DELTA GROUP -AA WEBSITE STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
The purpose of our website is to:
Preserve the Spirit of Alcoholics Anonymous by;
- Facilitating the Alcoholics Anonymous group of Delta Group to carry the message of Alcoholics Anonymous to the still-suffering alcoholic.
- To facilitate communication to the public about our group so that they are more informed about us.
- To improve an understanding of the workings of Delta Group of Alcoholics Anonymous in order to encourage participation in service work.
Our primary purpose is to stay sober, and to help others recover from alcoholism. The Delta Group website is simply another tool to enable us to accomplish our primary purpose. It is our overall goal to help the still-suffering alcoholic regardless of age, race or religion to establish direct, face-to-face contact with Alcoholics Anonymous as we know alcohol is no repector of persons.
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Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than 2,000,000 alcoholic men and women who are banded together to resolve their common problem and to help fellow sufferers recover from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink, and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole (From: TWELVE STEPS and TWELVE TRADITIONS)
Recovery takes place as a result of an alcoholic following the directions in the book -- which will take the alcoholic through the AA 12 Steps of Recovery -- and enable them to discover a Power Greater than their self -- that can and will do for them -- what they have been powerless and unable to do for themselves -- and to assist them to help other alcoholics to recover.
This site is not a substitute for a face to face meeting. It is important to make the meetings face to face when you can. Please see our meeting schedule and find the time that is convenient for you. We especially welcome the newcomers and hope you attend one of our meetings and find recovery.
There are no dues or fees for AA membership. We are fully self supporting through our own contributions. This mean that you do not have to pay any money to come to our group for help. There are no catches. The only thing you need is yourself when you come. We are an anonymous program which means we ask you leave any confidences you hear at a meeting at the meeting. We are not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution. Do not wish to engage in any controversy. We do not endorse or oppose any cause. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help others to recover from alcoholism.
HOW IT WORKS?
Alcoholics Anonymous p. 58, Chpt 5
Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program. They are such unfortunates. They are not at fault. They seem to have been born that way. They are constitutionally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those too who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest. Our stories disclose in a general way. What we used to be like, what happened and what we are like now. If you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it then you are willing to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier softer way but we could not. With all the earnestness at our command we beg of you to be fearless and searching from the very start. Here are the steps we took which are suggested as a program of recovery.
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 a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and
to practice these principles in all our affairs.
I am responsible . . . When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that: I am responsible.
