World Service Office
The World Service Office (WSO) is located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA, and exists to support individual members and OA’s thousands of groups worldwide, as well as to carry OA’s message of recovery to compulsive overeaters who are still suffering.
World Service Resources
The WSO:
- Produces over 100 literature and recovery-related items and podcasts;
- Maintains a website (oa.org) and an online bookstore;
- Publishes Lifeline, a recovery magazine made up of stories written by and for OA members;
- Distributes quarterly A Step Ahead newsletter;
- Distributes a monthly email bulletin to keep members up to date on OA happenings;
- Hosts an annual World Service Business Conference;
- Sponsors a World Service Convention every five years;
- Maintains directories on meetings all across the world;
- Answers newcomer and member inquiries;
- Provides new groups with everything needed at the outset;
- Provides information about OA to media representatives, health professionals and others interested in OA’s Twelve-Step approach to recovery from compulsive eating.
Links to the WSO
- WSO Home page
- WSO Bookstore
- Lifeline Magazine
- A Step Ahead Newsletter
- World Service Business Conference
- World Service Convention
Funding for WSO
The WSO is funded solely through member contributions and literature sales. In keeping with OA’s Seventh Tradition, the WSO accepts no outside donations.
The donations made by members at weekly meetings and other OA gatherings are supporting member recovery by helping to maintain their group, intergroup, region and World Service Office. While there are no dues or fees for OA membership, these donations are vital to OA.
Your contribution to MAI is apportioned to: MAI (60%) / WSO (30%) / Region 5 (10%).
The Business of OA World Service Office
Follow WSO business activities, discussions and decisions at:
The Business of OA World Service Office