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A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a church building. Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [a] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [3]
Old Town Friends' Meetinghouse, Baltimore, (also known as Aisquith Street Meeting, Baltimore Meeting or Patapsco) [9]: 177 Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse, Union Bridge; Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse, Sandy Spring; Third Haven Meeting House, Easton, Talbot County [9]: 193 West Nottingham Meetinghouse, Rising Sun, Cecil County; Massachusetts
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), the first twelve-step fellowship, was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, known to AA members as "Bill W." and "Dr. Bob", in Akron, Ohio. In 1946 they formally established the twelve traditions to help deal with the issues of how various groups could relate and function as membership grew.
NA sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous Program of the mid-1930s, and was founded by Jimmy Kinnon. [16] Meetings first emerged in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. The NA program, officially founded in 1953, [17] started as a small US-based movement that has grown into the world's largest 12 step recovery program for drug addiction.
Old Town Friends' Meetinghouse, also known as Aisquith Street Meeting or Baltimore Meeting, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story brick building which has undergone several alterations over the years.
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The federal government will require passengers on commercial U.S. flights to have a REAL ID, passport or other federally accepted ID by May 7, 2025.
The family of Karla Mendez, who was murdered in 2011 by a man she met at an AA meeting, filed a civil lawsuit in 2012 against AA asserting AA had a "reckless disregard for, and deliberate indifference...to the safety and security of victims attending AA meetings who are repeatedly preyed upon at those meetings by financial, violent, and sexual ...