Montgomery Lions Club

Saving Sight and Serving Youth

In support of the Lions Club International Mission, we serve with our resources and volunteer efforts to conserve sight, provide assistance for deserving youth, develop youth leaders and foster international understanding and friendship.

The Montgomery Lions Club stands firmly committed to serving the vision care needs and youth of Montgomery, Alabama and beyond.

As the 12th largest Lions Club in the World, and the 8th largest in the United States, the Montgomery Lions Club has served the community since 1922. Lions Clubs International is the worlds largest service club organization with nearly million members in 46 thousand clubs in 194 countries and geographic areas.

Lions are men and women who volunteer their time to humanitarian causes. Founded in 1917 , the association's motto is "We Serve". Each Lion serves as a volunteer, donating his or her time and talent to continue the solid reputation for community service and traditional family values through the outreach of saving sight and serving youth. Our Club's commitment to the deserving children of Montgomery mirrors generations of caring Lions and is woven into the fabric of each relationship and written into its plans for tomorrow.


Proud of Our
We serve the community by providing 13,000 Montgomery County school children free eye screenings annually. Children requiring additional treatment are provided with examinations by physicians, medicine, glasses and surgery as needed. We conduct summer camps for deserving boys and girls, and create a better understanding among people throughout the world, with the William C. Chandler Lions International Youth Camp. The Lions further share our vision of hope by providing sight saving procedures at no cost to needy patients referred by the Club to the Montgomery Lions Eye Surgical Center on the campus of Baptist Hospital.

To accomplish the Club's charity outreach, the Blue-Gray All Star Football Classic is owned, sponsored and presented by the Montgomery Lions Club through its Blue-Gray Association. The net proceeds of the game have produced over $4 million for sight conservation projects and various youth programs. Additionally, the Christmas Day game is seen by 18 million viewers nationwide on ABC television and produces an annual $ million in economic benefit for Montgomery businesses.

... Part of Tomorrow
Guided by the vision and leadership of Lions who have come before us and by those will take us into the next millennium and beyond, the Montgomery Lions Club will continue to bring light where was darkness through sight conservation and youth programs.

Long after members of today are gone, we shall enjoy a timeless existence through the children we have touched with hope. Having illuminated some great dream in them, one may become a doctor, a homemaker, a minister, an artist, or even an astronaut.

Lions International Purposes

To Organize, charter and supervise service clubs to be known as Lions clubs.
To Coordinate the activities and standardize the administration of Lions clubs.
To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
To Promote the principles of good government and good citizenship.
To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.

Lions Code of Ethics

To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.