Step Study meetings topics focus on one of the Twelve Steps which comprise the Alchoholics Anonymous program. Step Study meetings may be either Closed or Open meetings, as described above. Birthday Night meetings celebrate sobriety achievements of our fellowship, normally reserved for those who have reached one or more years of continuous sobriety. These celebrations are normally conducted on a monthly basis and cake is usually served after the meeting. Birthday nights are often open meetings, even in the groups which normally conduct closed meetings.
All meetings conducted in churches are also non-smoking meetings.
Smoking is permitted at a majority of meetings held at the Richland Fellowship Hall. Guests at A.A. open meetings are reminded that any opinions or interpretations they may hear are solely those of the speaker involved. All members are free to interpret the recovery program in their own terms, but none can speak for the local group or for A.A. as a whole.