West Jax Rotary

Rev. Steve Goyer
Riverside Presbyterian Church Pastor and Head of Staff

May 15, 2005 was a defining moment for the future journey of Riverside Presbyterian Church. On that day the congregation of RPC issued a call to Dr. W. Stephen Goyer to serve as Pastor and Head of Staff.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina and Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Goyer served as pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He was greatly loved by his parishioners and widely known and respected by his clergy colleagues for his gifts as a preacher, his leadership skills, and his deep devotion to the mission outreach of the church.

Steve and Anita are blessed with two daughters: Meghan in Athens, Ga. and Amanda, a senior at Rhodes College, as well as two yellow tabby cats, Moses and Henry and a golden retriever, Yates.

Notes
The meeting was called to order and David Cooksey spoke about the dictionary project and that sign-up sheets were available at each of the tables.

Phil Risley spoke about the football pool, that this week’s pool was on the table, and that Mark O’Steen won last week’s pool.

We will be ringing the Salvation Army kettle on December 18th and there will be a sign-up sheet for that.

Clint Dawkins spoke about the clay shooting and how we finished last, so therefore, we got a bottle of old crow.

Tommy Grimes gave a special presentation whereby Clint Dawkins received a multi Paul Harris Fellow, as well as attained major donor status. Also, Cameron Johnson was presented a Paul
Harris Fellow by his father.

The speaker was Bill Griffin who spoke about the Rotary Foundation. Bill is the District Foundation Chairman and he gave a presentation regarding future vision. He spoke about the Bill Gates $355 million dollar matching grant and that the Rotary Foundation is focused on doing good in the world, especially in the areas of health, education, and the prevention of poverty. Rotary projects are looking to have bigger impacts, sharper focus, more local decisions, more partnering between clubs, and to attempt to simply the grant process.

The focus of the grants of the foundation center around peace, decease prevention, clean water, child health, education and literacy. The bigger impact would be by having no matching grants of not less than $15,000 for a global grant.

Also, Bill spoke about district grants and how the district grant for our district was $157,000 for projects. Our district, 6970, has raised $800,000 + and we are trying for $1 million dollars to the Rotary Foundation.

Bill emphasized that clubs should get to know one another in the district and work together on projects, especially smaller projects, so that they have a bigger impact for Rotary and Rotary funds.

Bill urged all of the clubs to be innovative and to come up with projects to help the Rotary Foundation’s mission.

Visiting Rotarians:
Chris Eidson - Riverside
Marcus Drewa - South Jax
Lamar Johnson - Columbus, Ga

Rotary Guests:
Cameron Johnson - Guest of Lamar Johnson
Owen Thomas - Guest of Lamar Johnson
Kate Overly - Guest of Rob Overly
Terrence Robinson - Guest of Chad Miller
Tom Stanley - Guest of Jeff Ludwig

Next Meeting - November 20, 2010
Speaker: Doug Milne, Thanksgiving program

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