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Click Here to read Convention Newsletter #1 - Can You please Give Service?
Buying Meal Tickets is Important ... here's why
Hotels offer meeting space to groups like OA-MAI. The hotel gets "paid" in three ways: hotel-room bookings, food and beverage and rental fees. Each group negotiates its own combination of these three ways. OA-MAI chooses a moderate amount of each.
When OA-MAI can't meet its commitment for hotel-room bookings or food-and-beverages, the difference is paid to the hotel in cash out of our profit. Essentially, if we don't serve enough meals or book enough rooms, OA-MAI must pay a much higher rental fee for the space. This would lead to escalating registration fees for future conventions.
When you purchase a meal ticket, it is a donation to your intergroup, to help assure that the convention meets its commitments and makes a profit. It also helps to keep future convention fees reasonable.
OA-MAI meals are more expensive than average in large part because of the requirements of our Plans of Eating. For example, we request custom-made salad dressings that are sugar-free. We request fresh fruit rather than fruit cocktail. We request fresh vegetables. No butter, only olive oil. And so forth. Our meals also are full inclusive of beverages, tax and tip.
Meal time is an important time for fellowship, too. Please consider sharing more meals with your fellows at the 2026 EXPECT A MIRACLE Convention.
Click here to order meal tickets.
NEWS FLASH! Hotel room block extended to March 9, 2026 at the nightly base rate of $111 any occupancy!!
Online Registration fees can add up quickly if you intend to share several or even many meals with your fellows. There are easy ways around this:
Print the Registration form. Mail it to the OA-MAI PO Box with your check. Or, add a note for the Registrar to call you for a credit card number.
Call the Convention Registrar at 414/259-0640 to register by phone with your credit card.
When your registration is complete, you will receive an confirmation email (if you provided an email address.)
Credit card charges will appears as EB on your credit card statement. (EventBrite is the registration app.)
NOTE: Your pre-registration must be paid in full by March 17 at 5 pm. If it is not, you will be considered a walk-in participant and higher rates will apply. Meal tickets are not guaranteed for walk-in participants.