Service work is a Key to Secular Acceptance. The Group Conscience and Group Inventory are Keys to a Healthy Recovery Environment.

Jonathan joined AA in 2009 and discovered that doing service helped keep him sober. The concept of making one's group the higher power grew to include one's district as well. Having found out about secular AA through the de-listing controversy in Toronto, when he moved to Kingston in 2017 he joined a secular group and found it a better fit spiritually, and continued working at district level as a GSR. A surprise nomination in 2020 to run for DCM, and election to that, was a signal that things had changed for the better in the acceptance of secular members in service roles. A few Area 83 committees have also been happy to have a secular member pitch in. Navigating these roles as a secular member working towards the benefit of all AA members has its challenges and fulfilments.