Welcome to the Emmaus Rotary Club!
Emmaus

Service Above Self

We meet In Person
Thursdays at 7:30 AM
Brookside Country Club
901 Willow Lane
Macungie, PA 18062
United States of America
District Site
Venue Map

All Rotarians and guests of Rotarians are welcome!

For general information regarding Rotary, such as presenting to the club or soliciting funds/services, please email info@emmausrotary.org.

If you are interested in membership, please email membership@emmausrotary.org.

Correspondence may be sent to:

Emmaus Rotary Club
P.O. Box 672
Emmaus, PA 18049

 

 

Club News

DON'T FORGET  - SHE NAILED IT!!
 
 
 
Meghan Reed is looking for some cheerleaders! 
 
I will be competing in the Habitat for Humanity Lehigh Valley, She Nailed It! hammer relay competition in May. (Yes, my hammer will sparkle 💎) 

She Nailed It! is an all women, nail-hammering, relay competition and one of Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley's signature fundraising events! Habitat Lehigh Valley invites women to devote a day to building strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter. 

She Nailed It! raises crucial funding and awareness for the housing inequity women face locally and beyond.

In order to compete my team needs to raise $1,500.  If you’d like to to support Team “What’s a Hammer 🤷🏼‍♀️“  I would truly appreciate your generosity!
 
Here are a few ways to donate:
Sincerely
Meghan Reed
 
Find Our Go Fund Me
 
Every week a group of our dedicated members help to pack food for hungry children in our community. Cindy Hornaman and Rick Zayaitz have been instrumental in organizing the logistics and funding of this important Emmaus Rotary project.  Many of our members have volunteered countless hours to pack food, distribute the bags to families, unload pallets of food and even move our location headquarters. How can we ALL be part of the continuing success of the program?  Support our Go Fund Me crowd funding initiative.  

Since we started in July we have raised $4,255 of our $10,000 Go Fund Me Campaign goal to support The Emmaus Rotary Club, East Penn Food Program.  As I have written before, it is important that our Club Members get involved in sharing this campaign so that we can reach our goal of $10,000.  Donating and sharing is VERY easy and with just a few seconds a week, together we will make our goal! (If you need instructions on how to donate follow the steps in the read more section on how you can donate and share) 
 
 
 
 
 
 Join the team! 
SHARING IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THIS CAMPAIGN TO GAIN MOMENTUM. Creating your own fundraising page as part of the campaign is a great way to invite your family, friends, co-workers, clients, and others to join you in our mission to help feed hungry children!  
 
How to do it:
1) Click the blue JOIN button. 
 
 
 
 
2) Sign in - follow the prompts to create an account or log in with Facebook if you have one. 
 
3) Click the blue JOIN THE TEAM button.  This will automatically make you a member of the team.  Regardless of donation amount.  You can donate whatever amount you'd like even $10 puts us closer to our goal.  EVERY single dollar matters!  You can create a team without donating (I tested this on my husband's cell phone to join the team it took 5 second to do) The goal here is create a page to engage your network and share the information to attract donors. 
4) Now share your link! You can share multiple ways. Facebook, Twitter or copy your link and past it into an email to go out to your clients, workplace, family, friends, and other organizations your a member of.  Remember to share often on your social media pages!  Please consider creating a team for your business.
 
 
 
It's that simple. An easy way for "People of Action" like us to....well...take action! 

 
If you need help with how to share you may reach out to me and I will do my very best to walk you through it or think of some creative ways you can help spread the word. 
 
I have included an email that I sent out to another board that I sit on. Feel free to use it! Just click "read more" below.
 
If you have questions on how to use Go Fund Me please contact Meghan Reed 610-797-5942 / meghanreed517@gmail.com  THANK YOU!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Submit your nomination for 4th Emmaus Rotary Club International Women’s Day Celebration

Dear Emmaus Club Rotarians,

Surely there are women in our Emmaus and Lehigh Valley communities with an outstanding record of volunteer humanitarian service who have given their time and efforts to advance RI’s Mission to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance understanding, goodwill, and peace, and who are leaders in their chosen field.

Now is your opportunity to nominate a woman from our community who personifies these qualities to receive the Emmaus Rotary Club International Women’s Day Celebration (IWDC) Rotary Award on March 11, 2021. For the fourth year, on behalf of the Emmaus Rotary Club, I am writing to encourage you to submit a nomination by January 24, 2021.

