Welcome to the West Michigan Alcoholics Anonymous District 13 web site.
District 13 covers the areas of Charlevoix and Emmet County and the towns of Alanson, Beaver Island, Boyne City, Boyne Falls, Charlevoix, Conway, East Jordan, Harbor Springs, Pellston and Petoskey. This is an informational site intended for those interested in Alcoholics Anonymous.
On this web site you will find information about area AA and Alanon meetings, activities and various resources for those who are concerned with substance abuse, addiction and recovery.
Featured Meeting
Come check out the Monday night 7 pm meeting at the Stutsmanville Church, 2988 State Rd. at the corner of Stutsmanville Rd. in Harbor Springs. At this meeting you can read and discuss the book As Bill Sees It, an AA book you may not have studied before. It's a great place to learn how one of AA's founders viewed the fellowship and how it works.
A.A. PREAMBLE
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who
share their experience, strength and hope with each other that
they may solve their common problem and help others to recover
from alcoholism.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are selfsupporting
through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with
any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does
not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor
opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and
help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
© The AA Grapevine, Inc.
The Twelve Steps
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 the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.