Hello,

It’s a holiday week for some of you, and we’d like to suggest spending some of that spare time filling out some surveys! Seriously, as we emailed last week, we really need your help filling out the Membership Survey and encouraging others to do so. We’ve posted two other new surveys described below. You can find them all on our survey page. 

WCNA Survey

More than 18,000 members, including newcomers, registered for WCNA 38. It was so great! There were a few hitches here and there, but overall reports indicate that people had a wonderful time. We want to remember the good parts and learn from the rest.

With WCNA 38 behind us, it’s time for the World Board to look toward the future of the World Convention. Rising costs on nearly every front in every part of the world push us to consider what is possible, practical, and prudent going forward. We would like to get more perspective from the Fellowship. So—there’s a survey! Whether or not you attended, we have questions, and we want to know more about your experience and your decisions before we start planning the next WCNA. 

WCNA Merch!

Following from that, there’s a great sale on WCNA merchandise! All kinds of cool stuff is available at bargain prices. Get it while it lasts at wcnashop.com. If you buy three items, you’ll receive the lowest price item for free (except for medallions, pins, and microfiber cloths, which have their own separate discounts).

Virtual Service Basics Outline and Survey

We’ve been working on resources for virtual services, including virtual service meetings, online meetings and areas participating in the service system, virtual workshops and trainings, etc. The first step we are taking is to develop Virtual Service Basics. We urge anyone with experience or interest to check out the draft outline and fill out the input form, both of which are on the Local Service Toolboxproject page. 

Contribute

Many of you are already signed up for recurring contributions or contribute regularly, and we thank you! Voluntary direct contributions take the pressure off literature sales to keep our Fellowship alive and free, and allow us to plan more reliably for the future. 

Did you know that you can contribute via our webpage or you can text to give? Text “Share” to 801801. 

Your time and talent, your voice and vision—and your financial contributions—are all part of making NA available to the addict who still suffers, in your neighborhood and around the world. Thank you so much! 

Gratefully,

World Board

Hello,

Once again, we’re sharing so much news in one e-blast! We’re happy to have so much going on, but it means we need you to stay with us through all this news. Get a cuppa coffee and read on.

WCNA merchandise on sale

The moment many of you have been waiting for is here! Surplus merchandise from WCNA 38 is for sale at wcnashop.com. We are offering deep discounts, and bonuses if you’re buying more: Buy any two items at the same price, get a third item at the same or lower price for free (except for medallions, pins, and microfiber cloths, which are subject to their own separate discounts)! Shipping within the United States is free if you spend $100 or more. We’ve also added larger men’s sizes for the two shirts we sold out of first. 

This online store will only be open for a short time, so log on soon to treat yourself or to buy a Sponsorship Day (1 December) gift!

For international orders, please contact us at events@na.org.

We’re on Facebook! 

NA World Services now has an official Facebook page (@naworldservices). For now, we are posting the same material as on our Instagram account. We may also post NAWS Update emails. Content will likely evolve as our relationship to the platform develops. This is not our first experiment with Facebook, but it has been years since we attempted a presence there. So many of our members use this platform that we wanted to try again to see if it can work for us. 

The messaging option is turned off altogether, as is the ability to comment on posts. Communications to World Services will continue to come through na.org/contact or emails to the World Board (wb@na.org).  

Those who follow or like the page are not visible except to their Facebook friends who have also liked or followed the page. We are not able to prevent that level of visibility on the page, but members who are concerned about this can also change their personal settings so that pages they like or follow are not visible to anyone. (For information about how to do that please refer to this Facebook help page) We believe that these settings allow us to participate here without putting members’ anonymity at risk.

More Will Be Revised

Drafts of two pieces under revision and one new service resource are being prepared for your review and input. Keep an eye out for draft revisions of IP#21, H&I Basics, and Virtual Service Basics. The review and input period for each of these is relatively brief, and we count on Fellowship input to make NA literature and service material as true to our collective experience as possible. We look forward to hearing from you on each of these important projects.

Links to na.org need updating

We have redesigned our website, and as a result URLs for IPs and most other resources have changed. Please check links on your area, regional, and zonal websites and update if needed so that your local links to literature and other spots on na.org are not broken. If you need help finding what you’re looking for, let us know: webmaster@na.org. 

Rest assured, we are working on the na.org search function and hope to have it in operation soon. 

Membership Survey is still out there!

The Membership Survey is up until the end of January—which is fast approaching! We conduct the Membership Survey in concert with each World Convention, but we don’t just want to hear from those of you who were at WCNA. Every time we conduct such a survey we get more responses than the time before. And each time we learn more about our Fellowship: who our members are, who we are reaching, and how our efforts to carry the message can improve. The survey also provides important data for researchers to demonstrate what we know from experience: NA Works. 

Please spread the word. We are grateful for every survey returned: na.org/survey. 

In loving service,

World Board