A Small Part of Someone's Beginning

When our district formed a treatment facilities committee (TFC), I was nominated as the chairperson for the district. I knew nothing about this type of service, but I became willing to learn, and learn I have. I received a TFC Workbook from the General Service Office in New York and contacted the area TFC chairperson, and thus began my journey into the world of service work. There had been an AA meeting in our local facility for quite some time but I found a lack of participation from outside AAs. I realized the need to get a committee formed soon. Our district allowed me to hold a workshop with AAs who wanted to be on the committee, and I formed the committee that night. I also arranged a meeting with the staff of our local facility and asked the area chairperson to do a presentation on how the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous worked, and what we could and could not do. The staff listened with an open mind and the facility was no longer ignorant of how AA worked.