about the brazos river rotary
Making an Impact
The Cinco Ranch Rotary Club was chartered in May 2002 as the Rotary Club of Katy Sunrise. The club’s name was changed in 2011 to the Rotary Club of Cinco Ranch. In 2025, the Cinco Ranch Rotary merged with the Rotary Club of Brazos River, which was chartered in 2014 in the Fulshear/Simonton area. The club attracts members from Fulshear, Simonton, Weston Lakes, Orchard, Brookshire, and Katy; and supports numerous charities in the greater Katy/Fulshear and western suburban Houston communities.
The first Katy Wine Fest was organized and presented by the Katy Sunrise Rotary in 2006 and continued through 2024, hosted by the Cinco Ranch Club. The 20th Annual Katy Wine Fest will be presented in 2025 and hosted by the combined clubs of the Rotary Club of Brazos River. The event primarily supports The Brookwood Community of Brookshire, along with other Katy/Fulshear area charities.
The Brazos River Rotary meets the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Friday of each month at 8:00 a.m. at Weston Lakes Country Club in Fulshear. Club social events are scheduled for the Thursday evening preceding the 3rd Friday of each month. Visitors are welcome to attend meetings to learn more about Rotary and the benefits of membership.
SERVICE ABOVE SELF
Rotary International is a world-wide organization of more than 1.2 million business, and professional and community leaders. As reflected in Rotary’s motto, Service Above Self, the object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
- FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
- SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
- THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
- FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
THE FOUR WAY TEST
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians recite it at all club meetings.
Of the things we think, say or do:
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?