Community & Clubs:

St. Andrews Presbyterian Church has been selected to preview a new video on human trafficking “At the End of Slavery: The Battle for Justice in Our Time,” and the public is invited to attend, according to Laura Weber, community outreach director at St. Andrews.

The preview will take place at 5:30 tonight with dinner, a viewing of the new film at 6:45 and presentations by Howard Eisenberg, a retired Newport Beach police officer and head of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force, and a testimonial by a human trafficking victim who was rescued locally. Dinner is $5 per person while the rest of the evening is free. The meeting will be in Dierenfield Hall at St. Andrews, 600 St. Andrews St.

Supporting the presentation of the movie and the effort to end human trafficking are members of Soroptimists International, said Wendy Kaiser, Soroptimist International Newport Harbor Area president. The Soroptimists have made creating awareness to end the sexual trafficking of women and girls a major thrust locally and worldwide. For more information or to make a donation, visit www.soroptimist.org.

UPDATE THE WEBSITE

A word of advice to all the service clubs in Newport-Mesa — update your websites or pull them down. I took a tour this past week of Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and Soroptimist clubs websites and found most to be out of date. One site listed their programs for 2008, not 2010. Other websites had a page for coming events but with none listed.

Your website is a place not only for members to visit, but for potential members to visit and if the site is not up to date, people — whether they’re members or potential members — won’t be impressed. The website doesn’t need to be fancy, just current. Don’t put on your website more content than you are able to keep current.

WORTH REPEATING

Thought for the Day as provided by Greg Kelley of the Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council … A Simple New Year’s Resolution … “Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, then in 10 years you will have made approximately 3,650 persons happy, or brightened up the equivalent of a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.”

— Sydney Smith

SERVICE CLUB MEETINGS THIS WEEK

How are you giving back to your community? Help your community and the world through a service club! For many, service club membership is an extension of our religious beliefs and congregation affiliation.