Knights of Columbus

Council No. 10901

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of the fish fry events.

If you haven’t volunteered to work at a Lenten Fish Fry yet, you still have a chance. The two remaining are scheduled for March 15^th and 22^nd. Don’t miss the fun!

Our next scheduled Corporate Communion will be March 17^th at the 9:00 Mass. This is our expression of Unity and Fraternity as we attend Mass and receive the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and pray together with our families, in a body, as the Knights of Columbus. Wear your nametags, bring your family to sit with the other Knights, and let’s worship together.

Our council will host 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd degree exemplifications on April 6^th at the Oxford-University United Methodist Church. Be sure to forward any completed form 100’s to Bob Hudson or me as soon as you can. If you are a 3^rd or 4^th degree Knight, come and participate as a witness at the degree work. We also need brothers to help prepare and serve lunch at 11:30.

For their participation in church activities, for their preparing and serving dinner to mission staff and all of TYM

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Signa, Family of the Month

For showing us how to live this life and how to fight a good fight,

Dr. Samuel DeJohn, Jr., Knight of the Month

Only 1% of abortions are performed because of rape or incest; 1% because of fetal abnormalities; 3% because of a mother’s health problems. Please pray that the abortion-minded women of our area will find this ministry to get complete information, and hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The K of C Insurance program is a non-profit organization and doesn’t pay dividends to shareholders, but does provide proceeds to allow the Knights of Columbus to…

Contribute, since 1981, over $16.5 million to thousands of seminarians and postulants through the Refund Support Vocations Program, generating $3.2 million in rebates from the Supreme Council to participating councils, assemblies and circles.

Also established the $8.25 million Knights of Columbus Vocations Scholarship Fund, with earnings funding the RSVP rebates and annual $2,500 scholarships based on need to seminarians in theology.

Won’t you consider being a part of this program?

Please contact your field agent, Pick Noble, at 662 842 8333 with any insurance questions.

The year 2002 is a little more than two months old and our council has lost two, very involved brother knights -- Dick Popernick and Sam DeJohn. Dick, as we know, passed away just before Christmas and Sam, only two weeks ago.

Sam was a very special guy, not only a great knight but a great man, loved by many. Sam became a knight in August of 1994 and from day one, he was involved with his council. He was a Fourth Degree knight who lived the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism. He attended every monthly meeting and was at the Rosary, before mass on Sunday, every Sunday and was at every Fish Fry, during Lent. Sam DeJohn truly "became a knight of Columbus." He loved the knights and his brother knights loved him. He will be missed. Vivat Jesus, Sam.

As your Membership Director, for almost ten years, I have had an ongoing focus on the membership of our council. We have been very fortunate over the years and our council membership now has over one hundred members.

Our council will be celebrating it's Tenth Anniversary in June of this year. It's hard to believe that it has been ten years since the Knights of Columbus came to St. John's. We will celebrate that occassion this summer and we will hear more about that later.

Over those ten years our knights have been there whenever they were needed, for our church or our community, but we need membership to keep making things happen at St. John's. The knights in our council, as well as across the state and our nation, have regularly supported their churches and their communities with numerous fund raisers, needed projects and on and on and on. But it takes membership and being involved, to make all those things happen and our council is no exception.

Your individual support and involvement, as a member of our council, plays a critical role in the success or failure of what our council does or can do for our church and our community. Your help in recruiting new members and your personal involvement in is the key to the success of failure of the programs of the Knights of Columbus at St. John's.

Your Membership Committee needs your help, so do your part -- "Ask a man to become a Knight of Columbus".

Vivat Jesus, Bob Hudson