Rotary Invocations at Your Fingertips
Have you ever struggled or had to hurry to come up with an appropriate and meaningful Rotary invocation when you are asked to present the invocation at your club meeting? An invocation of some sore it a part of the start of nearly every Rotary Club meeting around the world. For some an off-the-cuff prayer or spontaneous Rotary invocation is easy and perfect. For others presenting a more formal and thought out Rotary invocation is important.
There are now two great interlinked resources to provide you with relevant and easily accessible Rotary Invocations. One is Everything Rotary, a web site dedicated to making the role of running a Rotary Club meeting and creating and distributing the agenda for the meeting simple and easy. Every week there is a new Rotary Invocation as well as a Rotary Minute, a Rotary Quote and a joke appropriate for a Rotary meeting. Go there now and get a free 10 week trial and get your invocation for this meeting easily and quickly.
A second great resource for a weekly Rotary invocation is now available on the iPhone or iPod touch app EverythingRotary. You can find this by searching in the App Store for the “Everything Rotary iPhone App.” For a one time fee of $9.99 USD this app designed specifically for Rotarians by Rotarians gives each user several really useful Rotary friendly features that include each week a Rotary invocation on their iPhone or iPod that they can read at their club meetings. Purchase of this app also supports Rotary. At least twenty-five percent of the gross proceeds from each sale of this app will be donated to the Rotary Foundation and the Puyallup South Hill Rotary Club. So every Rotarian can feel really good that by purchasing this app you are both helping the RI foundation and a local club and also putting at your fingertips lots of really good Rotary information. This includes each week a Rotary invocation. The other features include:
- Rotary Minute: Each week a bit of Rotary information that you can share with your club to increase their Rotary fund of knowledge.
- Rotary Joke: a joke appropriate for a Rotary meeting that can add humor and fun to your meetings.
- Rotary Quote: Each week there is a new quote from a famous Rotarian. Any of these can be used at your local Rotary Club meeting.
- Find a Club: A tab on the app allows you to use your phone connection to find a Rotary Club near your current location with a meeting day and time you can use to visit. This is very handy while traveling as you do not need a wifi connection to use your computer to look online for a site, but can just use the phone’s data connection to quickly find a local club. It’s really cool and handy.
The app also integrates with the Everything Rotary web based service that allows your club to easily post its agenda to club members by e-mail and to view that agenda on your iPhone. The agenda service allows the administrator to assign club members to various duties at a meeting, with a list of substitutes. A request goes out to the assigned person, and if they confirm the role, their name goes on the agenda. If they decline an e-mail goes out to the next person on the list, and so on until a confirmation takes place.
Try out the app and discuss use of the Everything Rotary Agenda subscription to streamline the process of producing and distributing your club’s agenda every week. Enjoy.