Recovery Serenity Prosperity

The Toronto Area Intergroup of Debtors Anonymous meets once a month over the telephone. All are welcome to attend – there are no solvency requirements and you do not need to be an Intergroup Representative or have an Intergroup position. Note: Voting is limited to Intergroup members.

Meetings take place on the 3rd Sunday of the month, from 3:00-4:00 p.m.

For the call-in number, meeting minutes or any other questions about Intergroup, please contact your group’s Intergroup Representative.

Come join us again at the beginning of this brand-new year for a communal celebration of recovery!

We are again blessed with five speakers this year, to share with us the ways in which the Promises are manifesting in their own lives … and from the artists in our midsts, more song, dance & laughter!

We’re trusting HP to once more arrange attendees so we’ve sufficient PRG-experienced members present to allow for a few hours of low-stress, no-prep-required, Visions-oriented PRG’s (open to all members, but perhaps especially beneficial to those who haven’t had a PRG before).

We will also create special Visions boards this year that focus in on each different area of our daily lives, to help us better understand HP’s will for us, so we can then in turn better concentrate our efforts, and rocket forward into the fulfilling futures HP wants for us!

As always, we’ll have abundant fellowship, and food for mind & body … and hopefully heaps of fun, too!

Looking SO very forward to sharing this experience together!

For more details and to register, please download this 2012 Retreat Registration Form.

In loving service,
Your Retreat Planning Committee

The East End DA group will meet on Thursday, December 22nd at Timothy’s at Sherbourne and Bloor at 6:45 p.m. All are welcome.

A message from the Debtors Anonymous General Service Office:

New D.A. Manual for Service Available For Purchase

The new Debtors Anonymous Manual for Service, D.A.’s first comprehensive service guide for groups and trusted servants, is now available from the General Service Office.

The 142-page book is the result of several years of work by the General Service Board, and features detailed information about many aspects of the Fellowship’s Twelve-Step work. The DAMS costs $8.00 plus shipping. The literature order forms found on the D.A. web site have been modified to include it.

The new manual was published in late summer 2011, and was distributed to all delegates at the 25th annual World Service Conference in August. Extra copies quickly sold out, and a second print run is now available.

Chapters in the manual include Principles of Service, Service at the Group Level, Intergroup Service, Public Information, World Service, Appointed Committee Members, Literature, the General Service Board, General Service Office, D.A. newsletters, and Commentaries on the Twelve Concepts for D.A. World Service.

Among the numerous other topics covered are tips on how to start groups and Intergroups, manage treasuries, and conduct business meetings, the spiritual value of rotation of service, anonymity and social media, Regional Forums, D.A.’s intellectual property, and detailed information on where the Fellowship’s money comes from and how it is spent, with illustrations in color.

To order the manual, simply go to the world service web site www.debtorsanonymous.org and download a literature order form, or contact the GSO for more information.

A message from your Intergroup Service Representative: In my presentation about the World Service Conference, I spoke about the Issues and Concerns forms that DA members, groups and intergroups can submit to the General Service Board. At the conference, these are distributed amongst the various committees, who prepare responses and/or recommend actions.

For your interest, the Issues and Concerns from the conferences in 2005, 2006 and 2008 are available on the Service page of the DA website, and other years will be added soon.

Click here to read the Issues and Concerns.

East End DA will not be meeting Sundays Dec 11, 18, 25 and Jan 1. We will instead be meeting at Community Centre 55 at 7:00 p.m. on Thursdays Dec 15th and 29th and on Tuesday Jan 3, 2012.

There will be NO MEETING ON Thurs, Dec 22nd, as the centre is closed all that week.

The ISR (Intergroup Service Representative) of the Toronto and Area Intergroup will be visiting meetings in the area to deliver a report from her experience at the World Service Conference in Michigan in August 2011. All are welcome to attend.

Schedule of meetings

Sat, Oct 22, 12:30 p.m. – Calgary DA meeting (via conference call)
Wed, Oct 26, 7:00 p.m. – Barrie DA meeting, 201 Minets Point Road
Thurs, Oct 27, 7:00 p.m. – BDA meeting, 1570 Yonge Street
Sat, Oct 29, 10:30 a.m. – Saturday DA Tools meeting, 519 Church Street
Sun, Oct 30, 10:30 a.m. – Sunday Morning Tools meeting, 6 St. Joseph Street
Sun, Oct 30, 1:00 p.m. – East End DA meeting, 97 Main Street
Sun, Oct 30, 5:00 p.m. – Hamilton meeting, 48 Hess Street North (a joint meeting with the Brantford group)

Ask the GSB Conference Call – WSC Report

There is also an “Ask the GSB” conference call at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 30th when members of the DA Board of Trustees will give presentations and take questions and comments about the World Service Conference.  You may contact us for more details.

The East End DA group will continue to meet on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. until further notice (Community Centre 55 is no longer open on Friday nights).

For the first time ever, a portion of the Fellowship Day at the annual D.A. World Service Conference will be “broadcast” to the entire Fellowship via a live teleconference call.

The call will take place Saturday, August 20, from 1:15 to 5:00 pm Eastern Time. The three workshops in Track 1 of the live Fellowship Day program will be featured. Each workshop lasts one hour, followed by sharing on the phone for 15 minutes.

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> Each workshop will feature two or more experienced D.A. members who will share their experience, strength, and hope on their topics, followed by sharing from live participants at the Fellowship Day in Romulus, Michigan. Those participating by phone will be able to listen to the workshops, then share among themselves for 15 minutes in a moderated discussion.

Those calling in can join or leave the call at any time during the three sessions, and there is no charge for phone participation. To access the call, attendees can dial 218-844-0850  and then enter the access code 363385#.

Centre 55 closes early on Fridays in the summer so the East End DA group will be meeting on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. from July 3rd-August 28th, 2011. Watch the website for an announcement when the group will switch back to the original time (Fridays at 7:00 p.m.).

The steering committee of the Northwest Regional DA conference wishes to inform our Canadian cousins that we have extended our pre-registration prices by two weeks.

We are now offering pre-registration rates until May 31!

We look forward to many friends from BC and beyond joining us!

Visit the DA Washington State website for more details and to register.