NEWSLETTER | October 14, 2022

This is the first REVISED edition of the bi-monthly FA Newsletter that will replace and streamline most of the general announcement emails that you have been receiving. Here you will find information on upcoming FA events, World Service Board, Intergroup and Chapter reports, and future FA events to be aware of. Thank you for your patience as we transition to this new format.

If you are a WSI Contact, please use this updated email to make announcements at your FA meeting(s).

Podcast Recordings

Oct 15 @ 10:45 AM ET / 7:45 AM PT

Oct 15 @ 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. This month’s two thirty-minute qualifications begin at 10:45 AM ET and 11:30 AM ET. Attend one or both.

EAI Teens & Twenties

Information Session

Oct 23 @ 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 825 8383 3741

Passcode: 2020

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You're Invited!

The EAI Teens & Twenties will be hosting an Information Session at 2:00 PM ET on Sunday, October 23, 2022. All are welcome to attend. One of our committee members will moderate a panel discussion hearing from current FA members who are in their teens and twenties along with members who joined FA at a young age and have continued to successfully work the FA program for decades. We will also hear from family members of young members and have time for Q&A.

Whether you are a young person yourself interested in connecting with others your age, have a friend or family member who could benefit from this program and are not sure how you can support them, or just want to learn more about the Teens & Twenties Committee, we offer this opportunity for all to join.  For questions or more information, please contact eaiteensandtwenties@foodaddicts.org.

EAI Teens & Twenties

Committee Meeting

Oct 16 @ 8:00 AM ET

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 825 8383 3741

Passcode: 2020

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We hope you will also join us via Zoom for our next T&T Committee Meeting on Sunday, October 16, at 8:00 AM ET.

MESA Rep eForum

Nov 6 @ 2:30 PM ET / 11:30 AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 844 9889 2208

Passcode: 78910

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Service Positions and Meeting Effectiveness

Our November 6th MESA Resource Call will be the first in a series on FA service positions and their impact on meeting effectiveness. This time we will focus on Speaker Seekers—highlighted in Gratitude in Action, winter 2018—and World Service Conference Members—highlighted in Gratitude in Action, 4th edition, 2019. We encourage you to review these highlights by searching for “Gratitude in Action” on the FA website.

Bring your experience, suggestions, and questions regarding Speaker Seekers and World Service Conference Members. All FA members are welcome.

EAI Service Support Weekend:

Service in Many Forms

Nov 12-13

Service Support Weekend (SSW) is an EAI-sponsored two-day event that takes place every other year in November. SSW is planned by members of the Service Support Planning Committee with the assistance from EAI Technology Committee, EAI Office Committee, and EAI Board members. The purpose of Service Support Weekend is to gather together and share about service, gratitude, and abstinence. Registration is now open.

Thank-a-Thons 2022

Nov 24

Thank-a-Thons consist of multiple one-hour meetings typically held back-to-back on the morning of Thanksgiving (in the US) or on another day of thankfulness. Most Thank-a-Thons happen between 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, but start times and duration can vary.

If your fellowship is planning to hold a Thank-a-Thon, please add it to the FA Thank-a-Thon calendar by clicking the orange button below.

TOR eForum

Dec 3 @ 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT

Dec 4 @ 1:30 PM ET / 11:30 AM PT

Zoom Call Details

Meeting ID: 694 851 0068

Passcode: 122212

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Courage to Change

The TOR eForum is an opportunity for all FA members who have felt unwelcome in this fellowship to share their painful experiences, their strength, and the hope of recovery that sustained them. These disclosures may reveal ways in which we can all become more welcoming. 

This eForum is offered in the spirit that we do not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. 

Honoring the difficult memories of our members will help us become more open to each other. We hope that creating this safe space will support members who currently feel marginalized. 

“Could any then imagine a society which would include every conceivable kind of character, and cut across every barrier of race, creed, politics, and language with ease?”  ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, fifty-forth printing 2014, page 141. 

Please join us! 

WSI Service Group Support Committee

The WSI Service Group Support Committee Global Virtual Meeting will not be held on November 20, 2022.

Instead, we encourage members to attend the EAI Service Support Weekend (SSW 2022), November 12-13, 2022.

SSW is a great place to be inspired and get ideas for ways your service group can continue to work together to raise awareness about FA recovery in your communities and the digital world.

• June 2-4, 2023 – WSBC: World Service Business Convention