How to use this website and it's purpose

The 12 Months of Self Support

As your Area Self Support Chair I plan on communicating ideas each month that will help District Self Support Chairs generate awareness of Self Support. One of the ways I plan on doing this is by having a monthly Self Support idea/tip. These ideas will focus on service and or money and I hope they will generate conversation and your own ideas. Remember that I am your Self Support Chair, I welcome your ideas and feedback. I also intend to read the District Self Support reports and post ideas, challenges from your reports, so please send me your reports.

One of the things I look forward to is your comments, on the ideas, on how the ideas worked or didn't work and for your own ideas. I would like to build a community where we exchange ideas and tips.

Please bookmark this website and come back to it each month. I have prepared 2 years of ideas and each month will update it with a new idea.

We will meet in person at Assemblies and this will give us the chance to share even more.

A.A.'s Legacy of Service - By Bill W., Page S1 of the A.A., Service Manual

Our Twelfth Step - carrying the message - is the basic service that the A.A. Fellowship gives;
this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence. Therefore, A.A., is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. WE must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven't been given the truth may die.

Hence, an A.A. service is anything whatever that helps us to reach a fellow sufferer - ranging all the way from the Twelveth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call and a cup of coffee, and to A.A.'s General Service Office for nation and international action. The sum total of all these services is our Third Legacy of Service. Service include meeting places, hospital cooperation, and intergroup offices; they mean pamplets books, and good publicity of almost every description. They call for committees, delegates, trustees, and conferences. And, not to be forgotten they need voluntary money contributions from within the Fellowship.

These services, whether performed by individuals, groups, areas, or A.A., as a whole, are utterly vital to our existence and growth. Nor can we make A.A. more simple by abolishing such services. We would only be asking for complication and confusion.

Concerning any given service, we therefore pose but one question: "Is this service really needed ?" If it is, then maintain it we most, or fail in our mission to those who need and seek A.A,............Continued on page S2, S3 of the A.A. Service Manual