You will find detailed information about the nomination criteria and how to submit a nomination when you click read more below. If you have any questions before this date, please feel free to e-mail me at aruizorbin@aol.com or to call me at my cell #610-392-5134.

On behalf of our Club’s IWDC Committee and on my behalf, I thank you for your support and look forward to receiving your nomination.

Yours in Rotary Service,

Alicia Ruiz-Orbin, Committee Chair International Women’s Day Celebration


 
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President's Message
 

Dear Emmaus Rotarians,

     One of the instructors last February in the PETS-Training*   at Valley Forge was talking about ‘being a vibrant club’. He said, “Only 44% of Rotarians would recommend their club.”  And I thought that is a crazy low number but the proverbial bell rang before I could get my hand up and everyone rushed the door for lunch! 

     So what do you think?

     Once again, is Emmaus Rotary above average?

      I just know that most of us would brag on and recommend our club when talking to a prospective member. Right? We would mention our service projects both locally and around the globe. And the fellowship! We might even go overboard noting how much we liked each other and how much fun we had together. Some of us would remark on personal growth in leadership and as a  contributor to the life of our community. 

     Emmaus Rotary is an embodiment of Rotary International’s current mission statement. I think we could have written it! 

 

Together, we see a world where people

       unite and take action to make a lasting

       change across the globe, in our communities 

and in our selves.

 

       Please re-read that statement.

        I plan to find it in a grand graphic format for us to use from time to time as we close our regular Thursday morning meetings. 

 

Together, we....

Lexa Shallcross

President Emmaus Rotary 2020-2021

 

 

*Presidents-elect Training, held annually

President's Message

President’s Message for week of July 12, 2020 

Dear Fellow Rotarians, 

It seems comic now, yet last night I was desperately seeking a missing 1099-misc form. One small piece of paper. I went spelunking in my file cabinet and excavating through the drawers of my desk. Yes, what was misplaced has been found. Phew! And, as a boon, I found an artifact from Thursday, June 12, 2008. It is a one-page script I used during a new member induction ceremony. The late Bob Bisbing had asked me to tell our newest members what I liked about Rotary. Here’s what I said: 

Thank you to all of you who have welcomed me into Emmaus Rotary. I was inducted just this March and now I’m supposed to tell you what I like about Rotary. So-- 

Three things. First, The Friendship. I don’t know about you, but each June when school let out for the summer, I couldn’t wait to build a treehouse or remove the latticework under the front porch so that our neighborhood “club” could meet. I like hanging out with like-minded people. That makes me pretty normal, I think. Rotary Friendships begin in the weekly meetings and grow as you take part in extra activities like work crews, fundraisers, committee meetings, and social events with good food. 

Three things. Second, I LOVE HAPPY DOLLARS. You can ask my sponsor, Wayne (Matthias-Long). After my firsts meeting, I told him I wish I’d invented “happy dollars” to use each and every Sunday at Church. I look forward to Happy Dollars. I like hearing about a child’s first steps, a grandchild born, a trip taken.... Happy Dollars grow the Treasury. Happy Dollars grow the Friendship. 

Three things. Third, call me an idealist. It’s the Rotary ideal of “Service over Self” that pulls me forward. We’re not here for just ourselves, we’re here also for our community and for our world. It would be hard to exaggerate how impressed I am by Rotary International’s goal to stamp out polio, or by our district’s international exchanges, or by our club’s support of students by providing leadership development opportunities like Camp Neidig and by awarding scholarships. 

Hey, I’m just a newbie... But more and more I see how Rotary makes a real difference. 

Thank you all for listening. 

Then I turned to welcome that morning’s new Rotarians. 

Last Thursday, we welcomed and inducted Jean Onyambu and Kevin Basara, both sponsored by Nelly Kabiru, into Emmaus Rotary. Please take a moment to introduce yourself, get to know them a little more and -- hey, what do you like about Rotary? Let them know. 

Yours in service and fellowship, 

Lexa Shallcross Emmaus Rotary President 2020-2021 

 

 
Upcoming Events
Speakers
Ron Beitler
May 13, 2021 7:30 AM
Lower Macungie Township Update and Farmland Preservation Efforts
Jean Onyambu
May 20, 2021 7:30 AM
Classification Talk
Board Meeting
May 27, 2021
Club Business
Kristen Fallon and Jon C. Lattin
May 27, 2021 7:30 AM
Let’s Build Construction Camp for Girls
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