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| RGV AA - District 27 Lower Rio Grande Valley Brownsville, Los Fresnos, South Padre Island, Port Isabel, Harlingen and Weslaco |
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| All meetings are non-smoking unless otherwise designated |
| Concept I: The final responsibility and the ultimate authority for A.A. World services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship. The A.A. Group—the final voice of the Fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous has been called an upside down organization because “the ultimate responsibility and final authority for World Services resides with the groups—rather than with the trustees, the General Service Board or the General Service Office in New York.” (“Twelve Concepts For World Service Illustrated”). The entire structure of A.A. depends upon the participation and conscience of the individual groups, and how each of these groups conducts its affairs has a ripple effect on A.A. everywhere. Thus, we are ever individually conscious of our responsibility for our own sobriety and, as a Group, for carrying the A.A. message to the suffering alcoholic who reaches out to us for help. A.A. has no central authority, minimal organization, and a handful of Traditions instead of laws. As co-founder Bill W. noted in 1960, “we obey [the Twelve Traditions] willingly because we ought to and because we want to. Perhaps the secret of their power lies in the fact that these life-giving communications spring out of living experience and are rooted in love.” A.A. is shaped by the collective voice of its local groups and their representatives to the General Service Conference, which works toward unanimity on matters vital to the Fellowship. Each Group functions independently, except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole. A.A.’s essential Group work is done by alcoholics who are themselves recovering in the Fellowship, and each of us is entitled to do our A.A. job in the way we think best within the spirit of the Traditions. This means that we function as a democracy, with all plans for Group action approved by the majority voice. No single individual is appointed to act for the Group or for Alcoholics Anonymous as a whole. Each Group is as unique as a thumb print, and approaches to carrying the message of sobriety vary not just from Group to Group but from region to region. Acting autonomously, each Group charts its own course. The better informed the members, the stronger and more cohesive the Group—and the greater the assurance that when a newcomer reaches out for help, the hand of A.A. always will be there. Most of us cannot recover unless there is a Group. As Bill said, “Realization dawns on each member that he is but a small part of a great whole. . . He learns that the clamor of desires and ambitions within him must be silenced whenever these could damage the Group. It becomes plain that the Group must survive or the individual will not.” |
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| If you want to drink, that's your business. If you want to stop, that's ours. - call us 24/7 - we are available to take your call: Brownsville, Los Fresnos, South Padre Island and Port Isabel 956-544-8530 Harlingen & San Benito 956-428-9561 |
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