Phone Meeting Format
Christian Food Addicts in Recovery
Intro: My name is..............................., a compulsive eater, and co‐dependent, and your leader for this meeting. This is a meeting for Christian Food Addicts in Recovery.
Everyone is welcome at this meeting—Christian food addicts in recovery, seekers, people who have walked away from their Christian faith, people who don't know anything about Jesus, people who want to explore their spirituality and people who love Jesus, but struggling with food and/or co‐dependency. We are non‐judgemental. We share our personal experience, strength and hope using "for me" statements.
After a moment of silence, please join me in the long version of the Serenity Prayer. This group has voted to have the moderator lead the prayer while the members follow along reverently.
God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time,
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
At this meeting we encourage those with less than 90day of abstinence to read or share. You can find the format at www.ChristianFoodAddicts.weebly.com. If you don't have internet access,
Olga from New York will send you a hard copy. Her number is (914) 262-1061.
Is there someone on the call who can read the Christian Food Addicts in Recovery Preamble?
Preamble:
Christian Food Addicts in Recovery is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from compulsive overeating and co‐dependency. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop eating compulsively. There are no dues or fees for membership; we are self‐supporting through our own contributions. Our primary purpose is to stay abstinent and detached from co‐dependency and help other compulsive overeaters and co‐dependents achieve abstinence.
Is there someone on the call who can read the Christian Food Addicts in Recovery groups Purpose?
Purpose:
This group has been founded and designed to discuss the fundamentals or basics of attaining and maintaining abstinence and detachment from co‐dependency from a Christian perspective. For that purpose, we explore together the utilization of the program of Alcoholics Anonymous in arresting compulsive eating and co‐dependency and we believe that the Bible is the Word of God. We require that our meeting leaders be abstinent for at least three months in their respective food recovery groups, have accountability, and have Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Is there someone on the line who would be willing to do service by reading the 12 Steps?
The Twelve Steps:
1. We admitted we were powerless over food, people, places and things - 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.
Is there someone on the call who would like to read the Tradition of the month and the 12th Tradition?
The Twelve Traditions:
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon Christian Food Addicts in Recovery 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 Christian Food Addicts in Recovery group membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Christian Food Addicts in Recovery groups as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the overeater who still suffers.
6. Christian Food Addicts in Recovery groups ought never endorse, finance or lend the Christian Food Addicts in Recovery group name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7. Every Christian Food Addicts in Recovery group ought to be fully self‐supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. The Christian Food Addicts in Recovery group should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. The Christian Food Addicts in Recovery group as such ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. The Christian Food Addicts in Recovery group has no opinion on outside issues; hence the Christian Food Addicts in Recovery groups 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 and film.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
Identifying Ourselves
Would everyone who cares to, please say your name and where you are calling from? (i.e., “Hi, I’m ____ from ____)
Day Counts and Milestones
We have found a common solution upon which we can absolutely agree and which we can join in brotherly harmonious action, that common solution for us is our food abstinence. We welcome members who are counting 90 days or less of abstinence to share their day count… any anniversaries of abstinence as well as belly‐button birthdays so that we can celebrate with you.
Announcements
Are there any announcements?
Everyone is welcomed at this meeting, Christian food addicts in recovery, seekers, people who have walked away from their Christian faith, people who don't know anything about Jesus, people who want to explore their spirituality and people who know Jesus, but struggling with food and/or co‐dependency.
Visit our website, www.ChristianFoodAddicts.weebly.com. You will find the following information: a list of additional Christian meetings, member phone numbers, the format for this meeting and how to be added to our phone list and/or e-mail loop.
The Christian Food Addicts in Recovery Intergroup meetings will be held the first Sunday of the month at 7AM EST (after our regular meeting).
Phone Meeting Guidelines
I will now read a few guidelines:
1. When connecting to the bridge, you come in muted.
2. Press *1 to un‐mute and *1 to mute again. *6 will increase your volume. *3 will decrease your volume.
3. It is important to keep yourself muted at all times unless you are sharing.
4. By group conscience we do not mention specific foods by name or which food fellowship we belong to. We do not mention specific church affiliations. We share the common demoninator that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. We do not say a mantra.
5. This group has voted to allow the mention of Christian literature and conference-approved literature from relevent addiction groups.
6. Please no cross talk, which is giving advice to others who have already shared, speaking directly to another person rather than to the group and commenting, questioning or interrupting the person speaking/sharing at the time. We don't speak positively or negatively about a previous share. We want all to feel welcome and to avoid the impression of being exclusive or critical. We speak from our own perspective using I or "for me" statements.
7. Our group conscious has voted to have 3 minute timed shares. People can share as many times as they want in three minute increments. Is there someone willing to do service by keeping time this morning?
Focus
The focus of today's meeting is_________________(explain topic and book used).
Turn with me to page_____. Would someone like to begin the reading?
Closing (5 minutes before the end of the hour)
It is now time to bring the meeting to a close.
Does anyone have a brief "Burning Desire to Share" or is there someone who would like to "Claim Their Seat?"
In closing, please remember our 3rd Tradition, which states, "The only requirement for Christian Food Addicts in Recovery membership is the desire to stop eating compulsively."
Does anyone want a phone number? Please call out the name of the person you wish to contact.
Would someone like to read Ephesians 3:14–21?
Paul's Prayer for Spiritual Empowering
When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit. And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Now glory be to God! By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope. May he be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages. Amen.
Thank you all for sharing. We will close with The Lord's Prayer. This group has voted to have the moderator lead the prayer while the members follow along reverently.
Our Father who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power
and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
With the help of God, we won't eat no matter what!
