Message from the President

Greetings! It is my pleasure to welcome you to The Rotary Club of Warren County, VA (USA), and our amazing website. We hope that you find our site and club welcoming and engaging. Please join us on Wednesday morning's at 7 am, at The First Baptist Church of Front Royal, VA Fellowship Hall. Our club is fun, welcoming and very engaged in our community.

Specifically, we are well known throughout the Northern Shenandoah Valley as "The Little Club That Does."  With 48 current members, our club sponsors several local youth community clubs (Called Early Act and Interact). We, also, send several students each year to The Rotary Youth Leadership Assembly (RYLA) the first weekend of December at Virginia Tech. Additionally, we offer several scholarships to local high school students, who wish to continue their education beyond high school.

Our club contributes several hundred hours of service annually to our local community through activities such as Roadside and Bi-Annual River Clean Ups, Community Shred Day, Feeding of the Homeless and Hungry in our Community, Letters of encouragement to our local nursing home residents, and much more.

We raise tens of thousands of dollars annually to help our local community through our annual "Ride For Rotary" bicycling event, and our "now" annual "Boots and Bourbon." With these funds, we have (THIS YEAR ALONE!!!) purchased two book vending machines (over $14,000.00) for two of our local Title One Elementary Schools, where students can earn free tokens from their teachers (through meeting attendance and effort goals) to pick out books provided through our club, as well as the school's Parent / Teacher Organizations, respectively. Additionally, we made a significant contribution ($11,000.00) to our local "Concern Hotline", which helps citizens in the Northern Shenandoah Valley address mental health needs in a free and private manner. Previous local recipients of our fundraising efforts have been the creation of the first and only public playground in Linden, VA (Linden Park), The Renovation of the playground at E. Wilson Morrison Elementary School, as well as the building for the abused Women's Shelter Phoenix Project, The building of a greenhouse for Blue Ridge Opportunities, The purchase of a van for The Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging, Reaching Out Now (local Teenage Women's Empowerment group), Able Forces, our local Public Library, and much much more.

Internationally, we helped create (and still help fund) a school in one of the poorest areas of Rio De Janeiro (Project Uere). We, also, annually contribute thousands of dollars towards clean water, sanitation and education projects in Ghana and Uganda, respectively, while also raising funds to help eradicate Polio in the few places left on Earth affected by this terrible debilitating disease. We always prepare financially to help with other Local and International humanitarian needs, as they arise throughout the year. 

We would love to have you come visit and consider being part of the most amazing humanitarian organization on our planet. We offer various types of membership to accommodate all work and lifestyles. Everyone with a heart for "Service Above Self" is truly welcome. If you wish to talk further about Rotary and / or our club, specifically, please reach out to me personally, at mdub0308@gmail.com. I look forward to any conversation which helps our Community and World in a positive manner.

Yours In Rotary Service,

Michael Sean Williams

President: The Rotary Club of Warren County, VA (2023-24)