2009-2010 Tennessee State Council Service Programs Michael J. Porter State Deputy

1. 2009-2010 Tennessee State Council Service Programs Michael J. Porter State Deputy

2. The Year of the Volunteer • STEWARDSHIP

3. Programs Packet Contents • USB memory stick with electronic copy • Given to GK’s at last year’s Kickoff • New GK’s to receive from outgoing Grand Knights • Updates available now on the web site • Documents have active links to program consultants’ email addresses • www.kofc-tn.org

4. Plan for Success • Set up a planning meeting during the first 30-45 days of the council year • Attendees should include your DD, council officers and program leaders • Lay out a plan for the entire year’s programs • Don’t be afraid to invite the ladies! • Your State Program Staff is here to help.

5. Planning Guides Tables to organize your activities by area Suggestions for programs by area Planning Meeting Agenda Recommended Attendees Suggested Resources State Council Planning Tools

6. State Council Planning Resources • District Deputies • Benefit from their experience and their work with other councils. • Program Consultants • Excellent source for ideas and as a sounding board for your ideas.

7. Execution of your Programs:Tracking your Council’s Progress

8. State Recognition Program • The State Chaplain’s Award is centered on Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, an activity very close to our State Chaplain’s heart. • The State Deputy Award is an acknowledgement of a council’s timely completion of certain reports required either by Supreme or the State. • Lifetime Achievement will be given to the individual Knight who has made the greatest impact on the order in Tennessee, during his time as a Knight. • Knight of the Yearwill be selected by the DD’s from all Council Knight of the Year applications sent to the State Program Consultant by March 15. • Family of the Year will be selected from the Family of the Year applications (found in Supreme Family of the Month Booklet) sent to the State Program Consultant by March 15.

9. State Recognition Programcont’d. • The Bishops’ Award is the most prestigious award presented by the State Council. This award is based on achieving specific requirements in the areas of Pro-Life, Vocations, Church, Family, Youth and work with the physically and mentally challenged. • Activities of the Year are awarded in each of the Program categories (Charities, Church, Community, Council, Family, Pro Life, Vocations, and Youth,). Choose your Council’s most outstanding activity in each area, and report it on form STSP 1/02 found in Council Report Forms Booklet, page 15, and submit them to the General Program Consultant by March 15. Please use the same form to submit the CHARITIES, PRO LIFE and VOCATION activities; just add the square to the Supreme Form.

10. Reporting Checklist

11. State StaffProgram Consultant: Steve Comm • Charities Consultant – David Morrissey • Church Consultant - Michael McCusker • Community Consultant – Wayne Tedford • Council Consultant – Lee Brideau • Family Consultant – Chris Myers • Pro-Life Consultants: John and Linda Norfleet • Vocations Consultant – Open • Youth Consultant – Keith Sovine • Squires Consultant – Mark Mayer • Insurance Promotion Consultant – Daniel Schachle • Hispanic Consultant – Luis Bustillos • Historian – Kirk Fonte • Ceremonials Consultant – Bill Wicke, IPSD • Webmaster – Tim Hinds

12. Program Guides

13. Family Program Suggestions • Submit your Council’s “Family of the Year”. • Each month, submit a “Family of the Month” . • Plan an annual marriage vow renewal program for your parish. • Promote Family Prayer. • Programs to reach out to families and children of divorced or single parents. • Programs to maintain contact with, or provide assistance to, widows and dependent children. • Coordinate a family activity that of the CYO or Youth Groups can enjoy. Sporting activities work well with the youth. • The Knights of Columbus Family Week is August 11-17. Plan a mass to honor the families of your parish. • Plan a corporate communion. • Plan family activities that allows everyone to participate. • Establish a scholarship program. • Hold a “Night at the Movies” at your Parish

14. Council Program Suggestions • Select a “Knight of the Month” at least quarterly. • Publish a monthly newsletter. • Establish a council homepage on the world wide web. • Recognize K of C events, new members, and achievements in the parish bulletin. • Wear nametags at all council, church, and social functions. • Sponsor and/or maintain a regular blood drive. • Sponsor a special event for Columbus day (October 12, 2009). • Attend all state meetings. They include the kick-off and mid-year meeting as well as the state convention for elected delegates. • Plant a tree in honor of deceased brother knights. Place K of C markers on the graves of deceased brother Knights. • Promote membership in the Father Michael McGivney guild. • Conduct an open house for members and guests. • Conduct a sporting event like golf, softball, and soccer tournament. • Conduct a Christmas, New Year’s, Valentine’s, or St. Patrick’s day dance. • Participate in a district wide event. • Conduct an awards night honoring your Knight and Family of the year or participate in district awards banquet. • Conduct a Past Grand Knights dinner to honor the past leaders. • Hold two corporate communions this fraternal year. • Invite speakers on current subjects to your social meetings. • Recognize births, birthdays, anniversaries, illnesses, or deaths of members with cards and flowers.

