Below are brief descriptions of various service positions District 9 has open. You can scroll down and read them or you can take the plunge and begin your commitment by clicking on our banner below which will take you to our D9 Service Information Form. We need your help.
D9 Web Site Committee
We meet Saturday mornings, every 4 months - 9:30am at the Senior Center small conference room.
125 Stoner Ave.
Westminster, MD
For more information or to get involved with this committee contact the
Web Site Chair.
The purpose of the Website committee is to provide information via the District 9 website on the Internet about A.A. in District 9 (Carroll County). This includes A.A. meeting locations, information for the general public about what A.A. does and does not do, District functions, and links to other various A.A. websites. The committee members discuss ways of improving the visibility, ease of use, and take into consideration suggestions for the website.
D9 Treatment Facilities Committee
We meet at 5:15 pm every 3rd Friday at he Westminster Senior Center. For more information or to get involved with this committee contact Vicki and Jim at:
Treatment Facility Chair.
The purpose of the Treatment Facilities committee, is to coordinate the work of individual members and groups who are interested in carrying our message of recovery to alcoholics in hospitals, alcoholism treatment and rehabilitation centers in District 9 (Carroll County).
D9 Cooperation with Professional Community Committee
For more information or to get involved with this committee contact the
Cooperation with Professional Community Chair.
Members of the C.P.C. committee provide information about A.A. to those who have contact with alcoholics through their profession. This group includes health care professionals, educators, members of the clergy, lawyers, social workers, union leaders, and industrial managers, as well as those working in the field of alcoholism in District 9 (Carroll County). Information is provided about where we are, what we are, what we can do, and what we cannot do.
D9 Public Information Committee
We meet the 2nd Monday of every month at 6:30pm in New Windsor.
For more information or to get involved with this committee contact the
Public Information Chair.
The purpose of Public information service work in District 9 is to provide accurate A.A. information to the public when requested. The P.l. committee visits schools, businesses, and community meetings in District 9 (Carroll County) for this purpose. It also serves as resource for our friends in the local media, emphasizing our Traditions of anonymity, singleness of purpose and non-affiliation, as well as offering A.A. public service announcements to radio and television stations in District 9.
D9 Activities Committee
Meets the 2nd Monday of every month at 7:30 pm. in New Windsor
For more information or to get involved with this committee contact the
Activities Chair.
The purpose of the Activities committee is to plan events for District 9. This includes the annual Spiritual Breakfast, the annual picnic, dances, etc., and may include workshops. Members of this committee help plan and carry out the various events including time, date, and location selection, menu or food selection, speaker selection, and cost (if any) for the event. The committee may also be asked to assist in any District 9 hosting of Maryland General Service Panel or Assembly events.
March 18th Activities Report
May 20th Activities Report
D9 Alcothon Committee
For more information or to get involved with this committee contact the
DCM.
The purpose of the Alcothon committee is to plan the annual 24 hour District 9 New Years Alcothon. This includes finding a location, setting up before and cleaning up after, planning food serving for the event, and preparing the group time slot drawing at the November District meeting. It is best that at least one committee member be present, at various times, throughout the event.
Or, click on our D9 Service Information Form link below to receive more information from our DCM on any of our Service Positions and to make a commitment.
D9 Service Information Form.
A.A.’s Legacy of Service
Our Twelfth Step, "carrying the message" is the basic service that the A.A. Fellowship gives; this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence. Therefore, A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven’t been given the truth may die. Hence, an A.A. service is anything whatever that helps us to reach a fellow sufferer ranging all the way from the Twelfth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call and a cup of coffee, and to A.A.’s General Service Office for national and international action. The sum total of all these services is our Third Legacy of Service. Services include meeting places, hospital cooperation, and intergroup offices; they mean pamphlets, books, and good publicity of almost every description. They call for committees, delegates, trustees, and conferences. And, not to be forgotten, they need voluntary money contributions from within the Fellowship.
Vital to A.A.’s Growth
These services, whether performed by individuals, groups, areas, or A.A. as a whole, are utterly vital to our existence and growth. Nor can we make A.A. more simple by abolishing such services. We would only be asking for complication and confusion. Concerning any given service, we therefore pose but one question: Is this service really needed? If it is, then maintain it we must, or fail in our mission to those who need and seek A.A.
Reprinted from The AA ® Service Manual, pages S1 - S2, with permission, Copyright © 2005 by A.A. World Services ®, Inc. All rights reserved.
Our Spiritual Way of Life
"...There are two or three things that flashed into my mind on which it would be fitting to lay a little emphasis. One is the simplicity of our program... Our Twelve Steps, when simmered down to the last, resolve themselves into the words ’love’ and ’service.’ We understand what love is, and we understand what service is. So let’s bear those two things in mind.
"Let us also remember to guard that erring member the tongue, and if we must use it, let’s use it with kindness and consideration and tolerance.
"...None of us would be here today if somebody hadn’t taken time to explain things to us, to give us a little pat on the back, to take us to a meeting or two, to do numerous little kind and thoughtful acts in our behalf. So let us never get such a degree of smug complacency that we’re not willing to extend, or attempt to extend, to our less fortunate brothers that help which has been so beneficial to us..."
Reprinted from "DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers", page 339 with permission, Copyright © 1980 by A.A. World Services ®, Inc. All rights reserved.
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