At this time where face-to-face meetings are NOT possible,
Jersey Shore Intergroup wanted to let you know about
Zoom/Phone meetings we now have available....

Connect to any of the (5) meetings below via ZOOM using the following info...
Link:    https://zoom.us/j/5312700571
Meeting ID: 531 270 0571
Passcode: 9YJtcK

Connect to any of the (5) meetings below via PHONE using the following info...
Phone No: 929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 531 270 0571
Passcode: 766811

(1) Every Friday 11:00am St Francis Center  (new 07-23-21)

(2) Every Saturday 9:30am Manahawkin Meeting
speaker/literature format
They use 'For Today' and 'Voices of Recovery' (Please have them handy)

(3) Every Monday 10:00am Toms River Meeting
literature / discussion

(4) Every Tuesday 10:00am Lakehurst Meeting
there is a revolving format:
First week - Step
Second week - Tradition
Third Week - Big Book
Fourth Week - Speaker

(5) Jersey Shore Intergroup Monthly Meeting
Wednesday December 16th 10:00am
Contact Jane G, intergroup chair for more info. 609 458 2949

Connect to this next meeting via ZOOM or Phone using the following info...
Every Thursday 10:00am
This is a 12 Step Meeting
Link:  https://zoom.us/j/8379047922
Phone No: 929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 837 904 7922
Passcode: 016386

Every Saturday 9:00am 
Somers Point Literature Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/7419578385
Meeting ID: 741 957 8385
Passcode:  bigbook
Contact: Jane G 609-458-2949

The Jersey Shore Intergroup of Overeaters Anonymous supports the OA 12-step recovery program from compulsive eating at the Jersey Shore area. We have meetings from  Lakewood to Cape May covering Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May counties.  See the ‘Find a Meeting’ tab for a complete listing.

The Jersey Shore Intergroup’s primary purpose is to aid those with the problem of compulsive eating, and to serve and represent the OA meetings from which the organization is formed.

Jersey Shore Intergroup meets once a month on the second Saturday of the month from 10:45 am to 12:00 pm at Southern Ocean County Hospital, immediately following the Saturday morning meeting.  See the Events section for the exact dates.  All area meetings and members are strongly encouraged to become active participants in helping the Intergroup carry out its mission.

The Intergroup offers support and resources to local meetings and members. JSIG maintains a web site, a monthly newsletter, a meeting directory and a telephone hotline. The group provides outreach and educates healthcare and other professionals about the Overeaters Anonymous program of recovery. The Intergroup also organizes retreats, marathons, and other special activities to increase fellowship and recovery with other compulsive eaters. In addition to its responsibilities to local meetings and members, JSIG also participates in OA governance at the regional and national levels.

The Jersey Shore Intergroup welcomes your participation, feedback and questions. If you have questions about OA in general or about the Intergroup, please see ‘About JSIG’ for contact numbers.

 

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

After years of struggling with your weight and obsessing about food, you have decided to give Overeaters Anonymous a try

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IS OA FOR YOU?

Do you eat when you are not hungry? 

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ABOUT OA

Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience...

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The 3 Twelves of the OA

12 Steps of Overeaters Anonymous:

  1. We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

12 Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous

  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity.
  2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
  3. The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
  4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or OA as a whole.
  5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers.
  6. An OA group ought never endorse, finance or lend the OA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
  7. Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
  8. Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
  9. OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
  10. Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
  11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, television and other public media of communication.
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

12 Concepts of OA Service

  1. Concept One: Unity
    The ultimate responsibility and authority for OA world services reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
  2. Concept Two: Conscience
    The OA groups have delegated to the World Service Business Conference the active maintenance of our world services; thus, the World Service Business Conference is the voice, authority and effective conscience of OA as a whole.
  3. Concept Three: Trust
    The right of decision, based on trust, makes effective leadership possible.
  4. Concept Four: Equality
    The right of participation ensures equality of opportunity for all in the decision-making process.
  5. Concept Five: Consideration
    Individuals have the right of appeal and petition in order to ensure that their opinions and personal grievances will be carefully considered.
  6. Concept Six: Responsibility
    The World Service Business Conference has entrusted the Board of Trustees with the primary responsibility for the administration of Overeaters Anonymous.
  7. Concept Seven: Balance
    The Board of Trustees has legal rights and responsibilities accorded to them by OA Bylaws, Subpart A; the rights and responsibilities of the World Service Business Conference are accorded to it by Tradition and by OA Bylaws, Subpart B.
  8. Concept Eight: Delegation
    The Board of Trustees has delegated to its Executive Committee the responsibility to administer the OA World Service Office.
  9. Concept Nine: Ability
    Able, trusted servants, together with sound and appropriate methods of choosing them, are indispensable for effective functioning at all service levels.
  10. Concept Ten: Clarity
    Service responsibility is balanced by carefully defined service authority; therefore, duplication of efforts is avoided.
  11. Concept Eleven: Humility
    Trustee administration of the World Service Office should always be assisted by the best standing committees, executives, staffs and consultants.
  12. Concept Twelve: Guidelines: The spiritual foundation for OA service ensures that:
    1. Selflessness
      (a) No OA committee or service body shall ever become the seat of perilous wealth or power;
    1. Realism
      (b) Sufficient operating funds, plus an ample reserve, shall be OA’s prudent financial principle;
    1. Representation
      (c) No OA member shall ever be placed in a position of unqualified authority;
    1. Dialogue
      (d) All important decisions shall be reached by discussion, vote and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity;
    1. Compassion
      (e) No service action shall ever be personally punitive or an incitement to public controversy; and
    1. Respect
      (f) No OA service committee or service board shall ever perform acts of government, and each shall always remain democratic in thought and action.