Service Matters - March 2023

GSA Podcast Launch

At long last, the GSA Podcast is ready to launch. Podcast subcommittee members of the Communication Committee have been working steadily to produce hour-long episodes featuring abstinent guests, topics related to getting and staying abstinent, and personal stories mixed in. We hope to post a new episode monthly and have a few "in the can" nearly ready to go.

Our first podcast is called: Welcome to the GreySheet Podcast - an interview between two grateful GreySheeters. We will have these podcasts published at our website http://www.greysheet.org/

Launch Date: March 12, 2023 @ Committees Connecting

Time: 12:00 pm EST

Zoom ID: 663 470 166

Universal Passcode

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/663470166

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Service Opportunities

GSA World Services provides many services to the world-wide fellowship, and we need you to make the magic happen.

Board of Trustees Open Positions

Secretary

The GSA Secretary records the minutes of the monthly Board of Trustees and the Chairs/ISRs meetings as well as the minutes of the World Service Conference.

Assistant Secretary

The GSA Assistant Secretary supports the secretary and manages GSAWS records in the GSAWS Google Drive.

Trustee from Iceland and a trustee from Europe

Represent your area on the Board of Trustees. Ensure that your community is heard.

Board Requirements: Five years abstinence. Three-year term. 2-4 hours a month. Chair@greysheet.org or Nominating@greysheet.org

Communication Committee Open Positions

GSAWS Facebook Admins

• Duties: Moderate the GSA World Services Facebook group to ensure posts meet criteria and that only existing GSA members join the group. Current trusted servant will train.
• Abstinence: 1 year. Term: 1 year.
• Time required: Few minutes daily.
• InternalFacebook@greysheet.org

Service Matters Publisher

• Duties: Receives newsletter content in Word from Communication Committee by last day of the month. Copies, pastes, and formats in MailChimp Service Matters template. Posts same content into website blog. Publishes MailChimp newsletter by 7th of the next month. Current trusted servant will train.
• Time Required: 2-3 hours a month.
• Abstinence: 1 year. Term: 1 year.
• Communication@greysheet.org

Service Matters Subscription Manager

• Duties: Once a quarter, receive a spreadsheet of new trusted servants to subscribe to Service Matters from the registrar. Load the new subscribers into MailChimp.
• Requirements: One-year GreySheet abstinence. One year term. Works with Communication Committee.
• Communication@greysheet.org

GSA Phone List Coordinator

• Duties: Add new subscribers to the online Phone List monthly. Send new subscribers login information. Send out new login information quarterly. Coordinate volunteers who call to verify subscribers. Update list with the information provided by volunteers. Current trusted servant will train and support.
• Time Required: 2-3 hours a month.
• Abstinence: 1 year. Term: 1 year.
• Communication@greysheet.org

Area Contacts List Coordinator

• Duties: Add new contacts to the online list quarterly. Annually email all contacts to verify that they respond within 24 hours.
• Time Required: 2-3 hours a month.
• Abstinence: 1 year. Term: 1 year.
• Communication@greysheet.org

Start Up Sponsor Team

• Want to get newcomers started in their GreySheet abstinence and help them get connected? The Start Up Sponsor Team needs more women living in North America, especially those available during the day.
• Training and mentoring provided. Requires responding to Coordinator’s WhatsApp text within two hours with your availability and starting off your share of newcomers.
• Abstinence: 1 year. Term: 1 year.
• SUS@greysheet.org

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GSA World Services Facebook Group

Join the GSA World Services Facebook Group to keep up with all the latest announcements. Since it’s a secret, private group, email InternalFacebook@greysheet.org for a time-sensitive link to join.

This Facebook group is NOT the meeting before the meeting; it’s not the meeting; it’s not the meeting after the meeting. It is Any GreySheet-related Announcements? during the meeting.

• Post group information like a new meeting, changing the format of your meeting, needing trusted servants for your meeting.
• Post intergroup information like changes to your intergroup meeting schedule, service opportunities in the intergroup, new services offered by your intergroup like a WhatsApp group, a YouTube Channel, or a podcast.
• Post announcements about events that have been approved by the Public Information Committee for publication by GSA World Services https://www.greysheet.org/events/list-your-event. Retreats, roundups, gatherings, speaker blasts, and meeting marathons are all welcome.
• Post World Service Conference committee information like a new way to register for Start Up Sponsor training, delegate training, delegate registration, service positions on your committee, improvements to the group registration process, the launch of the GreySheet Counts census, and 25^thanniversary celebrations.

InternalFacebook@greysheet.org

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Town Halls

https://www.greysheet.org/events/service-events/gsa-world-services-town-hall-04-03-2023

GSA World Services will increase the length of our three quarterly Town Halls to up to 90 minutes starting April 2023.

This will allow time for the main purpose of the Town Hall – fellowship input on GSA World Services issues – as well as the special topic of the quarter, World Service update, and intergroup presentation.

• Special Topics of the Quarter
  • April: Twenty-Five Year Anniversary of GreySheeters Anonymous
  • July: GreySheet Counts: Why should I participate in the census?
• Presentations by Intergroups (15 minutes)
  • January: New York Metro, Western States, Europe
  • April: Southern Central, Israel, Iceland
  • July: Connecticut, Phone Bridge, Northeast, Comunidad Hispana
• World Service Vision and Four Core Functions Update: When anyone, anywhere, realizes they have a problem with food, they think of the Greysheet solution.
  • Integrity of GreySheet Program
  • Literature
  • Public Information
  • Website
• Plus Treasury report and Announcements if time allows

Ideally members submit questions in advance to Chair@greysheet.org  or to Communication@greysheet.org if questioner wants to remain anonymous. This will allow the Board of Trustees to be sure we have the information available at the Town Hall.

If questions do not relate to GSA as a whole, the chair will refer the questioner to their sponsor, their group, or their intergroup. World Service suggestions will be referred to the appropriate World Service Conference committee or board.

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2023 GreySheeters Anonymous

8th World Service Conference Meeting

October 22nd, 2023

9:30am to 2:30pm ET, Via Zoom

Registration for our 8th World Service Conference meeting will open the first week in March 2023. It is a very powerful time for the growth of GreySheeters Anonymous. The World Service conference committees are working diligently on guidelines and policies to support our fellowship. 

If you are an ISR or represent a group as a GSR, please consider registering as a delegate for our World Service Conference meeting so your group will have input on the proposals presented at the WSC.  All of the information will be in the link below. We will update the information regularly! There will also be delegate training as we get closer.

https://greysheet.org/world-service-conference/upcoming-conference

We have made some exciting changes for 2023. World Service Specialists, i.e. the Service Matters Coordinator, can be voting members at the World Service Conference. The total number of registrants will determine the number of specialists spaces available. Those elected by the board or a committee as a specialist should register as well. 

We are working diligently as a committee and would welcome 1 or 2 new members. 

This will be our third Zoom WSC meeting! It is very exciting to see your fellow abstinent service-mongers and communicate the information to your groups or intergroups!

SAVE the DATE and we’ll see you then!

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GreySheeters Annonymous will Celebrate our Silver Anniversary