Non-sexaholic Trustees

There is an opening on the Board of Trustees for a non-sexaholic trustee. If you or your group knows someone who would qualify, please notify the Nominations Committee via Central Office. An eligible candidate would be a friend of SA and able to fill the duties of Trustee. Interested parties should submit a service resume and a letter of recommendation from an SA member, group, or Intergroup. A questionnaire for candidates is available from Central Office.

Five of the Trustees are sexaholics, four are non-sexaholics. Every year one or two members finish a term of office and rotate to other duties. The Nominations Committee is charged with the responsibility of maintaining a file of service resumes of potential candidates. From that file each year, the Committee selects a candidate who will best fill the needs of the Board.

The Trustees are the administrative arm of SA, carrying most of the daily business of the Fellowship through their work on and oversight of the committees of the Fellowship. A Trustee is a member with at least five years continuous SA sobriety. An interested candidate will submit a service resume and a letter of nomination from his Intergroup to the Nominations Committee via Central Office.

The General Delegate assembly elected the first four non-sexaholic members of the Board of Trustees at its January 1997 meeting. Non-sexaholic trustees have provided a unique perspective on SA operations. They are a legacy from AA, which says that their non-alcoholic Trustees provide a “window on the world.”

Committees

The work of the Fellowship is done in committees. A quick and easy way to service for SA at the national and international level is to volunteer to work on one of SA’s many committees. Some of the current committees with specific needs are:

Literature Committee
The Literature Committee is busy with several projects and could use the help of SA members with expertise in the following areas:

• Reader of articles and stories under consideration for Member Stories 2000;
• Editors with a knowledge of English grammar and punctuation;
• Writers of at least three years continuous SA sobriety to submit their stories for consideration;
• Members to process taped talks into written manuscripts and disks;
• Translators to translate SA Literature into their native language;
• Writers of short meditations for a proposed meditation book;
• Writers using one of the Twelve Steps or Traditions as the subject of a short article.

Members with skills in these areas should address a short letter to Literature Committee via Central Office.

Service Structure Committee
Work is beginning on the SA Service Manual. This will set out policies and procedures for the business and service work of the Fellowship. Writers are needed for this project. Interested members should apply to the Service Structure Committee via Central Office.

Loners
Write to isolated SA members around the globe.

SACC

• Write to SA members in prison;
• Members who can help with an SA meeting on the inside.

Essay

• Members to contribute short articles of interest to the Fellowship. Suggested topics: what we used to be like, what happened, what we are like now; how it works; the Steps and Traditions.
• Transcribers to turn taped material into written manuscripts;
• Members to help distribute the Essay;
• Members to act as local reporters of news from their Intergroups that would be of interest to the Fellowship as a whole;
• Member to help index old issues of Essay.

Legal

• Member lawyers with expertise to help with legal questions when they arise;
• A new committee Chair is needed.

Site Selection
Members to help select the site of future International Conferences.

Regional Realignment
Members from each region to help with the current project to survey the Fellowship.

Interfellowship
Members to help coordinate the activities of the Interfellowship Forum. SA will host the Interfellowship Forum in November in Chicago.

International
Members to help foster and sponsor new groups in countries around the world.

Interested members should write to Central Office, PO Box 111910, Nashville TN 37222. Or send email to committee@sa.org.

Internet
Member with technical skills in web site maintenance, especially the ability to write PERL scripts.