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| PID Anne Smarsh & Allen Aplass |
“The
servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one
wants to serve, to serve first.” - Robert K. Greenleaf.
Servant-Leaders
share power, put the needs of others first and help people develop and
perform as highly as possible.
Though the
servant-leader term is just about a decade old Lions have been servant-leaders
for ten decades. We serve! Always have and always will.
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| At the Asotin Pancake Feed |
The servant
leader is the first guy who shows up at your club’s pancake feed at dark thirty
to get the grills going and he is likely to be the last guy scrubbing that same
grill and shutting down the clubhouse after everyone else has gone.
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| At the Palouse Lions Club |
The servant
leader is the person who runs the Boy Scout Troop your club sponsors and has been
churning out Eagles for years.
Allen
Aplass, the Secretary Treasurer of the Walla Walla Downtown Lions Club is a
servant-leader. He has
championed and supported young Lions in our club and has always been on hand
with his pal Lion Bill Lake to serve where needed.
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| Allen and Sherilyn |
This
afternoon Allen invited me and my home club to join him and Bill to scrub
veteran’s grave stones at our town’s cemetery.
He has been working this project with Sherilyn Jacobson who is connected
with the American Legion.
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| Lions Caitlin, Dave and Alex. Lion Crystal is taking the pic! |
Four of us showed up for a couple of hours and worked
alongside Allen, Bill and Sherilyn caring for 10 grave sites and gravestones of
soldiers, airman and sailors who died in the Second World War. Though just a
small part of a greater project, I can honestly say I haven’t felt the heart
stuff that goes along with service as strong on any other service project this
year as I did on this one. Thank you,
Allen.
Ashley
Burmaster, 19F’s Lion of the Year, is also a servant leader. Ashley, Secretary
of the Selah Valley Lions Club, is a servant leader especially in the sense of
sharing power. Although she has coordinated extremely effective projects for
her Selah Valley Lions Club, she always acknowledges the leadership of
others in her reports. The report she shared with me about their new club
project, a Glow Run, is excerpted here -
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| Ashley is on the right! |
“Selah Valley Lions Club is very
active during Community Days in our small town of Selah. We start off Friday
Night and set up the parade route, Mike, Cecil, Ken. This usually takes a couple
hours. The next morning each of our members woke up and arrived at the Parade
Staging location by 7 am. Tammy dispersed us out on the Parade route and we
started to stage the Selah Community Days Parade. Lion Garry Johnson and Lion
Bill Shepard both came to help. At 10am the parade went on without any
problems. Ken and Cecil sold Raffle tickets for our 50/50 raffle and Ashley was
in the Parade with all the members children supporting the Lions. The parade
finished about 11:30am and Ashley went straight back to the pool and met up
with Lauren to start checking people in for the Glow Run that was going to
start at 8pm. Check-in was held at the Selah Pool from Noon to 7:59pm. Run
started promptly at 8pm. We had 304 people register for our Glow Run. 287
people actually ran in the fun run. Our club brought in $7274.23 for this fun
run. $2791.88 went to purchase Glow Sticks and shirts for the runners. Our club
donated $448.14 to Yakima Veterans Association, $250 to the Local Young Life
Group to help send them to summer camp, $125 to Ellensburg Youth Center summer
trips program for students who can't afford to go on trips, $250 scholarship is
being given out to Margaret Rees on May 30th. The remaining $3408.22 is being
dispersed throughout the community through our projects. Lion Cecil also
brought in a $200 donation from a co-worker. Thank you Club for all your work.
Way to go us...”
Watching
young people grow in their service is good for the heart, too.
You Guys Are
Great!
