WNC Area of NA

WNC Area

Area service

Every meeting, flier, helpline call, and keytag exists because someone volunteered.

How it works

Area Services meets online every third Sunday at 10 am. Zoom ID 8443 608 1606, passcode recovery.

The Area Service Committee exists so members can take part in developing, coordinating, and maintaining the services NA offers in Western North Carolina. The final responsibility and authority for its work rests with the autonomous NA groups it serves.

The committee is run by elected trusted servants: a chairperson, vice chairperson, secretary, treasurer, and two regional committee members, each with alternates. Service runs on rotation and group conscience, not titles. If you have some clean time and a willingness to be useful, there is a job with your name on it.

Thinking about starting a new meeting? Here is how.

For GSRs

We are grateful and happy you are here.

Group Service Representatives

Each group elects a GSR who carries the group's conscience to Area Services and brings area, region, and world-service news back home. GSRs present proposals to their homegroup, carry the votes back, serve on a subcommittee, and mentor their alternate. New GSRs get a mentor at their first meeting; nobody is expected to know the routine on day one.

Decisions are made by consensus-based decision making: proposals are read aloud, and if anyone dissents the group works toward a compromise before voting.

Subcommittees

Where most of the area's work actually happens.

  • Activities

    Organizes social events for members in recovery: weekly activities plus monthly special events like tubing, sports at Carrier Park, bowling, roller skating, card tournaments, and dances. New volunteers are always welcome.
  • Hospitals & Institutions

    Brings meetings into jails, prisons, detox centers, and treatment facilities. Always in need of speakers willing to share their recovery with addicts who cannot get to a meeting.
  • Public Relations

    Makes sure clear and accurate information about NA is available to the public, professionals, and the courts.
  • Convention

    Puts on Spiritually High in the Land of the Sky, one of the longest-running annual NA conventions in the southern US.

    spirituallyhigh.org
  • Information Technology

    Maintains the area website, keeps the online meeting list current, and distributes area announcements.
  • Policy

    Compiles the guidelines and procedures for the area service committee, drawing on A Guide to Local Service, the Twelve Traditions, and the Twelve Concepts.
  • Unity Day

    Organizes events that promote NA unity across the area and invite members into service.

Forms & documents

Start a meeting

How to start an NA meeting

  1. Find a place. Ask about smoking, noise limits, accessibility, bathrooms, whether children are welcome, and whether you can make coffee.
  2. Get commitments. Have a few addicts agree to support the meeting for a set period.
  3. Decide the day, the time, and the format.
  4. Elect trusted servants: secretary, treasurer, chairperson, and a GSR.
  5. Send your GSR to the monthly Area Services meeting.
  6. Order literature, keytags, and books from the NAWS catalog.

Contact us

WNCANA · P.O. Box 2066 · Asheville, NC 28802

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