Labor of Love Open House

A Labor of Love

Afterburners Open House Meeting on August 30, 2016, was a grand success!  In fact, we earned a Golden Gavel ribbon for the great number of members present, many special guests, no changes to the agenda, and we began and ended on time!  PLUS......we had a special array of FOOD!  Toastmasters meetings don't get any better than that!

To our delight, special guests Veronica Sites (left), District 25 Representative, and International Director David McCallister (center) pushed the greatness of our meeting off the charts!  They are pictured above with President Setma Maddox (right).   Additionally, Afterburners is the home club to three Area Directors — Area 11 Director, Holly Trinh; Area 13 Director, Aileen Hummel; and Area 24 Director, Kim Story — all present at our Open House.

To add to the excitement, our best speaker was Verlin Yoder (right) delivering his 2nd speech from the Competent Communication manual.  Verlin cleverly relayed his SMART goals using the analogy of entering the "Hotten than Hell" bike race of 100 miles in Wichita Falls.  He is pictured here with Best Evaluator Jim Hummel, and winner of Table Topics Antoinette Silas.

Our efforts paid off too as we garnered a couple of new members in the process!  All told, we can agree that being a Toastmaster is truly a Labor of Love.  You may view more photos here.

Get carded!

 Here's an easy way to invite someone to our meeting — give them an Afterburners business card! The day and time of the meeting, plus the physical address and website address, ensure that the potential visitor has all the information needed to find us.

Having them will also make networking easier at Toastmasters functions like visits to other clubs, contests, district conference, and TLI (Toastmasters Leadership Institute).

You can customize it with your own name, phone number, office you hold, or whatever you want on it. (See the samples above.) Then I can print however many you need, say 5 or 10. When you run out, ask me for more. The cards will also be available without any personal information printed on them.

Jodie Sanders
VP Public Relations

Are you on Facebook? Join the Afterburners Group!

Yes, Afterburners has a group presence on Facebook now, and we're already up to 18 members! But wait, there's more! Anyone can belong to the group - they don't have to be a member of Afterburners Toastmasters Club. You can invite your friends in other clubs, friends who might join in the future, family members who want to support us, former members whom we want to keep in touch with - well, you get the idea.

The idea is to keep our current and past connections to Afterburners going, and to make new ones. We want to invite people to upcoming club events, share links, photos and videos of interest, and maybe make some new friends and gain some new members.

So if you are on Facebook, join the group, invite someone else to join, and post something on the Wall! 

Jodie Sanders