15. Church Program Suggestions • Establish a perpetual Eucharistic Adoration program in your parish • Conduct activities designed to increase participation and appreciation of Holy Days or holidays. • Conduct a family day of reflection. • Conduct an outreach program to reach non-Catholics or those Catholics that have fallen away. • Sponsor a parish restoration project. • Become involved in the RCIA program. • Sponsor an ecumenical service in your community. • Adopt a parish in a third-world country. • Sponsor a parish retreat. • Sponsor a church international day, highlighting the diversity of the church. • Sponsor a parish history day: have parishioners bring in various articles to share with the parish. • Sponsor a parish picnic. • Sponsor a program to assist in transportation of the handicapped and/or elderly to mass and other church activities. • Assist scouting programs to work on religious awards. • Have a parish clean-up day. • Adopt a Catholic school program.

16. Vocations Program Suggestions • Join the R.S.V.P. program. (smaller councils can combine with other smaller councils to support a Seminarian). • Your council can support a mission’s church in your area. • Say the prayer for vocations at each Knights of Columbus meeting. • Hold/sponsor a vocations fair (“open house”) in your area. • Hold a vocations retreat at least once a year. • Have young men from your parish visit or stay with a Seminarian, Priest or Brother to get an idea of what it takes to be a priest. Likewise, young women visit Convents or spend a day with a Nun or Sister. • Have vocations material on display on bulletin boards at each council meeting and around your parish, especially near classrooms. • Hold a “religious appreciation day” dinner each year for your pastor and all religious serving your parish. • Invite a Priest, religious, Seminarian, etc. To speak to your junior high and high school aged pre classes. • Invite your Priest, or a Seminarian to attend your council meetings. • Invite the religious of your parish to ball games and other sports events, social events, etc. • Sponsor a group from your council and parish to visit the monastery in Cullman, AL. or St. Meinrad’s in Indiana. • Have a Mass said for vocations once a month. • Schedule praying of the rosary for vocations 30 minutes before each council meeting. • At your council meetings, ask one man to say the Rosary every night for a week and then pass the vocations Rosary to another brother Knight. Pass the Rosary through your council until each member has prayed the Rosary for the intentions of religious vocations. • Devote a portion of proceeds from a fund raiser each year to purchase of needed religious articles in your parish (vestments, chalice, etc.).

17. Community Program Suggestions • Conduct your annual MR fund drive before December 31, 2009. • Sponsor and staff a food and/or clothing drive in your parish and community. • Sponsor a recreational, social, or religious event for the elderly in your community. • Have your assigned MR board director speak at a council meeting under “good of the order,” before this year’s MR drive. • Participate as a council in a habitat for humanity project. • Financially support a group that delivers meals to homebound people such as “meals on wheels.” Promote the “Great American Smokeout” held annually in November. • Develop a program to educate your council, parish, and community on how to use postal form #2201 to stop pornography from being delivered to their homes and families. • Conduct a special recognition program for your local police, fire, or military personnel. • Participate with another civic or fraternal organization such as Rotary, Moose, Elks, and Lions in a fraternal activity. • Sponsor an outdoor billboard for a K of C or Church activity, such as Keep Christ in Christmas. • CONDUCT AN AWARENESS PROGRAM CONCERNING ORGAN DONOR PROGRAMS. DISTRIBUTE AND FILL OUT DONOR CARDS. • Participate in an “Adopt a Highway” program. • Sponsor a blood drive program in your church, council, or community. • Sponsor a local little league or youth soccer team.

18. Youth Activity Suggestions • Conduct the annual Basketball Free-Throw contest for your council. • Conduct a social activity for the children of the council Knights, where Knights can demonstrate and explain the activities of the Knights of Columbus. • Develop and maintain a Columbian Squires Circle. • Sponsor or coach a youth athletic team. • Conduct and/or assist in implementing a special program for mentally/ physically handicapped children in your area. • Develop or assist in the creation of spiritual and social activities between the youths of two or more parishes. • Acknowledge your parish altar servers with K of C certificates and a social activity. • Conduct or sponsor a community-wide youth activity which spotlights, directly or indirectly, the Knights of Columbus’ commitment to the youth. • Sponsor a Scout troop or Cub Scout Pack (boy or girl). • Conduct a drug, alcohol, or cult awareness program for the youth of your parish. • Participate in the K of C substance abuse awareness poster contest. • Create a parish awareness program for K of C scholarship and loan programs. • Provide a scholarship to students in your council or parish. • Honor an outstanding student athlete and/or leader with a certificate at a social or business meeting. • Arrange a tour or retreat for the parish youth at a Seminary, Abbey, or Convent. • Observe and promote “World Youth Day” within your parish. • Conduct the annual soccer contest for your council

