Official Newsletter of the Knights of Columbus of Missouri “Do More, BE A Knight” OCTOBER, 2015 Knights of Columbus Charity ~ Unity ~ Fraternity ~ Patriotism Newsletter MEMBERSHIP DIR. BOB HAWKINS GENERAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR MIKE GRUDZINSKI R. I. B. DIRECTOR JOHN MAUTINO VOLUME 2, NO 4 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR DOUG KISSINGER Fall has officially arrived, and has ushered in some cooler temperatures, but we hope your council is running “hot” in terms of programming and mem- bership. Hopefully your council is partici- pating in the “Charitable Service Out- reach Week” from October 3-11. We ask that you make a special effort to conduct charitable programs in your parish and community at this time. Make sure that your council is visible in doing these programs, and be sure to ask non-members to help out with them. If a man sees, or especially if he helps, the Knights conduct a charitable program which benefits his church or community in some way, he is much more likely to join. The reason Supreme has set the Charitable Service Week for October 3-11 is because they would like to have all councils do a Membership Drive the weekend of October 9-11. As you may know, that is also the same weekend as we have our Drive for Persons with Develop- mental Disabilities scheduled. So if you need to move your Service Outreach Week and Membership Drive back by a week, that is fine. The most important thing is to get out and do something for your parish and community, and then follow that up with a Membership Drive. I would also like to suggest that you keep track of the service programs you performed, and how many people (and man-hours) went into doing it. By keeping track of this information as you do the project, it will make it much easier next January when you go to fill out your Form 1728, the Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity. Plus - please remember that you are also asked to include the volunteer hours provided by NON-MEMBERS within your activities as well. If you had wives, children and non-members help out with a project, please include those numbers as well! As I noted above, our Drive for Persons with Developmental Disabili- ties is scheduled for October 9-11. We ask that you conduct it on that weekend, because we really want it to be a state-wide coordinated effort, but we know that sometimes it works better for your parish, or at other places where you collect donations, to move it to a different weekend. The most important thing is that you conduct a drive! There have been several kick-off events held throughout the state, and I hope you have been able to attend one of them. Colleen Dolnick from the KofC Developmental Center at Cardinal Glennon and Mary (Bauer) Niswonger from Special Olympics Missouri have been at these events and have told and shown just how much of an impact our donations have on those with intellectual disabilities. You will also be receiving your fall appeal letter for the Religious Information Bureau (RIB) sometime this month. I ask that you honor the memory of long time RIB Chairman Fr. Oscar Lukefahr, who passed away in August, by making a generous donation. And what would please Fr. Luke just as much is for everyone who reads this to take one of the home study courses offered through the Catholic Home Study Service. We as Knights help to fund this program, and we would like all Knights to take at least one course. I am also going to start highlighting one of the “Featured Programs” from Supreme in each of my monthly articles. If you complete one of these “featured” programs, meeting Supreme’s specific guidelines, this will count for all four programs needed when filling out your Columbian Award Application (#SP-7). This month – Church Activities – RSVP: If your council supports a seminarian or novice through the RSVP program (gives them $500 to help with their education and provides moral and spiritual support for them), and submits the RSVP Refund / Plaque Application (Form #2863) to Supreme, this will fulfill all 4 requirements for Church Activities on your Columbian Award application. Many councils already support a seminarian using RSVP, so this is a very easy way to get all of your church activities covered in your Columbian Award application. I would also like to encourage you to read over each of the articles in this newsletter. These Directors devote many hours of time in putting programs together which help our Church and Communities. Read their articles and I’m sure you will find something which will energize and strengthen your council. And remember if you need help in getting something going, please contact us and we will be glad to help! We are near the end of the sum- mer membership drought and have come out of it in pretty good shape. We have been net/net positive for the first 3 months of the year and that is a good indicator that we have moved away from the large number of suspensions that we experienced last year. We have 1 new Council instituted at St. Joseph in Clayton and need 2 more to reach our quota for the year. We are at 56 Round Tables and our quota was 50. Con- gratulations to Ray Olsen for a job well done on the Round Tables. Everything is attainable with a little work. Why don’t we as leaders go out and recruit the first new mem- bers of the year for our Councils by setting an example for all to follow. We are entering October and this is the month for Church Drives. Please make sure that all Councils have scheduled a Church Drive. This is one of the largest member- ship drives that we do statewide and it is imperative that we have good numbers if we want to make Circle of Honor. The state mem- bership team is there if you need assistance with your drive. Remember that there will be re- porting due from the