The 11:00 AM Saturday meeting at St. Phillip Neri Church in Ft. Mill is cancelled until further notice and is now being held via the Piedmont Intergroup phone line.
Intergroup Meeting 3/14/2020
The Piedmont Intergroup meets Saturday at 11:35 at 100 Billingsley Room G after the 10:30 OA meeting in the same place.
Unity Day Workshop
Enjoy OA Unity on Saturday, February 29th, 2020 from 10:00 am – 12:30 pm in the Spirit Center at Community in Christ Lutheran Church 7621 Norman Island Dr., Cornelius, NC 28031.
There will be two speakers, games, a basket to be raffled and a yard sale after the unity day workshop. The theme is Our Common Welfare should come first, personal recovery depends upon OA unity. Enter through the courtyard left side door. If you want to participate in the yard sale bring five items of clothes or knick knacks to donate. Items will be sold from 1-5$. Proceeds will support OA.
Proposed Bylaws Changes
Please read the proposed changes and bring your voice to the next Intergroup meeting (11:35 Saturday, 2/8) or send a message to wso@piedmontintergroup.org with your thoughts.
Every year OA members communicate to the WSO representative the topics they want discussed at the World Service Business Conference in New Mexico.
We are not voting for or against the suggestions, just yes or no, these should be discussed.Thanks
Highlights from Susan, our World Service Business Conference representative
1. To revert to the earlier version of the Statement on Abstinence and Recovery
2. Making July the month of OA service (we now have dates on abstinence, unity and sponsorship)
3. Defining a hybrid meeting
4. Adding the tool of “pause”
5. Adding the tool of “spiritual awareness”
6. Clarifying the dates for the special events (OA Birthday, Unity Day, Sponsorship Day, IDEA day)
7. Allow virtual attendance by visitors to WSBC in 2021
8. When updating and developing new literature, take into account all groups (LGBTQ2, people of color, anorexics, men, non-native speakers, etc)
9. Changing wording “Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who through shared experience, strength and hope are recovering from compulsive overeating,under eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating or overexercising…”
10. Changes to Trustees to include at least 2 trustees from outside North America and qualifications
Relapse Recovery Meeting Starts January 7th
Tuesdays from 10-11am, Beginning: January 7, 2020. The focus is Focus: “Recovery from Relapse” (all are welcome!!!) We will be reading from the the Green Book titled “A New Beginning… Stories of Recovery from Relapse”
Zoar Road Club, 14729 Thomas Road, Charlotte, NC Contact Stacey (626)-354-2334. The Zoar Road club is in a 12 Step club house in awhite building behind Good Shepherd Club on the border of Charlotte and Ft. Mill
December meeting closings
St. Johns church office and building (1623 Carmel Road) will be closed on Wednesday, December 25; Friday, December 27; and Wednesday, January 1. The decision by the church means there will be no OA meetings at this church on those days.
Intergroup Business Meeting
10/12/2019 11:45 at Annuvia, 100 Billingsley Road
International Day Experiencing Abstinence 11/16/2019
Piedmont Inter group invites OA members to a walk-a-thon and IDEA day workshop on abstinence through the holidays on Saturday 11/16/2019. The walk-a-thon is from 8:30 to 10:00 at Boyce Park, 300 Boyce Road, Charlotte near the IDEA day workshop which is from 10:15 to 12:15 at St. Stephens United Methodist Church on 6800 Sardis Road, Charlotte NC, 28270.
Triad OA Serenity Day 11/2/2019
Fun, fellowship at Seeking the Spiritual Path from 12:30-4:30 at Guilford Park Presbyterian Church, 2100 Fernwood Drive, Greensboro NC 27410.
Intergroup Meeting 9/14 11:45 Annuvia
11:45 Saturday September 14th at 100 Billingsley Road. Please represent a group or come as a guest.