Weyers Cave Lions Club

Weyers Cave, Virginia - United States

More Volunteers Doing More Community Work in More Places than Any Service Club Organization

When it comes to meeting challenges, our response is simple: We serve. In over 200 countries, in hospitals and senior centers, in regions battered by natural disaster, in schools and eyeglass recycling centers, Lions are doing community volunteer work, helping, leading, planning and supporting. Because we're local, we can serve the unique needs of the communities we live in. And because we're global, we can address challenges that go beyond borders.

We want everyone to see a better tomorrow. That's why we support sight programs and services including vision screenings, eye banks and eyeglass recycling. Provide eye care services to those at risk of losing their sight. And raise donations through campaigns like SightFirst and Campaign SightFirst II.

We believe everyone deserves a healthy life. From providing health programs that focus on hearing loss to supporting efforts to control and prevent diabetes, Lions volunteers are working to improve the health of children and adults around the world.

We empower the next generation. Whether it's providing youth volunteer opportunities and leadership experiences in a Leo club or sharing a message of peace through our Peace Poster contest, our youth programs invest in the future by reaching out to young people.

We serve local communities – and protect the planet.  From performing hands-on community work and service projects to providing emergency assistance, our community and environment programs improve our communities – and protect the environment.

Recent Activities

When it comes to meeting challenges, our response is simple: We serve. Our volunteer projects unite Lions around the world. And our work is unconditional. We aren't limited by continents or restricted to certain causes. Lions help wherever, whenever and however we can.

Now that you know how Lions serve, become a Lion!!!

Meet Your Local Lions Club

The Weyers Cave Lions Club has been serving the community of Weyers Cave and Augusta County, VA since April 30, 1984. Members represent all ages, genders and walks of life. We are always welcoming new members who want to join an amazing organization and serve their community!

Weyers Cave Lions Club members Lena Wiseman Swadley, Raymond L. Swadley, Sandra Morris, and Mary Propst at Fall Conference the Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center

Lions Clubs – Ready to Help, Worldwide

Whenever a Lions club gets together, problems get smaller. And communities get better. That's because we help where help is needed – in our own communities and around the world – with unmatched integrity and energy.

The World's Largest Service Club Organization

Our 46,000 clubs and 1.35 million members make us the world's largest service club organization. We're also one of the most effective. Our members do whatever is needed to help their local communities. Everywhere we work, we make friends. With children who need eyeglasses, with seniors who don’t have enough to eat and with people we may never meet.

How YOU can Get Involved

View our Calendar of Events and come join us at any upcoming event! Also, you can contact our President and founding member, Charles Phillips at 540-234-8826 with any questions you may have about our organization.

Lions Club International Purposes

• To Organize, charter and supervise service clubs to be known as Lions clubs.
• To Coordinate the activities and standardize the administration of Lions clubs.
• To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
• To Promote the principles of good government and good citizenship.
• To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
• To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
• To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
• To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.

 Lions Club Code of Ethics

• To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
• To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
• To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear do2wn another’s; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself. Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or actions towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
• To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
• Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, and to give them my unserving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
• To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.

 The two documents above have borne the test of time and along with our slogan and motto, which were adopted later, paint the broad picture or who Lions are and what Lions do.

Lions Slogan

Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation’s Safety

Lions Motto

We Serve.

Lions Meetings Parlimentary Procedure

Lions Club meetings use Parlimentary Procedure to manage communication and process. The link below is a very good resource on the ways to make motions and accepted methods of applying the Rules of Order:

http://www.trta.org/committees/2015-resource-guides/2015-2016-basics-of-parliamentary-procedures/

Fifty years after the first convention in Dallas, Edward M. Lindsey, the Golden Anniversary President of Lions Club International, realized that the best way to define Lionism was to explain what it was not. In a speech he said:

What Lions Are Not

• “We are not a political organization, yet among our members will be found leaders of all political parties and factions. Our constitution prohibits activity in a partisan political way, yet it carries a positive mandate that each club should provide a forum for the free and open discussion of all matters of public interest.”
• “We are not a social club, yet we are directed to take an active interest in the social welfare of our various communities, for only in this way can we realize the full potential of our influence in developing the moral fiber of our societies.”
• We are not a fraternal organization, yet we have found that men of all faiths, all religions, all nationalities, all races can come together in an aura of mutual understanding, resulting in strong bonds of friendship and good fellowship.”
• “We are not a youth organization, yet the Lions Clubs sponsor more Boy Scout troops than any other organization. We participate in so many youth programs and projects in this nation and abroad that it is hard to determine if the dog is wagging the tail or if the tail is wagging the dog.”
• “We are not a welfare organization, yet over the years in good times and bad, countless thousands of less fortunate people have been the recipients of the generosity of Lions. Wherever recipients of the generosity of Lions. Wherever human suffering has been found, the flexible purposes of Lionism have made it easy fro Lions to respond generously and with open hearts.”
• We are not a sports or recreational agency, yet thousands of boys have been thrilled with Little League programs and many other activities built around the training of the minds and bodies of our youth, both boys and girls.”
• “We are not a religious body, yet the precepts we live by are familiar to the doctrines of the world’s spiritual bodies, and the motivation of our activity, resulting in thousands of complete projects, is deeply rooted on the age-old philosophy of “Love Thy Neighbor, “ found in all religions.”
• “We are not a medical or health organization, yet our clubs have performed miracles in this wide panorama of community and individual service.”
• “We are not an educational foundation, yet thousands of students are today in schools built by Lions. In Mexico, for example, almost a thousand public schools have been built and equipped by Lions.”
• “And there is another thing we are not: we are not a United Nations. Yet we are an instrument of peace. Lionism, born while the world was aflame, has grown strong under the nourishment of freedom and liberty, and the effort for peace which we intend to make will be directed along these traditional concepts, for we believe that there can be no meaningful freedom without peace and no lasting peace without freedom.”
• “Some fainthearted ones may say, ‘Why are you doing this: Why do you think Lions International should attack this problem when even great and powerful nations have failed through the ages?’ Our answer is simply this: ‘We are not so naïve, so immature, as to think our effort alone will unravel this tangled mess, but we are confident we must make the effort. We must make our contribution, and so must you.”
• Now some 50 years later our association has grown by 250,000 members and 17,000 clubs, but the message still rings true.
• Just as each of our 1.4 million Lions has a unique personality, so does each of our almost 47,000 clubs. What is it that binds us together? It is a desire to serve in a way that is determined by the needs of our communities and our clubs’ decisions to meet them.
• When a Lion is inducted, he/she pledges to participate in the functions of the club, to abide by the Code of Ethics and contribute his/her share to the programs of his/her club, district and Lions Clubs International.
• Lions have three things to offer: time, talent and treasure. At different stages of our lives, the measures of these things vary. If a Lion gives each of those in the amount he/she can spare, the induction pledge will be fulfilled. Each club, on the other hand, is presented with a unique community situation which in turn defines the local and global projects that it supports. Clubs are bound by their commitment to service, to our International Purposes and to the Lions Code of Ethics. By living up to those principles our international association has grown and in the process, has been able to make a better life for millions of individuals in need throughout the world.

 

 

 

 

 

Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.