Contact:
Mr Tim Boyd
PO Box 660
Warrenville, IL 60555
U.S.AE-mail:
National web site:
The TOS in USA website is an interactive site that allows you to upload your own contributions directly. Your contribution can be about any TOS relevant topic concerning anywhere in the world, not just within the USA. For more information click here to see the page that explains how to make contributions.
About the TOS in USA...
One of the goals for the TOS in the United States is to stay active and vibrant. To that end, in 2007 we started to move from being an information resource to an action-oriented group. Our focus is on projects. We are finding this a good strategy for involving our members who are scattered widely around the country, many of them isolated.
We also wished to give more Theosophical Society members the opportunity to join in our work. To achieve this, we set up a liaison program. “Liaisons” are members of the TS who volunteer to transmit information about service activities, TOS activities, and to present at least one service related program per year at their lodge. The response has been excellent as many lodges are filled with members who want to put theosophical principles into action.
To allow members to feel more connected, we set up an interactive website (www.theoservice.org) where members can easily post updates of their activities or issues they need support with, books they recommend, or even articles they have read and want to share. We reformatted our magazine For the Love of Life by adding more photos and publishing articles that focus on current activities our members are involved in. And most of all, we have stayed open-minded to change. There is nothing in this universe that is static. So whenever an opportunity came our way, we remained open to the idea.
One idea brought forth by President Tim Boyd was “serving the servers.” He suggested that we conduct workshops that would help strengthen individuals who serve the community. (That is basically all of us.) Since then, we have held three successful workshops that focus on different aspects of serving and how to overcome the difficulties we face when serving others.
In keeping with our motto “a union of those who love in the service of all that suffers,” we have kept our eye on populations that are in dire need. To the Christmas drive that takes place every year for the children of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, we added a Back-to-School drive which provides children with clothes and much needed school supplies. We also helped raise funds for the construction of improved facilities for the children of the Chusul Orphanage of Tibet. And we continue to promote and contribute to the international matching grant program we initiated for the Golden Link College, a theosophically-oriented educational establishment in the suburbs of Manila in the Philippines. This fundraising effort not only helps the children in their schooling, but strengthens the bonds we have created with our TOS brothers and sisters throughout the world.
We warmly encourage visitors to this page to get in touch with us if they would like to join us in our work. We welcome your ideas and look forward to seeing the creation of new local TOS groups throughout the country.