Brisbane Inner City – Group Support Forum – June 2019
| Host: | Tuesday Night – Steps and Traditions – Spring Hill – 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm |
| Location: | Sands Building – 505 Bowen Terrace, New Farm, Queensland 4005 |
| Date: | Sunday, 16th June 2019 |
| Time: | 2:00 am – 4:00 pm |
| Attendees: | Spiritual Concepts: Mandy K
West End Tuesday night: Jason T Rainbow Recovery Wednesday night: Sonya M and Jason T Spring Hill Steps and Traditions: Gabby B Wednesday Night Farsi Meeting: Jason T Women’s Sponsorship and Steps: Gabby B New Farm Lunchies’: Mandy K |
| Apologies: | Paddington Thursday Night
West End Wednesday night Men’s Meeting – Thursday Night New Farm Saturday Morning New Farm Sunday Women’s Meeting New Farm Saturday Night Id Monday Night Mitchelton Meditation Paddington Sunday morning Friday Night Literature New Farm |
Open
Open with theService Prayer.
God grant us the knowledge that we may work according to your great divine precepts.
Install in us a sense of your purpose.
Make us servants of your will and grant us a bond of selflessness, that no addict anywhere need die from the horrors of addiction.
Group Report Backs
1. Spiritual Concepts – Sunday Afternoon New Farm
- The meeting is running, with lots of home group members with varied clean time.
- The group is financial and will be fund flowing subject to a group conscience.
- The group is buying literature and the rent is up to date.
2. Tuesday Night Spring Hill Steps and Traditions
- This group continues to do well.
- Attendance is strong with 25 – 30 members a week.
- Group is financial and paid up in rent.
- All service positions are filled.
- Has a really good atmosphere of recovery.
- 15 home group members that attend regularly.
- Group has sufficient literature.
- The group has about hundred dollars in the kitty.
- Group will be having a group conscience soon in order to determine how much to fund flow.
- Didn’t have a group conscience last month due to the unity weekend.
- Group is made up of primarily of males and so are looking for more female members.
3. Wednesday Night Rainbow Recovery New Farm
- Has an attendance of roughly 37 members per week.
- A great atmosphere of recovery.
- Group is financial:
- Rent is paid until the end of June 2019.
- Literature purchase of $220.
- Fund flowed $100 in June.
- $168 prudent reserve.
- Has a large number of home group members, with a core group of 5 attending each week.
- All service positions are filled.
- At the end of May 2019 when the Community Centre is unavailable (renovations), the venue will change to the 860 Brunswick Street venue provided by Communify.
- Looking at changing the time to 6:30 pm at the same time as the venue change to minimise disruption.
- The group has set up a Gmail account.
4. Tuesday Night West End
- The group is in the process of securing a new venue and move date.
- Will be announcing in the coming weeks.
- Rent will be vastly cheaper, so the group is looking forward to fund flowing in the future.
5. Friday Night Women’s Strength and Sponsorship Meeting Bowen Hills
- This new meeting is going really well.
- Averaging 10 – 15 members per week.
- Had the first group conscience during the second week where all the service positions were delegated.
- Averaging a seventh of $10-$20 a week.
- The rent is up to date.
- The group has no literature or key tags at the moment, so it is looking for support from other members or home groups who can help with donations.
- Members have been really responsive to the fact that this meeting is one with a strong focus on sponsorship.
6. Farsi / Persian Meeting – Wednesday Spring Hill
- Farsi meeting is good.
- Group has fund flowed $25.
7. Lunchies
- Mandy has taken over as secretary for the Lunchies
- The main thing happening with the Lunchies is the venue change.
- Moving date is the 27th
- Changing the time until the 1:15 to maintain anonymity.
Previous GSF Topics
1. Fund flowing
- In accordance with tradition four (4), this forum’s function is simply to support the ability of groups to fund flow.
- Instructions how to fund flow
- were published in the minutes of the last GSF.
- on the website.
- BICR attended groups that requested to support fund flowing activities.
- Farsi meeting has fund flowed $25.
- Other groups are taking this to their next group conscience.
- Closed.
2. Unity weekend wrap up
- Final wrap up of the unity weekend.
- The weekend made approximately $4,400 for Greater Queensland.
- The art auction alone brought in $1,600.
- Running another one next year is a given.
- We will definitely need someone with a significant amount of experience to run it next year.
- Jason T will contact Jenny W for the artefacts.
- Next year’s unity weekend should be put on the agenda for the next GSF.
3. Regional Service Committee (RSC) Speaker Jam
- Nicole O is moving back to the Gold Coast and need to understand if there is anything happening with the speaker jam.
- If we want to do this then we have to find a venue.
- RSC is definitely being held on the 20th July.
- Up to us if we want to do something.
- There is 5 weeks to find a venue and plan the speaker jam.
- Jason T to contact Nicole about the status of this.
- Text the result to attendees of the GSF.
- Perhaps it could be pulled off with a venue and coffee and cake refreshments.
New GSF Topics
1. Proposal for a New Women’s Meeting
- Need to announce the fact that the new women’s meeting is looking for support from other members or financial home groups.
- The group is in need of Key Tags and Literature.
- Closed
2. Greater Queensland Service Board Update
- LSC Service is scheduled in August in Bardon.
- Some updates are in progress with a committee to talk through changes to the website.
- Discussion around H and I and PR week.
- Naming of the area was discussed.
- Darwin update.
- Square success.
- The board fund flowed $5,000 to region with a really healthy prudent reserve.
3. New Farm Community Center venue
- The last day for the use of the New Farm Community Center is on 27th June 2019.
- Groups can then use the new venue of 860 Brunswick Street, New Farm.
- Announce the fact that the venue is changing and that members want more information about this to see the home group members.
- Closed
4. Next Group Support Forum
- The next GSF will be hosted by Friday Night Women’s Strength and Sponsorship Bowen Hills.
- Sunday, 14th July 2019; 2:00 pm at the Sands Building, 505 Bowen Terrace, New Farm.
Close
Serenity prayer in the plural.
God, grant us the serenity to accept the things that we cannot change
The courage to change the things that we can
And the wisdom to know the difference.
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