Preparing for the 2019 World Service Conference (WSC) Registration Packet Deadline for registering (with full payment) for the GS World Service Conference September 20-22, 2019 is March 15th  2019. Please download registration packet on greysheet.org. Payment should be made via the PayPal link. All Committee Reports, complete with recommendations and motions that they will present at the September WSC Conference and submitted by March 1st, 2019, will ...

Preparing for the 2019 World Service Conference (WSC) Registration Packet Deadline for registering (with full payment) for the GS World Service Conference September 20-22, 2019 is February 15th.Please download registration packet on greysheet.org. Payment should be made via the PayPal link. Board of Trustees Town Hall Meeting Board of Trustees Town Hall Meeting was held on January 20 at 11:00 EDT and attended by 47 GreySheeters!  Questions that had been submitt...

Preparing for the 2019 World Service Conference (WSC) Registration Packet The Registration Packet for the 2019 World Service Conference for GSA is now available for download from our website, greysheet.org.  Use this link:https://www.greysheet.org/images/events/WSC_REG_PACKET_2019.pdfPlease note that the deadline for registration forms and money to be sent in is February 15, 2019. Board of Trustees Town Hall Meeting The next Board of Trustees Town Hall Meeting&...

March 1st is the Deadline for Board and Committee Reports & Motions! On April 1st, delegates will download your reports, motions, and submitted materials from greysheet.org. Will your committee be ready? WSC2019 is September 20th – 22nd  2019 in Chicago. Delegates from intergroups, groups, and the board will be considering motions from the board and all seven conference committees: ArchivesCommunicationConferenceFinanceLiteraturePublic InformationStructure Grain...

Update From the Conference Committee  The 2019 GreySheeters Anonymous World Service ConferenceFriday, September 20th - September 22nd, 2019@ the Cenacle Retreat and Conference Center.Chicago, Illinois The Registration Packet will be posted very shortly on greysheet.org. Sessions begin 5:00 PM CT on Friday and end at 1:00 PM CT on Sunday.REGISTRATION PACKETS WITH TOTAL COST is due by FEBRUARY 15, 2019.Cost Includes: Hotel, meals and registration fee: $334 for a 2 person shared room...

GreySheeters Anonymous World Services (GSAWS) Board of Trustees - Announcements Sunday, September 16 TOWN HALL Meeting Summary Thank you to the Board of Trustees of GreySheeters Anonymous World Service for hosting the second quarterly Town Hall on Zoom. There were 30 GSers there to hear the Board answer the fellowship’s questions and to raise more questions if there was time. The Board handled such a large and diverse meeting beautifully on the Zoom platform. The BOT members ...

GreySheeters Anonymous World Services (GSAWS) - Board of TrusteesAnnouncements NEXT Meet the Board Zoom Town Hall Meeting: Sunday, September 16 at 10:00 AM EST The next open-to-everyone Town Hall Meeting with the GSAWS Board of Trustees will be held on Sunday, September 16 at 10:00 AM EST.  Any GreySheet member may attend this meeting and all are encouraged to do so.  It is especially recommended for GSR’s and ISR’s who can then report back to their home groups...

GreySheeters Anonymous World Services (GSAWS) - Board of TrusteesAnnouncements NEXT Meet the Board Zoom Town Hall Meeting: Sunday, September 16 at 10:00 AM EST The next open-to-everyone Town Hall Meeting with the GSAWS Board of Trustees will be held on Sunday, September 16 at 10:00 AM EST.  The Board is planning to do this once per quarter. The last meeting was held in June and over 50 GreySheeters attended either by video or on the phone. Call to Action: ...

GreySheeters Anonymous World Services (GSAWS) - Board of Trustees Announcements Meet the Board Zoom Town Hall Meeting - 50+ in Attendance! The GSAWS-open-to-all Town Hall meeting held on June 17th was a wonderful thing to participate in, as 50+ GreySheeters can attest.  While several of the people on the meeting were only using their phone for connection, at least half of us were able to see ourselves face to face, and to meet the board members who are working on our behalf t...

GreySheeters Anonymous World Service (GSAWS) - Board of TrusteesAnnouncements   MEET THE BOARD! What a wonderful outpouring from the fellowship we have had in response to a request for members to send in questions and topics to be included in the first ever Meet the Board Zoom meeting on Sunday, June 17th at 10:00 AM EST. The Communication Committee received input from seven groups from Queens, Toronto, Worcester, Taos, Chicago and the Southern Serenity Zoom meeting as well as a f...

GreySheeters Anonymous World Service (GSAWS) - Board of Trustees - Announcements MEET THE BOARD! GSR's and ISR's – Please Note: On Sunday, June 17, 2018, at 10 A.M EST, all are invited to a special Zoom "MEET THE BOARD" video meeting. Details with Zoom meeting ID will be published in the June issue of Service Matters.We ask that every GSR and ISR report to your groups and ask what topics, concerns and questions members might have that they would like to see discussed at this meeting.  ...

