Feilding Club - receiving the challenge

 

Enjoying our meal

Tonight the weather was wild.  The weather bomb hit the lower half, strong wind and rain, causing slips, flooding and derailments in the lower half of the North Island.  On can say that the warmth of the Rotary Club of Feilding club rooms sheltered us from this storm, but there was a wind of a different kind.  After a spectacular introduction from PDG Eric (which is a feature of another post), I moved into my final presentation to the 5 Rangitikei Clubs.  Feilding, a Club of 41 members, was well represented and partners were in support. The challenge was to identify their true essence, that something which is unique to the Feilding Club and to use this to invite members to their Club.  So many in the community, as was shown with the recent events in Christchurch, are willing and eager to serve their community with no question as to the cost or commitment.  We should not be predetermining the response of people but to be proud of our Club's achievements and to be BOLD and confident in our approach.

Thanks Bill!

Feilding Club has a fine tradition of supporting the Youth Exchange programme (a student who sat next to me tonight was from Sweden), as well as supporting the RYPEN programme and the vocational training programme called RYLA.  They were also getting members lined up to man the gates for the national Dog Show and were identifying sellers for the annual Grocery Grab Raffle.  This Club is one with heaps of potential to make an impact both in the local community and to communities overseas.  It has a proud history to build on!  Jenny and I enjoyed the visit.  PDG Ross was very generous in his thanks - and it was also good to shake Bill's hand - the person who has regularly sent me their weekly Bulletin through the post.  Thanks Bill and thanks Feilding.