D.D.’s con- cerning which Councils held drives and where. There will also be a second phase of reporting asking for raw numbers on Form 100’s signed and Degrees held in asso- ciation with the drive. Last year we were fortunate to have Supreme MPC Tom Ciborski spend 2 full weeks in Missouri and that really helped bump the mem- bership numbers last year. Our new MPC Dannie Harris will be touring Missouri during the last week of September. By the time that you read this he will probably have com- pleted his visit. I hope that you have attended and picked up the valu- able information that he will be presenting. I will close as usual with Su- preme Knight Carl Andersons’ comments that “It is the moral re- sponsibility of each and every Knight to go out and recruit new members into our Order.” Our con- tinued success and our status as a “Top 10 Jurisdiction” depend on it! We send out two letters each year to every Missouri Knight. These let- ters include information about the Re- ligious Information Bureau and re- mind us of our goals in supporting the R.I.B. They also include a return en- velope making it easy to donate to our Program of Evangelization. The first of these two letters, the Fall appeal letter, will be arriving this in October. As leaders in the Knights of Colum- bus, your assistance in bringing atten- tion to the appeal letter at the Council level is very important. Each of us are in a position to stress the importance of the R.I.B. and all of the good it does in helping to educate people about Catholicism. The good works of the R.I.B. cannot happen without our do- nations. The Fall appeal letter is also help- ful in reminding Council’s of the “quota letter” that went out in August. The quota letter spells out how each Council can meet its goals this year for providing support to the Religious Information Bureau. The appeal letter is a reminder of the importance of attending to these goals while Frater- nal Year is still young. Each donation received is credited to the quota amount for that member’s Council. If someone does another copy of the letter, please contact myself or Eric Bruns. Financial support is critical to pro- moting the evangelization efforts of the R.I.B., but it is not the only way that we can help promote the R.I.B. We want as many people as possible to enroll in the Catholic Home Study Courses available through the R.I.B. This includes us as Knights of Colum- bus. It is easy to enroll and it is free. Would you like to more fully under- stand our Faith and its role in the modern world? Visit www.morib.org or find the enrollment form in the Program Manual, and pick the course that most interests you. Would you like to help the members of your com- munity and your fellow parishioners better understand Catholicism? Read one or more of the course books and you will be a valuable resource for spreading the word about the R.I.B. Fr. Lukefahr wrote all of these books. Read one of them and you will truly appreciate the talent and devotion to our Church that he had. We are always looking for ways to increase our membership. What bet- ter way to show a Catholic man the full value of membership in our Order by pointing him to the R.I.B? If a prospective member wants to know more about what the Missouri Knights of Columbus does, point him to the R.I.B. Directory Corrections: Address Correction: District Deputy #12 James Oswald, Jr. 17912 Jackson Rd., Boonville, MO 65233 Council 8588 New Financial Secretary: Vernon Johnson 5721 Portsmouth Ln., House Springs, MO 63051 Home: 636-671-7449; Cell: 985-981-1754, Email: [email protected]Council 14097 Financial Secretary : Ernest Wheeler New email: [email protected]October is the time to focus on your council’s Drive for Persons with Developmental Disabilities. It is im- portant that every council participate in the 3D Drive. This is the single biggest statewide activity of the Knights of Columbus, and it supports the Knights of Columbus Developmental Center at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. This is the only freestanding center of its kind and it bears our name. Make sure you are lining up plenty of help for your locations. If your Council did not participate in the 3D Drive last year, Chairman Roland Cretel Jr., Dave Bramman, or myself will be contacting you to figure out how your Council can participate this year. If you need a certificate of insurance for one of your locations, please email Roland, David, or myself and we will get that certificate for you. On November 8 at Rams Park we will be celebrating your success in this year’s 3D Drive. Every Council is invited to nominate a most valuable performer in their 3D Drive. That person, along with your Council’s Chairman and Grand Knight are invited to attend this event with more details to follow. This is the time to be planning your support for Special Olympics. If your Council has not pledged in our Million Dollar Challenge for the Training for Life Campus, this is a great time to do so. There are gold, silver, and bronze options and we encourage every Council to pledge their support to this project. Then, your Councils can plan fundraising to meet their pledge. Chairman Jim O’Fallon will be glad to help you with your fundraising and pledge questions. Now is a good time to contact your pastor about a Wheelchair Sunday. Chairman Cliff Miller is looking for several Councils and parishes around the state to host these events. This is a great way to get your parish involved with your council in this worthy cause. Chairman Tom Caffrey continues to work on our Coats for Kids and Food for Families Programs. As we head into the upcoming holiday season, both these programs take center stage. Please contact Tom and get involved in these programs. Thanks for all you do to make our Community Activities a success.
