Arizona State Council Knights of Columbus 2014 CHAMPION PROPOSER CHALLENGE

Arizona State Council Knights of Columbus

2014 CHAMPION PROPOSER CHALLENGE

Sometimes, the hardest thing about recruiting is taking the first step. Recruiting a new member can be as easy as asking him to join. Amazingly, many individuals haven't joined the Knights simply because they have never been asked to join. When the opportunity arrives, take the initiative and start a conversation with a potential prospect. It’s the first step for recruiting on a one-on-one basis and can yield very positive results.

You are invited to be a Champion Proposer!

Every active member of the Knights of Columbus in Arizona is eligible to participate. All you need to do is recruit a new member, be a friend and guide to them through their application process, escort them to their 1st Degree exemplification, and help start them on their way as a successful brother Knight in our Order. You may enter the contest several times. Please use one entry for each new member you recruit.

As an incentive to be a Champion Proposer:

Þ The Supreme Council awards all Proposers 500 VIP recruitment points  for every new member they recruit into the Order. These points are redeemable for KofC merchandise through the Supreme Council Supply Department.

Þ The Arizona State Council is randomly selecting one (1) Champion Proposer Post Card Entry, for every 100 entries received by May 1, 2014. We are planning on having multiple winners! The winner(s) will be announced on May 2, 2014. The winning Champion Proposer(s) and their wife will receive a very special prize:

            2014 State Convention Champion Proposer’s Package:

¨ 2 Nights’ accommodations at the Del Sol Casino and Hotel, in Tucson Arizona on May 16 & 17, 2014

¨ Convention Registration Fees and $50.00 for travel expenses

¨ Tickets to the Friday Annual Service Awards Banquet, Saturday’s State Deputy’s Breakfast, Delegate’s Lunch and  Ladies’ Luncheon, State Deputy’s Reception, and Saturday’s Annual Banquet, plus special reserved seating & recognition

¨ Prizes are not transferrable. Winners can be Convention Delegates

Please use the 2014 CHAMPION PROPOSER CHALLENGE Entry Form to submit your entries today!

You can find the form on the Arizona State Council’s website.

http://www.azknightsofcolumbus.org/p/state-forms.html

For more information, please contact your District Deputy. He will be happy to assist you in your recruiting efforts!

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Tucson Men's Conference - November 22, 2014

There will be a Catholic Men's Conference held in Tucson November 22, 2014 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish.

Most Rev Ricardo Ramirez and Mr. Peter will be guest speakers.

For more information, click here to go to the website.

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Helping Vets - Tucson

The Father Henry Miller Assembly #2308 Sir Knights along with their Families and friends in Tucson are in line to create their own 'Breakfast-omelet-in-a-baggie.'  You could add; diced ham, onions, cheese, and peppers to make your own omelet. After the 'baggie' contents were cooked in a pot of boiling water, you could make into a burrito using freshly made tortillas!

Then in a symbolic gesture of our Assemblies support for our Troops, we had breakfast for dinner at about the same time our troops were eating breakfast overseas!

This fundraiser was combined with others, which allowed the Father Henry Miller Assembly #2308 to present a check for $1,500.00 to the Veterans Administration Volunteer Services (VAVS) in Tucson.

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Charity Raffle Wrap Up

Brother Raffle Chairman, in the old days, the deadline for selling tickets was the first weekend in May.  Now with computers and cell phones, the deadline can move closer to the convention and you can actually sell tickets up to the week before the convention.

Now is the time for multitasking, you need [1] to remind everyone for the need to reach your goal or the stretch goal.  [2] At the same time, prepare the tickets for the raffle.  The process:

1.     Use your raffle committee or volunteers to help prepare the ticket stubs.  Use this project to get members involved with a council activity. 

2.     Remove the staple/tab to separate the books of tickets.

3.     Make sure all the tickets have a name, 10 digit telephone number, and Seller Name

4.     Stamp or write your council number on the back of the ticket.  This validates the ticket for eligibility and is necessary to award the bonus if we reach the 10% growth in sales.

5.     In addition, you need to provide us with number of Century Blocks of tickets your council members sold and the names of the Knights that sold over $1,000 or more. See below. If you do not have any mark the form NA and include your Council number. Use forms on ‘yellow’ pager if you can find the originals.

