California Inland Region
Report to WSZF 2007

The California Inland Region is comprised of 4 area's in the inland region of southern California from Victorville in the north, Temecula in the south and Blythe in the east. We currently have 186 meetings weekly, and the region meets on the 1st Sunday of the month in Banning at our Regional office. We also rotate to each area on a quarterly basis to help get the local fellowships involved. At this time we have one area that is in the midst of a division. This is something that has been talked about for years but it seems like now is the time. They have been working on it for several months and by following the suggestions set forth in the Guide to Local Service it appears to be going well in fact I would use the word spiritual.

As was reported last year our convention had been canceled due to the facility closing for remodeling. Well I am happy to report that we held our convention at a new site 2 weeks ago and it looks like "We Are Back". I don't have any final figures but just from what I saw it looked like it was a success.

We have spent time in the last year with a Regional Inventory. I would like to thank those of you that sent me your info on inventory's. We put together a questionnaire that went out to the fellowship and was posted on our website (cirna.org). We received a lot of feedback and we are in the process of prioritizing and roundtable discussing the topics/issues that have come up. I was surprised at how many want to see more learning/service days/workshops. It will be interesting to see how things shape up over the next few months.

We still operate with resource officers rather than standing committees and have had a hard time keeping these positions filled.

Our first annual Learning Day last January was a huge success. We started out the day with a workshop for GSR's that was so well received that we could have probably spent the whole day on just that one topic. I would like to thank the Central California Region for their help and participation in this event. They helped facilitate the round table discussions on the IDT's. We where hoping to have 50 people in attendance and ended up with close to 80 in attendance and had to scramble for more tables and chairs. We are looking forward to next years learning day with the Conference Agenda Report being our main topic.

We have no issues to bring forward to this body this year but we are looking forward to our discussions the next couple of days and I am sure that there will be a lot of things to learn from our fellow regions.

In Service,
Michael M. -- RD

Gene B. -- RDA