351 Southwest 9th Street, Ontario, Oregon 97914
The Steps We Took Ontario
84.4 miles away from Bates, Oregon
802 Southwest 5th Street, Ontario, Oregon 97914
St Matthews Episcopal Church
84.8 miles away from Bates, Oregon
802 Southwest 5th Street, Ontario, Oregon 97914
St Matthews Episcopal Church
84.8 miles away from Bates, Oregon
802 Southwest 5th Street, Ontario, Oregon 97914
Wednesday Noon Group Ontario
84.8 miles away from Bates, Oregon
305 South 9th Street, Payette, Idaho 83661
Payette Nooners
85 miles away from Bates, Oregon
1004 Main Street, Fossil, Oregon 97830
Primary Purpose Fossil
88.9 miles away from Bates, Oregon
114 North Plymouth Avenue, New Plymouth, Idaho 83655
Better Pastime Group
93.1 miles away from Bates, Oregon
, Milton-Freewater, Oregon 97862
MF Primary Purpose
94.1 miles away from Bates, Oregon
110 South Church Street, Condon, Oregon 97823
Begining of the Trail
94.3 miles away from Bates, Oregon
119 North 2nd Street, Parma, Idaho 83660
Parma Wednesday Night Group
94.4 miles away from Bates, Oregon
191 East Gladys Avenue, Hermiston, Oregon 97838
H.O.W. Group
95.6 miles away from Bates, Oregon
AA is a program created to help its members get sober. Attendance is free at an AA Meeting in Bates, Oregon as the funding is accepted on a donation from its members.
AA is one of most commonly known programs in the United States and around the world that helps countless men and women achieve sobriety in the pursuit of lifelong recovery. They are usually small groups of recovering alcoholics who share their recovery journey and are there to help new members get sober.
Alcohol Addiction is a disease of the mind, body, and soul. AA has curated meetings to help with each individual piece of your sobriety. If you are in search of a meeting on the first three steps, you should choose a beginner meeting. If you are looking to get more in touch with your spiritual side, attending a meditation meeting would be an ideal choice. If you are in search of stories of inspiration for overcoming alcoholism, a speaker meeting is a good starting point. If you are through your steps and are now working on the traditions of AA, a tradition meetings will help. If you want to attend a single gender group, you can go to a men’s or women's meeting where you won't find anyone of the opposite gender there. The fact of the matter is there is a meeting for everyone. Try different meetings out until you find one that fits your needs.
In order to benefit the most from your first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you should remain open minded. Everyone had preconceived notions of what these meetings were and generally it is the same misconception. The best advice I ever got was to sit down, shut up, listen to the message, and humbly ask for help. Regardless of the meeting, there will be the same message of recovering from hopelessness. The process of recovering from that hopeless state is in asking for help from another person suffering from alcoholism which you will find in any meeting you choose to start with.