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The community of Dean’s Chapel, a settlement of a few hundred people just west of Henagar, has a rich history dating back to the Civil War. For the past two years, recovering and binding that history has been the personal mission of Dean’s Chapel native Theresa Moore.

With approximately 1.3 million members and more than 45,000 active clubs in 205 countries, Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization. Founded in 1917, the Lions Clubs organization is best known to many for its fight to eradicate blindness and for the handmade brooms the group sells to raise money for the blind and visually impaired. But the Lions do much more. Clubs from all over the world also work together in an effort to meet the humanitarian needs of millions.

Three years ago, Karen Smothers was an ordinary wife and mother with a thousand-megawatt smile and a job as a licensed physical therapist assistant. Today, she is still all of that, as well as an international missionary, business owner, and CEO of a thriving ministry. It all started the day she laid down her own aspirations for the future in order to help a group of women she had never met.