Meeting Notes October 21, 2025

 7:00 PM - Call to Order

• Warden’s Membership Check
• Prayer – Our Father
• Pledge of Allegiance

7:05 PM - Roll Call of Officers

• GK,FS, Chan, Recorder, Warden, 2YT , IG, OG - Present 
• DGK, Treasurer, Advocate, 1YT, 3YT Excused
• 13 Voting Members Present

7:10 PM - Fraternal Benefits Presentation

• Welcome Field Agent Andres Contreras
• Andres R. Contreras Will be here next meeting
• 503-462-5772 is the number to call for insurance

7:11 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes

• Approved as posted

7:15 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)

• Membership Challenge
• Fraternal Benefits
• SAFE Environment
• Membership Challenge

7:20 PM - District Deputy Remarks

• Presentation of Star Council Award

7:30 PM - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)

• Fraternity Checking balance $1,670.51
• Unity Savings Account balance $544.67
• Charity Savings Acct. balance $5.71
• Report Approved

7:32 PM - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)

• Report Approved

7:33 PM - Committees

• Parish / School Updates
• St. Clare (Don Mey)
• Dinner Lecture Thursday Night
• Sign up online https://saintclarechurch.org
• Acts Retreat November 13-16 
• Dave V gave us a report on the Rome Pilgrimage
• 31 parishioners
• Visited Cathedrals that are more than a thousand years old
• St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin)

7:40 PM - KofC Business

• Wine & Cheese at SJF 
• Saturday October 25th after the 4:30 PM Mass.
• Pancake Breakfasts Fall
• St. Clare
• November 2nd - mark your calendars
• Fr. Jim Art Fair in music room during breakfast.
• Initial round of donations 2025/2026, status;
• Mt. Angel Seminarian - $500 - seminarian request submitted.
• Francis Center - processing - $500 donation and purchase of 2 boxes of Coats for Kids.
• St Thomas More Donuts
• State Convention- https://oregonkofc.org

7:45 New Business

• Essay Contest Ends October 31

7:50 PM - For the Good of the Order

• Life Prayers book- ecumenical way beyond Christian, reading from Anne Frank's Diary
• Reading from the Gospel- Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector Luke 18:9-14

8:00 PM - Closing Prayers

• Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
• Dan and Jaz Riechers
• Linda. Larson
• Peggy Miller- cousin of Don Mey
• For Daniel S. Environment Advisor & Mother
• Mark LeAir's son's soccer injury, fractured knees, no cast but just.a brace and his wife
• Mary Muoth's grief and health
• God Bless the work of the council and its members and grant eternal peace to the souls of the departed members.
• Prayer for the Canonization of Father Michael J. McGivney.

8:05 PM - Adjournment