Welcome to AA of North Carolina - Area 51
Area 51 is one of 93 areas in the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous (United States/Canada). Our boundaries coincide with the state of North Carolina. To facilitate communication and service activities, Area 51 is subdivided by geography and language into 39 districts — 36 English-speaking and 3 Spanish-speaking. Currently there are over 900 A.A. groups that meet one or more times weekly in communities across North Carolina. Like all A.A. groups, each is autonomous. Through voluntary participation in our general service structure, our groups combine resources to carry A.A.’s message of recovery wherever in the world it is needed and wanted.
Who We Are – About A.A.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people 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 AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not 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.
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Our Legacies
Recovery
A.A.’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 15,
with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
Unity
A.A.’s Twelve Traditions apply to the life of the Fellowship itself. They outline the means by which A.A. maintains its unity and relates itself to the world about it, the way it lives and grows.Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 15,
with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
Service
The Twelve Concepts for World Service are an interpretation of A.A.’s world service structure. They reveal the evolution by which it has arrived in its present form, and they detail the experience and reasoning on which our operation stands today. These Concepts therefore aim to record the “why” of our service structure in such a fashion that the highly valuable experience of the past, and the lessons we have drawn from that experience, can never be forgotten or lost.Reprinted from Twelve Concepts for World Service, page 3,
with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.