What group, however large, could publish a 575 page, hard bound book for $5.00? Compile and publish a directory of groups and contacts for travelers? Visit all the treatment centers in SW Ohio? Take meetings to all the jails in SW Ohio?

    The A.A. service structure also enables individual groups to participate in the decision-making process on issues which affect AA as a whole. By having an active GSR, a group can have a voice and a vote on important issues facing A.A. as a whole (see illustration at right).

    Each group sends its GSR to the Area Assemblies & Meetings along with the DCMs. Together groups and districts share ideas, problems and solutions. A GSR can take the experience of other groups from the Area Assemblies & Meetings to their groups.

    Every Area elects a Delegate to go to the General Service Conference in New York City each April. Here, every AA group can share its experience with other groups through its Area Delegate to the Conference. We need constant, honest communications from one part of AA to every other, furnishing a wide cross-section of AA experience. The General Service Conference makes that possible.