SoCal H&I Conference – 2025.5.16-18
42nd Annual SouthernMay 15, 2025 MSCA 09 MONTHLY SERVICE MEETING
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 MAY 15, 2025 CONCEPTS 9 and 10 Concept 9: Francine W., Panel 74 Area 09 Grapevine Chair Concept 10: Ed L., Panel 70 Past Delegate / Area 09 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.orgMay 7, 2025, D4 MSCA 09 Business Meeting Minutes
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