Step Twelve, carrying the message: a review — Sponsorship

Not all questions will apply at all stages of recovery. Ideally, all of the following forms of Twelfth-Step work should be undertaken over the course of the day, week, month, or year, accordingly:

Sponsorship (a rough guide: a person should be able to handle at least one for every year of sobriety, so someone ten years sober should be able to handle around ten sponsees as a minimum)
Attendance at a home group every week unless dead, out of town, or contagious
Service at a home group
Unless active step work is being undertaken daily with sponsees, attendance at additional meetings to generate opportunities for sponsorship
Attendance at weekly AA meetings to carry a strong message where it is needed the most
Service within the AA service structure (intergroup, convention committee, workshop committee, area, district, region, national sub-committee, conference, general service board)
Writing for an AA publication
Writing own AA and recovery-related materials to publish anonymously online
Engagement in online AA forums
Attendance at weak AA meetings to carry a strong message where it is needed the most
Speaking at treatment centres, rehabs, etc.
Carrying the message to the outside world through public information work and/or through the local telephone service
Talking on a daily basis to newcomers or other people who are struggling
Long-distance sponsorship (e.g. to people in prison, 'loners', and people in places where there is little or no strong AA)
Work to improve knowledge of the traditions, concepts, service and structure manuals, and AA history
Presence on all relevant lists of twelfth-steppers available to the local AA telephone services.