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Official Newsletter of the Knights of Columbus of Missouri“Do More, BE A Knight” OCTOBER, 2015
Knights of Columbus
Charity ~ Unity ~ Fraternity ~ Patriotism
Newsletter
MEMBERSHIP DIR.
BOB HAWKINS
GENERAL PROGRAM
DIRECTOR
MIKE GRUDZINSKI
R. I. B. DIRECTOR
JOHN MAUTINO
VOLUME 2, NO 4
COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR
DOUG KISSINGER
Fall has officially arrived, and has
ushered in some cooler temperatures,
but we hope your council is running
“hot” in terms of programming and mem-
bership.
Hopefully your council is partici-
pating in the “Charitable Service Out-
reach Week” from October 3-11. We ask
that you make a special effort to conduct charitable programs in your parish
and community at this time. Make sure that your council is visible in doing
these programs, and be sure to ask non-members to help out with them. If
a man sees, or especially if he helps, the Knights conduct a charitable
program which benefits his church or community in some way, he is much
more likely to join. The reason Supreme has set the Charitable Service
Week for October 3-11 is because they would like to have all councils do
a Membership Drive the weekend of October 9-11. As you may know, that
is also the same weekend as we have our Drive for Persons with Develop-
mental Disabilities scheduled. So if you need to move your Service
Outreach Week and Membership Drive back by a week, that is fine. The
most important thing is to get out and do something for your parish and
community, and then follow that up with a Membership Drive.
I would also like to suggest that you keep track of the service programs
you performed, and how many people (and man-hours) went into doing it.
By keeping track of this information as you do the project, it will make it
much easier next January when you go to fill out your Form 1728, the
Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity. Plus - please remember that you are
also asked to include the volunteer hours provided by NON-MEMBERS
within your activities as well. If you had wives, children and non-members
help out with a project, please include those numbers as well!
As I noted above, our Drive for Persons with Developmental Disabili-
ties is scheduled for October 9-11. We ask that you conduct it on that
weekend, because we really want it to be a state-wide coordinated effort,
but we know that sometimes it works better for your parish, or at other
places where you collect donations, to move it to a different weekend. The
most important thing is that you conduct a drive! There have been several
kick-off events held throughout the state, and I hope you have been able to
attend one of them. Colleen Dolnick from the KofC Developmental Center
at Cardinal Glennon and Mary (Bauer) Niswonger from Special Olympics
Missouri have been at these events and have told and shown just how much
of an impact our donations have on those with intellectual disabilities.
You will also be receiving your fall appeal letter for the Religious
Information Bureau (RIB) sometime this month. I ask that you honor the
memory of long time RIB Chairman Fr. Oscar Lukefahr, who passed away
in August, by making a generous donation. And what would please Fr.
Luke just as much is for everyone who reads this to take one of the home
study courses offered through the Catholic Home Study Service. We as
Knights help to fund this program, and we would like all Knights to take
at least one course.
I am also going to start highlighting one of the “Featured Programs”
from Supreme in each of my monthly articles. If you complete one of these
“featured” programs, meeting Supreme’s specific guidelines, this will
count for all four programs needed when filling out your Columbian Award
Application (#SP-7). This month – Church Activities – RSVP: If your
council supports a seminarian or novice through the RSVP program (gives
them $500 to help with their education and provides moral and spiritual
support for them), and submits the RSVP Refund / Plaque Application
(Form #2863) to Supreme, this will fulfill all 4 requirements for Church
Activities on your Columbian Award application. Many councils already
support a seminarian using RSVP, so this is a very easy way to get all of
your church activities covered in your Columbian Award application.