19. Columbian Squires • Having a Squires Circle fulfills all your youth requirements for a council year • Send all forms (election of officers and audit) to Mark Mayer

20. Pro-Life Program Suggestions • Promote the Pro-Life movement in your Parish and Council. • Provide a recognized Pro-Life organization with financial or manpower assistance (Tennessee Right to Life, Hope Clinic for Women, etc.) • Send a representative to a local or national Right to Life March. • Promote a letter-writing campaign to Tennessee legislatures or Federal legislatures relative to a Pro-Life topic or Bill. • Create an internet e-mail chain for disseminating the latest information regarding all legal, political, financial news affecting the Pro-Life issue. • Sponsor an evening of information on the current status of the Pro-Life issue for the Parish Life Teen program with representative from local right to life groups. • Put up and maintain a Pro-Life Bulletin Board at your council or Parish. • Erect a memorial to children killed through abortion. • Organize a Parish-wide collection of maternity and infant’s/children’s clothing for donation to local Right-to-Life Thrift Stores. • Use checks that carry a pro-life message. • Use pro-life pins, decal, envelopes, bumper stickers, etc. • Donate pro-life books to your local libraries, schools, colleges and churches. • Leave pro-life literature wherever you can; in public places, restaurants, on the bus, in business reply mail, in waiting rooms, library books, etc. • View an actual abortion and challenge others to do so. Use graphic images of abortion on posters and other material. • Sponsor a parish information program with a knowledgeable speaker to discuss the differences between “living wills” and the more acceptable “will to live”, the Catholic Christian pro-life approach to end-of life issues. • Push legislators to add safeguards to end-of-life statutes • Organize a volunteer program to donate time/service to a local hospice or retirement facility. • Bring meals or Communion to the Homebound or sick. • Have a special information session on adoption at your parish. • Help new mothers and fathers with counseling/support on proper childcare with particular emphasis on single parents. • Participate in a program for battered wives or abused children. • Let’s not forget our Veterans in the VA Hospitals, or Operation Stand Down, and even the homeless ones on the streets. • Donate time or money to your local animal shelter. Help find homes for animals that are at risk of being euthanized. • Support the Silver Rose Program

21. Charities Program Suggestions • Conduct your annual MR fund drive before December 31, 2009. • Have your assigned MR Board Director speak at a Council meeting under “Good of the Order,” before this year’s MR drive. • Increase your annual MR drive funds • Plan a fundraiser for the “Wheelchair Foundation” each wheelchair cost’s $75.00. Try to raise enough to purchase 10 chairs. All funds should be directed to the Tennessee State Wheelchair Chairman, Steve Dietz. • Plan a fundraiser for the “Courage the Lion” program. This program delivers courage lions to sick children in hospitals across the State of Tennessee. • Support monetarily or physically any major recognized charity. Document these events and show the results of your effort.

22. Insurance Program Suggestions • Schedule and host a Family Fraternal Benefits Night with spouses in attendance. • Name an Insurance Promotion Director for your Council. • Use Supreme Approved Insurance Articles in Council Newsletters. • Send copies of Admissions Committee Questionnaires (Form #391) along with New Member Forms (Form 100) for all new members to the State Treasurer in a timely manner. • Reactivate an Inactive Insurance Member. • Establish and maintain a Bulletin Board for Insurance Promotion in your regular Council Meeting Area. • Name an Insurance Activity of your choice.

23. WHERE DO YOU FIND IT? The Knights of Columbus State Website Tim Hinds, Webmaster

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29. WE ARE STEWARDS “Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land” –Lev. 25:24 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I….will hold them accountable for my flock.” -Ez. 34:10

30. Membership 2009-2010 • The Year of the Volunteer • Star council requirements • Complete and submit form #365 on time (service program personal) • Complete and submit form #SP-7 Columbian award on time • Complete and submit form #1728 Fraternal Survey on time • Pay all Supreme Per Capita on time • Meet a minimum of 7% on membership (net) • Meet a minimum of 2.5% of insurance members (net)

31. The Year of the Volunteer • Three main goals for 2009-2010 • Growth in Charitable giving through our programs. • Growth in Membership • Growth in Insurance members

32. The Year of the Volunteer • Find “One” program • Find “One” new member to join your council each and every month. • Find “One” program for that new member and all members of your council to participate in each month. • Find “One” associate member in your council each month and make him an insurance member

33. The Year of the Volunteer • Find “One” program • Find “One” Seminarian in your Dioceses to support • Find “One” way your council can participate in the Culture of Life fund • Find “One” new way to assist your Parish Priest in his mission in your home council Parish.

