Trusted Servant Reports (April – October 2025)
Business Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Listkeepers
Membership Information
Greeters
Temporary Mentor
Business Chair’s Report
Mary O holds the Business chair for GROW position. Her experience has been positive, presenting various challenges and encouraging her to move beyond her comfort zones. Through her service, she has gained valuable insights into the business side of GROW, which are essential for ensuring that the group remains accessible to all members.
Secretary’s Report
Sophie, alcoholic, and serving as our GROW Secretary. A really rewarding bit of service and I’m grateful to serve GROW. Definitely a “grower” of a role for me personally. This is my in-role learning and reflections;
Last Biz Meeting I had all the rotating roles out advertised to the group ahead of the Biz Meeting. I had created a table with the basic info in, traffic light colour coded the rotating roles with red, yellow, green – red as the harder ones to fill and to be advertised first, yellow as the slightly easier ones to fill and green as the shorter term roles with less sobriety needed and also deemed as the ones we could function (ie hold our weekly meeting) without if necessary.
We didn’t find a new Listkeeper and Susan P stepped forward temporarily which turned into an additional 6 month term for her as she was due to rotate out. We also didn’t find a new Sponsor Listkeeper and Alison S also stepped forward but this meant an additional 6 month term served by Alison. With my 8 year long membership of GROW I’ve seen this pattern of finding service roles hard to fill at times and slightly less so at others but it is a huge challenge to the Secretary. I’ve put forward a couple of ideas as proposals to the Biz Meeting for consideration around this.
There are a lot of emails in the role of Secretary, and I’ve omitted on many occasions to be on top of those, sending out the monthly email etiquette reminder for example and sending out the exact Form Letter for new TS from our website. Partly my own oversight but partly because the coordination of advertising and filling the roles each April and October is a vast job.
In love and service and fellowship
Sophie F May 24th 2000
Serving as our GROW Secretary
Donations
• PayPal: $315.51
• Ally: $100.35
• HGOL (homegroup.online) Prudent Reserve: $200.00
• Total Donations: $615.86
Expenses
• Prudent Reserve: $200.00
• Dean Collins: $144.00
• GSO: $217.48
• OIAA: $54.37
• Total Expenses: $615.86
Respectfully submitted,
Cheryl Baughman
GROW Treasurer
Listkeepers’ Report
Wendy D reports that, as one of the Listkeepers, she feels the process is going well. Communication between the trusted servants for the list and the Greeters is extremely important, and the current individuals in these roles have been active in maintaining this communication.
She notes that the most challenging part of the position is preparing the monthly statistics. It is necessary to save all notifications for member removals and additions, and even more important to remember to send out the monthly report.
Wendy concludes by expressing gratitude for her sobriety and for being part of the GROW group.
Wendy D
Membership Information
Wendy alcoholic here with last month’s membership stats.
Beginning members =168
New subscribers =2
Unsubscribers =2
Ending members =168
Thanks for allowing me to serve. Wendy D
Greeters’ Report
Theresa B currently serves as the Greeter. Each week, she monitors messages from the list keepers about new members and sends them introductory messages. She welcomes these new members to the group and announces their arrival to the membership. While the responsibilities are not very demanding, the role requires regular monitoring of emails and prompt responses with a form letter to new inquiries. Theresa finds this service rewarding and has enjoyed her time in the position.
Temporary Mentor’s Report
Nicole P is currently serving as the Temporary Mentor. The role is progressing well, with Nicole having sent 25 emails to new members during her service commitment. She expresses that she enjoys fulfilling this responsibility.
GSR position vacant – no report
OIAA position vacant – no report