1. The Mount Pleasant Lions Club… Are YOU ready to serve?

2. Lions – Over 100 years strong
1917: Lions started in Chicago as a business club.
Melvin Jones thought business clubs should help their communities.

3. Vision Statement for Lions Clubs of Michigan
The vision is to serve the needs of people in our communities, preserve sight and hearing through our existing state projects, new state projects, and partnerships with other organizations in the state of Michigan.

4. Global Cause
Vision
Diabetes
Hunger
Environment
Childhood Cancer

5. Lions Charge
Lions should become “knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness… , … and hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness, no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided.”

6. We are the Mount Pleasant Lions!

7. Seriously FUN Members!

8. We work together for community betterment.

9. We have fundraisers. Chicken BBQ

10. Chicken BBQ Experts!

11. We serve chicken!

12. Masters of the Baked Potatoes!

13. We serve chili dinners!

14. Another successful dinner!

15. We recognize outstanding students.

16. We work with neighboring Lions Clubs.

17. We work with fancy cameras.

18. Vision Screening

20. We Provide Leadership Opportunities and Trainings.

21. Leadership training: Local club officer training
Lions of Michigan Leadership Institute
Michigan Lions Forum
USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum
Faculty Development Institute

23. We Take Field Trips: Water Treatment Facility

24. We take Field Trips: Schimmelmann’s Garden Tour

25. Yet another Field Trip: Leader Dog Institute

26. We Socialize.

27. Awesome Shrimp Boils!

28. We share fun times together.

29. Lions Gatherings – Good Times!

30. 3 Key Messages…
Lions are men and women dedicated to serving those in need, in their own community and around the world.
Our global mission of sight preservation makes us unique among service organizations.
Lions provide many leadership development opportunities for members.

31. Questions? Ask a Lion… We welcome new members!