Virginia Beach Kempsville Lions Club

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Kempsville Lions Club Website!

FIFTY NINE YEARS OF SERVICE

Chartered on April 21st, 1953

"Your Local Lions Club, Bringing Our Community Together"

Recent Activities

The Kempsville Lions Club 22nd Annual Charity Golf Tourney was held April 17, 2012 at Heron RIdge Golf Course in Virginia Beach, VA. The weather was beautiful, warm and breezy. The food was prepared by Lewis Falls and his crew, and was delicious BBQ. Here are a couple of pictures of the Kempsville Lions Club in action:


Lion Dorothy Burson & Abbie Laderberg	Lion Bill Hoskins & Lion Bruce McHenry


Lion Arlen Eidson	Lion Dana G. Phillips


Lion Harold Smith & Lion Bud Warren	Lion Jimmy Stocks, Lion Lewis Falls, Lion Chuck Estes, Lion Bill Jennings & Lion Tony Lowery


Lion Bob Larmore & Lion Don Burson	Lion Bob Lashendock & Lion Bruce McHenry


Setting up for Dinner	The Serving Line


The Serving Line	Awards & Door Prizes

Everyone had an excellent time. We look forward to seeing you all next year.

Journey for Sight, Saturday 14 April, 2012

The Kempsville Lions Club showed up ready serve 250 participants and volunteers. It was a very nice day.

Lion Jim Reid, Lion Don Burson, Lion Harold Smith, Lion Sammie Reid, Lion Dana G. Phillips, Lion Dave Booz and Lion Bob Nery. Taking the photo was Minnie Nery.

Lion Jimmie Stocks, Lion Ed Ellison, Lion Lewis Falls, Lion Chuck Estes and Lion Tony Melton

Kempsville Lions help package over 40,000 meals for the needy:

Lion Dave Booz & Lion Dana G. Phillips,

Members of the Kempsville Lions Club gathered on March 3rd, at the St. Andrew's United Methodist Church, located in Virginia Beach, to partake in a Stop Hunger Now event. SHN is a world-wide distributor of meals to those in need. Saturday's meals were going to the Ethiopia, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and China.

This brings the Kempsville Lions Club total up to 50,000 meals packaged.

Kempsville Lions help package over 10,000 meals for the needy:

(From Left to Right - Lion Don Burson (in vest, farthest left), Lion Dana G. Phillips, Lion Dave Booz, Lion John Clyburn, Lion Wendell White (farthest right blue shirt)

Members of the Kempsville Lions Club gathered on October 22nd, at the Thaila Lynn Baptist Church, located in Virginia Beach, to partake in our World Service Day event. This year our Chair decided on Stop Hunger Now, a world-wide distributor of meals to those in need. Saturday's meals were going to the Horn of Africa.

The meals are highly nutritious, dehydrated meals comprised of rice, soy, vegetables, flavoring and 21 essential vitamins and minerals. Each package provides a reasonable serving for six and costs approximately 25 cents to make. The meals are easy to transport, store and distribute to those in greatest need. The meal packaging program predominantly provides meals to support school feeding programs in schools and orphanages around the world. This is a pivotal step because children in impoverished areas are often sent to school if they will be fed. The education they receive is the turning point at which many negative factors such as infant mortality, disease and gender equality are impacted and communities can begin to heal themselves..

(From Left to Right - Ann Ellis, Lion Bud Warren, Lion Lewis Falls, LIon Chuck Estes, Lion Bruce McHenry, Lion Patty, Lion Dana G. Phillips, Lion Wendell White, LIon Dave Booz, Lion Steve Laderberg, Lion Dorothy Burson, Lion John Clyburn, Lion Minnie Nery, Lion Bob Nery, Lion Don Burson)

More than 1 billion people do not have enough to eat. In developing countries, 10.9 million children under age five die each year. In fact, a child dies every six seconds from a hunger-related cause.

The meals are packaged by volunteers – like us. Through a fun and engaging assembly line process, a team of 40 volunteers can package 10,000 meals in just two hours.

ACTIVITIES: 100% of funds collected from the public are returned to the community through our projects and donations.

Some of our projects:

Sight and Hearing Conservation - provide eye and hearing exams, eyeglasses and hearing aids for indigent persons. Collect used eyeglasses and hearing aids for recycling.

Sight and Hearing Van - Conduct hearing, sight and glaucoma test free.

Leader Dog School - Club sponsors eligible blind people to attend the Leader dog school in Rochester, MI

Some of our annual donations:

Crime Solvers
Diabetes Camp
Lions Medical Eye Bank
Joy Fund
Deaf Camp
Operation Smile
Youth Exchange Camp
Scholarships

Please feel free to browse through our site. You can find information on who we are and what we do to serve those in need. More specifically, you can find information on the activities and events our club takes part in, as well as a schedule of upcoming events. To contact a club representative call

757-305-5335.

The "International Association of Lions Clubs," also known as "Lions Clubs International" is not a Fraternal Organization, rather it is the largest and most effective Community Service Organization in the world. Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 205 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world. Regardless of Race, Religion, Gender, or language they speak, all Lions are dedicated to seeking out and helping those in need.

Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 205 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world.