Prattville Downtown Group
326 West Fifth Street, Prattville, AL 36067
The Prattville Downtown Group meets at 6:30 pm, seven days a week. In addition, they have noon meetings on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and a 6:30 am meeting on Thursdays. All meetings are non-smoking.
History:
In the late 1980s, Mac and Bob G., who attended St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Prattville, began a Big Book study on Wednesday nights at 8:00 pm. Sometime later, Bill K. and Susan C. moved to Prattville from New Orleans and, in 1991, helped start the Open Family meetings on steps 1-3 and sponsorship on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm.
Between 1991 and 1993, meetings expanded to three meetings a week. Bill K. left Prattville in the mid 1990s, but Raleigh W. and Nancy W. (AFG) were here, and kept the meetings going. By 1994 there were open discussion meetings on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday. Sometime around 1997, a Saturday night 8:00 pm meeting was started, and the members attending these meetings began looking at starting a group. In 1998, they wrote to the office in New York.
The first group conscience meeting of the Downtown Prattville Group was held August 24, 1998. David K. acted as unofficial secretary for that meeting. There was no sign-in sheet, but by all recollections the early membership included: Charles C., Carla C., David K., Fred C., Lonnie B., Melissa B., and Mike F. Eleanor S., Paul D., and Keith P. joined soon thereafter and helped grow the group.
On August 9, 2002, the group voted to move from St. Mark’s to a small self-standing building at 326 W. Fifth Street. The first meeting at the new (current) location was held on November 1, 2002.
Today, there is at least one meeting of the Prattville Downtown Group every day, 365 days per year.