church 350 Overbrook Road, Mt. Brook Youth Hall	Closed Discussion
8:00 AM (CST)	Early Risers Saturday Online AFG	ZOOM ID: 878 9222 3660 Password: 032013	Closed Discussion
8:30 AM	Beginnings AFG	St. Stephens Episcopal Church 3775 Crosshaven Drive, Birmingham (Cahaba Heights), enter through the portico, north side of building	Closed Discussion
12:15 PM	South Suburban AFG	Green Valley Baptist Church 1815 Patton Chapel Road, Hoover Building "B"	Closed Discussion
Sunday
6:00 PM	Highland AFG	Highland United Methodist Church 1045 20th Street South, Birmingham	Open Discussion

The 12 Concepts of Service

The ultimate responsibility and authority for Al-Anon world services belongs to the Al-Anon groups.
The Al-Anon Family Groups have delegated complete administrative and operational authority to their Conference and its service arms.
The right of decision makes effective leadership possible.
Participation is the key to harmony.
The rights of appeal and petition protect minorities and insure that they be heard.
The Conference acknowledges the primary administrative responsibility of the Trustees.
The Trustees have legal rights while the rights of the Conference are traditional.
The Board of Trustees delegates full authority for routine management of Al-Anon Headquarters to its executive committees.
Good personal leadership at all service levels is a necessity. In the field of world service the Board of Trustees assumes the primary leadership.
Service responsibility is balanced by carefully defined service authority and double-headed management is avoided.
The World Service Office is composed of selected committees, executives and staff members.
The spiritual foundation for Al-Anon’s world services is contained in the General Warranties of the Conference, Article 12 of the Charter.

The 12 Traditions

Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Al-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
The Al-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
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.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.

The 12 Steps

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
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.
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.