Tonight was the regular stated meeting for the Shrine. One thing that I took notice of was the distance many drove to get to the meeting. We had nothing special planned. We had no big concerns being discussed at the meeting and yet several in the room traveled more than an hour to get to the stated meeting. We need to ask ourselves in Chapter...why is it we are not even getting folks out who live on the same street as the temple. Maybe it is because the stated meeting are being treated as a chore rather than a social gathering time for the members. So what do I mean about that comment? For the Shrine stated meeting they had one group in the temple do a fund raising dinner to bring folks down before the meeting. They had a person come in to teach line dancing to the ladies (who came with several of the men to the stated meeting) during the meeting and after the meeting had refreshments set up. Do we go to this "trouble" for our members at a stated meeting or do we open the building 5 minutes before the meeting starts and close it 5 minutes after the meeting ends.... Not my idea of motivating members to attend a stated meeting...
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