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OUR SEVENTH TRADITION

 

What Is DA's 7th Tradition?

Our Seventh Tradition states, “Every DA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.”  


StepSponsorDA is an autonomous group and contributions go toward funding the phone workshops and recordings, online StepSponsorDA, contributions to the General Service Office, DA Telephone Intergroup, and the conference travel expenses of our General Service Representative (GSR).


Please give as generously as you can. We have as many as eighty listeners and participants per series but average only twenty contributors. Phone groups like ours do have expenses so please consider supporting us financially just as you would a face-to-face group.

If you cannot donate at this time, please keep coming back. No one will be turned away from our workshops — either phone or online — for a lack of funds. To contribute electronically, use any of the buttons marked "7th Tradition" in several places on this website, including in the header and footer of every page and below. If you prefer to make your contribution by physical mail, please send an email to info@stepsponsorda.com to ask for our Treasurer's address.

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Inclusivity Statement

The following Inclusivity Statement was approved by the General Service Board in July, 2022 and has been added to the 2022 Debtors Anonymous Manual of Service:

Whatever your story, you are welcome in Debtors Anonymous. In D.A., we celebrate the rich, diverse experiences of people of all identities. We embrace members of any race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental ability, socio-economic status, religious, spiritual, or philosophical expression, or any other trait. Our various experiences benefit our recovery, so we encourage all members to value differences and actively participate in making D.A. an inclusive fellowship. Together, we create accessible and welcoming spaces for anyone with the desire to stop incurring debt, so that we may all recover one day at a time.

© COPYRIGHT JILL C. P. Do not duplicate without permission. The GreenBack Book Study Guide to existing DA Literature is a Rough Draft and is not DA World Service Conference Approved as of July 2021. At this time, StepSponsorDA group #14261 will exercise 4th tradition autonomy and continue to use GreenBack Book Study Guide for its existing workshops, as we have been doing since 2007.

As of the end of April 2021, the Debtors Anonymous World Service Conference has approved and issued a new study guide, different from the GreenBack Book. StepSponsorDA daily morning call members formed a committee to review and evaluate the new guide and made a determination to continue using the GreenBack Book as its primary study guide. The new 'DA 12 Steps Study Guide' will be recommended to current morning call members as supplemental material.

If you have any questions please send an email to info@stepsponsorda.com.

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