The Area Accessibility Chair, Bud W., asked District 25 if he might present info on the work and workings of this committee and how best District 25 might add to the success of those goals. At the time of Bud’s initial request District 25 did not have a chairperson in place, but by the time of the next scheduled (February) business meeting wherein Bud would present we had voted in Arrin R.. That being said, Arrin introduced Bud W. and he provided us with a compelling share on the hopes, means, and goals for this arm of AA’s service structure.
Believing this to be an effective way to drum up enthusiasm for both the area and district service arms and still needing to fill a few other committee positions (including CPC, PI, Treatment, and the Young People’s Chair) it is my goal to send invites to the Area Chairpeople of these committees and see if we can’t get them to provide the needed incentive to our group of GSRs, AltGSRs, and all the membership to stand and serve knowing that their sobriety will be elevated through fulfilling 12th Step and making true the Declaration of Responsibility:
I am responsible… when anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of A.A. always to be there. And for that: I am responsible.
Jo
DCM
The General Service Conference, Sharing the Topics With Your Group
I was sick in bed with pneumonia when our Area Delegate, Courtney S., reached out via email regarding the necessity of setting up a date for an online pre-conference on the topics being discussed at the next conference. But I was more than a little “self-absorbed” and wasn’t inclined to read or catch up on or follow through on any emails whatsoever. Undaunted, Courtney ended up placing a call to me that I was able to take and just in time for the regularly scheduled District 25 business meeting with the committee chairs, GSRs, AltGSRs, et al.
In that phone conversation with Courtney S. and I were able to choose a date, March 26, 2025 at 5:00pm Pacific Time for all interested parties to hear via Zoom Courtney’s presentation and to voice questions and concerns before taking what they hear back to their individual groups where the membership will discuss and determine the “group conscience” decisions for the GSR to then submit to Courtney via the form she is putting together for that very purpose. The topics are to be submitted to the membership via the GSRs here shortly and will be sent to their email addresses. Hopefully the GSRs will then make them available to any of their members not just at their business/pre-conference topic discussion meeting but as soon as they might so people can really sit with them and think about them, maybe even talk about them with their step or service sponsors so as to begin to formulate an understanding of the various topics.
This is just another thing I love about what A.A. is teaching me (us): To give myself time to think, gather information, listen and then voice my ideas/opinions and to join in the voting process knowing that every vote is important. To hear and really take in the minority opinion, weighing its merits and not standing so very solid in whatever stance I’ve taken so as to be living in a closed mind!
And let me tell you folks, this is NOT my natural way of thinking and behaving and being. Its yet another gift of the program and for that I will be forever grateful.
Jo
DCM
Online meetings
