MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE OHIO STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
State Deputy News and Notes
for the coming fraternal year – as many of you have already heard or read about in our Knights’ publications, the “Surge with Service” program, which has served Kevin Miller as our programming guideline for many years, has been replaced with Welcome to the 2018-19 fraternal the new “Faith in Action” year! I know that everyone is program. As is the case with any excited with the possibilities and potentials of the coming year: many significant change, this has caused some concern for many councils and councils have new Grand Knights, new officers, new program directors their leadership – but rest assured, and new ideas to grow their councils this new program is a positive and, in turn, our Order. While some transformation, better aligning us to address future challenges in our of us may be apprehensive in parishes and communities. assuming new duties, I encourage them to be bold in their efforts, “Faith in Action” is the natural strengthened by the fact that they program evolution of the “Building work in service to our faith, our the Domestic Church to Strengthen church, and our communities. or Parishes” initiative begun several Our Supreme Council is also excited years ago. While “Building the
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Domestic Church” provides a bold, new blueprint that governs our work – working to build our parishes, Catholic families, better, faith-filled Catholic men – “Faith in Action” is the manifestation of this plan; a method and approach to fulfill this new, more focused vision of how we, as Knights should serve, and how we can be more vital within our faith communities. With that in mind, the first thing to remember is “Don’t Panic!” -- the new program is not that dramatically different than “Surge with Service.” We are already doing an outstanding job in providing service our parishes, and many of the activities we currently provide still fully integrate
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