General Service

When you’re a general service representative (G.S.R.)

When you’re a general service representative you are linking your home group with the whole of A.A. In 1950, a new type of trusted servant, “group representative,” was suggested to help in the selection of delegates to the newly formed General Service Conference. By 1953, the job of group representative was also seen as a good means of exchanging up-to-date information between individual groups and “Headquarters” (now the General Service Office). That’s still an important side of your work. But now, as general service representative, you have an even bigger responsibility: You transmit ideas and opinions, as well as facts; through you, the group conscience becomes a part of “the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship,” as expressed in the General Service Conference.

Reprinted from General Service Representative, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.

A.A. General Service District 01 Monterey

The Monterey General Service District (District 01) is one of 23 districts in the California Northern Coastal Area (CNCA, Area 06) of Alcoholics Anonymous.

District 01 comprises six subdistricts:

  • Carmel
  • Carmel Valley / Big Sur
  • Monterey
  • Monterey Fellowship Hall
  • Pacific Grove
  • Seaside / Marina

If you’re interested in being of service within General Service, please attend our next monthly meeting.

District 01 Committee Meeting

Third Tuesday of Each Month at 7 PM

Bethlehem Lutheran Church
800 Cass Street
Monterey, CA 93940

Sub-District Committee Meeting

Second Tuesday of Each Month at 7 PM

St James Episcopal Church
McGowan House (Upstairs)
381 High Street
Monterey, CA 93940

Any A.A. member is welcome to attend district committee meetings. Voting members of the committee are the General Service Representatives (GSRs) from participating groups and district officers and service workers, including:

  • District Committee Member Chairperson (DCMC)
  • Alternate DCMC
  • District Committee Members (one for each of the subdistricts)
  • Treasurer
  • Recording Secretary
  • Registrar
  • Public Information & Cooperation With the Professional Community Committee
  • Chairperson
  • Literature / Grapevine Chairperson
  • Bridging the Gap Chairperson
  • Archivist
  • Intergroup Liaison
  • Hospital & Institution Committee Liaison
  • Coffee Person

Contact General Service District 01

Please come to one of the meetings listed above or use this form to contact us: