Grand Knight’s Report

I want to start my report with a ‘BIG THANK YOU’ to all who helped to make our Christmas Social such a pleasurable success, to our wives and Brothers who are such marvelous cooks, and especially for all the behind-the-scenes work offered by our very own Santa, Tom Kessinger, and his #1 Elf, Shirley Kessinger. Do you know who sewed and then stuffed all of the Santa gift bags? You guess it, Shirley did. Everyone’s teamwork added to the Christmas joy we shared as family and friends.

Half of the Holy Days (Holidays) of Christmas are behind us, but the best are yet to come. The arrival of the Three Magi (Los Tres Reyes) is a big feast celebration in Latin America. Many Parents wait until 6 Jan (Three Kings Day) to handout the gifts to their children. Truly reemphasizing Christmas and the Nativity scene where our King of Kings is honored with the presentation of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. We, as Mary’s Knights, welcome the Prince of Peace and step up to do His work on Earth. This coming year we will be facing some new challenges which include two breakfasts, the Tootsie Roll Sales, our monthly ‘Feeding the Needy’ dinners, recruiting, and also honoring our Priests, just mention a few. Working together, as we did in 2009, is our ticket to success and our #1 way of showing Charity to the Community, as well as Brotherhood to each other.

As we said goodbye to 2009 and Father Time (Año Viejo), we welcomed three new members: Brothers Alan Gray, Al Doyle, and Alberto Osuna into our Council. We still need to make sure that our new Brothers are assigned to Committees and meet the Directors to ensure their helping hands are available, when needed. Remember, in order to advance to 2nd and 3rd degrees you must be assigned to a Committee, and be attending the meetings and events.

A new schedule/calendar of events has been published for the next six months. If you have not yet received, please it let me know. Remember, in order to keep up to date on Council announcements and upcoming events, you need to visit our Blog (http://kofc14278.blogspot.com/), read our Newsletter, and attend our monthly meetings. I hope that you will make very effort to participate in these next published events.