SacFNA Capture the Banner

The Twelve Functions of Capturing the Banner

1. Only groups registered as being members of the Sacramento Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous Area may participate.

2. In order for a group to Capture/Pass the Banner, at least 5 members of that Home group must attend

the regularly scheduled meeting of the group that currently has possession of the Banner.

**Note: Any group that has the banner in their possession may give it to a group that does not have 5

home group members. Remember: the banner is not about prestige. It’s about NA unity in the

Sacramento Fellowship Area-one home group supporting another home group

3. The banner cannot be captured/passed until the meeting is over. It is recommended that the capture

take place after the closing. At no time should the capture of the banner interrupt the primary purpose of

Narcotics Anonymous meetings. All 5 home group members must be in the meeting from the opening

prayer to the closing prayer.

4. If more than one Homegroup attends the meeting and wants to capture the banner the final

determining factor will be the farthest distance traveled from their home group to the capture group.

5. When a home group captures/passes the banner from another group, the capture/pass must be reported

to the Capture the Banner coordinator via email or phone in order that they may update web on that

same day.

6. Once captured/passed, the Banner must be present and displayed at all of the regularly scheduled

meetings until it is captured by another group. If a home group that has captured the banner fails to

display the banner, then it is forfeited back to Outreach.

7. At no time should a capture be refused as long as the above-noted conditions are met.

8. In order to find out which group currently has possession of the banner, members can check the status

on the web or call the Banner Coordinator

9. The Home Group that has possession of the banner during NCCNA must send a member with the

banner to the convention for display at the Saturday Main Speaker meeting during the Area Roll Call. If

no member from that group plans to attend NCCNA, the banner must be relinquished temporarily to the

Sacramento Fellowship Area Outreach Task Group.

10. Every Banner Capture/Pass will be noted and recorded by the Outreach Task Group to count towards

the annual Pass totals. Points are only accrued through PASSING the Banner, not the capture. An

EXTRA point is earned by passing the Banner to those meetings that are recorded at area as needing

support. You may call or email the Outreach Task Leader for assistance in finding those needing

support.

11. The banner cannot be captured at a function; it must be captured at a regularly scheduled meeting.

12. All disputes will be settled by the Outreach Task Group as necessary.

** Note: At the end of the year, the group with the most recorded points will be duly recorded on the

banner and they will retain bragging rights for the next year!