1. At district meetings, you join with G.S.R.s
from other groups. Perhaps you’ve already
worked with an intergroup or central office,
where groups band together to help alcoholics
just in your locality. But your general service
district is the second link in an entirely different chain,
which extends much farther. Your district is one part of a
general service area. With your fellow G.S.R.s, you elect a
district committee member, and all the D.C.M.s make up the
area committee. Now, do you just sit back and let
your D.C.M. take it from there? No! G.S.R.s stay
very much in action in each of the 93 areas in the
U.S. and Canada.
2. You attend area assemblies four times a
year (in most areas). At the electoral assembly
(held every two years), along with the other
G.S.R.s and the D.C.M.s from the whole area,
you elect committee officers — and your area’s
Conference delegate.
3 Just as you rely on your group for help in your
personal recovery, so the A.A. groups of Canada
and the U.S. rely on the General Service
Conference in maintaining the unity and
strength of our Fellowship — our obligation to
all the alcoholics of today and tomorrow. It’s up
to you to keep two-way communication going between
your group and the Conference. Via your
D.C.M. and your delegate, you can see to it that
your group’s conscience on matters of importance to all A.A.
becomes a part of the consensus
when these matters are discussed at the annual
Conference meeting in April. In return, you can
enable your group to benefit from the meeting’s
sharing of experience among area delegates and
the other Conference members. Your D.C.M.
may want to present your delegate’s report at a
special group meeting. The D.C.M. receives a
copy of the Conference Final Report, a full account
of proceedings. Copies of the report are
available to groups upon request.