I would also like to encourage you to read over each of the articles in this
newsletter. These Directors devote many hours of time in putting programs
together which help our Church and Communities. Read their articles and
I’m sure you will find something which will energize and strengthen your
council. And remember if you need help in getting something going, please
contact us and we will be glad to help!
We are near the end of the sum-
mer membership drought and have
come out of it in pretty good shape.
We have been net/net positive for
the first 3 months of the year and
that is a good indicator that we have
moved away from the large number
of suspensions that we experienced
last year. We have 1 new Council
instituted at St. Joseph in Clayton
and need 2 more to reach our quota
for the year. We are at 56 Round
Tables and our quota was 50. Con-
gratulations to Ray Olsen for a job
well done on the Round Tables.
Everything is attainable with a little
work. Why don’t we as leaders go
out and recruit the first new mem-
bers of the year for our Councils by
setting an example for all to follow.
We are entering October and this
is the month for Church Drives.
Please make sure that all Councils
have scheduled a Church Drive.
This is one of the largest member-
ship drives that we do statewide
and it is imperative that we have
good numbers if we want to make
Circle of Honor. The state mem-
bership team is there if you need
assistance with your drive.
Remember that there will be re-
porting due from the D.D.’s con-
cerning which Councils held drives
and where. There will also be a
second phase of reporting asking
for raw numbers on Form 100’s
signed and Degrees held in asso-
ciation with the drive.
Last year we were fortunate to
have Supreme MPC Tom Ciborski
spend 2 full weeks in Missouri and
that really helped bump the mem-
bership numbers last year. Our new
MPC Dannie Harris will be touring
Missouri during the last week of
September. By the time that you
read this he will probably have com-
pleted his visit. I hope that you have
attended and picked up the valu-
able information that he will be
presenting.
I will close as usual with Su-
preme Knight Carl Andersons’
comments that “It is the moral re-
sponsibility of each and every
Knight to go out and recruit new
members into our Order.” Our con-
tinued success and our status as a
“Top 10 Jurisdiction” depend on it!
We send out two letters each year
to every Missouri Knight. These let-
ters include information about the Re-
ligious Information Bureau and re-
mind us of our goals in supporting the
R.I.B. They also include a return en-
velope making it easy to donate to our
Program of Evangelization. The first
of these two letters, the Fall appeal
letter, will be arriving this in October.
As leaders in the Knights of Colum-
bus, your assistance in bringing atten-
tion to the appeal letter at the Council
level is very important. Each of us are
in a position to stress the importance
of the R.I.B. and all of the good it does
in helping to educate people about
Catholicism. The good works of the
R.I.B. cannot happen without our do-
nations.
The Fall appeal letter is also help-
ful in reminding Council’s of the
“quota letter” that went out in August.
The quota letter spells out how each
Council can meet its goals this year
for providing support to the Religious
Information Bureau. The appeal letter
is a reminder of the importance of
attending to these goals while Frater-
nal Year is still young. Each donation
received is credited to the quota
amount for that member’s Council. If
someone does another copy of the
letter, please contact myself or Eric
Bruns.
Financial support is critical to pro-
moting the evangelization efforts of
the R.I.B., but it is not the only way
that we can help promote the R.I.B.
We want as many people as possible
to enroll in the Catholic Home Study
Courses available through the R.I.B.
This includes us as Knights of Colum-
bus. It is easy to enroll and it is free.
Would you like to more fully under-
stand our Faith and its role in the
modern world? Visit www.morib.org
or find the enrollment form in the
Program Manual, and pick the course
that most interests you. Would you
like to help the members of your com-
munity and your fellow parishioners
better understand Catholicism? Read
one or more of the course books and
you will be a valuable resource for
spreading the word about the R.I.B.
Fr. Lukefahr wrote all of these books.
Read one of them and you will truly
appreciate the talent and devotion to
our Church that he had.
We are always looking for ways to
increase our membership. What bet-
ter way to show a Catholic man the
full value of membership in our Order
by pointing him to the R.I.B? If a
prospective member wants to know
more about what the Missouri Knights
of Columbus does, point him to the
R.I.B.
Directory Corrections:Address Correction: District Deputy #12
James Oswald, Jr.
17912 Jackson Rd., Boonville, MO 65233
Council 8588 New Financial Secretary: Vernon Johnson