ALLOUEZ ABSTRACTS ALLOUEZ COUNCIL 658, K OF C Published Monthly www.kofc658.org August, 2014 ROCK ISLAND, IL VOL XXXIV, No. #8 GRAND KNIGHT’S MESSAGE— JOSH BRUEGGEN, GRAND KNIGHT Involvement Brother Knights, We are all busy men. Our lives are filled with activity; work, family, activities too numerous to possibly name here. Perhaps the activity we most rarely schedule is time for ourselves to reflect upon ourselves and our faith. Luckily this time comes pre-scheduled every Sunday (or Saturday as you prefer) for us to attend mass and attempt to find a moment of quiet in our lives. Now, I ask you to consider spending more time reflecting fraternally with your brother knights as well. There is much need for our limited time, and in that vein I intend to put forth several proposals which will allow our brothers to multi-task some service opportunities along with fraternal time, or family and leisure time as well. Already our group does several fraternal activities each year among these; barbecues, ball games, and family picnics but there is more to come. I propose a series of carry-in meals before meetings, and card games or other activities to follow. I am also open to any other suggestions you may have, if it is a fun fraternal activity suggest it, and we’ll get it done. Key to having fraternal time is keeping our business meetings brief and businesslike. I am working to achieve a meeting no longer than 45 minutes so that most of our time may be spent fraternally. There are also other opportunities to serve our church that I’d like to propose. Primarily among these is service to our parish families (the family activity chair is open and waiting for someone to step up) in which we are somewhat lacking. At our many parishes volunteers are needed for youth programs. I would also like to consider working to organize a young parents’ mass, an opportunity for young parents to attend mass and reflect while we handle the constant distractions of their very young children. The possibilities are practically endless we need only the enthusiasm to act. In the coming months we will be undertaking to contact all of our brother knights to inquire how they would like to be involved in parish and fraternal activities. Look for an initial E-mail with many opportunities which I will ask you to kindly reply to. Your interests will be sent to the several service chairmen so that they may contact you with opportunities to serve. Do not think that by ignoring these opportunities that you will get out of this though…….I’ll call you personally if I have to…..but my time is at least as limited as yours. Our parishes need us, your parish needs you! Get involved, your brother knights will help. Faithfully Yours JOSH BRUEGGEN, Grand Knight, Allouez Council #658 309.737.3822 FAITHFUL NAVIGATOR’S MESSAGE – REGGIE WHITE, Faithful Navigator I would like to take to take a moment to thank all of you that voted me in as your Faithful Navigator. I will do my best to perform the duties and help this Assembly grow and prosper. To those of you that do not know me, I am a retired Professor from Black Hawk College in Moline, having taught in the computer technology area for 28 years. I still teach part-time, but now I spend most of my time helping, with my wife of 20 years – Dee, to raise our 2 grandchildren, Josh (13) and Nick (10). They currently attend Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy in East Moline. If you think of anything you feel might help our Assembly, please feel free to contact me at (309) 738-5779. The Honor Guard helped honor Fr. Alleman on the 150 th anniversary of his death at St. Mary’s in Rock Island on the 13 th of July. There were 13 Sir Knights in attendance and we enjoyed the music from the African choir. I wish to be sure to invite all you Sir Knights out there to attend our annual steak fry, at which we are hosting the 4 th Degree knights from the Iowa Assemblies. It is a good opportunity to mingle with other Knights and to see how we are all doing is serving our Church, Communities, and our Nation. I hope to see you there. Reggie White, Faithful Navigator, Father Edward J. Bader Assembly 1922 ALLOUEZ LADIES AUXILIARY – JULIE LAWRENCE, President We will resume our meeting schedule, Thursday September 11 th at 7 PM Sincerely, Julie Lawrence, President, Allouez Ladies Auxiliary LADIES AUGUST BIRTHDAYS Congratulations to the 13 ladies who are sharing an AUGUST birth month. Have a Happy Birthday! DOROTHY GERLEMAN LINDA HUGGINS ROSELLE JACKSON RUTH KERNAN PAMELA LANGSTON PHYLLIS LAWRENCE COLETTA MACALUSO LAURA NICE BARBARA REQUET MARILYN ROYAL JUDY SCARPINATO MARY THORPE BARBARA ZUWALA
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ALLOUEZ ABSTRACTS
ALLOUEZ COUNCIL 658, K OF C
Published Monthly
www.kofc658.org
August, 2014 ROCK ISLAND, IL VOL XXXIV, No. #8
GRAND KNIGHT’S MESSAGE— JOSH BRUEGGEN, GRAND KNIGHT
Involvement
Brother Knights,
We are all busy men. Our lives are filled with activity; work, family, activities too numerous to possibly
name here. Perhaps the activity we most rarely schedule is time for ourselves to reflect upon ourselves and our
faith. Luckily this time comes pre-scheduled every Sunday (or Saturday as you prefer) for us to attend mass
and attempt to find a moment of quiet in our lives. Now, I ask you to consider spending more time reflecting
fraternally with your brother knights as well.
