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Mission Statement
Everett Lions, part of Lions International, shares the Lions International mission statement – to create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation. The Everett Lions Club has served the Everett community and its citizens since 1939 and will continue that goal into the future, remembering the Lions motto, “We Serve”.
We give back to the community in which we live, and also participate in international efforts to aid those in need.
Lions International Purposes
To create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world
To promote the principles of good government and good citizenship
To take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social, and moral welfare of the community
To unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship, and mutual understanding
To provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest, provided however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members
To encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works, and private endeavors
To show our faith in the worthiness of our vocation by industrious application to the end that we may merit a reputation for quality of service
To seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as our just due, but to accept no profit or success at the expense of our own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on our part
To remember that in building up our business, it is not necessary to tear down another’s, to be loyal to our clients or customers and true to ourselves, whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of our position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against ourselves
To hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing, but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given
Always to bear in mind our obligations as a citizen to our nation, our state, and our community, as to give them our unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of our time, labor, and means
To aid others by giving our sympathy to those in distress, our aid to the weak, and our substance to the needy
To be careful with our criticism and liberal with our praise; to build up and not destroy