If you or someone from your council is attending the State Convention and will bring the raffle material they need to know to:

1.     Deposit all personal check and cash with your Fin Sec and have the Treasurer cut a check for the total amount of tickets sold.  Please do not bring personal check or cash to the convention.  If this is a problem, contact me ASAP on my cell phone. [480.818.1774]

2.     Communicate with the Grand Knight, Delegate, or District Deputy to make sure they understand the process.  Every year someone brings only tickets without money or a check without tickets and/or not report.  We need all three, a report, stubs, and a council check.

3.     Keep all three items [Report, stubs and council check] together.  The DEADLINE to turn in tickets is SATURDAY AT NOON].

4.     Bring [1] State Raffle Report, [2] Century and $1K form, [3] ticket stubs and [4] Council Check to the convention

5.     Turn in the tickets Friday or Saturday morning before 12:00 noon.

Thanks everyone for your help with this very important Charity Raffle.  C U at the convention!

Richard Armanini

State Charity Raffle Director

3315 E Dry Creek Road

Phoenix, AZ  85044-7022

Telephone:  480.706.9314

Cell phone:  480.818.1774

"Leadership is action, not a position"

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State Raffle Sales Report
Century and $1,000 Sales

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2014 State Warden - Necrology Report

Tom Kalisz

State Warden

7125 W Planada Lane

Glendale, AZ 85310

March 5, 2014

Worthy Grand Knight,

Preparations are underway for our 107th State Convention to be held on May 16^th and 17^th, in Tucson, AZ.  We look forward to seeing all of you there.

One of the focal points at the Saturday evening Memorial Mass is the reading of the State Necrology List.  This list consists of the names of deceased Brother Knights from each Arizona council who have been called to their eternal rest since last year’s Convention. 

Your council’s Necrology list should consist of the names of Brothers who have died between May 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014.  

Due to the time it takes to prepare the full Necrology List please provide your council’s Necrology list to me by May 3, 2014.   You can send it to me via email (preferred) or by US Mail.   This date is very firm.   The final list must be compiled and then go to the printers.   If your council’s list is late your departed Brother’s name might not get included on the printed version of the list. Please do your best to be on time.

One last thing - please denote any Brothers you have included on your list that served as either a District Deputy or State Officer.

Once again, thank you for your timely response to this request.  Our past Brother Knights deserve to be remembered at this special Mass.

Vivat Jesus,

Tom Kalisz

State Warden

Arizona State Council

Cell: 602.418.3467

kofc@azmyhome.com

CC:  State Officers, DD’s

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Knights in Action - Lent!

Assembly 2308 in Tucson prepares for another record breaking Lenten Fish Fry.

Sir Knights serve with a smile.

Fr. Henry Miller Assembly in Tucson serves over 500 dinners in less than two hours.

But the clean up takes a little bit longer.

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Ultrasound Help Needed!

Dear Friends of Life,

As we spend this week contemplating the Holy Sacrifice that Christ suffered for us on the cross, we continue our time of Lenten sacrifice in prayer, fasting and almsgiving. These three components of our faith are vital to our spiritual growth and unity with the suffering of Christ. Along with your prayer with us at the rosary this coming Good Friday, we also invite you to consider giving to those in need who are working to nourish life. We have recently been informed that the Hope Mobile Ultrasound Clinic, which provides services in front of the Glendale Planned Parenthood, ASU, and Phoenix College, has a faulty ultrasound machine. This machine is vital to their mission, and they cannot afford a new one without the support of the pro-life community. Please contact Tanya or Sheila from Life Choices, if you would like to make a donation towards the unit.

Email: info@LCWCaz.org

Phone: 602-305-5100  

Please consider making a Holy Week sacrifice for life.

See below for more detailed information:

April 15, 2014

Life Choices Women’s Clinic is in great need. Our ministry to abortion–minded women relies on good quality ultrasound images. So often because of pressures from boyfriends, parents, and the culture, a mother forgets to love.

Yet, at that precious moment, when a mother sees her little one on the ultrasound for the first time, things start to change and she begins to love. Through tears, comes a smile….that’s my baby.

