Al-Anon & Alateen

Alabama, Northwest Florida Area 64

District 11 Meeting Times and Places

Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, Florida and Lillian, 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
10:00 AM	First Things First AFG	Alano Club 3830 N. Davis Hwy. Pensacola, FL 32503	Open Discussion
Tuesday
10:00 AM	Courage to Change AFG	HYBRIDMeeting: Zoom ID: 700 932 379 Password: 030341 Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church 75 Fairpoint Dr., Gulf Breeze Education Room 6	Open Discussion
5:30 PM	Hickory Shores AFG	St. Augustine's Episcopal Church 7810 Navarre Pkwy., Navarre, FL 32566 Step Study, 2nd Bldg., Henderson Hall	Closed Discussion
6:30 PM	We Can Make It Together Alateen	St. Augustine's Episcopal Church 7810 Navarre Pkwy., Navarre, FL 32566	Closed Discussion
6:30 PM	Hickory Shores AFG	St. Augustine's Episcopal Church 7810 Navarre Pkwy., Navarre, FL 32566 2nd Bldg., Henderson Hall	Closed Discussion
7:00 PM	Lillian AFG	Methodist Church 12770 South Perdido St, Lillian	Open Discussion
Wednesday
10:00 AM	Hope AFG	HYBRID: Zoom: 361 796 4427 Password 749092 Cokesbury Church 5725 N. 9th Ave., Pensacola, FL 32504 Room 402	Open Discussion
12:30 PM	Live Oak AFG	St. John's Episcopal Church 401 Live Oak Ave. Pensacola 32507	Open Discussion
Thursday
5:30 PM	Gratitude AFG	Northminister Presbyterian Church 1100 E. Nine Mile Road, Pensacola	Closed Discussion
6:30 PM	Hickory Shores AFG	St. Augustine's Episcopal Church 7810 Navarre Pkwy., Navarre, FL 32566	Open Discussion
Friday
9:00 AM	Courage to Change AFG	Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church 75 Fairpoint Dr., Gulf Breeze, FL 32561 Chapel 2nd Bldg., Henderson Hall	Open Discussion
6:00 PM	Freedom AFG	HYBRID Meeting: Zoom: 406 173 452 Password Freedom Cokesbury United Methodist Church 5725 N 9th Ave, Pensacola (Downstairs)	Open Discussion
7:45 PM	Hope for Today AFG	ZOOM Meeting only: Zoom: 309 531 887 Password: 021757	Book Study
Saturday
9:30 AM	Standing in Unity Alateen	HYBRID Meeting: Zoom: ID 882 0458 4289 Password: Alateen St. Rose of Lima 6451 Park Ave., Milton, 32570 in St. Michael's Room	Closed Discussion
9:30 AM	Hope for Today AFG	HYBRID Meeting: Zoom: ID 309 531 887 Password: 021757 St. Rose of Lima 6451 Park Ave., Milton, 32570 in St. John's Room (Upstairs, Elevator Provided)	Open Discussion
9:30 AM	Standing in Unity Alateen	St. Rose of Lima 6451 Park Ave, Milton	Closed Discussion
Sunday
5:30 PM	Sharing Our Strength Alateen	St. Paul Lutheran Church, Library 4600 N 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL 32503	Closed Discussion
5:30 PM	Serenity on Sunday AFG	St. Paul Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall 4600 N 9th Ave, Pensacola, FL 32503 Fellowship Hall: Enter the building at the front door.	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.