Ocean & Bay Website!
oceanandbay.org
includes events, meeting list, info for newcomers, and more!
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Meeting List
* Please call ahead to verify meetings are taking place, especially during holidays.
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Upcoming Events
Dec. 12 | Jamaica Plain, MA
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Ocean & Bay Intergroup
Next Meeting:
We meet on the first Tuesday of each month and all are welcome.
- Literature Sales 7:00-7:30 pm
- Intergroup Meeting 7:30-8:30 pm
St. Patrick Catholic Church, 2068 Cranston Street, Cranston, RI 02920.
Directions
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Intergroup Board
CONTACT US
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Mission & Vision
Ocean & Bay Intergroup is dedicated to supporting individuals in need of recovery from compulsive eating (e.g.: overeating, bulimia, anorexia) through carrying the OA message and empowering all meetings within the Intergroup.
1. Help members strengthen their personal recovery
2. Increase the number of sponsors
3. Increase the number of newcomers
4. Increase the retention of newcomers
5. Help those in relapse
6. Inspire people to give more service
7. Increase outreach activities, including outreach to members and healthcare professionals
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Dear Fellow OA Member,
I have learned a lot in OA, namely that service is a privilege, not a duty, obligation or punishment. Service taught me a lot about responsibility, perseverance, acceptance, patience, tolerance, strength, confidence, and courage. Anyone with the courage to expose themselves through service grows as a human being. Service has help my program in ways that I cannot fully express in this brief opening paragraph.
However, it brings me to the very point of this letter.
There are many ways to do service in OA, and we are ALL called to be of service. For some that is simply staying abstinent (one of the greatest forms of service in my mind!), going to meetings, sponsoring, making phone calls, or setting up chairs. But there are service positions available that go beyond the group level, and we are asking YOU to consider them.
In the "spirit of rotation," I will be stepping down from some of my service positions in order to allow someone else in OA an opportunity to do service. I have served as Newsletter editor for 18 months, and it is time to pass the baton. We need someone to assume this responsibility next month so that a January newsletter (and beyond) can be produced. I have also served as Web mistress and meeting list coordinator. These two positions also need dedicated OA members in order for our Intergroup to operate effectively. I will continue to serve as both Region 6 rep and World Service rep, however, we are always looking for alternates. For more information about these and other
service positions, see the details in the box below. If your Higher Power is nagging you to do service, please
contact Ocean & Bay Intergroup.
It brings me great joy to serve, and I thank you in advance for considering joining me in service. I know together it will help our recovery in ways "beyond our wildest dreams."
In humble service,
"As Always"
Kara
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Service Positions Available!
- Intergroup Reps
- Newsletter Coordinator
- Website Coordinator
- Answering Service & Email Coordinator
- Meeting List Coordinator
- Region 6 Reps And Alternates
- World Service Reps
- Public Information & Professional Outreach (PI/PO) Coordinator
- Prison Initiative
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Perfectly Human
Recovery is a process of making mistakes, struggling through problems and facing tough issues. When I expect others to be perfect, it slows the process down. When I expect myself to be perfect, it is just as destructive. People are human, and I am human. I have to accept and cherish this. When I expect others to be perfect, it puts me in a codependent state of moral superiority. Expecting myself to be perfect makes me feel rigid and inferior. I have to let go of both ideas.
- Excerpted from Lifeline Magazine, December 2012
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The Many Faces of Service in OA
Carrying the message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers is the basic purpose of our Fellowship; therefore, it is the most fundamental form of service. Any form of service-no matter how small-that helps reach a fellow sufferer adds to the quality of our own recovery. Members who are new to OA can give service by getting to meetings, putting away chairs, putting out literature, talking to newcomers, and doing whatever needs to be done for the group. Members who meet the abstinence requirement can give service beyond the group level in such activities as Intergroup representative, committee chair, region representative or Conference delegate. There are many ways to give back what we have so generously been given. We are encouraged to do what we can when we can. "A life of sane and happy usefulness" is what we are promised as the result of working the Twelve Steps. Service helps to fulfill that promise.
-Reprinted from "The Valley Voice," Sacramento OA
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Heard it at a Meeting
Keeping anonymity in mind, we ask that you submit anything you've heard at a meeting that has helped your recovery by emailing us at
[email protected].
Here are some new examples submitted by fellow OA members:
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Compulsive overeating is a three-fold disease (Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual).
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You may not get what you want, but you will get what you need.
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It takes what it takes until it takes.
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Save the Date: World Service Convention
The Trail to Freedom!
If you liked the Region 6 Convention in Hartford, you're going to love the 2016 World Service Convention in Boston from September 1-4, 2016 at the
Boston Marriott Copley Place in Massachusetts.
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Treasurer's Report
Our
Seventh Tradition states that OA is fully self-supporting, accepting contributions only from OA members. Thank you for your generosity that allows us to continue our shared mission to carry OA's message of recovery.
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