February 1, 2018
Brothers,
What a Great January we had with 99 new members joining us
in our work for the Domestic Church.
Thank you all for your efforts but let’s not rest on the
past. Our Membership team has come up
with some Spring Member Recruiting incentives to get us active in bringing in
even more men to join us in our Order.
For District Deputies, and they already know about this one,
we have the ‘Every Council Active’ program to encourage them to work with their
Councils to be successful. To win they
need to have each active Council in their District recruit at least one new
member in the first quarter of 2018.
For all members, we have TWO contests going.
The first is for the month of March. The State Council, in association with the
Arizona Knights of Columbus Charity Inc, is a sponsor of the Annual Phoenix
Diocese Golf for Vocations tournament being held at the Legacy Golf Club in
Phoenix on April 12, 2018. For every
member that joins their Sponsor will be placed in a drawing to be on Team AZ
Knights at the event. Any member that
recruits 4 or more men to join in March will be an automatic winner.
The second program will run for the months of February,
March, and April. For every member that
joins, his Sponsor will be placed in a drawing for one of 10 Leatherman
Wingman, which will be engraved with your name.
For each member you recruit you name goes into the drawing. Recruit 3 men and you have 3 chances to win.
Remember, you must put your Membership Number and your name
on their Form 100 as we pull the recruiter list from Supreme’s records.
Still have some guys not ready to sign the Form 100 and
commit to the Council? Talk to them
about E-Membership. This new way to join
the Knights of Columbus takes some of the pressure off and provides these men
with the benefits of Membership and a path to join you at your Council. They still need to complete their Admission Degree,
but you are over half way there with them joining this way. Send them to KofC.org/joinus for more
information. Have them list your Council
number so you get information when they join.
Have you checked your Fraternal Leader Success Planner for
the February Spotlight? Food for
Families is shown with information about conducting this program. This can be both a Service Program and a
Membership recruiting opportunity. What
better way to introduce a man to the Knights of Columbus than by showing what
we do. Some areas run a 40 Cans for Lent
as their Food for Family Programs.
Last month I introduced the start of a 2-year fund raising
campaign to provide Ultrasound equipment to a pregnancy center that follows
Catholic teaching. Former District
Deputy Joe Kramer is our new Ultrasound State Chairman. He and State General Program Director Larry
Powers are putting the final touches on the program. If you are ready to donate now make your
checks payable to Arizona Knights of Columbus Charity Inc and put Ultrasound in
the memo line.
Some of you will be attending this weekend’s Catholic Men’s
Fellowship Phoenix Conference. This will be the third year with the message
related to Bishop Olmsted’s Apostolic Exhortation “Into the Breach”. For those of you unable to attend in person, the
Catholic Man Show will be webcasting the entire day. You may access this on the event website
cmfp.org. By now you know that Supreme has included “Into the Breach” as a
centerpiece of our Building the Domestic Church program emphasis.
Finally, we say goodbye and thank you to Pat Maloney, PSD
from Washington and our Supreme Membership & Program Consultant for the
last 3 ½ years. The State Leadership
team has learned a great deal from Pat about what it takes to be successful as
a state and work toward Circle of Honor status.
The Supreme Knight has reassigned many of the MPCs so that they are more
geographically centered. This will allow
them to spend more time with their assigned jurisdictions with less time
traveling. Going forward we will have the
opportunity to work with Utah PSD Ray Lopez as our MPC. Several of us already know Ray and are
confident he will bring with him the same commitment to help Arizona grow that
Pat brought.
For February my prayer for each of you is that you
experience the power of the Holy Spirit in your lives and show those around you
they Joy of being an example of the love of Jesus Christ to those you encounter
each day.
Vivat Jesus,
Sean Halpain
State Deputy
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