SOUTHEAST TEXAS AREA 67
QUARTERLY ASSEMBLY
Marriott –
Workshop Reports
District Reports
Area Standing Committee and Intergroup Liaison Reports
Spanish GSR Meeting
Facilitator: Oscar
Secretary: J. Angel
The meeting opened with meditation
and the Serenity Prayer. The A.A. Preamble was read. Service work was the
theme. Marcos talked about service work and his experience in the La Vina
Committee. Arnulfo talked about service work in the present time. The meeting
closed with the Serenity Prayer.
I want to thank Marsha for all of her support and guidance for the last two years. I’m honored to serve as the DCM for District 20. I’m grateful for a growing and enthusiastic District. I’m ready to be of service. This year is already off to a busy start. We are giving away 20 subscriptions of the Grapevine/La Viña at the SETA convention. We are also in the process of contacting the various groups in the district and attracting more GSRs to become involved. Randy, Alternate DCM, will be busy working on our Service workshop which will be in July. I look forward to a growing and loving experience for the next two years. Yours in service, Deborah D., District 20
Gene J, DCM
Dwayne P, Alternate DCM
District 31's first meeting of the year was held on Jan. 16, 2005 at our regular meeting place, the Kingwood Club. We had a wonderful turnout of GSR's and visitors and a long agenda since the new year brings renewed efforts to the forefront. We have plans for a district meeting book (thanks to the inspiration of the Spanish meeting book) in the works, travels to outlying groups, especially those who do not normally attend District meetings or Assemblies; and workshop ideas to put on our year's calendar. We are in the process of revising our District packet we take to our groups, and are committed to be "buddies" to any new GSR's so they learn and grow in service. Coming up in District 31 are the following activities we'd like to invite y'all to: a Round Robin hosted by Shepherd/Goodrich Serenity Groups on Feb. 19 (contact Chuck L at 936-365-3910 or Smokey at 936-628-3777), the Conroe 1502 Anniversary the same date (food and fun all day), and the Yellow Rose Conference in Trinity on the weekend of Feb. 11th. Our next District meeting is on Feb. 20; a Grapevine presentation is on our agenda. Everyone is invited. In love and service, Gene J, DCM Bart M, DCM
Lynn G, Alternate DCM
Tim C, DCM
1. District 33 has been having and continues to have a great success in holding their Round Robins (Eating Meetings). More people are getting involved, and there is better attendance at District Meetings.
2.
We are preparing for our Unity Conference to be held
3. District 33 would like to host the Gratitude Dinner.
4. We are committed to visit all groups.
A. Sign up groups not listed.
B. Ask them to elect a GSR.
C. Get contact information to forward district and area flyers and information.
Jamie G, DCM
Chuck W, Alternate DCM
John O, DCM
Howdy from District 51!! We are
just getting settled in and learning our jobs.
Bob B, DCM
Tom K, Alternate DCM
Man, what a convention, right here in our
own backyard. The speakers were absolutely awesome, the food was great and the
showing of unity and service from our district was fantastic.
I hope I capture all the information correctly. As for the convention, our district provided time and talent in a multitude of areas. Three members of our district committee were on the convention committee. Bob B. (incoming DCM) was the chair of the Flyers, Banner and Programs committee, Tom K. (outgoing Alt. DCM and incoming Area GrapeVine chair) was the GrapeVine chair for the convention, and Peter C. (outgoing Treasurer and incoming Dist. And Area Liaison to Intergroup) was the Treasurer for the convention. Along with that, Becky M. (incoming Treasurer) lead one of the Marathon meetings, Kathleen P. lead a Marathon meeting as well as being the Hostess for Saturday nights speaker, Donna B. from California. I want to also gratefully acknowledge and thank Becky M. and Gary M. and Kathleen P., all from District 52, for their work as the entire Flyers, Banner and Programs committee. They did a really, really great job and everyone involved with the convention was pleased. Thanks a bunch. Dave A. was at the GrapeVine display virtually the entire convention. Thanks, Dave. I’m sure that have left someone out but not intentionally and I want to thank all who gave of their time and talent but might have been behind the scenes. The convention just can’t go on without each and every one you who volunteered. Thanks so much.
Discussions continued at our January
meeting surrounding moving our meeting out into the groups. God evidently has
some reason for “now” not being the time but we will revisit this from time to
time.
January also brought three new “pockets of enthusiasm” as three more of our beloved groups were blessed with willing and open-minded souls who asked the question ”Who/What is the GSR?” A lot of us seem to have been introduced to this wonderful world of Unity and Service by asking that same simple question. We’re very much looking forward to having them be a part of the collective conscience of the District.
