Type of Project
Membership Retention
Project Name
Call Five and Keep Them Alive
Project Goal
Reaching out to help others
Implementation Process (including length of time for planning and implementation)
Distribute the “Call Five” cards (see image or download PDF) at itergroup meetings and special events. Ask meeting delegates to take these cards to the meetings they visit. Attach to sign-in books so that members can take a card and write down numbers as the book is passed around the meeting. Distribute via email and/or by posting on your intergroup and region websites.
Additional Comments (including things of which to be mindful)
Consider having a special day, such as Twelfth Step Within Day, where everyone makes a combined effort to reach members
who haven’t been attending meetings. Another great time for distributing these cards might be during the month before a special event. Members can call people about the event and invite them to travel to the event together.
Results
We’ve heard shares in meetings that these phone calls helped some members return to meetings—they felt that they were missed and had not been forgotten by OA.
Translatable text of “Call Five” graphic cards
Call 5 and Keep Them Alive!
A Twelfth Step Within Service Project
If everyone makes five phone calls to people we haven’t seen at meetings in a while, think of all the people we will reach! Let’s do our part on this Twelfth Step Within service project. You could make all the difference in the world.
Look through your sign-in book or meeting lists and write five names and phone numbers of members you haven’t seen recently. Then call, email, or text them to say hello, invite them to a meeting, and let them know that they are important and missed.
Take the challenge: Call Five and Keep Them Alive!
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