Sun 10 Aug 2008
Greetings Fellow Servants,
My name is Doug and I am an alcoholic. It is my pleasure to serve you as the Area’s Communications Committee Chair.
We have been very busy, keeping the Area’s meeting list synchronized with the various Central Offices and Districts. We elected an Alternate Web-Servant; LeAnn L. She has been doing full monthly backups of the website, she has also learned how to add, edit and delete meetings within the database. I want to thank LeAnn for steping up and filling this position. LeAnn, you are an inspiration to a lot of people, including myself! Thank you for being so supportive!
We visited two District GSR meetings and were able to give our Communications presentation. At District 2 we gave a 52 page PowerPoint presentation. I kept apologizing and saying, “If you have to leave go ahead and go.” I cut the presentation down to 12 slides for District 10. Of course I left the actual presentation at home, thank goodness I had the print outs. That actually worked out better.
The entire point of the presentation was to let people know what the Communications Committee does, and to get people excited to stand for this position in September. One of the things that LeAnn shared is worth repeating, “we won’t just drop this committee onto whomever is elected for the next panel, we will be there in the transition as well as available as a ‘technical committee’ throughout the next panel.
I have copies of the presentation handout and the “checklist” for the Communications Committee Chair back at the Communications Committee display. If you haven’t already please bring this information back to your groups and invite them to come to the Elections Assembly this coming September.
Thank you for allowing me to serve this incredible Fellowship!
Doug R.
Area 69 Communications Committee Chair