Also at
January’s meeting was the addition of a second annual workshop, which will
reflect the theme of our General Service Conference. It has been slated to take
place in September. This addition will compliment our annual Traditions
workshop, which takes place every June. Along with these, one of our groups,
The Tri City Group, will be holding a Second Tradition Workshop on January 15th
at
We have also added a “lottery” at our monthly meeting in which an active group is chosen to receive a 1 year subscription to our second oldest piece if literature-The Grapevine. Members of the committee will hand-deliver the subscription to the groups chosen who are not currently participating in the district functions to promote awareness and to attract them to involvement.
Our current Newsletter editor, Kathleen P., and our GSR’s have decided to add the GSR reports as part of each newsletter in hopes of promoting unity among the groups.
WOW! so
much for being broken in gently as the new DCM, but I guess as long as God and the groups are
driving the bus, my destination is eminent – Peace and Serenity, Bob B, DCM
Doris N, DCM
Aldrinette C, Alternate DCM
Rodolfo C, DCM
Francisco G, Alternate
DCM
District 64 has 10 groups in
Districts
64, 65, 66 and Intergroup have meetings every last Sunday of the month at
I’m here if you need help. Please call Rodolfo C (832)755-7703 cell or (713)868-7933 home. Thank you, Rodolfo Ca, DCM 64
Arnulfo G, DCM
Rodolfo C, Alternate DCM
District 66
Marco A C Sr., DCM
Juan T, Alternate DCM
1. We
have our meeting every Saturday starting at
2. We have 17 groups on which we have registered 12 GSR’s, 5 Contacts, and the Area, from which all of them contribute to the Area and GSO.
3. We go and visit 2 or 3 times per week the groups that don’t have GSR’s.
4. Every 15 days we get together to review the service manual.
5. We have 3 Committees, Viña, Correctionals, and Literature.
A) Viña: Their service table is complete. They meet every Thursday; They go out to different groups every Tuesday, and they have 319 subscriptions.
B) Correctionals: They have their service table. They get together every Friday; They go out and visit different groups every Tuesday, and they also visit Jester I, Jester III, and Central Unit.
C) Literature: They sell and raffle their service manuals, and the main office sells the rest of the literature.
6. We attend 4 Assemblies a year for the Area.
7. Every month we come up with a working plan for the District.
8. On Friday January 7 we’ll have a meeting at
the Assembly/Convention in Spanish from
9. On Saturday, January 8, we’ll
have another meeting in Spanish from
10. Due to our district needs, they elected me again until we find another candidate.
Debra R, DCM
Lisa L, Alternate DCM
District 70 will be having
elections October 6th,
Al P, DCM
Bill H, Alternate DCM
We had our
first District meeting
Bonita W.
is putting together a draft of a District 81. We are making plans for our first
District workshop of the year, which will be held at the Santa Fe Group. The
topic for this workshop is “Home Group” and as usual snacks will be provided.
The date is April 2/2005
Yours in Service, Al P, District 81 DCM
Eileen P, DCM
Jess H, Alternate DCM
District 82 monthly meetings had been sparsely attended in the fourth quarter of 2004. Elections held in October filled many vacant posts except for Intergroup, and Multi-lingual representative and Website Liaison. The new service members will bring a renewed energy with 2005 being another excellent year of service.
The 2005 Budget Committee Chair, Jes H. and Glen B have corrected some miscalcu-lations in the initial report and are optimistic that we can operate successfully this year with the completed budget report.
Several group issues surfaced this quarter. One issue the groups at the BAC in Clute are struggling with is the increased number of signers coming to the AA meetings that are not actually alcoholic. It seems to be that the courts are requesting attendance at AA meetings for drug offenders. The Brockman Group in Clute is reformatting their meeting format to meet the needs of the newcomers – a format focusing on the purpose of AA and how the program can work in their lives.
Also, the question was proposed at the January District meeting if the monthly minutes should continue to be mailed to members even though these members are not attending the District meetings. The subject raised was, “Are the GSRs reporting to their groups the activities of the District and is the District actually hearing the needs of the groups?”
We are very excited about the
strength of our home groups, which is reflected in the consistency of
successful yearly celebrations. The month of February is all booked up already.
The District monthly meetings are
held in the Conaco-Phillips building at
. . . . AA Service works in District 82, Yours in Service, Eileen P, District DCM
Karen Y, DCM
Harvey H, Alternate DCM
Hello SETA Family from District 90.
