Reminder: December Membership Meeting

This is a reminder to attend our upcoming Membership Meeting on Tuesday evening, December 10th at 7:00 PM at the St. Peter’s Residence House in Suquamish.

We will discuss upcoming events and activities for the months of December and January. Thanks to everyone for all your support.

Our officers:

Chaplain – Father Albert Arulappan
Grand Knight – David Meier
Deputy Grand Knight – Vacant
Chancellor – Vacant
Advocate – John Rebar
Recorder – David Graves
Financial Secretary – Larry Devlin
Treasurer – Roy Behling
Warden – Leo Beer
Inside Guard- Vacant
Outside Guard – Vacant
Trustee 3 Year – John Wahlfors
Trustee 2 Year – Mark Maruda
Trustee 1 Year – Gary Fahey
Lecturer- Gary Fahey

As you can see, we have several spots where there are no nominees. This is another area where we could use your help, specifically in filling one of these roles and more generally to come to the meeting and join us in electing our new officers.

Pancake Breakfast for December

On Sunday, December 1st, we will be hosting our next monthly breakfast. We had tremendous support at our first two breakfasts from many Brother Knights and are extremely grateful to so many who made it such a great success after being shut down for over 4 years. It all worked out great! But, we need to do it again!

If you have an hour or so to help either in setting up and initial food prep that begins at 8:30 AM, or perhaps immediately after the 10:30 Mass to help serve breakfast, and/or to help clean up afterwards, which should be complete by about 1 PM so you won’t miss much football.. Set your video recorders and skip the commercials for when you get home.

Funeral Updates

Fr. Albert said Mass in remembrance and honor of all our departed Brother Knights on Friday, November 8th at 11:00 AM at St. Peter’s. We welcomed widows and family members for this special Mass, which was followed by a small reception afterward in the Parish House. Many thanks to Brother John Rebar for his leadership in getting this all set up, including hand-writing, addressing, and mailing over 60 invitations to the survivors of our Brother Knights. Plus, he and Martha also orchestrated the reception afterwards.

Finally, the funeral for Past Grand Knight and former Washington State Council Knight of the Year, Tom Musha, was held on Saturday, November 9th at St. Olaf’s Our 4th Degree Honor was present for the funeral.

Veteran’s Day

On November 11th, our Assembly joined with other Assemblies in the region to present the flag at the Veteran’s Day ceremony at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds Pavilion.

Thanksgiving Food Drive

We will be hosting a Thanksgiving Food Drive at the Kingston Safeway on Saturday, November 16th, from 9:30 AM until 4:00 PM, benefiting ShareNet in Kingston.

This will be our first food drive at a large grocery store with a lot more customer traffic so we expect that we’ll need more help than in the past. Please consider joining us for some or all of one of the two shifts by signing up at https://signup.com/go/DPUTKjd.

Dues and Donations

As you may know, this is the time of the year when our Council collects our Membership dues. We ask you to consider making voluntary donations to our Washington State Council programs and our Council, regardless of your dues status.

For your convenience, we have several payment options:

• By check, made out to Knights of Columbus Council 8279 and either mailed to Larry Devlin at 15975 Lindsey Lane NE, Poulsbo, WA 98370 or personally delivered, e.g., at church or a Council meeting.
• By credit card using our form at https://bit.ly/8297dues or by via QR Code.
• By going to our Council’s website at www.kofc8297.org and clicking on the “Pay Your Council Dues” link on the right side of the page.
• By calling me at 360-981-3179 and providing your credit card info for Larry Devlin to input the payment information.

Pennies for Heaven is a fund that supports our Seminarians and encourages vocations. The goal is to give “a penny a day, a prayer a day” for this purpose. Our Council has contributed at least $3.65 per member each year for the past several years to this fund and we appreciate your generosity that allows us to continue to do so. Last year, our members contributed almost $500 toward the support of seminarians. Well done!

LAMB is a program that assists organizations in our local communities that serve those who are most in need, such as the homeless, the hungry, the disabled, the uneducated, and for pro-life. The State Council’s goal is that every member donate $18.82 per year for LAMB, commemorating the year 1882 when the Knights of Columbus was founded. We have rounded that up to $20. Last year, our members contributed almost $1,000 to this important fund and we thank you for that!

On behalf of the Council Officers, we would like to express our appreciation for your continued and timely payment of dues last year! As you know, your very nominal dues are needed for the Council to be able to in turn, pay our per capita obligations to both the Supreme Council and the Washington State Council. This keeps both you and the Council in “good standing” which means that all of our fraternal benefits remain in effect. Your dues are also important and essential contributions to the production of Columbia Magazine, which you receive each month, Catholic advertising, and for Culture of Life causes.

We also ask you to update your contact information and your next-of-kin details. You can do this online using this link https://bit.ly/8297updatecontact

KC HELP

Our Brother Knight volunteers work tirelessly every day to assist people in need of specialized equipment as they deal with the physical effects of aging or recovery from surgeries or accidents. It’s difficult to adequately express the immense gratitude that we see day in and day out and to imagine how these people might have dealt with their difficult circumstances had KC HELP not been available to assist them. If this is something you would like to be involved in, please contact us at 360-981-3179 to join our other Brother Knights in this valuable work.

Good of the Order

Pray for the health of all our Council’s Brother Knights as our members’ age demographic continues to increase. Specific prayer recipients are our new Parish Family Priests Fr Mark Kiszelewski and Fr Albert Arulappan,

Pray for the repose of the soul of Tom Musha, and deceased Priests.

Pray for the health of John Ogilvie, Ellen Strickland, Mary Therese Bartlett, Leigh Bartlett, Julie Beer, Karen Behling, Tony DeCarlo, Larry Devlin’s sister-in-law Gloria Devlin, Gary Fahey, Jerry Goodwin, Steve Murray, Emmanual Rivas, Storm Smole, Nancy Rogers, Theresa Spiess, Bob Tomas, Glennyce Thomas, friend (fighting cancer) of John Rebar.

Please pray for our service men (particularly council members) and service women and our many KC HELP clients.

We also would like to keep Christina Lara and Gabby McCracken in our prayers as they fulfill their FOCUS missions.

Handy Council-Related Links

If you would like a handy set of Council-related links that you can add to your phone’s home page, try this: bit.ly/m/8297