In March, we joined our ministry with Hope Mobile ultrasound clinic and immediately saw God’s wonderful work. We offered services at Planned Parenthood Glendale, ASU, and Phoenix College. At ASU we provided STD testing to fourteen students, and we had nineteen patients in five hours during our time at Phoenix College. On Thursday we saw six women, who were scheduled for abortions, turn away from Planned Parenthood to step into the Hope Mobile clinic.

On Saturday, three women came into our clinic seeking ultrasounds but the machine would not turn on. We actually had to watch one of our patients leave us to go to Planned Parenthood for her ultrasound. We were eventually able to get the machine up and running, but it has been unreliable since the initial occurrence. This has been a heartbreaking setback for our ministry. Our ability to reach women and show them the truth about the new life inside of them is

largely dependent on this machine.

Will you please help us? A new portable machine from GE costs $45,000, but we would be grateful for any assistance that could help purchase a demo model for $30,000. If we can get as many groups as possible to pledge donations, we can begin the process of purchasing a new device.

Please pray for us, and pass this message along to anyone who can help. On behalf of the thousands of moms and babies we serve yearly, thank you!

For all God’s little ones,

Sheila Riely

Director, Life Choices Women’s Clinics

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State Program Awards

Brothers,

The 2014 State Convention is coming very fast! There are lots of preparations to be made. This includes selecting the Council Programs of the Year and individual Knight of the Year awards.

Attached are the 2013-2014 Arizona State Award Instructions and Applications. Please review them and submit your council and/or members for these prestigious awards. It is a great honor for a council or Brother Knight to be recognized at the State Convention. The Arizona award winners are sent to Supreme to be considered for Supreme awards.

To be considered for Arizona awards, your award applications must be received by Francis Smith by the deadline date. The deadline has been extended from April 7, 2014 to April 15, 2014. Any applications received after April 15, will not be considered.

Please submit the complete applications to your Arizona State Awards Chairman via the preferred method of email azawards@gmail.com  or by US Postal Service:

Frank Smith

State Awards Chairman

3167 E. Atsina Dr

Sierra Vista AZ 85650

We would love to have numerous applications for each award to select from. Many councils and Brother Knights do great projects and service. Please submit them so we can recognize their contributions.

The forms can be downloaded found here:

Instructions for the 2013-2014 Awards

Service Programs

Raul Navarrette Award

Pro-Life Award

Family of the Year

Knight of the Year

Grand Knight of the Year

Council of the Year
Chaplain of the Year

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Holy Cross 7904 Highlights

Knights of Columbus

Holy Cross Council # 7904 – Mesa, AZ

Fraternal Year 2013-14 Highlights

JUN 29, 2013 State Organizational Meeting at Holy Cross Parish in Mesa

JUN 29, 2013 State Officer Installation at Holy Cross Parish

     

August 24, 2013 Holy Cross Council #7904 Officer Installation

September 19, 2013 Social Event (State Chaplain, Rev Matthew Jacob)

September 19, 2013 Social Event

September 27-28, 2013 PWID Committee

September 27-28, 2013 PWID Money Counters

October 3, 2013 Holy Cross Council 7904 Praying the Rosary during Respect Life Month

October 13, 2013 Arizona Rosary Celebration, Phoenix (Holy Cross Banner in Procession)

October 24, 2013 Brat Fest at Wellens Hall (Kitchen Chefs)

October 24, 2013 Brat Fest (John Bock, PGK 60 years of service on right)

October 26, 2013 Holy Cross Council #7904 Worshipping at a Corporate Mass

November 3, 2013 Benefit for St Vincent DePaul

November 21, 2013 Deceased Knights Mass, Bill Ritchie, DD Presentation to a Widow

December 29, 2013 Coffee & Donuts at Sunday Mass in Holy Cross Courtyard

February 5, 2014 Keep Christ in Christmas Essay Contest Presentation

March 16, 2014 Respect Life Essay Contest Presentation (Msr. Nestor on left)

March 21, 2014 Holy Cross Council #7904 Lenten Dinner Kitchen Chefs in Wellens Hall

March 28, 2014 Holy Cross Lenten Dinner, Patrons dining

March 28, 2014 at 40 Days for Life with Bishop Olmsted & 7904 Brothers Below

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