OFFICE MONITORS
The Intergroup Office is open from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Monday to Saturday and is closed Sundays and statutory holidays. Office Monitor shifts are typically one day a week for the four hours the office is open. During office hours volunteer monitors will handle various duties:
- Answer telephones and respond to enquiries regarding A.A.
- Refer families or friends of an alcoholic to the Al-Anon phone number
- Facilitate 12-Step calls, which involves speaking to a person who wants help with their drinking and connecting them with a member of AA
- Sell A.A. and Grapevine literature
- Meet with people who walk in and have questions regarding A.A., or who wish to participate in A.A. fellowship
- Complete photocopying when required
- Open and close the office
CELL PHONE MONITORS
Alcoholism doesn’t stop after business hours, so neither does our need to provide support. Cell phone monitors answer calls from a specially designated cell phone to respond to A.A. enquiries and to facilitate 12-Step calls. The Intergroup Office phone is transferred to the appropriate cell phone during any hours the office is not open. These shifts are filled by volunteer cell phone monitors and the shift hours/days are flexible; however, they generally break down to: 1) After Hours Week Days, and 2) After Hours Weekends.
ELECTED INTERGROUP/CENTRAL OFFICE POSITIONS
Intergroup supports all groups and meetings within District 43 and encompasses Aldergrove, Cloverdale, Fort Langley, and Langley.
Intergroup offices (sometimes referred to as Central offices) usually have no authority on their own account; they derive it from the participating groups. Intergroup offices are essentially A.A. service entities, “directly responsible to those they serve,” as described in Tradition Nine. Local Intergroup Representatives reflect the groups’ conscience in the service centre operations. In most communities, an Intergroup committee is set up to handle the administrative activities of the service office. The Intergroup committee holds regularly scheduled meetings and deals with the general policy and plans. Periodically, the Intergroup committee reports to group representatives on Intergroup office problems and accomplishments. It is extremely important to keep a two-way flow of information going between the Intergroup office and the groups and meetings it serves.
The Intergroup office for District 43 meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. The meeting is currently held on zoom and can be accessed by Zoom Meeting ID: 876 677 4803
The Intergroup Committee members are:
- Intergroup Representative
- Intergroup Chair Person
- Alternate – Intergroup Chair Person
- Intergroup Secretary
- Intergroup Treasurer
- Intergroup Web Chair
- Intergroup Cell Phone Chair
- Intergroup/Central Office Manager
It is important that all groups have Intergroup Representatives to participate in this important service entity to respond to the A.A. Responsibility Statement:
I am responsible,
when anyone, anywhere,
reaches out for help,
I want the hand of AA
always to be there,
and for that
I am responsible.