FIRST FRIDAY ALL (K)NIGHT ADORATION:
August 1st & 2nd... from
Friday evening into Saturday morning our priests will expose the Blessed
Sacrament and offer us the chance to sit in quiet prayer,
contemplation, and reverence with our Savior. All He asks is that we
give a small portion of our time to keep Him company. Jesus,
awaits us. Will you accept His invitation to spend an hour with
Him?
The goal of Council
8183 is to have a minimum of two Knights or a Knight and a
member of his family for each 1-hour time slot in the First Friday
adoration schedule (8:00 PM to 8:00 AM).
Ideally, we would like
to have three Knights or Knights and members of their family
for each 1-hour time slot. Sometimes unforeseen events prevent an
individual from making it to adoration for his scheduled hour. With
three Knights on the schedule, it is less likely that someone will
be in the chapel alone or that someone will have to call one of our
priests to cover a “gap” in the schedule.
If you would like to have a specific time on a
recurring basis, it is easy to arrange. It will make your
scheduling process much simpler and easier and ensure that you have
your own special hour each month. For more information,
contact Br. Les Krogh at lkroghs@comcast.net or (703) 491-2339.
Our signup sheet is
available at :
http://www.mysignup.com/k_of_c_8183_adoration_signup
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Bro. Steve
Wassenberg
Community Director
SEAS & COUNCIL 8183
AGAIN EXCEED ALL EXPECTATIONS DURING OUR 2008 SUMMER BLOOD DRIVE...
SEAS donors did it
again! After initially being told we had only 38 blood drive slots
to fill, SEAS parishioners lined up to donate almost 50 units of
blood. During a summer blood drive, when family activity is high
and it is difficult to find donors, the SEAS parishioners came
through again in a big way on July 19th, 2008. Out of 67 wonderful
people who showed at St. Matthews, 75% were from SEAS. What an
amazing story with entire families coming in, rolling up their
sleeves to help save lives. The folks at Inova Blood Services
also came through to make donors happy with t-shirts for everyone
that showed up, gas cards for 18 lucky people and one lucky couple
who got a $50 gift certificate to Glory Days.
Thanks to Charlie
O'Malley, Mike Crump, Dan Schnieders, Clyde Watts, Tom Nowicki, Dick
Nordberg and Bill Basset
for helping with after Mass sign-ups and also special thanks to
Charlie
O'Malley, Mike
Crump, Ernesto Flores, Dick Nordberg, Dan Schnieders and his sons
Christian and Michael and Woodbridge High School junior Kate Garridy,
who all helped out at the Blood Drive. The Inova Blood Drive staff
was again outstanding.
Special thanks to the 11
Knights who showed up, often with family members, to donate the
precious gift of life. These are the special folks who truly make
this all worth while. Check out the many pictures we took that are
posted on the K of C Web Site.
Our next blood drive is
Saturday, 18 October 2008 at Old Bridge United Methodist (OBUM)
Church where we hope for another great fall turnout. Come on out
and help and donate the gift of life.
If you are interested, please give Br. Tom Stanton a
call at 703-494-9791 or e-mail at:
stanton.home@comcast.net.
COUNCIL ACTIVITIES
VACANT
Council Director
VIRGINIA STATE COUNCIL – 2008 FOOTBALL SWEEPSTAKES...
The Virginia State
Council’s 2008 Football Sweepstakes is off and running. The
proceeds from this sweepstakes go toward supporting varieties state
charity projects to include the Virginia Knights of Columbus
Charities, Inc. (VKCCI). Here are a few facts about the
sweepstakes:
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Tickets are
$10 each!
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$1,000 given
away each week for 10 weeks - $10,000 total!
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90
big chances to win! 9 chances to win each week!
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Prizes
awarded for the 4 highest team and lowest 4-team totals.
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Tickets
valid for the last 10 weeks of the NFL season starting October
26, 2008 thru December 28, 2008.
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PURCHASE
TICKETS ONLINE!
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Tickets can
be purchased online by going to the website
www.state.kofcva.org and clicking on the Football Frenzy
logo.
Prizes are
awarded weekly to the ticket holders with the four teams that score
the most or least amount of points. Total prize fund each week is
$1,000 and it doesn’t make any difference if teams win or lose. In
case of ties, prizes are combined and split. Results are posted
weekly on a website that you can access.
The State
Council has provided us with 150 tickets to sell. Hope many of you
are willing to purchase at least one ticket for yourself and also
consider picking up a few tickets to sell to your neighbors, family
and friends or co-workers. As an added bonus, $2.00 from each
ticket sold comes back into the Council’s general fund. The more
tickets we sell, the more money available to support our charitable
works.
