Notes From the August 17, 2009 Meeting
Submitted by Mark Romer on August 18, 2009 - 4:18pm.
- Meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Deputy Grand Knight Peter McCann.
- Council Approved $1,162.13 from the proceeds of our parish breakfasts be disbursed to the Diocese for the Seminarian Emergency Fund.
- We still have not sent Seminarian Miguel Espadas the $600 that we approved at a previous meeting. The Holy Rosary parish office does not have Miguel's current address. We will see if Fr. Keith Stewart has contact info for Miguel.
- There will be a parish breakfast this Sunday, August 23.
- After this breakfast, Mac McLaughlin will be taking over the chairmanship of the breakfasts from David Todd.
- David Todd was commended for all his work running the breakfasts over the past couple of years.
- David Todd will be our MR Drive chairman this year. David will soon be contacting the stores we usually solicit in front of.
- State Chaplain Fr. Joey Kaump has requested that all the KofC councils in Tennessee send greetings to our diocese's seminarians on their birthdays and on major holidays such as Christmas and Easter.
- Jim McBride volunteered to head up the seminarian greeting committee.
- The council summer picnic will be Sunday, August 30 at Greg Krog's house, 366 S. Sanga, starting at 2:30 PM. This will be pot luck: member families are asked to bring a dish.
- Mac McLaughlin and Chris Romer have volunteered to head up our council's participation in the annual KofC Soccer Challenge.
- Grand Knight Greg Krog is heading up preparations for a council retreat. All members are welcome, and officers and program directors are particularly encouraged to attend.
- Greg says we will be able to use Fr. Guthrie's cabin at Sardis Lake.
- The retreat is tentatively scheduled for Sunday, October 18. We will attend 7:30 AM Mass at Holy Rosary, then travel to the retreat.
- The program for the retreat is still being put together.
- Jim McBride and Dan Ralph volunteered to help organize the retreat.
- Council 4312 is officially taking on the training of altar servers at Holy Rosary as a council effort.
- The first event in this regard will be a 1/2-day refresher course for existing altar servers, tentatvely scheduled for Saturday, September 19.
- Mark Romer, Greg Krog and Jim McBride are on the committee. More volunteers are desired.
- The Seminarian dinner on July 17 raised about $7,000.
- There will be a District 3 meeting tomorrow, August 18, 6:30 PM at Council 616's council hall.
- On October 10 there will be a Fourth Degree Exemplification at the Church of the Resurrection.
- On October 24, our council will be hosting a Third Degree at Holy Rosary.
- The Supreme Council is encouraging all members to individually contact their congressmen in support of the Stupak Amendment removing abortion support from health care reform proposals in Congress. Senators should be contacted in support of the Hatch Amendment.
- At the recent Supreme Convention, the Supreme Council voted to make the Culture of Life assessment an annual per capita charge of $2.
- The theme for recruitment this year is "Year of the Volunteer." The October Membership Blitz will be here very soon.
- Mac McLaughlin made mention of the Walk for the Poor being sponsored by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. They are looking for sponsors to buy banner ads to go around the track at CBHS where the walk will take place. Sizes of banners and prices vary. Orders have to be in by September 15.
- We were visited by Tennessee's General Agent Daniel Schachle, who introduced us to the new Memphis-area field agent Brad Bradley. The Agency is still looking for another agent for the Memphis area. Dan also made mention of a seminarian endowment trust fund that they are trying to set up in the Knoxville Diocese. It is modeled on one that was set up in the Diocese of Jackson, MS, which is funded by insurance. Insurance policies are taken out and given to the trust fund, so that premium payments become tax deductible. The trust fund benefits when the policy pays out a death benefit or is cashed in.
- Prayers were offered for:
- Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville (heart attack brought on by diabetic shock, possibly in response to a case of the flu).
- Dale Welch, who was killed in a car accident, and Jane Welch, who survived but is badly injured.
- A special intention of Gary Kiesel.
- Jana Myers, wife of Mike Myers, who is expecting their fourth child.
- Fr. Martell.
- Mary Borger.
- Meeting was adjourned at about 8:45 PM.
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