Meeting Minutes January 20, 2026

 7:00 PM - Call to Order

• Prayer – Our Father
• Pledge of Allegiance

7:03 PM - Roll Call of Officers

• GK- Present
• FS- Present.          
• DGK-Present
• Chan- Present
• Treasurer- Present
• Advocate-Present
• Recorder - Present
• Warden - Present
• IG  - Present
• OG -Present
• 3YT-Excused
• 2YT-Excused
• 1YT-Present
• Chaplain- Excused
• Lecturer- Same as Chancellor
• Program Director- Same as DGK
• 20 Voting brothers present
• 22 Knights Present
• One Visitor Present

7:05 PM - Hopes Garden Presentation

• Welcome Aubrianne Trout - Director of Community Outreach  
• Hope's Garden Maternity Home
• New- only Maternity Home in Clackamas County
• Currently can handle 3 moms and up to 5 children
• Looking to remodel for 5 moms
• Private Donors Only
• Oak Grove, Clackamas County
• Even a $5/month monthly donation 
• Volunteering is huge
• Need Prayer
• aubrianne@growinghopesgarden.org
• https://growinghopesgarden.org

7:20 PM - Reading / Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes

• Approved Unanimously

7:25 PM - GK’s Remarks (Don Mey)

• Membership Challenge
• Happy New Year
• Christmas Pot Luck Huge Success
• St Thomas Moore- support Fr. Martin King

7:35 PM - District Deputy Remarks

• Safe Environment complete in District 3
• Membership Doing well

7:40 PM - Treasurer’s Report (Mike Devlin)

• Fraternity Checking balance $1,757.08
• Unity Savings Account balance $544.73
• Charity Savings Acct. balance $5.71
• Report approved

7:45 PM - Financial Secretary’s Report (Erik Riechers)

• Pay your dues by Venmo, posted previously in blog
• Report accepted

7:50 PM 7:25pm - Membership Reports

• Membership Director (Dan Riechers)
• A 28 year old that may come in
• Retention Chairman (Richard Digregorio)
• Dues Billing went out
• No Neighbor Left Behind Phone Calls

7:55 PM - Committees

• Parish / School Updates
• St. Clare (Don Mey)
• Brothers In Spirit- Dr. David
• https://www.kofc.org/live-your-faith/into-the-breach-video-series/
• Meeting every Saturday morning at 9am-10:30 in basement of the office
• Extension of the ACTS retreat
• Scripture, Theology, Fraternity!
• St. John Fisher (Mike Devlin)

8:00 PM - KofC Business

• Wine and Cheese @ SJF Jan 31st after the 4:30 Mass
• Pancake Breakfasts Winter/Spring
• St. Clare
• March 8th 
• April 12th 
• June 7th
• St. John Fisher
• February 22nd 
• April 19th
• Donations went out- Bishop White Seminarian $500, Mother & Child $500
• St. Thomas More
• Jon Jungwirth says we need to extend catechism to include whole families
• Contact Jon JONATHAN.JUNGWIRTH@gmail.com to volunteer
• Fatherhood book needs to be ordered from Supreme

8:05 PM - KofC New Business

• Request for help to support a Cameroun Family with rent payments. (Don Mey). Donated $100 on Grand Knight's authorization from the Officer's Meeting.  Contact Don Mey if you have ability and a heart.
• Book Discussion Suggestions
• Find Sr. Miram's book for FS

8:10 PM - “For the Good Of the Order” Mike O’Phelan

• Fr. Henry Nouwen - The Eternal Now
• Poem from Bob Thompson- terminally ill husband, father, child psychologist
• Keep Mary and Bob in your prayers

8:25 PM - Closing Prayers

• Intentions for the Sick and/or in Distress – Hail Mary
• Bob & Mary Thompson
• RIP George
• RIP Tom Chambers
• Misty
• Mary Mouth
• 97 year old mother who recently fell
• Hope's Garden
• 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.

8:30 PM - Adjournment