Brother Knights,
Service and Community Involvement
Traditionally, as a contractor, I would know that if I had trenching or backhoeing to do for a job, I would try to have it complete by Oct. 1st knowing that the weather outside could change any day. After that, it’s a Russel Stover time of year. You never know what you’re going to get. Even though it’s been warm the cold is coming. We have 8 cases this year of coats to donate to our parish school for the annual Coats for Kids program. Soon I will be dropping them off so they can be distributed to families in need. This month we also have the annual Tootsie Roll Drive which collects monies to help fund the important work of Villa Marie School at the Marian Sisters. This school helps the developmentally disabled. Our city wide collection effort is this weekend and our location is Hy Vee at 50th and O St. We have a sign up genius out and available so you can sign up for a time slot. We really need to fill the slots to we can cover all three entrances with two men. Having two men just helps give moral support to each other and also allows for folks to see two people with buckets, kind of making it more formal or real. Its not about the Tootsie Roll, its about the impact they can have supporting the good work of the Marian Sisters. If you’re a student of human interaction, it can be a good time to witness human generosity. That is this weekend, Oct. 12th and 13th. Our parish collection after Masses will be the following weekend, Oct. 19th and 20th.
These are two examples of Community Involvement and Charity we do at the Knights of Columbus.
Brother Nick, our Council Recruiter, has been hard at work. He has organized a football watch party to be held at Fitzgerald Hall on Oct. 19th. This is a great time to get together with your fellow Knights and make new friends and renew old ones. Stay tuned for more info on that via emails. Please support these events and activities. If you know a man who could be interested in joining the Knights, bring them along. Let them see what it is we do, how we do it, and why we do it. This is how we grow and keep our membership active for the next generation of Knights and the service we provide. Success comes from our collective efforts, it will not come on its own.
This is an example of Unity and Fraternity.
Vivat Jesus!
Semper.
Matt Schafers
Grand Knight 833