If you’re interested in buying or
selling tickets, please contact PGK Phil Kennedy, (703) 490-5822,
pkenn95798@comcast.net
for more details. Tickets will be available to purchase at all
Council meetings, functions and special events until 3 October.
2008
COUNCIL DUES...
Financial Secretary Gary Lee mailed the 2008 Council dues
notices out to everyone at the beginning of December 2007. Some
members have expressed they did not receive a dues notice in the
mail or have not received their membership card in the mail. That's
understandable since the dues notices and the 2008 membership cards
went out during the hectic Christmas mailing season. If you did not
receive your 2008 dues notice or received your 2008 membership card,
please contact the Financial Secretary. Again, if you have any
questions or concerns about your current membership status, please
give Gary a call at (703) 490-5394 or email him at
gleesr@comcast.net.
VA BENEFITS
GUIDE... The Department of Veterans Affairs recently
published their Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents for
2008. An easy-to-read reference guide, it provides the most current
information about your earned benefits. Be careful before hitting
the print button--it is 153 pages and may take some time to print.
However, you may want to hit your "Save to" tab and download it for
future reference into a folder of your choice. You can download or
print your copy at: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf.
[Source: EANGUS Minuteman Update 13 Mar 08 ++]
MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES
PGK
Phil Kennedy
Membership Director
We’re off to the races. Five new Brother Knights joined the Order
last month making it one of the best starts our council has had in
years. Please join me in welcoming Rod Alcazar, Michael Brenton,
Brad Engborg, David Leblanc and Richard Stark to our council. For
our five new Brothers, thanks for joining the best council in
Northern Virginia.
Not much going on for Membership over the next few months for
degrees, however second and third degrees exemplifications will
start back up in September. I will provide you with more details
about the upcoming degrees in next month’s newsletter. By the way,
for all you Third Degree Brother Knights, the next Fourth Degree
Exemplification will be 8 November at Richmond. I highly suggest
you start thinking about joining the “Patriotic” arm of the Order.
This is the most “visible” degree in the Order, which truly reflects
our commitment to God and country. I will supply you with more
information on this subject in next month’s newsletter.
I want to plant this seed now so when it comes up next month it is
not a surprise to you; the Parish Ministry Fair in September. This
annual event will be 13 and 14 September. As most of you know, we
have a recruiting table at this event. I do not want to get into
too many details, but this is an opportunity for you to ask another
Catholic gentleman like yourself to join the Order. Anyway, we will
talk about this more next month.
As a reminder, here is a few degree dates to mark down on you
calendar. As each degree draws near, you will receive a phone call
and/or an email reminder from a Membership Team member.
Here are some important dates to remember regarding future
degree exemplifications:
Again, if you of know someone who is
interested in joining the council, please
contact someone from the Membership Team to assist you in signing up
your prospect:
Have you invited someone you know to join the Knights?
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Tom Nowicki, PGK
Family Director
FAMILY PICNIC...
The Family picnic will be
in conjunction with the parish picnic on Aug 24th at
Bristow, The cost is $7 per person or $25 per family. It will be
catered by Outback Steakhouse. Knights are asked to assist in the
set-up and take down of the picnic area. If you can help contact DD
Hector Dittamo at
(703) 491-5585 or
hdittamo@yahoo.com.
YOUTH ACTIVITIES
Br. Jerry Zadnik
Youth Director
ANNUAL FLEA MARKET SALE...
The council’s annual Flea
Market Sale will be on Saturday, 16 August from 7:00 am – 1:00 pm in
the lower church parking lot. If the event is rained out, a backup
date of 23 August has been established. Donations will be accepted
for the sale on Monday through Friday, 11 to 16 August from 6:00 –
8:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall of the church.
We will accept most items except furniture and
electronics (TV’s, Computers, etc.).
Proceeds from the sale support our young Man/Young Woman of the Year
Scholarships as well as other youth programs we sponsor during the
year.
So help us out by cleaning out your basements,
garages and attics and bring us your finds to support the sale. This
event is labor intensive. We will need plenty of volunteers
to help collect and sort the donations throughout the week, move the
donations to the lower parking lot, act as sale associates during
the sale, and help with clean-up at the
end of the day.
If you can spare a few hours to help out, reserve a time slot by
clicking below on:
http://www1.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=8183flea
If you
need information, please
contact PGK Tom Nowicki by email at
wemove99@yahoo.com
or call him
at (703) 878-3104, or contact PGK Phil Kennedy by email at
pkenn95798@comcast.net
or call him at (703) 490-5822.
