A Step Ahead - Overeaters Anonymous
A Step Ahead - Overeaters Anonymous
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Finance Committee<br />
Needs Translators<br />
Most of you are probably aware that the World Service<br />
Business Conference (WSBC) Finance Committee and the<br />
Board of Trustees (BOT) have revised the pamphlet Seventh<br />
Tradition of OA. Hopefully you have had the opportunity to<br />
see it and distribute it in your area. The BOT and the Region<br />
Chairs Committee (RCC) made a serious effort to widely<br />
distribute it with the hope it will spark conversation at the<br />
local level about our Fellowship’s financial health and, more<br />
important, will show what we can do locally to ensure that<br />
health.<br />
While the pamphlet is excellent, it is not easy to<br />
translate into other languages. A board member broached the idea that in the interest of our<br />
collective financial health, we should make a sincere effort to reach out to members of other<br />
languages with this Seventh-Tradition message. So the WSBC Finance Committee created a<br />
single-page, easy-to-translate document. The good news is the World Service Office (WSO)<br />
has posted this document on OA’s Web site at www.oa.org/pdfs/seventh_trad_of_oa-translatable.pdf.<br />
The bad news is it’s in English! We need to translate it into as many languages as<br />
possible.<br />
The WSO and the WSBC Finance Committee are asking for your help with this translation<br />
project. We are looking for people who can make top-quality translations because this<br />
Seventh-Tradition document will have wide distribution. The translations must be accurate<br />
and appropriate. Do you have this ability? Or do you know someone who does? If so, we<br />
would love to hear from you. Just send an email to the WSO at info@oa.org with “Translatable<br />
7th Tradition” in the subject heading, and we will work out the details.<br />
Thank you for your service.<br />
— Joe L., General Service Trustee/Treasurer<br />
Seeking the Spiritual Path:<br />
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info@oa.org for shipping charges outside the US.<br />
Lifeline Reps Make All the Difference<br />
The following appeared in the December 1978 WSO Notebook, precursor to A <strong>Step</strong><br />
<strong>Ahead</strong>: “Last January, when Lifeline began monthly publication, the magazine’s subscription<br />
list totaled 4,747. The January 1979 issue is expected to be distributed to some 12,000<br />
subscribers . . . To what do we owe this tremendous growth? In part, it reflects the continuing<br />
growth of OA itself. Much of the credit, however, must go to those Lifeline representatives.”<br />
Today, Lifeline’s circulation is 6,605 print and 1,035 electronic subscribers. OA has 6,480<br />
groups and only 219 Lifeline reps. Encourage your group to have a Lifeline rep, and let’s see<br />
if we can increase our circulation in 2010 as they did in 1979. For more information and rep<br />
materials, contact info@oa.org and put “Lifeline Rep” in the subject line.<br />
WSBC 2011<br />
Important Deadlines<br />
November 1, 2010<br />
Delegate Support Fund Applications<br />
(due at WSO)<br />
December 10, 2010<br />
New Business Motions and<br />
Bylaw Amendments<br />
(postmarked deadline)<br />
December 27, 2010<br />
Delegate Registration<br />
(due at WSO)<br />
January 10, 2011<br />
Second Conference Mailing Distributed<br />
(documents will be available for download)<br />
January 25, 2011<br />
Trustee Applications<br />
(postmarked deadline)<br />
Free Bonus for<br />
e-Lifeline Subscribers!<br />
As of January 2010<br />
and continuing<br />
every week, e-Lifeline<br />
subscribers receive<br />
Lifeline Weekly, a<br />
special bonus<br />
just for being an<br />
e-Lifeline subscriber.<br />
Lifeline Weekly<br />
features archived<br />
Lifeline articles; inspirational quotes; and<br />
spotlights on important OA issues, events and<br />
deadlines. Become an e-Lifeline subscriber,<br />
and you will receive Lifeline Weekly via email.<br />
Be sure the World Service Office has your current<br />
contact information. You can also forward<br />
Lifeline Weekly to OA members and other<br />
friends who might be interested in subscribing<br />
to e-Lifeline.<br />
If you are an e-Lifeline subscriber<br />
and did not opt in earlier for email<br />
notification, please do so now to receive<br />
Lifeline Weekly. Log in to your<br />
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Uncheck “unsubscribe.”<br />
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