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UPCOMING EVENTS

All events shown here are hosted by GPI or groups within GPI. If your group is hosting an event you'd like us to post, please email us at webmaster@gpioa.org.

Thursday 6p Bellevue 2nd Anniversary
1/9/2025

OA Birthday
1/18/2025

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Suggested donations for all events are only suggested, they are not admission fees. If you can't afford the suggested donation, please give what you can. And remember, we'd love to see you, so if you can't pay, please don't stay away!

If you're looking for events outside of GPI, please see the World Service Event Calendar or other regional websites

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OA HOLIDAYS

OA BIRTHDAY

The third full weekend (Friday included) of January has been set aside as the annual celebration of the January 19, 1960 founding of Overeaters Anonymous.

UNITY DAY

Unity Day is a day to celebrate the connection of all members and groups of OA to one another.

It occurs the last Saturday in February in even years and the last Sunday in February in odd years at 11:30 a.m. local time. Unity Day was created to reaffirm the love and understanding shared by members of our Fellowship—with an emphasis on Tradition One: “Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on OA unity.” It is encouraged that all members of OA take a moment of silence to express their gratitude for the OA Program.

Within GPIOA, it has traditionally been observed with an event that includes a group recitation of "Roseanne's Prayer" (also known as "The OA Promise" or "I Put My Hand in Yours...":

I put my hand in yours, and together we can do what we could never do alone. No longer is there a sense of hopelessness, no longer must we each depend upon our own unsteady willpower. We are all together now, reaching out our hands for power and strength greater than ours, and as we join hands, we find love and understanding beyond our wildest dreams.

SPONSORSHIP DAY

Celebrated the third full weekend (Friday included) of August, this is a day set aside to acknowledge the importance of sponsoring in our Fellowship.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EXPERIENCING ABSTINENCE (IDEA)

International Day of Experiencing Abstinence (IDEA), celebrated the third full weekend (Friday included) in November, encourages OA members worldwide to begin or reaffirm their abstinence from compulsive overeating.

12TH STEP WITHIN DAY

December 12 (12/12) each year is designated as OA’s International Twelfth Step Within Day. The purpose is to encourage OA service bodies, meetings, and individual members to reach out to those within the Fellowship who are still suffering from compulsive eating behaviors.

MEETING ANNIVERSARIES

Everyone loves a good anniversary celebration! If your meeting would like to celebrate its anniversary with a special event, you can use the list below to help you plan.

The dates below are provided by GPI or OA's World Service Office (WSO). Meetings marked by an asterisk (*) show a major discrepancy of several years to a decade or more between the dates provided by GPI and those by WSO. Please contact webmaster@gpioa.org if your meeting is able to clarify its starting date.

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