District 04 MSCA 09

The A.A. International Convention happens every 5 years, celebrating the anniversary of A.A. (1935). Members, family & friends from around the world attend. Activities at the IC include: meetings, workshops, dances + events such as the traditional flag ceremony celebrating sobriety worldwide.

This year we celebrate 90 years of A.A. The International Convention will be July 3-6, 2025 (at the Vancouver Convention Centre and BC Stadium).

THE A.A. SERVICE MANUAL

combined with

TWELVE CONCEPTS

WHEN: Third (3rd) Thursday of Every Month

WHERE “Virtual Only”

Meeting ID: 873 6607 8505

Passcode: Area09p74

TIME:

6:00pm-7:00pm PST: SERVICE STUDY

7:15pm-8:15pm PST MSCA 09 COMMITTEE SHARING SESSION

JUNE 19, 2025

CONCEPTS 11 and 12

Concept 11: Sharon K., Panel 74 DCMC of District 8 / Area 09

Concept 12: Vicki R., Panel 74 DCMC of District 5 / Area 09

JULY – DECEMBER 2025

Service Manual Workshop hosted by various members within 93 Areas.

The Twelve Concepts for World Service (SHORT FORM)

1.Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.

2. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience of our whole society in its world affairs.

3. To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of AA-the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives-with a traditional “Right of Decision.”

4. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional “Right of Participation,” allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge.

5. Throughout our structure, a traditional “Right of Appeal” ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.

6. The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board.

7.The Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal instruments, empowering the trustees to manage and conduct world service affairs. The Conference Charter is not a legal document, it relies upon tradition and the A.A. purse for final effectiveness.

8. The trustees are the principal planners and administrators of over-all policy and finance. They have custodial oversight of the separately incorporated and constantly active services, exercising this through their ability to elect all the directors of these entities.

9. Good service leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future functioning and safety. Primary world service leadership, once exercised by the founders, must necessarily be assumed by the trustees.

10.Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.

11. The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications, induction procedures, and rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.

12. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power, that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and whenever possible, substantial unanimity, that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy. that it never perform acts of government; that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Alex W.: Delegate@msca09aa.org

Manya W.: Altdelegate@msca09aa.org