The Benton Civitan Club
The Benton Civitan Club is a local service club in the Heartland District of
Civitan International. We meet for fellowship and a meal, listen to a guest speaker on a variety of local interest topics and plan our community service projects for Saline County. If you are interested in becoming more involved in our community please join us for our next meeting.
Civitan's Mission Statement
The mission of Civitan worldwide is to build good citizenship by providing a volunteer organization of clubs dedicated to serving individual and community needs with an emphasis on helping people with developmental disabilities.
Civitan's Creed:
I AM CIVITAN: as old as life, as young as the rainbow, as endless as time.
MY HANDS do the work of the world and reach out in service to others.
MY EARS hear the cry of children and the call throughout the world for peace, guidance, progress and unity.
MY EYES search for others to join in the fellowship and service of Civitan.
MY MOUTH utters the call to daily duty and speaks prayers in every tongue.
MY MIND teaches me respect for law and the flag of my country.
MY HEART beats for every friend, bleeds for every injury to humanity and throbs with joy at every triumph of truth.
MY SOUL knows no fear but its own unworthiness.
MY HOPE is for a better world through Civitan.
MY MOTTO: builders of good citizenship.
MY BELIEF: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
MY PLEDGE: to practice the Golden Rule and to build upon it a better and nobler citizenship.
Meeting Times:
First Monday of Each Month- Noon, Brown’s Country Restaurant in Benton, AR.
Second Monday: and Fourth Monday of Each Month- 5:30pm, Civitan Center in Benton, AR.
Our meetings are always open to new members and guests. Our current chapter President is Steve Bohannon
CIVITAN is coined from the Latin word Civitas meaning citizenship. The three major focuses of Civitan Clubs around the world are Fellowship, Knowledge and Service.
The Benton Civitan Club started in June of 1949 with 42 community members. It was organized as a non-profit corporation by H.T. Crawford, James L. Burton and W. A. Pumphrey. It was declared by Judge Ernest Maner on July 11, 1953.
A group of men in the Benton Civitan Club started the Civitan Center in 1958 that would grow into the organization we know today at
Civitan Services.
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