District 5030 Governor Ann Liberato visits Mill Creek Rotary

In the 11-12 Rotary year we have been asked by Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee to “Reach Within to Embrace Humanity”. 

District 5030 Governor Ann Liberato during a Rotary of Mill Creek's  meeting took the time to explain what President Banerjee ment.  "Simply put, he is asking us to search within ourselves to understand that we all have the same hopes, the same dreams, the same aspirations,  and many similar dilemmas no matter where in the world we live.   As we understand and truly feel that others needs are the same as our own we begin to understand how important our Rotary work is.  In the year ahead this led him to 3 areas of emphasis.

The first is our family.  Family and home is our individual core.  Through our family we approach our community and all of humanity as an extended family.  Strong families create strong communities and help us get closer to a strong and peace loving international community.

The second emphasis is continuity.  Find the things we do well and take them to the next level.  Build on our successes, expand on them and strive to do more.

The third emphasis is sometimes a difficult one in rotary.  It is change.  True change can only begin with each of us and start within us.  We cannot share peace with others if we don’t have it to give.  We cannot bring in new and younger Rotarians unless we change our clubs to be relevant to them.  It is not so much about us as it is the future of Rotary.  Rotarians have to change if Rotary is going to exist at the end of our second century of service. "

To read Governor Ann's complete speech, I have uploaded it to our web site under download files.