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This topic is sort of about membership but not about club membership, it's more about Rotary membership.
Our Club is on the brink of one of two things. Great expansion and serving the community through networking, building resilience in our club profile and looking outside our comfort zone for new and different ways to be relevant, OR withering on the vine and dying a slow death. As a nurseryman, I deal in life and death every day of the week, so I do have some idea of what can give us the advantage to thrive.
Through the first half of the year the focus was to get the club educated enough in Rotary to take advantage of the mechanisms that Rotary has to offer us. I am hoping that some of that learning will give us a stronger edge to be creative in our service. Our Club profile is not just our clubs' members, it is our connections throughout Rotary and extends out to the wider community. While I would love to have a diverse membership in our club that allows us the freedom to do any project we chose, I know that won't be happening anytime soon.
Diversity comes with skills, experience and culture. We, you included, need to seek out Rotarians from other Clubs, regions and countries, potential members and community leaders to add to our diversity here in Berwick. Together we will grow but we must build our toolset to get us further down the track with new skills, connections, experience and culture than we can do alone.
Working together gets us further. Bringing members into our club, or even another Rotary Club, may fill in gaps to our skillset and make a huge difference to what we can achieve in our community and abroad. Together we put our best foot forward.