Service Matters - February 2023
New Service Matters Publisher NEEDED!
Our wonderful trusted servant who has published the Service Matters newsletter is rotating out of the position. This opens an opportunity for someone new to step up to serve our community. Please contact the communication committee at communication@greysheet.org, if you’re interested in producing our monthly newsletter which is an important resource for GreySheeters.
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Help GSA Reach Compulsive Eaters Who Speak ALL Languages!
Saturdays 1200 EST
Sundays 0730 EST
Zoom ID 828 3976 4912 GSA Passcode
Every Sunday at 7:30am EST and every Saturday at noon EST, La Comunidad Hispana will meet on our Zoom account to use the simultaneous interpretation feature. We sincerely hope many of you will come and help us learn how to bring GSA people who speak many different languages under the same roof to listen to the same message.- If you are an English speaker who is comfortable using the Zoom hosting features, please join us to learn how to start the interpretation session, designate the interpreter, and switch back to main audio.
- If you are fluent in two languages, please join us to learn how to be the designated interpreter.
- No matter what language you speak, if you are comfortable leading a meeting, please join us to learn how to teach other participants how to select the language they want to hear using the waiting room and the chat features.
- Everyone who is interested in participating in any of our celebration events on Zoom, please join us to experience the simultaneous interpretation features in action. Zoom simultaneous interpretation and recording works best on a computer rather than a tablet or phone.
Traditions and Concepts 2023
The Communications Committee is excited to announce the reboot of Traditions and Concepts using actual examples and stories that bring the Traditions and Concepts to life. After all, this is how we learn best in twelve step recovery!
Why do we do this? Our integrity depends on the delegates of our World Service Conference having a solid foundation in the principles of our program. Most of us are familiar with the steps, but it is the traditions and concepts which help guide us as we work together as trusted servants in our community.
The Traditions and Concepts meetings will be held quarterly, at 1:00 PM ET, on the last Sunday of February, May, and August:
Sunday, February 26 (Traditions & Concepts 1-4)
Sunday, May 21 (T&C 5-8)
Sunday, Aug 27th (T&C 9-12)
While these meetings are primarily for new and returning GSRs and other delegates to the WSC, all are welcome to attend!
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Is Your Voice Heard?
Group Service Representatives are your voice in decisions that affect you, your group, and GSA as a whole.
There are 140 groups around the world serving our approximately 1000 members.
Only 69 groups have elected a GSR. Less than 50%.
Only 24 GSRs connect with World Service.
Does your group have a GSR?
Elect one and register with GSA World Services. Registrar@greysheet.org
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WHO IS OUR MAILCHIMP EXPERT? We could really use your help. Please contact the communication committee at communication@greysheet.org –
the rewards will be great!
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A New Intergroup!
- Telegram channels for community announcements and literature study
- Retreats, Round Ups, and social gatherings in the USA, Mexico, Spain, and Israel
- Podcasts, YouTube, and Twitch audio of qualifications
- WhatsApp groups for literature and group sharing
- Holiday meeting marathons
- Translations of GreySheeters Anonymous Conference Approved Literature
- Spanish GreySheets both printed and digital
- Zoom account
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Why Should I Care About the World Service Conference?
- The GreySheet is GreySheeters Anonymous Conference Approved Literature and will never be edited except for legally required changes
- Publish and distribute the 2020 report of the GreySheet Committee: GreySheet Abstinence: Clarifications and Sponsor Guidelines.
- Groups are GreySheeters Anonymous Groups if they only use Conference Approved Literature in their meetings
- Adopt all A.A. Literature as Conference Approved Literature
- The book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of GreySheeters Anonymous is Conference Approved Literature
- The Cambridge Group Purpose is Conference Approved Literature
- Adopt and adapt the A.A. Twelve Steps, Traditions, and Concepts for World Service and both versions of the A.A. Preamble
- Use term “compulsive eater” instead of “compulsive overeater” in written materials
- Who can be a World Service Conference delegate
- Who can be a Trustee, an ISR, or a GSR
- How much any one person can donate to GSA World Services
- What we will publish on our website
- How the World Service Conference will make decisions
- We will use social media to reach the public
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GreySheeters Annonymous will Celebrate our Silver Anniversary
We invite you to the Fiesta!
Please join the fun of preparing for our global Fiesta to celebrate our first 25 years as a Fellowship!
La Comunidad Hispana is hosting multilingual practice sessions on Zoom every week. We want every single GreySheeters Anonymous member to feel comfortable with Zoom’s simultaneous interpretation feature. Then we can all come together for our De Gris a Plata / From Grey to Silver Fiesta next year.
Saturdays at 12:30 pm EST
Sundays at 7:30 am EST
Join the multilingual global share!
Zoom Meeting ID: 828 3976 4912 Universal passcode