Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Lubbock City

What is Alcoholics Anonymous?

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a free support group for people struggling with alcohol addiction. The program is based on a 12-step model that provides a path to recovery through peer support, sober living, and spiritual growth.

Regular AA group meetings are available throughout Lubbock for anyone seeking help and community support in overcoming alcohol dependence.

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses

• Monday – Friday at 12 pm (Open)

This AA group holds open meetings for all who are struggling with addiction during the week. Attendees share their experiences and provide support.

St. John Neumann Catholic Church

• Tuesday at 7:30 pm (Closed)
• Friday at 7:30 pm (Open Speaker)

This AA group has a closed meeting for alcoholics only on Tuesdays, focusing on 12-step work. On Fridays they host an open speaker meeting, featuring an AA member sharing their story of addiction and recovery.

Westminster Presbyterian Church

• Wednesday at 7 pm (Open)
• Saturday at 10 am (Open Literature Study)

Westminster Presbyterian Church hosts two weekly AA meetings – an open discussion meeting on Wednesdays and an open literature study meeting discussing AA approved books/pamphlets on Saturdays.

The 12 Steps of AA

The 12 Steps are a set of guiding principles and actions outlined by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to help members achieve and maintain sobriety. The steps aim to facilitate positive change through admitting powerlessness over alcohol, appealing to a higher power, evaluating personal wrongs, making amends, and helping others.

1. Admitting inability to control alcohol use and lives being unmanageable.
2. Believing in a Power greater than oneself that can restore sanity.
3. Making decision to turn will and lives over to God’s care.
4. Taking moral inventory and admitting exact nature of wrongs.
5. Admitting to God, oneself, and another human being the wrongs.
6. Becoming ready to have God remove all defects of character.
7. Humbly asking God to remove shortcomings.
8. Making list of all persons harmed and becoming willing to make amends.
9. Making direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
10. Continuing to take personal inventory and admitting when wrong.
11. Seeking through prayer and meditation to improve conscious contact with God as understood, praying only for knowledge of God’s will and the power to carry that out.
12. Having a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, trying to carry this message to others with problems and practicing these principles in all life affairs.

Getting Started with AA in Lubbock

Use the meeting search on wfmh.org to find local meetings in the Lubbock area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available.

Attending Your First Local AA Meeting

There are two main types of AA meetings in Lubbock:

Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new local member. Share your experiences if you are comfortable. You may receive welcome keychain tags at your first meeting to mark milestones in your recovery journey, such as:

• 30 days sober
• 60 days sober
• 1 year sober