SCWWZ Forum

Suggestion Box
Here is where you can post requests for categories, features, or anything else you'd like to see for this board.

Tabled Business Discussion
This is the place for tabled Motions, Proposals, or any other issues under discussion.

(ie: anything that has been held over from a previous business meeting for more consideration/discussion)

New Business
This is the place to discuss or bring up new Motions, Proposals, or any other issues you'd like to bring to the next Business Meeting.

Elections
This section is for discussing upcoming elections for Group Officers and other service positions. This includes nominations (including self nominations), topics regarding the elections themselves, and specifics about the positions in question that nominees should know. Remember, Principles Before Personalities, and keep comments well within the board rules.

General discussions around service should be posted in the Service section of the board.

Steering Committee
Steering Committee business, discussion, concerns, etc. Please create a new thread for each specific issue.
Moderator: Steering Committee

Recovery
Taken together, the 12 Steps, 12 Traditions and 12 Concepts embody what are known as the Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous: Recovery, Unity and Service.

Recovery has given us a second chance to find happiness and freedom; to live useful and productive lives. The 12 steps and the Big Book are known as
Recovery and are the entire foundation of the program. Bill W.’s words in the forward of the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions states that; “AA’s 12
Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to
become happily and usefully whole”

Unity
Unity has provided us with a fellowship made up of people who share our own common problem; who give us the love and support necessary to maintain
our sobriety. AA’s 12 Traditions present the principles which support the unity of the AA fellowship at the group level. ” AA’s 12 Traditions apply to the life
of the Fellowship itself. They outline the means by which AA maintains its unity and relates to the world about it, the way it lives and grows.” from AA
co-founder Bill W

Service
Service offers us the opportunity to implement our primary purpose ” to carry the message to the alcoholic who still suffers” Service in AA is based in the
12 spiritual principles know as the 12 Concepts, which are found in the General Service Manual and the appendix of the Big Book of AA. “Our Twelfth
Step – carrying the message – is the basic service that the AA Fellowship gives; this is our principle aim and the main reason for our existence. Therefore, AA
is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither, and those who haven’t been
given the truth may die.” from AA’s Legacy of Service, The AA service Manual

”So the solution to our Alcoholism is found in the Three legacies – Recovery, Unity, Service – given to the whole membership of AA by its co—founders
(Bill W. and Dr. Bob) and their fellow old-timers. Each legacy has 12 guiding Spiritual principles for a total of 36 guiding principles.”