Service

[admin]

Service
What are some of the ways you are of service to others? Do you do anything in your local AA/NA, your family, your neighborhood, your community, your town or your state. Do you think helping others should be limited to 12 step groups? Share your experience with us. We all can use some ideas and examples of helping others.

[JudyO]

hello and hugs family, I am an addict named JudyO always grateful for another day Alive and clean and free ( thank you Higher Power and NA)
I have been activly involved in service for my fellowship since 1998 starting at first with stacking chairs and making coffee and cleaning up the parking lot of our meeting ( still do this yet today) helped me to stay clean and if felt so good for the first time in my life to help another person instead of what i use to do in active addiction.....my first sponosr dropped me off at Helpline where I served for the next 4 years of my recovery and then i got invovled with Public Information in between this I got my first PC and learned slowly a new way of giving back by doing online service...I still serve one online group 7 years later ( in various positions) and am the Online meeting coordinator for the UK and a forum admin while I am still invovled in PR and do all my area website duties , NAWS database and meeting schedule changes and am now a helpline volunteer again...and I am also a sponsor with several online sponceess....my Gratitude is my service back to my fellowship for JFT I have a life and I found one here in the rooms and I give back to not only stay clean I get to help others and inturn I am helped myself....its fixing to storm so i have to log off.....
(((hugs)))
JudyO

[dalin]

Awesome work you do my freind!
I do a couple things as well.I am the Editor of the Cleantimes Newsletter.
I do service work at a few forums,I am a supermoderator here and at
recovery works as well as moderator for sponsors aide.
Sometimes I can get overwhemed in service and have to back off
a little.
But with the sponsorship that I do,it keeps me humbel and in check.

[janbear]

Since 1996 the last time i relapsed, my recovery took a turn and i began to get out of selfish, selfcenteredness ways. Though i initially got clean in 1987, i remained that way for so long never thinking of others, it kept me sick. For me, i didnt walk through the doors become selfless it took alot of work on my part. I began making coffee, and it grew to charing meetings, and eventually making some 12-step calls on those willing to recieve them. In NA i have been PR chair, Literature chair in our group. I spend time reaching out to others, newcomers and oldtimers, whoever is in need. I do this locally and online. I am on our state helpline too. I help administrate 3 sites. I believe in sponsorship. I sponsor 4 women, 3 locally, 1 online. I dont feel that i should limit myself to those in recovery. I look for little ways to help those around me in what ever situation i am in. And family, i give back to my family that i took so much from in my addiction. None of this is possible for me without living the 12-steps and God in my life. God gets all glory. God keeps me right-sized. All i really do is give back what has been so freely given to me. Staying balanced can be tricky, but i noticed that when God is where He is suppose to be everything else falls into place.

[Montauktammy]

Ok now I feeling like a piker:eek: my home group is very new and GSR is very new called reading recovery. So he is doing more in area than I am, but I show up for service at my home group smaller mostly cause I have a 12 year old child that keeps me running, I have 2 sponsees on who has MS that I try to help her get involved with service on that area so she can learn more and I learn a lot too, my other sponsee has a 2 year old child and I watch kids so moms can go to meeting alone from time to time. My 2end sponsor taught me how important in was to help people that are like me, single moms at times need a support net work that can help them get to meetings with out their kids and their kids need to know that there are people in the world that are in their corner too and can learn what fellowship is cause fellowship to me is a community and the human race is my family.:42:

[Prescott]

:11:Good Morning Family:42:
Being of service has become a state of mind for myself. When a need arises I try to do what I can at any given moment. Having spent yrs with Hospice and volunteering at VA's, lately my service work tends to be closer to home these days. Within my network of friends in and out of AA and family members still struggling with our disease, I find that I remain quite active. I reach out to new members on a regular basis and stay in touch with the men I've sponsored in the past. I work with a few members on-line and come here each A.M. and try to give back what was so freely given to me. Love and service....John :42:

[barbie25]

In my meeting last night our squad leader steped down and i was elected and nominated the new squad leader. I have spoken once at a general meeting and even though i was nervous i liked doing it and want to do it again. I also volunteer alot for making food and clean up at potlucks. i do this simply because when i walked in my first meeting i was welcomed with open arms i was excepted right away. i always greet the newcomers when i am at a meeting because i know what it feels like to be new i want them to embrace the program like i did. not excatly like i did but i want them to see the awsomeness of the program. the circle of life.:42:

[admin]

I have done alot of the things mentioned here in this thread to be of service. Today I just try to stay willing and open to go wherever God will have me go and to do whatever God will have me do. Service for me today happens anywhere, anytime so I try to stay ready today. :wink:

Here I am God, thy will, not mine be done. :195:

[sioux]

The greatest service I do is stay sober and try to achieve some kind of emotional sobriety today. A lot of people are depending on me to do these things. Sky's the limit!