Announcements from the GreySheeters Anonymous World Service (GSAWS) Board of Trustees Happy GSA 20th Anniversary!! Every one of us gets to celebrate this milestone of our fellowship!! Make sure you see our GreySheet Counts results on our websitebeginning April 6! GreySheeters Anonymous World Services - 2018 Operating Budget The 2018 budget was approved by the Board of Trustees, now available for review on the GSAWS website. Main budget highlights: Income:       ...

Announcements from the GreySheet World Service Board of Trustees (GSAWS BOT) * Regarding the GreySheet Committee In the Fall of 2017, the Chair of the Board of Trustees consulted with our copyright attorney to see if the “Extended GreySheet” constituted an infringement of our copyright. The attorney suggested that, since certain aspects of GreySheet abstinence were not spelled out on the GreySheet, a document be prepared to clarify the foods, measurements, and instructions wi...

Message of Hope - Keep Coming Back and STAY! While the newcomer to GSA is often heartened to hear the words, “Keep Coming Back” from members, once a period of abstinence is attained, whether it's 30, 60, 90 days or a year, the message from longer-timers to the not-so-newbie is, “Stay.” Stay when you're at your goal weight and wondering if you really need meetings and daily contact with your sponsor. Stay when your abstinent life has delivered you to wonderful relationships, challenging...

Giving So We All Can Live in the Solution Our Seventh Tradition states: Every GSA (GreySheeters Anonymous) group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. What does that mean to us as GreySheet individuals, groups, intergroups and our world-wide community? It means we value the work that we do in our communities to reach out and support fellow sufferers. It means we contribute to the basket (or zoom/skype PayPal alternative) so that our meetings can continue, that the r...

We at Service Matters are delighted to bring recent reports from various GSA Service Committees. Here are the reports received so far. Website Committee  The Website (Sub)Committee has been working on putting together the requirements for a new GreySheet.org website, based on information gathered from the fellowship, the Board, and the different Committees. The Committee will be submitting a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) to the GSAWS Board by the beginning of 20...

GSA World Services Working Hard to Make Improvements to the WebsiteGSA World Services wants to say a BIG thank you to all those GSA members who took time to review our website and share suggestions for how it can be improved. Since the beginning of May 2017 we have gathered all these wonderful suggestions together with what was suggested on the June 11 phone bridge meeting, where anyone who cared to called in to discuss these changes voice-to-voice and agree on the best way to proceed.  A W...

GSA World Services Working Hard to Make Improvements to the Website  GSA World Services want to say a BIG thank you to all those GSA members who took time to review our website and share suggestions for how it can be improved. Since the beginning of May 2017 GSA World Services has been reaching out to the fellowship for suggestions for improvements to our website, greysheet.org.  We have now gathered all these wonderful suggestions together.  On 11 June at 1pm EST a phone bri...

GSA in Slovakia hosts its first roundup During the last weekend of May, the Slovak Greysheeters made history. They put a lot of time, effort and hard work into organizing their first ever Round-up which was a great success! 20 beautiful, joyful and radiant Greysheeters and newcomers from Slovakia, England, Slovenia and Poland gathered in the capital city, Bratislava. They shared their stories about what it was like being in the food, what helped them to save their lives and what is it ...

GSA YouTube attracts new members  The brainchild of Kathy P, the South West Intergroup's (SWIG) YouTube channel is having an amazing run. Kathy's expertise in her working life prompted a suggestion that SWIG post a steady stream of GSA qualifications on YouTube.  Included with these qualifications are answers to questions as part of an outreach to those still sick and suffering compulsive eaters. The results have been more than rewarding.  Now we have over 400 subscribers to the c...

An Update from GSA World Service Following our World Service Conference held in Boston in September 2016, the fellowship's World Service committees have been working hard on agenda items raised at the conference. Below are summaries provided by the committees; Contact webadmin@greysheet.org for any additional information: Conference CommitteeWorking together to plan our next World Service Conference in 2018. A majority of Group Service Representatives and Intergroup Service Representatives who a...

What has been happening since the World Service Committee in September? As you will have read from the list of motions and recommendations put forward by the service committees at the 2016 World Service Conference in September, each service committee has their 'plates full' of jobs that need to be done between now and the next World Service Conference in 2 years time. These service committees are made up of members like you and me - members of this fellowship with 90 days or more of back-to-back...

Hi Greysheeters I am abstinent and grateful.  I commit my food to my sponsor - I weigh and measure each meal without exception and abstinence is the most important thing I do no matter what today. I was talking to a friend in AA yesterday.  In a cafe she had a soda with flavouring added that contained the stuff she is addicted too.  It slipped past her radar because she can normally purchase it without 'the stuff' at the corner store.  She was rebelling ag...

Hi, I'm [Anonymous] and I'm a compulsive overeater.  My abstinence is 3 weighed and measured meals a day off of the Greysheet and I write my food out, call my sponsor, commit my food and weigh and measure without exception.  As a result of these actions I've been abstinent from compulsive overeating since Feb. 15, 1990, and abstinence is the most important practice that I do in my life today, one day at a time. What does DENMW mean?  *I* can't not eat compulsively.&...