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Meet Your Area Service Committee Chairs

Posted on December 6, 2020December 22, 2020 by The Webservant

Meet Your Area Service Committee Chairs Readings: Tradition Twelve: Anonymity Concept Twelve: General Warranties of the Conference OPEN DISCUSSION TOPIC OBJECTIVES: Being of Service Southern Ontario Area Service Committee Duties & Responsibilities Service Committee Chair Presentations (by Present and/or Past Chairs) Southern Ontario Area Policies and Procedures

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CA Virtual Sobriety Chips

Posted on October 12, 2020October 13, 2020 by The Webservant
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Being of Service

Posted on June 2, 2020September 6, 2020 by The Webservant

In addition to finding a spiritual way of life, recovery is about changing negative aspects of our personalities into positive ones. We came into the program with big egos but little or no self-esteem. We thought we were better than other people yet, at the same time, felt “less than.” We were people who took…

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Taking Minutes

Posted on February 25, 2020June 2, 2020 by The Webservant

How to take minutes at Group Business, Area and Committee Meetings 1. Use a template. 2. Check off attendees as they arrive. Make sure you have a meeting agenda. This is usually prepared by the Chairperson. Choose your recording tool. Will you use a pen and paper or will you use a laptop computer, tablet,…

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“Property and Prestige”

Posted on February 18, 2020March 14, 2020 by The Webservant

By Hal K., Houston TX In the spirit of the Traditions and the direction of the Concepts of World Service, it appears that many of us, as trusted servants, may want to examine our adherence to the intent of our founders of being directly responsible to those they serve. In my travels over the past…

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The Delegate’s Job is a Spiritual One!

Posted on January 7, 2020March 2, 2020 by The Webservant

WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE DELEGATE Duties and Responsibilities Conference Delegates are required to have a working knowledge of the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions, the Twelve Concepts of Service and the World Services Conference Charter. Prior to the Conference, the Delegate transmits SR-14 material to his or her Area through Area and District Meetings as well…

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Tradition Eight: We’re nonprofessional

Posted on January 5, 2020February 3, 2020 by The Webservant

Tradition Eight (Short): C.A. as such, should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centres may employ special workers. Tradition Eight (Long): Alcoholics (Cocaine) Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional. We define professionalism as the occupation of counseling alcoholics for fees or hire. But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for…

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Concept Six: World Service Office Board of Trustees

Posted on December 10, 2019March 2, 2020 by The Webservant

Concept Six: On behalf of C.A. as a whole, our World Service Conference has the principal responsibility for the maintenance of our world services, and it traditionally has the final decision respecting large matters of general policy and finance. But the Conference also recognizes that the chief initiative and the active responsibility in most of…

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“Pass It On” Documents

Posted on November 27, 2019December 23, 2019 by The Webservant

UNITY COMMITTEE – H – E – L – P !!!!! by: Tammy L. Pflugerville, Texas, USA (Newsgram – Q3 2016 p. 22) I decided to come to the Unity Committee because our Area suffers with putting on Unity Events, and struggles with keeping a Unity Chairperson. I believe that the new chairs become overwhelmed…

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What is Service Sponsorship?

Posted on November 23, 2019September 6, 2020 by The Webservant

SERVICE SPONSORSHIP Service Sponsorship is a concept in Cocaine Anonymous that works the same as sponsorship through the 12 step program of action. A service sponsor is a member that has engaged in sufficient amounts of service work and has been taught the material in a workshop like this one, by their service sponsor, that…

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The Importance of Service

Posted on November 6, 2019January 5, 2020 by The Webservant

The universal symbol of recovery is called the Recovery Triangle. It depicts the “Three Legacies” of our parent fellowship that have been adopted by our own fellowship–RECOVERY, UNITY and SERVICE. Unity: Is about cohesion between the different elements of Cocaine Anonymous—unity between Groups, Districts, Areas and the World body. It’s also about our unity with…

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Concept Two: The Authority of Our Collective Conscience

Posted on October 30, 2019February 3, 2020 by The Webservant

Concept Two: The C.A. Groups delegate to the World Service Conference the complete authority for the active maintenance of our world services and thereby make the Conference — excepting for any change in the Twelve Traditions — the actual voice and the effective conscience for our whole Fellowship. CA NewsGram, Fourth Quarter 1998, Vol. 12…

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Concept Nine: Good Leadership

Posted on October 30, 2019February 4, 2020 by The Webservant

Concept Nine: Good service leaders, together with sound and appropriate methods of choosing them are at all levels indispensable for our future functioning and safety. The Twelve Concepts for World Service Illustrated p. 18 Good leadership cannot function well in a poorly designed structure…Weak leadership can hardly function at all, even in the best of…

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C.A. Group Servants

Posted on October 15, 2019March 2, 2020 by The Webservant

World Service Manual 2020 pp. 18 – 20 “For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.” OUR SECOND TRADITION C.A. groups may create such service positions, as they deem necessary…

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Trusted Servants, Our Leaders

Posted on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 by The Webservant

CA NewsGram, 3rd Quarter 2011, Vol. 28 No.3 “Trusted Servants, Our Leaders” In Tradition Two we rely on God to be present in our group conscious decisions. As we carry out these decisions at all levels of the fellowship we rely on our trusted servants who have been given this responsibility. These trusted servants who…

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Bleeding Deacon versus Elder Statesperson

Posted on October 14, 2019October 15, 2019 by The Webservant

A.A. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, P. 135 Does AA have any real leadership?” Most emphatically the answer is “Yes, notwithstanding the apparent lack of it.” Let’s turn again to the deposed founder and his friends. What becomes of them? As their grief and anxiety wear away, a subtle change begins. Ultimately they divide into…

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