There is much need for our limited time, and in that vein I intend to put forth several proposals which will
allow our brothers to multi-task some service opportunities along with fraternal time, or family and leisure time
as well. Already our group does several fraternal activities each year among these; barbecues, ball games, and
family picnics but there is more to come. I propose a series of carry-in meals before meetings, and card games
or other activities to follow. I am also open to any other suggestions you may have, if it is a fun fraternal
activity suggest it, and we’ll get it done. Key to having fraternal time is keeping our business meetings brief
and businesslike. I am working to achieve a meeting no longer than 45 minutes so that most of our time may be
spent fraternally.
There are also other opportunities to serve our church that I’d like to propose. Primarily among these is
service to our parish families (the family activity chair is open and waiting for someone to step up) in which we
are somewhat lacking. At our many parishes volunteers are needed for youth programs. I would also like to
consider working to organize a young parents’ mass, an opportunity for young parents to attend mass and reflect
while we handle the constant distractions of their very young children. The possibilities are practically endless
we need only the enthusiasm to act.
In the coming months we will be undertaking to contact all of our brother knights to inquire how they would
like to be involved in parish and fraternal activities. Look for an initial E-mail with many opportunities which I
will ask you to kindly reply to. Your interests will be sent to the several service chairmen so that they may
contact you with opportunities to serve. Do not think that by ignoring these opportunities that you will get out
of this though…….I’ll call you personally if I have to…..but my time is at least as limited as yours. Our
parishes need us, your parish needs you! Get involved, your brother knights will help.
Faithfully Yours
JOSH BRUEGGEN, Grand Knight, Allouez Council #658
309.737.3822
FAITHFUL NAVIGATOR’S MESSAGE –
REGGIE WHITE, Faithful Navigator
I would like to take to take a moment to thank
all of you that voted me in as your Faithful
Navigator. I will do my best to perform the duties
and help this Assembly grow and prosper. To those
of you that do not know me, I am a retired
Professor from Black Hawk College in Moline,
having taught in the computer technology area for
28 years. I still teach part-time, but now I spend
most of my time helping, with my wife of 20 years
– Dee, to raise our 2 grandchildren, Josh (13) and
Nick (10). They currently attend Our Lady of
Grace Catholic Academy in East Moline. If you
think of anything you feel might help our
Assembly, please feel free to contact me at (309)
738-5779.
The Honor Guard helped honor Fr. Alleman on
the 150th
anniversary of his death at St. Mary’s in
Rock Island on the 13th
of July. There were 13 Sir
Knights in attendance and we enjoyed the music
from the African choir.
I wish to be sure to invite all you Sir Knights
out there to attend our annual steak fry, at which
we are hosting the 4th
Degree knights from the
Iowa Assemblies. It is a good opportunity to
mingle with other Knights and to see how we are
all doing is serving our Church, Communities, and
our Nation. I hope to see you there.
Reggie White, Faithful Navigator,
Father Edward J. Bader Assembly 1922
ALLOUEZ LADIES AUXILIARY –
JULIE LAWRENCE, President We will resume our meeting schedule, Thursday
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