Group Service Positions

A Group or Home Group is composed of members of a meeting that consider that meeting to be the one special meeting that they prefer to attend and at which they feel most at home. It is also the meeting where one’s vote concerning Group Conscience is taken. A person may be an AA member if they say so, but to be a Group member one must be invested in the Group i.e. regularly attend, and serve the group. Types of Group Service listed below:

1. Greeter: Greets people entering the meeting room and welcomes them.

2. Set-up, Clean-up: These members serve helping to make the meeting place well set-up and well maintained.

3. Coffee Maker: Makes sure coffee is ready when the meeting starts and doesn’t run-out during the meeting.

4. Chairperson: Conducts the meeting.

5. Treasurer: Deposits meeting collection for the group, pays bills, keeps tract of expenditures, reports at business meeting.

6. Secretary: Take the minutes of the business meeting.

7. Group Service Representative (GSR): Represents the Group Conscience at the District level. Usually acts as chairperson at business meetings.

8. Steering Committee Member (SCM): Where a place has many meetings, each Group may be represented by a SCM, the SCMs would meet, discuss and resolve common issues and report to the GSR, the GSR would then represent the Conscience of all the meetings at a particular place. The GSR would in effect represent an ‘Umbrella Group,’ i.e. the meetings at 123 Backdoor Place.

Each Group sets suggested guidelines for each position. Some only need the willingness of the person, numbers 1, 2, and 3. The other positions may have suggested lengths of sobriety to hold the position. Lengths of sobriety for various positions vary from Group to Group.