This Just In …

• Holiday closures/changes to local meetings:

• • The Tuesday 11 AM Keep Coming Back meeting at Faith Presbyterian Church will not meet on New Year’s Eve, 12/31/24.
  • The normally-hybrid Midtown AFG (Wednesdays at 8) PM WILL meet virtually (but not in person) on Christmas Day
  • The normally-hybrid Bolton Hill AFG meeting Saturday mornings at 10 will be virtual only starting December 14, going back to hybrid January 25 when MICA reopens.
  • Thursday’s noon Participation is the Key to Harmony AFG will meet in person both December 26 and January 2.
  • Tuesday’s 11 AM Keep Coming Back AFG will be open Christmas Eve, (December 24) but closed on New Year’s Eve.

• The Wednesday Afternoon Step meeting at the Serenity Center has a new meeting name and time effective 12/18/24. The meeting still takes place on Wednesdays and is still hybrid. New meeting name: Literature Study: The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage. New meeting time: 10:30AM. The meetings list has been updated to reflect this change!

• Sadly the 7:00 PM Friday Conscious Contact Meditation Meeting has decided to take a hiatus and go inactive effective 11/15/2024. This meeting may emerge again in the future – possibly on a different day or different time, if so that will be announced on this page as well. (11/18)

• Participation is the Key to Harmony AFG will now be in-person only beginning on Nov. 7, 2024. In-person meeting held at Church of the Redeemer on Charles Street on Thursdays at Noon. Meeting is in the upstairs lounge; the church has installed an elevator. (11/5)

• Check out the new Hope For Today meeting on Saturdays at 10 AM in Bel Air at Christ Our King Presbyterian Church, 10 Lexington Rd. 21014 (10/1)

• The Govans Neighborhood meeting Tuesdays at 11 AM has had to relocate (yet again) due to renovations now at the Govans branch of  Pratt Libraries. Starting October 22, come to Faith Presbyterian Church, 5400 Loch Raven Blvd at Woodbourne. Enter via the south door facing Woodbourne, once again handicap accessible. New name as well: Keep Coming Back AFG.

• Evergreen Speaker Step AFG online has been discontinued. It is back in-person, however: Sundays 11 AM at Loyola College, just across the hall from the Discussion meeting and the new Alateen meeting. Enter under the pedestrian bridge crossing N Charles, up one flight/elevator. The online Evergreen Hope meeting continues Sundays at 11.

• The Bel Air Friday AFG at 7:30 pm at the First Presbyterian Church sadly has closed.

• The Ellicott City Monday night 8pm meeting, started back in person on May 13^th at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Road, Ellicott City, MD 21042.  (5/24)

• New meeting at the Charlestown Retirement Center, Mondays at 9 AM: “Catonsville Morning Serenity AFG.” Set your GPS to 715 Maiden Choice Lane, Catonsville, MD, 21228; at the gate, ask the guard to direct you to Charlestown Square. The person at the desk will help you find room 116. Families, friends, and observers welcome!  (3/24)

• The Hampstead-Snydersburg AFG meeting on Thursdays at 7:30pm, the front doors are kept locked.  To enter the building, enter the side basement door and go up the steps to enter.  (2/24)

• The Friday Noon Mount Vernon Slogan meeting has updated their list of slogans. Come to the meeting for a copy, or download it here.

• A new meeting online, studying the Al-Anon Service Manual started in July. See the Flyer for how to log on, Thursdays at 8 PM. The Service Manual is online, and printed copies are now available from the AIS Literature Depot.

• An established meeting, newly listed, is Thursday’s 7 PM virtual True Perspective AFG. In keeping with Traditions Five and Six, they sometimes invite an AA speaker. Learn about alcoholism from the experts…

• Monday’s 12:30 virtual Courage to Change meeting has become a literature meeting. Currently reading “Reaching for Personal Freedom” and discussing the questions. All welcome!

• The Monday Broadway meeting is requesting support.

• New ~ Alateen is in need of more AMIASs to sponsor the Sunday Evergreen Alateen meeting! The Alateen Point Person is looking to put together a list of emergency/back-up AMIASs to fill in on an as needed basis – not a regular standing commitment. If you are interested in becoming a back-up AMIAS for the Evergreen Alateen meeting please contact Estelle S. at baltaisalateen@gmail.com. More information on Alateen service can be found in the Alateen section of the Service Page.

• New ~  For over 20 years the “Women of Hope” has taken meetings to the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW) in Jessup, MD.  This meeting is urgently looking for volunteers. Can you spare an hour on Sundays, once a month or every other month?  (8/24)

  If interested please contact Margaret B. at AFGOutreach@outlook.com . For more information click here – Flyer 

To find out more about  Al-Anon Service opportunities please visit our Service Page. There is information about service at the group level, service opportunities in Alateen, and service positions within the Baltimore Al-Anon Information Service (AIS).

• Conference Approved Literature (CAL) is available from our new literature person, Kim D., at alanonliteraturedepot@gmail.com. This supports the AIS, and you can avoid the WSO’s $10 postage fee if you meet her at a meeting. A price list of all titles is here. Kim also sells for $0.15 each the newest paper directory of local meetings, just revised February 5. These may also be purchased at the monthly AIS meetings, or you may even print it yourself, landscape mode on legal-sized paper.

• Tradition 7: Al-Anon must remain self-supporting through your voluntary service and financial contributions. Group treasurers can find their group number on the printable directory to identify group contributions. The group number may also be found in the last column of the meeting lists on the Meetings page of this website.

• Is your group still meeting online? At the Area 24 Spring Assembly in May of 2023, Group Representatives voted to accept online meetings into the Area service structure. [This does not affect groups that are in-person or hybrid.] If your previously in-person meeting plans to meet virtually for the foreseeable future, and is not interested in being a Global Electronic Meeting, please fill out this Electronic-Group-Change-Form; instructions here. If your virtual group has split off from one that has gone back to being in-person, it must register as a new meeting with this form: Electronic-Group-Registration-Form. Since the forms asks, please note that a Beginners’ Meeting ought to consider following these WSO Guidelines.

Old “News” is archived here.