Founded April 23, 1926 · Club 2377
A century of service on the Missouri.
The Lexington Rotary Club gathers most Wednesdays at noon — neighbors, trades, and professions, still keeping the promise we made in 1926: Service Above Self. First through third Wednesdays are a program; the fourth is a business meeting; a fifth is dark.
Chartered
1926
Meets
Most Wednesdays, noon
This Rotary year
Create Lasting Impact
This Wednesday
Lunch, a program, and the work of the town.
We meet at Lafayette Regional Health Center, 3rd Floor Conference Room, 1500 State Street. Guests sit with a member. There is no speech you have to give and no test at the door — only a plate, a program, and people who intend to be useful.
Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m.
Noon most Wednesdays: 1st–3rd are a program, the 4th is a business meeting, and a 5th Wednesday is dark.
Lafayette Regional Health Center, Lexington, MO 64067
The Four-Way Test
Of the things we think, say, or do.
- 1
Is it the truth?
- 2
Is it fair to all concerned?
- 3
Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
- 4
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
How we show up
Service, fellowship, and a public standard.
Service
Shoes and socks for Buckner’s international drive, dictionaries on third-grade desks, scholarships, End Polio Now, and the quiet help a river town still needs.
Fellowship
Wednesday noon is not a networking mixer. It is the same table, week after week, until strangers become the people you call.
Integrity
The Four-Way Test is not decoration. It is the question we put to our vocations, our projects, and our word in Lexington.
What is Rotary?
1.2 million neighbors, in 200 countries, who decided to be useful.
Rotary is a worldwide network of professional and community leaders who take on humanitarian work, hold a high ethical standard, and practice peace as a habit. In Lexington it looks like a Wednesday lunch — and a hundred years of showing up for the same town.
Read our storyShoes for Orphan Souls
Incoming RI President Larry Lunsford loaded the truck with us.
In April 2026, Larry Lunsford — Rotary International President for 2027–28 — stood with Lexington Rotary and Sergeant-at-Arms David Rich at the District 6040 Shoes Caravan. Members passed boxes into the semi for Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls, the district’s 25th year on the drive.
That is Rotary in this town: a visiting president in work clothes, a banner on a rusty trailer, and neighbors handing up shoes for children they will never meet.
buckner.org/shoes
Around town
The clock, the gazebo, the signs we leave in Lexington.
Mainstreet Park carries our wheel and our motto. A street clock reads Est. 1926. A mural on the edge of town paints a hundred years into WELCOME.
Upcoming
On the calendar
Shoes for Orphan Souls collection
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · 12:00 p.m.
Bring new children’s shoes and socks to lunch for Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls. Rotary District 6040 has run this international drive for 25 years and has now collected more than 500,000 pairs, plus socks and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.
World Polio Day observance
Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 12:00 p.m.
A short program on End Polio Now and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, and a club gift toward a polio-free world. Saturday in place of the usual Wednesday.
Veterans Day program
Wednesday, November 11, 2026 · 12:00 p.m.
A Wednesday meeting honoring Lexington veterans, with guests from local posts.
Come as a guest. Leave knowing your town better.
Membership is by invitation after a visit or two. The first step is simpler: sit with us this Wednesday.