District 5M-2 Lions
We are Lions on a mission to serve!
Our clubs are comprised of individuals joining together to serve the needs of our local communities and beyond. There are 1.3M Lions around the world responding to local and global challenges, where there is a need there is a Lion.
Welcome!
5M-2 District Governor
Lion Shermayne Cross
Faribault, MN
WELCOME!
We are on a mission to grow members, leaders and service while spreading kindness along the way! Our District has over 2200 members in 12 counties in southern Minnesota working hard to serve their communities and beyond. We’d love to have you join us!
“Spreading Service with Kindness” is my theme for this year with the focus on
service. We are in a world of tremendous needs and Lions are doing their part to make it a better place for all. Service reflects the very best of what it means to be a Lion.
Each year, our International President asks each DG to choose two global causes. I have chosen diabetes and vision as mine and encourage each club to do a service project around them sometime this year. Special focus weeks are also scheduled in October, January, and April where Lions worldwide will do service around Mental Health, Hunger, and the Environment.
The DG team is here to help and support all of you. Please feel free to contact 1VDG Chuck Toltzman, 2VDG Deb Koehnen or myself with any questions or concerns.
DG Shermayne Cross
18209 Roberds Lake Blvd
Faribault, MN 55021
507.330.1544
International President
A.P. Singh
Kolkata, India
A.P. believes service and leadership go hand in hand
— each complement the other. Lions don’t strive to
become great leaders, they just try to serve as best as
they can. It’s only through service that they evolve as
great leaders.
This confluence of service and leadership leads us to
the higher pedestal of servant leadership, which A.P.
believes is the model for our association.
So, maybe it was destiny that brought him to Lions.
“Becoming a Lion helped me become a better human
being,” he says.
“Being a Lion helped me further realize
that I have a duty to others. And it gave me such a
gratifying way to fulfill it.”
India may have been where A.P.’s value system took
roots, but Lions is where his life of service took flight.
Indian at heart, global in spirit is what he is today, and
he’s ready to work in cross–cultural environments to
inspire Lions to grow in the era of MISSION 1.5.
As a servant leader, A.P. is driven by the desire to be
a listener to what Lions have to say, and then be the
voice of the Lions of the world as he descends to be
its first servant.