What Jaycees has meant to me. 

In pondering a response to this questions numerous answers come to mind and I could rattle off a litany of benefits I received but that would bore you to death so I have decided to concentrate on one: The Jaycee Creed.

Have you ever seriously thought about those words you recite from memory?  We Believe, ……  To be honest I didn’t until I aged out, I was just too busy doing Jaycee stuff to ponder anything.  Now over 12 years later these words have come to have significant meaning (yes I still remember and can recite the Creed).  Consider the fact that a very young man wrote these wonderful words over 6 decades ago and yet they are alive and vital today.  “We Believe, Faith in God, brotherhood of man, economic justice, free men/free enterprise, government of laws/not men, and service to humanity/best work of life”.  Take some time and dig into the meaning of these profound words and especially note the bookends of the Creed: “Faith in God-Service to Humanity”.  Did you realize that “Faith in God” always reveals itself in “service to humanity”: Ephesians 2:8-10.      

If you take anything away from Jaycees, take the Creed.  If you apply it to your daily life you will live with a continual sense of fulfillment the average Joe will never experience.  I promise!

Douglas Fearing, President
Fearing's Electronic Systems
Portage, WI
61st State President, Wisconsin Jaycees  

The Jaycee Creed
by C. William Brownfield

We believe...
That Faith in God gives meaning
and purpose to human life;
That the brotherhood of man transcends
the sovereignty of nations;
That economic justice can best be won by
free men through free enterprise;
That government should be of laws
rather than of men;
That earth's great treasure lies
in human personality;
And that service to humanity
is the best work of life.