NEWSLETTER | January 27, 2023

If you are a WSI (World Service, Inc.), Eastern Area Intergroup (EAI), or Western Area Intergroup (WAI) contact, please use this email to make announcements at your FA meeting(s). Please see the EAI and WAI reports at the bottom of the newsletter.

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WSI MID-TERM REPORT

Please click on the following link to access the FA-WSI Midterm Report 2022 July-Dec which details the service work completed by the WSI during the second half of 2022 and includes a letter from the WSB chair.

EAI World Service Conference Voting Members - Financial Aid is Available

Eastern Area Intergroup (EAI) would like all World Service Conference voting members affiliated with EAI to know that financial aid is available to all those in need. Click the button below to access the application.

The deadline to request aid is Friday, March 10, 2023. You will be notified of your aid by March 22, 2023. If you have any questions or concerns, please email eaifinancialaidandres@foodaddicts.org.

WAI World Service Conference Voting Members - Financial Aid is Available

Western Area Intergroup (WAI) would like all World Service Conference voting members affiliated with WAI to know that financial aid is available to all those in need. Click the button below to access the application.

The deadline to request aid is Friday, March 10, 2023. You will be notified of your aid by March 31, 2023. If you have any questions or concerns, please email waiconventionresource@foodaddicts.org.

WAI e-Forum on Service

Jan 28 @ 7:00 PM ET/ 4 PM PT

Jan 29 @ 1:00 PM ET/ 10 AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 367 319 2029

Passcode: 998064

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The topic for this e-forum is "Service is fun and keeps you abstinent!"

This is an one hour e-forum open to all interested in learning more about service. There will be a panel of three speakers who will briefly share experience, strength, and hope regarding the topic. This will be followed by time for open sharing by anyone with 90 days of continuous abstinence in FA who is working with a sponsor. Please join us!

You’re Invited! A Teens & Twenties Virtual Information Session

Jan 29 @ 2:30PM ET / 11:30AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 825 8383 3741

Passcode: 2020

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Hear from current FA members who came in during their teens and twenties and their family members. Are you a young person yourself or have a friend or family member who could benefit from FA? Just want to learn more about the Teens & Twenties Committee? All are welcome. For questions or more info please contact eaiteensandtwenties@foodaddicts.org.

Treasurer eForum: Ask Me Anything

Feb 4 @ 8:00PM ET / 5:00PM PT

Feb 5 @ 1:00PM ET/ 10:00AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 876 8313 6013

Passcode: 713783

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Attend one or both sessions for a mid-year financial update and to ask anything about FA-WSI's finances or the position of WSI Treasurer. You will be able to ask anything you want in the session, but you will get a better answer if you submit your question in advance to treasurer@foodaddicts.org.

MESA Resource Call: Breakout Room Etiquette

Feb 5 @ 2:30PM ET / 11:30AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 898 6080 7015

Passcode: 026516

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Since we are all new to Zoom, MESA believes a resource call on breakout room etiquette will be useful. See FA Events Calendar for questions to be discussed. MESA Reps and all others are welcome!

EAI PI Committee Meeting

Feb 12 @ 7:30AM ET

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 845 8695 6527

Passcode: 2020

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Join us on Intergroup Sunday at 7:30am ET when members of the EAI PI Committee will be available prior to the start of the regular committee meeting to answer questions for PI Reps or any other fellow with PI-related questions. The regular monthly EAI PI Committee meeting will then follow from 8:00AM-8:45AM EST. All are welcome to join us!!!

The agenda for the February meeting and the notes from the January meeting are below.

Podcast Recording

Feb 18 @ 10:45 AM ET / 7:45 AM PT

Feb 18 @ 11:30 AM ET / 8:30 AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 822 9448 2206

Passcode: 255572

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The FA WSI Literature Committee cordially invites you to a fellowship-wide virtual qualification recording for the FA Podcast. Attend one or both.

Ways to Listen to the FA Podcast Recordings

Not able to join the Zoom recording? Listen to our other FA podcast recordings on your favorite podcast app. Subscribe/like/follow the podcast and leave a review to help us further reach the still suffering food addict.

• FA Website

• Apple Podcasts

• Spotify

• Audible

• Google

EAI 12th Step Committee

Informal Fellowship Gathering

Feb 18 @ 8:00 PM ET/ 5:00 PM PT

Feb 19 @ 1:30 PM ET/ 10:30 AM PT

The H.O.W. of Sponsoring

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 879 3380 5639

Passcode: 2020

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As a way to offer support and provide another opportunity for service, the EAI 12th Step Committee will be hosting two Informal Fellowship Gatherings.

In these gatherings, our committee members will moderate to introduce a topic for discussion, we will explore the topic by reading a selection of FA literature, and speakers will share their experience. The gathering will then be opened for sharing from fellows who have 90 days of consecutive abstinence and are working with an FA sponsor. Each session will last one hour. 

These Informal Fellowship Gatherings are open to all, so please join us!

connection Rep Call

Feb 19 @ 1 PM ET/10 AM PT/6 PM UK

Use the link below to join. If you are calling in to the meeting by phone or are unable to use the link, please contact Angie R prior to February 16th for the Meeting ID and Password. I look forward to seeing all of you on February 19th. Monthly meetings are scheduled at varying times to accommodate members around the world. connection reps are not required to attend, but I hope you will come to as many as your schedule permits

Eastern Area Intergroup (EAI)

Please click on the link below to read the report from the EAI meeting that was held on January 8, 2023. 

If you are an EAI contact or a meeting secretary at a meeting that does not have an EAI contact, please share at your business meeting.

The next monthly meeting of Eastern Area Intergroup (EAI) will be held on February 12, 2023.

Committee meetings meet at 8:00 AM ET and the EAI Body meets at 9:00 AM ET.

The agenda will include voting on a Bylaw change, and voting to fill the board Secretary position. The Treasury Committee will present a deep dive.

Main/Body Meeting ID: 847 548 759

Passcode: 2020

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Western Area Intergroup (WAI)

Please click on the link below to read the report from the WAI meeting that was held on January 8, 2023. 

If you are a WAI contact or a meeting secretary at a meeting that does not have a WAI contact, please share the report at your business meeting.

The next WAI Meeting will be held on February 12, 2023, at 8:30 AM PT via Zoom.

Meeting ID: 935 6887 2134

Passcode: 2020

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