• Please ensure that your microphone🎙is muted upon entry for a  smooth start to the meeting.
• Feel free to have your camera 📷 turned on or off you--whatever you are more comfortable with. You can also add a profile pic or background drop on your Zoom Profile if you'd rather.
• All participants are guaranteed the Right to Anonymity. Please ensure that what you learn here STAYS HERE! PLEASE RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF ALL. VIOLATIONS OF THESE RIGHTS RISKS PERMANENT BANISHMENT FROM THE GROUP. Please be advised that this meeting room is highly monitored for violations of social ethics that risk prosecution. We want this to be safe environment for all. 

Meeting Rules: 😎

1)To maintain anonymity, we suggest only using your first name and last initial, or a nickname, on your profile. 

2) For your safety, avoid revealing personal identifiers such as your location, employers, correctional facility, schools, etc. 

3) Turning your camera & microphone on is up to you. Clothing IS required. 😏 Yes, it has to be said. Yes, it happens! 😳😱

4) Membership requirements: "This is a closed meeting of AA, meaning you must admit to yourself that you DO have a problem with alcohol (it's OKAY to admit it! 😊) and a desire to stop drinking if you want to attend." Family members or other interested individuals are referred to www.AA.org to locate other appropriate meetings.)

5) There are never dues or fees. 💰 Each AA group worldwide is self-supporting: we take care of our own as such. A Donations Box📦 will be discretely provided at our in-person meetings to help the Facilitator cover the cost of coffee, snacks, etc., and with helping First United Methodist Church towards their propane heat. Zoom members will have the option to help cover the costs associated with the website, mailing chips, etc. on our Store/Donations page. All donations are tax deductible, receipts available upon request, and are very much appreciated!! It takes a Village, y'all! 

6) If you are attending in-person, please always remember that we are guests of FUMC. As such, they kindly offer one designated smoking 🚬 space only, and we are expected to keep things clean. 🗑

7) Whether in-person or online, we keep the talk respectful, kind, and courteous. There is a zero tolerance policy regarding arguing, hate speech, negativity, discrimination or racism. The discussions and sharing of experiences are to focus ONLY on the disease of alcoholism--please leave politics, community, religion, outside for "The Meeting After The Meeting." 😀. Opening speakers are asked to keep their share to 10 min.--unless no one else is in the mood to comment. Please keep regular shares to a brief few minutes and please do not talk over/interrupt speakers. Please do not "cross-talk" fellow members, meaning do not offer advice or judgment on any person's given circumstances. 

8) 12th Step Reminder: Anonymity. Who you see here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay here. Please and thank you. 😇

9) "This is a closed meeting of AA. In support of AA's singleness of purpose, attendance at closed meetings is limited to persons who have a desire to stop drinking. If you think you have a problem with alcohol, you are welcome to attend this meeting. We ask that when disccussing our problems, we confine ourselves to those problems as they relate to alcoholism."