

You Get One Chance to Make
a First Impression
Are you ready? Toastmasters can help! Come and check us out.
If there's anything that will help you get back on your feet again, maybe find that next job or career before the shut down, it is improving and elevating your speaking skills. Not to mention that Toastmasters International is a great resume enhancer. Corporate leaders around the world recognize it because they are Toastmasters too.
If you or your employees could benefit from this great resource send them the web link to this page or have them call us and we'll be happy to follow up with them. And come join us on Tuesdays, 6-7PM at Greater Peace Baptist Church. See contact information below.
The History of Toastmasters
In October 1924, a group of men assembled by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley met in the basement of the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, U.S.A., forming a club to afford practice and training in the art of public speaking and in presiding over meetings, and to promote sociability and good fellowship among its members. The group took the name
Toastmasters. We are a local chapter of
Toastmasters International.
Today, Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, training seminars and speech contests. Toastmasters International includes more than 199,000 men and women in more than 9,300 clubs in more than 70 countries.
Experienced professionals and beginning speakers alike can benefit from our practical, face-to-face learning program. Whether you're speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better. You'll learn and practice in a friendly, comfortable environment with people who are there for the same reason you areto become better communicators.
At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. A typical Toastmasters club is made up of 20 to 30 people who meet once a week for about an hour. Each meeting gives everyone an opportunity to practice conducting meetings, giving impromptu speeches, presenting prepared speeches, and offering constructive evaluation.

Greater Peace Missionary Baptist Church
Family Life Center Conference Room
650 Jeter Avenue
Opelika, Alabama
(334) 749-9487
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM