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Over the next week we will be making changes to our Web site, including significant updates to the Find A Meeting application. During this time you may experience difficulties accessing certain parts of the site. We will be working diligently to ensure that all systems are running properly by the end of the week. Although links to most of the site's pages will remain the same, some will change, so if you have bookmarked pages in the former site, please update them. Our transition will start on Tuesday evening (Jan 31) and run through the remainder of the week. If after that time you encounter issues with the new site, please inform us so we may remedy them quickly and efficiently. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we update our systems to better serve you. - Overeaters Anonymous World Service Office.

qanda Q: During a phone meeting, I heard it’s important to send our Seventh Tradition to the World Service Office because OA world service is losing money as more phone meetings replace faceto- face meetings. Is this accurate, or is world service losing money because of decreasing OA membership?

A: It is important that OA meetings make Seventh Tradition contributions, and it’s good you are hearing this in your meetings. The rest of your message presumes the world service is losing money, which it is not.

World service revenue has always been and continues to be the deciding factor in what projects world service will take on in any given year. The OA Executive Committee is conservative when it determines the annual budget. Our committees, world-service staff and trustees work hard to stay within their budgets. For many years now the world-service expenses have been less than the world-service revenues, ending each year in the black.

Could OA use more contributions? Absolutely! World service cannot address many projects each year because it must stay within budget. Translation projects, trade shows and public information are just a few of the areas where we could invest more money and reach out to the still-suffering compulsive eater.

Is OA world service losing money? Definitely not! Is it important for OA groups and individuals to make Seventh Tradition contributions to world service? Absolutely!

— Members of the Board of Trustees provide answers to these questions

WSBC 2007 Ask-It Basket Questions

Because of time constraints, BOT members were unable to answer all Ask-It Basket questions submitted by delegates. Click here to download a PDF file of the remaining questions and answers.

Ask-It Basket Archive

Click on the link below to see an archive of previous Ask-It Basket questions and answers. Remember that these answers are the opinions of individual members of the Board of Trustees and others may have different opinions. It’s a good idea to read other OA materials that address an issue and ask around in meetings for more opinions. Also keep in mind that circumstances change and opinions are refined over time.

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