World Service Convention
It’s been a very long time since we all got together — 2016 in Boston! (Pandemic, don’t you know?) But it’s happening next summer.
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Growing pains
The chair’s first comment this morning included a parable about working together. She said she has sensed growing divisions among us, white vs. nonwhite, English speakers vs. non-English speakers, and American vs. non-American. She did not say so, but the comment may have been spurred by the vote on taking religious holidays into account when…
Two affirmed for Board of Trustees
Blair P and Bruce R were affirmed as candidates for election to OA’s Board of Trustees during the Fall Assembly, held Sept. 21 in Albany, N.Y. Both trusted servants are already serving on the board, by virtue of appointments to the board they sought in the aftermath of the World Service Business Conference. Blair P,…
WSBC 7th Tradition
One 7th Tradition was taken Friday afternoon for the entire conference. Delegates donated $9,411 in USD, and $20 AUS. Based on the din that greeted the announcement, delegates were impressed by the figure.
Whose holidays?
A proposal submitted by the National Service Board of Greece asked that no conferences be scheduled three days before or three days after major religious holidays. Their recent experience was that the start of the conference overlapped Easter Monday for those following the Christian Orthodox religion, and they need more time to get here than…
Other conference actions
Sixteen posts about the World Service Business Conference appear “after” this one in the article list, but because R6 blog posts are shown “newest first,” you might think this is the first one. That’s worth mentioning because it’s really the last one; it seeks to wrap up actions that weren’t deemed to warrant individual posts….