What’s happening in NA World Services

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The April 2009 edition of NAWS News is now available to be viewed online.
http://www.na.org/admin/include/spaw2/u ... pril09.pdf

We hope you will forward this page by email or copy it for interested members, your ASCs, and your RSCs. We continue to encourage people to obtain e-subs to The NA Way and NAWS News. This helps us to communicate more effectively and control distribution costs.

Chapters One and Two, and a working outline for Living Clean are out for fellowship review and input until 15 September 2009. You can find the drafts from the link on the project page at http://www.na.org/?ID=Living_Clean_Project and access with the password and user name of WSC2010. You can also submit your input online. In addition you can help contribute to the ongoing writing by sharing your experience with any of the material in the outline as source material for the chapters. You can
find this at http://www.naws.org/lc/.

You can help us with the Service System project by sending us your best practices on a local level. What are you doing in your NA community that is helping improve service delivery, build communication and cooperation, and more successfully carry the message to the addict who still suffers?

Updated tools for the three Issue Discussion Topics for this cycle Leadership; Communication; and Our Freedom, Our Responsibility—are available online at http://www.na.org/?ID=IDT-IDT.

As in the rest of the world, we at NAWS have some financial challenges ahead of us. Costs have increased for developmental literature, translations, fellowship development and workshops, WSC publications, shipping, public relations, and the meeting of the World Service Conference. Nonetheless, we were able to provide over $617,000 in free or subsidized literature to members around the world on your behalf in the first ten months of this fiscal year.

Effective 1 July 2009 the cost of translated versions of the first portion of the Basic Text will be $7.50, and literature from WSO Europe will be priced in Euros.

A worldwide workshop is scheduled for Boston, Massachusetts, 20–22 November 2009. Plans for workshops in Japan and the Middle East are underway. Please visit http://www.na.org/?ID=nawsevents-event-reg for more information.

WCNA 33 will be 20–23 August 2009 in Barcelona! The last world convention in Europe was in 1995, and the next will be in 2027. This is a unique opportunity to celebrate both our recovery and our diversity. We currently have pre-registrants from 43 countries and are working hard on providing lots of fun and entertainment to go along with the recovery. Come and celebrate with us! Please visit http://www.na.org/wcna/

Individuals who wish to be considered for nomination by the HRP to a world services position need to submit or update their World Pool form by 31 August. The Human Resource Panel also distributed a new form in March that must be completed by 31 October for all candidates submitted to them by regions, zones, and the World Board.

Go to NAWS News at http://www.na.org/?ID=reports-nawsnews-nawsmain