We had our first GSR meeting with all of our new District Officers and Committee Chairs in place. Reports were given and all committees are enthusiastic and ready to get to work. We added a Website Committee to our list of standing committees and elected Brian H. as Chairperson and Ginger Q. as Alternate Chairperson. As of right now the website address is www.ih2000/aa but that will probably be changing soon (more will be revealed…).
St. Francis
Group has volunteered to host this year’s District Gratitude Dinner and we will
be electing a chairperson for that event at our February meeting. Our
Conference Committee is already busy working on our District Conference, which
is held in August in
We will be
having a GSR workshop chaired by Charlie A. and Tom K. at our February meeting,
and we will be having a 7th Tradition workshop in March chaired by
Gus H. and Betsy G. We meet the 1st Sunday of each month at Avenue E
& Franklin (
I want to close by saying how very, very grateful I am to be entrusted to serve the fellowship that saved my life!
Your Friend, Karen Y, DCM District 90
Sarah D, Chairperson
The Area Archives Committee meets the first and second Thursday of the month at Intergroup, 4140 Directors Row. The committee is reorganizing area archives to make better use of the space we have and to set u a small display. Having finished inputting the motions from the Area minutes on a database and categorizing them, we have begun preliminary work on a history of SETA. The Web Master tells me motions will be posted to the Area website at a future date.
We have no minutes prior to 1973. Please spread the word at your meetings, especially to Long Timers, who were in service in the 1950’s and 60’s. There is no need for anyone to surrender their originals – copies are fine for our purposes.
We are missing Area newsletters from 1984, April 1985, March and December 1987, December 1991, June 1992 and September and December 1995.
Archives is getting fresh input
from several levels: a word of thanks to
District 31 for inviting us to the second Old Timer’s Day held
Just a word about your wonderful gifts to SETA’s archives collection. In the future we will be asking our contributors to complete a Deed of Gift in which donations are inventoried. Donors will keep a copy for their records.
Correctional Facilities
Zaz M, Chairperson
Happy New Year. The Cooperation
with the Professional Community Committee held its first meeting at our
new location, Houston Council on Alcohol and Drugs, 303 Jackson Hill, on
January 3,
Our committee is active and well
attended. We are currently working on Harris County Probation
Presentations and awaiting the results from the letters we sent to Doctors.
When we are not actively making presentations, we are holding practice ones during
our monthly meetings.
In our first meeting of the New
Year, we discussed what we wanted to accomplish, how to increase our
membership and how to make our meetings more interesting, attend more district
meetings, and contact other committees and see if our service is needed to
carry the message.
Love in service, Larry B
David H, Chairperson
See Area Committee Report for Finance Report.
Tom K, Chairperson
Wow,
what a convention Jan. 7, 8, 9 ! Over 100 people picked up Group
Grapevine packets for registering a representative to stimulate interest in
"Our Meeting in Print" to their home group. Over 300 past
issues were distributed by some 3 dozen individuals qualifying their
"sponsorship" skills to become members of the "Grape Bunch"
- a team of specialists carrying the message, supporting the 2nd oldest piece
of literature in our fellowship. Is that a fun way to participate, or
what ???
Monthly meetings still continue to
grow in attendance the 4th Thursday evening of every month @
Is your group in the loop ??? Thanx 4 the privilege, Tom K
Ronald C, Chairperson
Alejandro R,
Chairperson
Newsletter
John S, Chairperson
Cynthia B, Chairperson
The Public Information Committee had
11 requests since our last SETA assembly. There were 9 health fairs and 2
presentations. Two commitments were at area churches and 9 were at schools. All
but one were in October and November.
Since we had no requests during the Christmas season, we decided to have a Christmas party at a Mexican restaurant in Montrose! “…. we are not a glum lot…….We absolutely insist on enjoying life.”
We meet monthly at the Counsel on
Alcohol and Drugs at 303
Please tell all your new district chairs where we meet and ask them to join us. We welcome all volunteers! Love in Service, Cynthia B
Tim C, Chairperson
Treatment Facilities
Jeff B, Chairperson
During
the last quarter the Treatment Facilities Committee (TFC) has been active in
various areas. We continue to give Bridging the Gap (BTG) presentations at the
Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center (PARC), the
Members
of the Committee gave a presentation at District 70. We appreciate the
opportunity to serve and enjoy the privilege of speaking to districts big and
small.
If you
have any sponsee’s who aren’t busy send them to us. We’ll put them to work.
Hope all have a great new year and keep the new man in mind. Jeff B SETA 67 TFC
Chair
Penny W, Chairperson
Marshall W, Alternate Chairperson
See Area Committee Report for Website Report
Robert
W
Mike D
Ninth District Intergroup
Chris P
Spanish Intergroup
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