34. The Year of the Volunteer • Find “One” program • This is the “One” year that we all can make a difference. Make it the best year of your life as a member of the Knights of Columbus.

35. The Year of the Volunteer • Find “One” program • The Find ‘ONE” incentive plan • Council Grand Knights: • Attain 100% in net membership prior to June 30, 2010, the Grand Knight will receive a $50 gift card to the restaurant of his choice. • Attain 100% in net membership & 100% in net insurance prior to June 30, 2010, the Grand Knight will receive a $100.00 check from the State Council • Attain 125% in net membership by 4/1/10, and maintain this through June 30, 2010 the Grand Knight will receive a refund for 1 registration to the State Convention • Attain 125% in net membership & 125% in net insurance members by 4/1/10, and maintain this through June 30, 2010 the Grand Knight will receive a refund for 2 registrations to the State Convention • All dates are based on figures by the Supreme Council on that date

36. The Year of the Volunteer • Find “One” program • The Find ‘ONE” incentive plan • District Deputies: • District Deputies who send a completed 1st & 2nd degree schedule for the entire fraternal year in their district to Bill Wicke by 9/1/09 will receive a $25.00 gift certificate to the restaurant of his choice. • If all councils in the DD’s district achieve 125% in net membership by April 1, 2010 and maintain this through June 30, 2010 the DD will receive a refund for 1 registration to the State Convention • If all councils in the DD’s district achieve 125% in net membership & 125% in net insurance members by April 1, 2010 and maintain this through June 30, 2010 the DD will receive a refund for 2 registrations to the State Convention • All dates are based on figures by the Supreme Council on that date

37. Membership 2009-2010 Find “One“ New Member

38. The Year of the Volunteer • Find “One” program • This is the “One” year that we all can make a difference. Make it the best year of your life as a member of the Knights of Columbus

39. Membership 2008-2009 Tennessee Goal – 375 Tennessee Actual – 446 Tennessee exceed goal by 19% • Councils achieving at least 100% of goal – 26 • Councils achieving at least 150% of goal – 12 • Councils exceeding 200% of goal - 5 Congratulations!

40. Why One New Member? • The struggling economy has produced excessive job loss or income reduction. More people need Knights help. We need more people to serve. • The Knights of Columbus have the organization and resources to assist those families in need.

41. Identify “One” New Member • Utilize your parish directory to identify eligible men in your church. With help of your priest, eliminate those not considered “practical”. • Work with your RCIA Coordinator to identify men currently on track to join the church. • Use your school’s roster (for those with Catholic schools) to name men from outside your parish. • Every member should recruit one potential new member • Utilize your local Columbian Squires council to identify those turning 18 years of age.

42. Inform “One” New Member • Organize a Knight Information Night each month. Have a bulletin announcement inviting interested men for a sit down informational meeting. Host the info night with your GK, DGK or other current members that have enthusiasm and knowledge of the Knights of Columbus. • Host a Benefits Night with your K of C insurance agent and other financial planners and invite any parish members to attend. • Make arrangements to give a Knights of Columbus presentation as a part of your parishes RCIA class. • Have a close working relationship with your local Columbian Squires, leading them to your council after their 18th birthday. • Schedule one-on-one meetings with those showing an interest or ones identified as a potential member. • Organize semi-annual membership blitzes giving personal testimony at Mass from a recognized and respected member of your council

43. Invite “One” New Member • Council Breakfasts as a guest • Spouse Appreciation Dinners as a guest (with spouse) • Clergy and Religious Appreciation Dinners • Pro-life Marches • Free Throw and Soccer Challenge • All other Knight sponsored events

44. Initiate “One” New Member • Schedule 1st degrees on a monthly basis (for larger councils) and every other month for smaller councils. Publicize these dates with your council so as they recruit, they know when the next degree will be conducted. Degrees can be cancelled if needed, but set the tone to hold 1st degrees on regular basis. • Work with other local or regional councils to schedule 2nd degrees on a bi-monthly basis. Keep your newest members moving through the degrees towards completion of the 3rd degree. • Sponsor should take candidates to each degree. Never give them a time and place to be. • Commit your council to providing candidates to two Third Degrees annually in your region.

45. Involve “One” New Member • Assign a council activity for the new member to get involved in • Ask new members to join the degree team

46. “One” New Member

47. “Pass the Pin” Program • State Pins given out at Kickoff Meetings • At 1st Degree, GK passes his pin to new member • When associate member becomes insurance member, they receive a pin • State Council will replace all pins given to new members

48. The Year of the Volunteer • STEWARDSHIP