OA
Houstonâ
Houston Metro Intergroup
of Overeaters Anonymous
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OA
Houstonâ
Houston Metro Intergroup
of Overeaters Anonymous
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Spring 2008 Editon
of "Steps" Now Online
Thanks to the 86 members who responded to the HMI Survey!
Link here for Full Survey Report
The Program
Resources Page
has been updated with revised Big Book
forms
from the author of these forms,
Lawry C. of Canada.
Lawry is a regular presenter of the
OA Weekend Workshop
The Big Book Comes Alive.
Open
Letter to all Houston Area OA Groups from the Houston Metro Intergroup
Board
Map Links have been added to most meeting
locations
on the Meeting
List and an improved map has
been added to the OAsis
Club pages.
HMI Donation Form
Now online on our web site.
This form is for individual OA groups to use in making
Seventh Tradition donations to HMI, WSO, and Region 3.
Use the above link to view online.
Use this link to download the MS
Word .doc File.
DELEGATES NEEDED FOR MONTHLY HMI MEETINGS!
MEETING ATTENDANCE:
A TWELFTH STEP SERVICE!
Mark the Date
HMI - GBAI 30th Annual
OA Convention
September 12 – 14, 2008
Holiday
Inn On The Beach
At the San Luis Resort
5002 SEAWALL BLVD.
(AT 50TH STREET)
GALVESTON, TX 77550
(409) 740-3581
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Second
OA
Convention
Planning
Meeting
Saturday, June 14, 2008
2:00 PM
Oasis Club
OA Members –
Convention Volunteers Are Needed!
Please feel free to come to the meeting
or sign up by email at
oa@oahouston.org
REGION 3 CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
AT THE REGION 3
WEB SITE
OA-HOW Men's Meeting
Thursday 6:30 PM
HOW
First
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
2119 Avalon Place, Houston, TX 77019
Room 126 (Youth Room) - that is on the left as you enter the church
grounds from the parking lot.
Avalon Place is located off South Shepherd,
between Welch and Fairview, next to Petco.
Please park in the parking lot at the corner
of Peckham Street and Avalon Place, not on the street next to the church.
Contact: George G. - 713-529-7374 (H) and 713-408-0836 (Cell).
KINGWOOD
HOW
Holy
Comforter Lutheran Church
1901 Woodland Hills, Kingwood, TX
Tuesday 12:15 PM
Topic/Discussion
Contact: Mitzi 281-360-4419 or Nancy D. 281-358-6933
HOW
Foundry
United Methodist Church
8350 Jones Road, Houston, TX 77065
(Classroom is at the back of the sanctuary building - park in
back of church)
Thursday 7:00 PM
Topic/Discussion
Contact: Donna Marie 832-641-8485
Meeting Changes
The Sunday 1PM OA-HOW meeting
now meets in a different room and building:
Chapelwood
United Methodist Church
11140 Greenbay, Houston, TX 77024
Williams Center, Room 202, Topic/Discussion,
Contact: Barbara 713-995-5213
The Sunday night Webster meeting
has temporarily been moved to Up
the Street Club
and the time has been changed to 6:30 PM.
Katy
Thursday 6:30PM
is now meeting at
St.
Peter's Methodist Church
20775 Kingsland Blvd. Room E225.
The Friday 10:00AM Meeting
previously meeting at Memorial Hospital
is now meeting at the
Oasis Club
Meeting Closings
The Saturday 6:30PM Meeting
at the OAsis Club
has closed
The Tuesday Noon Meeting
at Clear Lake
has closed.
If anyone has information regarding changes to the information on
the meeting list, please contact us at oa@oahouston.org
Link here to view the Meeting List online.
Now those looking for an OA meeting anywhere in the world are able
to log on to the
World Service Office
Web Site and find out what groups meet in any part of the world!
This is an exciting new service that has great potential for the
OA Fellowship.
Online Now at the WSO Web Site!
We will continue to post our local meeting list online, however,
so that we can ensure
that changes to the list are placed online as promptly as possible.
DELEGATES NEEDED FOR MONTHLY HMI MEETINGS!
HMI has a lot going on these days as we work to carry the message!
There's
conventions, retreats, workshops, sending delegates to Regional
and
National meetings, Steps - our newsletter, the phone message
center,
and even this web site.
And we need YOUR help in getting all this work done! A great
way to start
is by volunteering to be the delegate from your group to the monthly
HMI meeting.
There are several benefits to increased participation in the HMI
meetings -
fresh ideas, the ability to better coordinate our efforts with all
the groups
and membership, the opportunity for the delegates to become more
involved in the Twelfth Step Service, and the opportunity for the
delegates
to carry the news back to the groups - and encourage the participation
of all our members.
REMEMBER - SERVICE IS SLIMMING
MEETING ATTENDANCE:
A TWELFTH STEP SERVICE!
It's a pretty sure bet that most of us OA'ers recognize that attending
meetings
is a critically important tool in our recovery.
But, have we also considered what an
important Twelfth Step Service attending
meetings can be?
The OA Fellowship, including HMI, continues to lose more meetings
than we gain, almost
always due to low attendance. Additionally, many meetings
are barely surviving with only
a small handful of members attending. There is even an increasing
number of meetings
where a member shows up for a meeting only to find that they are
the only one there!
This is unfortunate in many ways. It means there are less meetings
to choose from
when a member really needs to make a meeting. And it means
that the meetings are
perhaps not as effective as they might be if only a very few folks
show up.
Perhaps most importantly, think what this means to a newcomer.
Showing up for your
first meeting only to find that there are only a couple of other
folks there could be a
very unsettling proposition. It also doesn't say much for
the amount of support a
newcomer might expect of find in the OA Fellowship.
While there are a number of popular and reasonably well attended
OA meetings that
many of us attend, perhaps we should all consider challenging ourselves
to attend an
additional smaller meeting whenever possible. Not only would
we be contributing to
our own recovery by attending an additional meeting, we would be
helping to carry
the message by ensuring the continued existence of a group that
might be very
important to someone else's recovery.
So, if you've been considering just what type of Twelfth Step Service
you could contribute
to the Fellowship, as well as your own recovery, think about attending
an additional meeting.
The Twelfth Step
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these
steps, we tried to carry this
message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these
principles in all our affairs.
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