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Region 5 Business

Our Trusted Servants Trustee – Craig Chair – Joe Vice Chair – Chris Secretary – Bonnie Treasurer – Tony Region 5 board members are elected to two year terms during each November assembly.			Assemblies are business meetings where our fellowship’s trusted servants (your elected delegates) meet three times a year to conduct Region 5’s business. Intergroups decide who their delegates will be, but you do not have to be an elected delegate to attend. Any member of the OA fellowship can attend, because we love guests. We do ask that all attendees register so they can join us in the Saturday luncheon. Registration forms and assembly agendas are available from your local intergroup. Assemblies are held during the second weekends of March, July and November. They begin Friday night at 7 pm and end Saturday night by 6 pm. There is entertainment and a speaker meeting from 8:15 pm until whenever we feel like quitting. The Region V Board – trustee, chair, vice chair, treasurer and secretary – meets on Sundays. Assemblies are held at the same hotel each time. Mention Overeaters Anonymous for the special rate. Hilton Fort Wayne at the Grand Wayne Center 1020 South Calhoun Street Fort Wayne, IN 46802-3005 260-420-1100 260-424-7775 (fax) 1-800-HILTONS
Freedom From Bondage, our Region V newsletter
-- Region 5 Bylaws (Revised March 2007) -- General Policies Manual (Revised July 2007) -- Region 5 Standing Rules (March 2007) -- Nomination Application for Region 5 Board -- Convention Guidelines (Revised November 2006) -- Assembly minutes (November 2007) -- Treasurer’s Report (July 13, 2007) narrative 7^th Tradition Record -- Web Headquarters Report (November 2007) -- Contribution Acknowledgment Form -- Credit Card Tabulation Form -- Expense Request Form -- Funding Assistance Form -- Reduced Cost Literature Form (an explanation of what this is)
Some reflections on service work... You may have heard these phrases around OA: “service is slimming”, “service is the secret”, “I never thought about overeating while I was (insert service action here)”. What all OA members need to realize is that without service, there would be no OA. If we were to add up all the actions taken to serve the worldwide fellowship that we rely on, whether it is leading meetings, setting up chairs, sending information to change a website, or attending a Regional Assembly, we would find that 99.99% of all actions taken to keep OA “in business” are done for free by members of the fellowship. If there were no volunteers, there would be no OA. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch.
Service Committee Pages
FINANCE	BYLAWS	REGION 5 NEWSLETTER		INTERGROUP OUTREACH
PUBLIC INFORMATION		PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION OUTREACH		12^th STEP WITHIN
NOMINATING				ANNUAL CONVENTION

Revised August 31, 2007