Brothers,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope you had a great and rewarding Advent
season, this year the longest time period for Advent. Next year will be the shortest Advent Season
with Christmas just one day after the 4th Sunday of Advent. For the Christmas season I get many strange
looks when I am asked if I had a good Christmas and I answered it only began
Christmas Eve and won’t be over until the Baptism of the Lord on January 9th. Yes, my coworkers and friends know that I am
Catholic.
We now have completed one half of our Fraternal Year. Have you and your Councils achieved ½ of your
Program and Membership goals? As a State
we have not, and honestly we are behind where we should be in both Programs and
Membership.
Do you have plans in place or are you already working on the
Domestic Church programs? Remember you
will need to conduct 4 of these this year to qualify for Star Council and
Columbian Awards. It is not too late to
look at Supreme’s website under Domestic Church, pick a few, and put them into
Action. Remember to complete and submit
any reports they request.
Now is a good time to make plans for your March Membership
Drives and order you Church Drive Kits.
Don’t wait until the last minute as it could take as long as 6 weeks to
receive these. As you do this you can
also order any needed items to conduct the various Domestic Church
activities.
A takeaway from our Mid Year meeting were requests to
receive more communication and information from the State Council. To this end we will begin to post more short
messages on the State Website, www.azknightsofcolumbus.org, along with messages
from our State Membership Chairman. Other Chairman will post messages as
well.
During the Mid Year meeting we asked the District Deputies
what areas of training beyond the Supreme Webinars, they believe is needed in
the State. They will also be asking you
for your thoughts and sending these to us so we can craft some additional training
sessions statewide during the second half of this Fraternal Year.
The February 4th Phoenix Men’s Conference is SOLD
OUT! The State Council was able to
obtain some tickets, very close to Front and Center, to use as Incentive for
Council Membership recruitment. Our
State Membership Director Kevin McCarthy recently sent out information on this
incentive.
Finally, please plan to join many of your Brother Knights in
Tucson on Saturday January 21st as we celebrate Mass with Bishop
Kicanas and then march to a local Cemetery for a Memorial Service to the
Unborn. If you can’t make it to Tucson
join Bishop Olmsted in Phoenix for Mass or events in your local communities.
Vivat Jesus,
Sean Halpain
State Deputy
