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A Guide to Local Services in NA (Part 1)

There is only one requirement for NA membership, “a desire to stop using,” but there are many benefits. One of these benefits is the privilege of service. We who have the disease of addiction spent years of our lives locked up in ourselves. We were cut off from the warmth and fellowship of other human beings; our lives revolved almost exclusively around “getting and using and finding ways and means to get more.” The love that connects one person to another to the next, the selfless service that feeds and houses and clothes and warms and nurtures humankind—of that love, of that selfless service we had no part. That’s why it’s such a privilege in our recovery to be able to serve others, for we come to know ourselves only in looking beyond ourselves and we keep what we have only by giving it away. By empathizing with other members, by learning to appreciate their needs, by placing them ahead of our own—by these things we learn to love others, and in so doing we learn to love ourselves. The service we do in our recovery is many things. We take a more active role in our everyday lives, serving others as better friends, better family members, better workers, and better citizens. When we find an NA meeting where we feel at home and NA friends with whom we identify, we’ve found a home group, a base for our own recovery and a place where we can serve other addicts by sharing our recovery with them. The time, the experience, the empathy we offer others in our home group we extend even further to those we serve in NA sponsorship. All these ways of serving others demonstrate the spiritual awakening of our Twelfth Step, evidenced in our efforts “to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” This guidebook describes additional ways recovering addicts can be of service in Narcotics Anonymous. Our hope is that A Guide to Local Services in NA will serve as a portal to new paths of service for many, many NA members. A Guide to Local Services in Narcotics Anonymous is intended to serve as a resource to those in every country who have committed themselves to providing the services necessary to carry our message to the still-suffering addict. Portions of it may prove to be inappropriate for your use either because of geography, national or provincial law, cultural differences, or the developmental state of your NA community. If this is the case, your NA community should feel free to adapt this guide to meet your own needs, provided that those adaptations are consistent with NA’s Twelve Steps, Twelve Traditions, and Twelve Concepts for Service. For further information concerning local adaptation of material from A Guide to Local Services in Narcotics Anonymous, contact NA’s World Service Office. 0:00 Introduction 2:38 NA Service Structure 7:39 Link to Service Concepts 7:49 Developing NA Communities 8:50 The First Group 9:57 NA Service Development 10:54 Public Information 11:19 Phonelines (Central Contact) 12:55 National Community Grows 14:56 Relations with NAWS 16:04 The NA Group Booklet 21:38 What's a Homegroup? 22:59 Who Can be a Member? 23:32 Meeting Types 25:04 Where Can we Meet? 27:49 Meeting Format 28:26 Participation Format 28:52 Speaker Meetings 29:11 Newcomer Meetings 29:47 Q&A Meetings 30:02 Developing your Format 31:08 Literature Used. 31:59 Group Business Meeting 34:00 Getting the work done. 35:26 Group Officers & Roles 43:15 Spirit of Rotation 45:34 Fund Flow 48:41 Solving Problems 50:38 Sample Meeting Format