The month of June marks the final month of our fraternal year; the final month to accomplish the goals we have set as a state, as a council or personally-whether it be as a State Officer, State Director or Chairman, District Deputy or Grand Knight.
Has your Council or District achieved your membership objectives? Have you reached Star Council or Star District status? If the answer is “yes”, then congratulations and a heartfelt thanks are in order to you and your membership. If, however, the answer is no and you still need additional members to attain Star Council or Star District, then you still have a month to “beat the bushes” and reactivate those former members, recruit those graduating seniors, RCIA candidates or those men you have been meaning to ask and encourage to join, but just haven’t taken the time to do it. I encourage you to set aside that time now and make those contacts you have been putting off. Then set a First Degree in June and bring those men into the Order so they can enjoy the benefits of membership and begin their work for the Lord through the Knights of Columbus. Remember, to receive credit for Star Council or Star District for this fraternal year, the Form 100 must be recorded by Supreme by June 30. Faxing those Form 100’s to Supreme Council would be a smart decision as we progress into the last two weeks of June. The Lord will have much work for us to do in the coming year and we will need a larger membership to accomplish the greater tasks he will set out before us.
Have members of your council contacted those members who haven’t paid their membership dues or haven’t been to a meeting or helped with a fundraiser for awhile? Be sure to begin an effective retention campaign by contacting those members and let them know they are an integral part of your council and that you need their help to reach all the people in need and to complete the work the Lord has set out before us. These men joined our Order to make a difference in their life and the lives of those less fortunate. We owe them the opportunity to see that this desire is allowed to come to fruition instead of just being a withering goal left to die because of our shortcomings of not including them in our plans.
There is still time to accomplish our goals but we must act now. Let us leave no stone unturned. We must ask ourselves: Have I done all I can in answering the call of Pope Benedict XVI to “Follow Me, Help Us Build Up The Church”? If not, let’s act now to achieve those things in the month of June.
Vivat Jesus.
Francis G. Drouhard
State Deputy
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