[Businessmtg] November Business Meeting

[Margaret G]

Greetings November Business Meeting participants and thank you for your Service. 

I have been attending ASP for about 4 months.  I am a 20+ year grateful member of Al-Anon. I have been involved in f2f Service at the Group and District levels.  I
attended the ASP July Business meeting but abstained from voting because of my limited knowledge of the issues and chose not to attend the September Meeting.  

These issues may have been addressed in the past but as a relative newcomer to ASP, I have some questions: 

1.  Why are most of the daily chairs not listed as attending this  or July business meeting? 
2.  In f2f meetings that I have attended, business matters and Service needs are announced frequently.   In depth discussion and voting is usually left for business meetings but members, including newcomers, are being made aware of the existence and needs of Service.  Why are there no such announcements in the regular meetings on ASP?  Why has Service not been addressed in a Daily Topic discussion in the last 4 months? 
3.  I’m not exactly clear on procedures used in welcoming newcomers.  On the member’s webpage it looks like there is an information and greeting email sent to let folks know that they have been added to the group.   I may have received one of these but in the confusion of entering the email meeting format, I lost it and have no memory of its content.  Does the greeting procedure include any additional contact?  Again, if it does, I may have lost it in my own confusion but I am not aware of receiving any follow-up.    My point is, as a long time Al-Anon member with a workable knowledge of email, I appear to have slipped through the cracks.   Is anything being actively done to educate newcomers on the workings of our fellowship in general and ASP in particular? 

Thanks for considering my questions.  I look forward to receiving your insights.  


Margaret 



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