Our district business meetings are monthly, normally on the last Sunday of the month. The location varies each month. Best way to find where we meet is on our glamorous website. Check it out: dist10.org. Anyone may attend our business meetings however only GSRs, (or Alternates), District Trusted Servants, and Standing Committee Chairpersons may vote. The newsletter topic this month is Carrying the Message. Successful Events & Workshops your District has implemented. I’ll start with our District website. I already stated how the monthly meeting is advertised on it, even though this is not really a workshop or event, it sure carries the message of our district information. Ron B. has been our webmaster for two years, going on his last 2-year term. His background knowledge of website skills was just what was needed to take over this position from another dedicated person (Doug R.) who has been carrying the torch for a time greater than expected. With updated technology that websites have now days, Ron has been able to keep up with all district groups, committees, and trusted servants name, contact changes, meeting changes, events, and flyers. There are also links to A.A. World Service, the YouTube Channel, Area 72 website, local Al Anon Website, Grapevine App, Meeting Guide App. It’s all there. But Ron cannot do this alone. Our webmaster is linked with all sorts of amazing people who receive and hand over updated information allowing our area’s website and the districts in it, to be linked together with this information. Last summer our Public Information chairperson (Terese M.) got fully involved with the LGBTQ1A+ community to organize a booth at the Pride Day in July with great success allowing A.A. members to talk to anyone interested, letting people know what A.A. is and is not. Handouts of Pamphlets and Literature were also available. Due to the success of that event, plans for the Pride Day and Kitsap Fair this year are starting to brew (no pun intended) with the help of our CPC chairperson, (Monica K.) Accessibility chairperson, (Jeremiah W.) and district 43s P.I./CPC chairperson (Brian) with help on Kitsap Fair booth. For the last several years our Third Legacy Chair (Linda D.) has been dedicated to conduct Concept and Service Manual studies each month, sharing her experience and allowing us to be led to a better understanding of A.A. World Service and those “hard to grasp” concepts. Linda recently turned third legacy over to Tracee C. who will continue to provide concept and service manual studies and what I have heard from the grapevine, some very interesting workshops of skits dealing with the traditions and concepts, showing us (who need hands on training) what it’s all about. I am looking forward to these “skits”. Our Treatment Committee Chairperson (Sandy B) has been diligently working with treatment facilities in our district to carry in the A.A. message. There are now one in-patient and six out-patient treatment centers in district 10 who would like Alcoholics Anonymous to come into their centers and talk to clients about A.A.. Our district holds 3 meetings a week at the in-patient center, and we support the six out-patient centers by holding A.A. meetings monthly or quarterly at the convenience of the respective treatment centers schedule. Our District Treatment Committee holds monthly meetings where Group representatives and any A.A. member interested in volunteering can come to support this meaningful mission of carrying the message. We are always looking for volunteers to share stories to the clients so if YOU are interested. Give me a call. District 10 just recently added a trusted service position we thought would be a benefit to our district and to the Puget Sound Central Service Office. The position is the Twelve Step Service Center Liaison (TSSC). The main purpose for this position is to act as a contact person between district 10 and the TSSC in Tacoma, and to coordinate and develop a list of members willing to do 12 step calls in district 10. We are hoping to have this position filled at our next district meeting at the end of March. Hopefully we will be carrying the message to anyone in need of a desire to stop drinking when they make that call. I think each and every one of our 28 groups here in district 10 are carrying the message by opening their doors and allowing that still suffering alcoholic the opportunity to come in for a hot cup of (sometimes vary nasty) coffee and be greeted by a friend to find that there is a solution. That to me is a successful “event” of A.A. And for that: I am responsible.
Peace. Mike D. DCM District 10
