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Monthly
District Meetings are
the second Sunday of each month at 1:30 p.m. at the Gardenia Center in Sandpoint (400 Church Street).
District Meeting
Notes
from the most recent district meeting.
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The district is
implementing a new phone service to better serve AA members and the
still-suffering alcoholics!
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This website provides information about AA in District 14. Send your
suggestions, comments, district news and upcoming events to:
webmaster@district14-aa.org
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12-Step Work
Changes
To The Phone Service:
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AA members are now answering phone calls instead of an answering
service. *
We are using new technology (VoIP) to return to the old way of
connecting the still suffering alcoholic to AA - one alcoholic working
with another. VoIP is a voice over Internet protocol, a
communications protocol that allows for telephonic communication via
the Internet (Webster), or phone service over the Internet.
In addition to the benefit of alcoholics answering 12-step
calls directly, our new service is less expensive than the previous
phone services we were utilizing.
When someone calls our 800.326.2164 phone
number, they can choose to hear a listing of meetings or they can
choose to talk to an AA member in one of four areas within the
district: Washington, Montana, Sandpoint, or Bonners Ferry.
If they choose to speak with
an AA member, the call is forwarded directly and simultaneously to AA
members who have signed up to receive calls. The AA member then
connects the caller with members of AA who have signed up to do 12-step
work (women work with women, men work with men). Read pages
89-103 of the Big Book for specific suggestions in working
with newcomers. For more information about how the new phone system
works, you can view this flowchart.
If you have already signed up to answer the phone, please use the phone script as guidance
for answering calls.
If
there are others in your household that also answer the phone, it is
important that you work with the phone coordinator to have AA calls
ring through to your phone only when you will be taking the calls
directly. When someone reaches out for help, it is important
to have their calls answered only by AA members who have signed up to
take calls, and not have calls into AA answered by family or friends.
There are two ways you can get involved with 12-step work coming to AA
via phone calls. You can be on the 12-step list or you answer
the phone. Ask your GSR
how to get on the list to answer the
phone or be added to the 12-step lists!Download
the sign-up sheets to answer
the phone or to respond
to 12-step calls.
Corrections
12-step work - online info coming
soon
PI
/ CPC 12-step work - online info coming
soon
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