Service Tools & Concepts Many Ways to Serve By admin Posted on April 1, 2020 2 min read 0 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Reddit Share on Pinterest Share on Linkedin Share on Tumblr There are so many ways to give service in OA and pay forward all we have so freely received. Not all forms of service require years of commitment or abstinence. Will service make you abstinent? No, unfortunately, it is not a magic cure. But it is one of the Tools you can use to work the Steps. Members can give service at the group level, and the next level of service is at the intergoup. (Intergroup officers usually have abstinence and attendance requirements.) Below are fifty ways to give service. Abstinence Attend conventions Attend meetings Become a speaker Clean up meeting spaces Convention committee Designated downloader General service trustee Greeter Group bylaws or standing rules Group contact Group secretary Group treasurer Group website maintenance Intergroup bylaws Intergroup chair Intergroup newsletter Intergroup rep Intergroup secretary Intergroup vice chair Intergroup website maintenance Lead a meeting Literature chair Maintain group contact list Meeting setup Newsletter editor Obtain speakers Offer transportation Outreach calls Professional outreach Program chair Provide safekeeping for records Public information Put up posters Region chair Region delegate Region media committee Region secretary Region treasurer Region vice chair Speak up when OA guidelines or Traditions are not being followed Special events Sponsorship Talk to newcomers Translator Twelfth Step Within committee Workshop committee World Service Delegate World Service Trustee Write newsletter articles Why not pick two or three opportunities and get started? Remember, as OA’s Responsibility Pledge states, “Always to extend the hand and heart of OA to all who share my compulsion; for this, I am responsible.” — Edited and Reprinted from The Butterflyer newsletter, Chicago Western Intergroup, April 2018
