Ocean & Bay Intergroup Meetings
First Tuesday of every month
6-6:30p: Literature Sales & Fellowship
6:30-7:30p: Intergroup Meeting
*New Location: 19 Foster Rd. Cranston*
UPCOMING EVENTS
DECEMBER
December 1: 1:30-4p
"Surviving the Holidays" Workshop
Kent County Hospital - Auditorium A
December 8: 3-:4:30p
Service & 12th Step Within Virtual Workshop
December 12:
12th Step Within!
Reach out to someone you haven't seen for a while or who you know is still suffering. Show how you care by sending a text, making a call, or inviting them to a meeting. Your concern could save a life!
December 28: 1-3p
12 Step Workshop! (Part 1 of 4)
Semaj Health & Wellness
960 Reservoir Ave., Suite 24, Cranston RI
RSVP - Contact Diane (401) 573-3489
JANUARY (2020)
January 4:
1-3p
12 Step Workshop! (Part 2 of 4)
Semaj Health & Wellness
960 Reservoir Ave., Suite 24, Cranston RI
RSVP - Contact Diane (401) 573-3489
January 11:
1-3p
12 Step Workshop! (Part 3 of 4)
Semaj Health & Wellness
960 Reservoir Ave., Suite 24, Cranston RI
RSVP - Contact Diane (401) 573-3489
January 18: 11:30-1PM
Sponsor training (sponsored by SE CT Intergroup)
St. Luke's Church in Gales Ferry, CT
(following regular weekly meeting)
January 25:
1-3p
12 Step Workshop! (Part 4 of 4)
Semaj Health & Wellness
960 Reservoir Ave., Suite 24, Cranston RI
RSVP - Contact Diane (401) 573-3489
January 26: 6-7pm
Speaker meeting at Grace United Methodist Church 10 Park Ave. Westerly, RI
FEBRUARY (2020)
Feb 28 - Mar 1
OA New Hampshire Intergroup Retreat
Barbara C. Harris Camp & Conference Center
400 Sawmill Rd., Greenfield, NH 03047
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The Seventh Tradition states OA is fully self-supporting, accepting contributions only from OA members. Groups may send either monthly o
r periodic donations (via mail or in person) to Intergroup.
Thank you for your donation, which helps us to spread the word of recovery.
Please mail donations to:
Ocean and Bay Intergroup
Attn: Treasurer
P.O. Box 41273
Providence, RI 02940
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Intergroup Board
CONTACT US
Vice Chair:
John C. vicechair.oceanandbay@gmail.com
Treasurer:
Sandy C. treasurer.oceanandbay@gmail.com
Recording Sec.:
Lisa secretary.oceanandbay@gmail.com
Newsletter Editor:
Erin F.
Public Information/ Professional Outreach:
Holly
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Mission & Vision
Ocean & Bay Intergroup is dedicated to supporting individuals in need of recovery from compulsive eating (e.g.: overeating, bulimia, anorexia) through carrying the OA message and empowering all meetings within the Intergroup.
1. Help members strengthen their personal recovery
2. Increase the number of sponsors
3. Increase the number of newcomers
4. Increase the retention of newcomers
5. Help those in relapse
6. Inspire people to give more service
7. Increase outreach activities, including outreach to members and healthcare professionals
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Local Meeting List
New Meetings:
Mon | 4-5pm | Charlestown, RI
Church of the Holy Spirit - 4150 Old Post Rd.
Contact: Lisa (401)447-3931
Thu | 6-7pm | Bristol, RI
First Baptist Church - 250 High Street
Contact: Diane (401)573-3489
GROUP CONTACT INFORMATION:
Please check your meeting contact name and information on both the
local Ocean and Bay Meeting List (send changes to oceanandbayoa@yahoo.com) as well as the Overeaters Anonymous website meeting list and make any necessary changes.
* Please call ahead to verify meetings are taking place, especially during holidays. *
Updated Sept 2019*
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Stay Connected!
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Please note that every effort has been made to adhere to OA's policy for newsletter publications.
Opinions and experiences expressed within are those of the individual writer and not OA as a whole.
REMINDER: This is your newsletter, so please feel free to submit your writing contributions to: oceanandbayoa@yahoo.com.
You are also invited to be one of the members who provides answers for a Q&A. Again, just send us a note to: oceanandbayoa@yahoo.com.
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"True comfort is to be found in the balance and sanity of abstinence. So deep and pure is this comfort that it is well worth whatever trouble or pain I might have to pass through to attain it."
- For Today, p 253 -
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Next Intergroup Meeting: Tue, Dec. 3 | 6:30-7:30pm
19 Foster Road | Cranston, RI
Does your home group have an Intergroup representative?
Are you interested in being involved at the Intergroup level?
ALL ARE WELCOME AT INTERGROUP!
We are seeking topic ideas for workshops for 2020!
Please click the link above and fill out a brief survey about 2020 workshop ideas!
Meeting Change: "A Room with a View"
ROOM CHANGE: Adapted Room/1st Floor
(first door on the left after women's locker room)
Sat. | Newport Cty YMCA | Middletown | 9:30-10:30a
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Upcoming O&B Events: 
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Surviving the Holidays:
* taken from the OA Virtual Region Workshop*
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Step Twelve:
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.
(Spiritual Principle: Service)
"We who once suffered from complete powerlessness to control our eating and our lives have now discovered the saving strength of a Power greater than ourselves. We have experienced the miracle of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing, just as we were promised when we began working these Steps.
We're no longer afraid of food because it no longer controls us...Freed of the obsession and restored to sanity, today we choose not to eat self-destructively. We have new ways of coping with our problems and new practices now, which make living a positive, joyful experience most of the time. If we should again crave more food than we need, we know we can find relief in the Steps instead of in compulsive eating.
The Twelfth Step invites us to continue the journey one day at a time for the rest of our lives. We need to keep moving forward in recovery, keep developing our spiritual consciousness, if are to remain spiritually awake and fully alive.
Walking hand in hand with fellow OA members and our Higher Power, we are now exploring this world, using the great spiritual Principles embodied in the Twelve Steps as the map to guide our way."
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all of these Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities
(Spiritual Principal - Spirituality)
"We give up our aspirations to govern our fellow members. We welcome to our meetings all people with a desire to stop eating compulsively, no matter what we think or feel about them. We give up our dependence on authorities and power structures, along with our ambitions to climb to the top of some imagined ladder. We cease all attempts to use OA to promote our favorite outside issues and enterprises. We pay our own way and quit expecting others to keep OA going without our help.We give up all aspirations to gain status as special OA members. We give up all ambitions that we might someday be acclaimed for our OA recovery or service.
Behind all these self-sacrificing attitudes is a single spiritual foundation, so important to our Fellowship, it is part of our name: anonymity. Without a strong foundation, no house will stand for long. It is essential that all of us understand and respect anonymity if OA to survive and we are to find recovery here."
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition
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