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Marvelous Mid—Winter Memories
Historic Virtual Convention 2021

THE WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS

20-K1 “NAMI” without really having the courage to in, to take the NAMI ride to changing
break out of the “the box?” Will this
EXPRESS organization that we love be here in the old Membership routines.

The NAMI TRAIN keeps rolling 40 years if we don’t shift course We hope that the Covid Grant work
now? Isn’t 40 years of declining or
along… Now is the time to jump on plateauing Membership numbers done last Spring and Summer and the
board!!! enough of a sign that we must find a introduction of the NAMI Process
different way?” will encourage you to talk about
Fellow Lions, we have NAMI in your club meetings. We
worked hard this year to absorb so ~NAMI IS THAT DIFFERENT hope that you will raise your voice in
many things that we had not contem- WAY! your club meetings to ask that the
plated prior to last year, in our Lions’ club’s Membership Committee pre-
environment I hope to briefly ack- ~NAMI IS “OUT OF THE BOX!” sent a plan for addressing your
nowledge how different this year has ~NAMI’S PROCESS REQUIRES club’s membership process.
been for our District, not only because US TO PUT BOTH OUR FEET,
of COVID but also because this new OUR HANDS, OUR MOUTHS Have you used the Recruiting
process named NAMI come along. AND OUR MINDS INTO THE Wheel as an exercise in your
ORGANIZATION’S FUTURE! Club?
I have seen that whether we are at What is the state of Good and
home, at our jobs or in other aspects of ~NAMI IS NOT A SPECTATOR Welfare in your Club?
our lives, it is not unusual for us to OR SIDELINER PROCESS! Has your club Service Chairper-
become comfortable with a routine. It ~MY FELLOW LIONS, YOU son looked up the suggestions
becomes comfortable to know what we NEED TO BE ALL IN!!! on LCI’s website for service
expect from our surroundings. It is projects that can be safely PDG Jacqueline Williams,
comforting to know how we are ex- I have started this piece this way achieved during the global pandemic? NAMI Champion
pected to react to certain situations and because the NAMI session at the Does your Club or Zone need a tech-
to feel like, “we got this” when it Midwinter was about stretch and nology workshop to brush up on tech
comes to a task or an assignment. commitment for each one of us Our skills?
Again, it could be serving as a Zone Leos committed themselves to the
Chair or being a part of the Member- research and to offering reflections There are so many ways for us to
ship Committee focused on Retention on their experiences as young people address the challenges with respect to
volunteering in their communities.
or a Club’s Good and Welfare Chair. Our Region Chairs were asked in recruiting new members and then
Any number of positions in our won- October to create videos. They certainly retaining our members.

derful organization can lead us to be- laughed when I asked them because I NAMI is here to stay with us – Let’s
lieve that all is relatively well and that was asking them to develop a script Get on Board the Train Today!
it is okay to not break what doesn’t and own the message and then deliv-
seem broken. er the message. They made it per- Jackie Williams, PDG
sonal. They shared their passion for District 20-K1 NAMI CHAMPION
Sometimes we shake up the expected volunteer service. They demonstrat-
Lion’s life by saying “Membership is ed their pride in being able to serve.
Everyone’s Business” or “Where There We are well known for our skits and
the fun we have with topics but we
is a Need, There is a Lion,” or “We had never done anything pre-
Answer the Call.” recorded with this technology and
yet all of us stepped up because this
Well, almost 3 years ago, a group of is important. All of us stepped up
Lions from different communities, because we were committed to use
different experiences and different our skills, our voices and our Zoom
backgrounds said to each other .”how abilities to persuade all 1,950 Lions
much longer can we just move from of this District to “buy-in”, to jump
program to program on Membership