Brother Knights,

October 2024 is now behind us and here are some of the highlights. On Sunday, October 13th we had our Sunday breakfast and it benefitted the Respect Life Ministry. It was another successful breakfast and I would like to thank the Life Teen Group for all of their help. They did a tremendous job. Next month’s breakfast will be on Sunday, November 3rd and it will benefit the Bereavement Ministry. During the weekend of October 12th-13th my promotional video for the Knights of Columbus was played at the end of all the Masses. The Spanish video I made was played on Sunday, October 27th. The videos I made were well received and hopefully we can attain more Knights in the future. Recruiting more Knights will take some time and luck and I don’t view this as a race. I view this as a marathon.

On Monday, October 14th, we held our membership meeting. BK Frank Swider bought some pizzas from Marco’s. This was the fourth meeting of the Fraternal Year and we voted on a motion to set aside $1,500 to install a mini-split A/C unit in the Feaster Center garage/fieldhouse. This will ensure that the freezer and refrigerators units will work inside there and not overheat. The motion was accepted and the final vote will take place at next month’s meeting on Monday, November 11th.

Looking ahead, on Saturday, November 9th, The Knights will be preparing a spaghetti dinner and all the proceeds will go to the 2025 Life Teen Camp. Then on Monday, November 11th before the Council meeting the Knights and the SJN sponsored Scout Troop 522 will hold a flag retirement ceremony. Hot dogs will be served after the ceremony. Then on Sunday, November 24th at 10:15 am BK Jose Sandoval Lermont will lead the “Latin Rosary” service. As mentioned earlier, our Council is always recruiting Knights in our Parish and we are finally making some progress. One signed up on the day my video was played and we have another transfer waiting in the wings. My goal is to show them that we are a great organization that serves the Parish community and a place to grow your faith. Thank you and may God Bless you All.

May God Bless you All!

That concludes my report.

Vivat Iesu,

GK Brian Jeffers

COUNCIL GROWTH THIS FRATERNAL YEAR

• Annual Membership Growth Quota - 13
• Membership gains this year - 0
• % of Annual Membership Goal/McGivney Award - 0%
• Prospects awaiting exemplification - 0
• Insurance Meetings for Founders Award (Need 2 for year) - 0

CURRENT MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH

• Associate Member - 146
• Insurance Members - 74
• Inactive Members - 17
• Total Membership - 236

SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH

• Honorary (Age 65 plus 25 years consecutive years - reduced dues) - 7
• Honorary Life (Age 70 plus 25 years consecutive years - reduced dues) - 50
• Exemption (disability) - 1

Please pray for the following Knights in need (list from the last meeting):

• Our Pope, Archbishop, Clergy and Religious - Safety and Perseverance
• Our Military and First Responders - Safety and Perseverance
• Innocents abused, injured and killed - War and Hate
• Larry and Elaine Finney - Health
• Kirk Weissinger - † - Deceased
• Brad Burnett - Health
• Wayne and Gale DeGray - Health
• Gloria Daly - Health
• Pam Lemon - Health
• Tom Wetzel - Health
• Robert Stewart - Health

† - Deceased - Repose of Soul

Knight of the Month

• PGK Mike MacFarlane - for chairing the Fall Festival

• 50/50 Drawing Winner
• No Drawing

The following charitable donations were given by the Council:



• Special Needs Ministry - $951.50 (from Family Breakfast)
• Hurricane Relief - $500
• Coats for Kids - $350

Today's Meditation

All our perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ;

and therefore the most perfect of all devotions is, without any doubt, that which the most

perfectly conforms, unites and consecrates us to Jesus Christ. Now, Mary being the

most conformed of all creatures to Jesus Christ, it follows that, of all devotions, that

which most consecrates and conforms the soul to Our Lord is devotion to His holy

Mother, and that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it is consecrated to

Jesus." —St. Louis De Montfort, p. 65

Council 7923 Officers

Chaplain

Fr. Sunny Punnaknziyil

Deacon Mike Hayward (Assistant)

Grand Knight

GK Brian Jeffers

Deputy Grand Knight

DGK Jose Sandoval Lermont

Chancellor

BK Harvey James

Recorder

BK Steve Rasmussen

Treasurer

PGK Steve Brischler

Warden

PGK Joe Molyson

Advocate

PGK Jim McHugh

Financial Secretary

PGK Glenn Klein

Inside Guard

BK Timothy Daly

Outside Guard

BK Jesus Ochoa

Lecturer

BK David Werve

1st Year Trustee

PGK Michael MacFarlane

2nd Year Trustee

PGK Mike Clark

3rd Year Trustee

PGK Bob Cunneen

District Deputy

DD Bill Gorny

Insurance Field Agent

Steven Znoj - 678-869-5006

Happy Birthday Knights

Theodore Asher 11/2

Charles Kachmar 11/5

Michael J. Knox 11/6

Roberto Del Valle 11/8

Robert Lemon 11/8

James A. Carroll 11/9

Joseph J. Estafen 11/10

John Vandenheuvel 11/12

Karl Schutz 11/14

Edward Reyes 11/15

Daniel Kinard 11/19

Minh C. Ta 11/19

Christopher Van Lede 11/20

Paul Pieper 11/23

Todd Eaton 11/29

Ronald G. Mueller 11/30

November 3rd @ Reynold's Hall - Monthly Breakfast - 9:30am - 1:00pm

November 4th @ Houston Feaster Center - Officer/Planning Meeting - 7:00pm, Rosary - 6:30pm

November 5th @ Gohan Buffet 5150 Stone Mountain Hwy - Knight's Lunch - 12:30pm

November 9th @ SJN Church - Memorial Mass - 8:45am

November 9th @ Reynold's Hall - Spaghetti Dinner for LifeTeen - 5:30pm

November 10th @ SJN Church - Knight's Mass - 9:00am, Rosary - 8:30am

November 11th @ Houston Feaster Center - Business Meeting - 7:00pm, Rosary - 6:30pm

November 12th @ Gohan Buffet 5150 Stone Mountain Hwy - Knight's Lunch - 12:30pm

November 19th @ Gohan Buffet 5150 Stone Mountain Hwy - Knight's Lunch - 12:30pm

November 21st @ Feaster Center - 4th Degree Meeting - 7:00pm, Dinner - 6:00pm

November 24th @ SJN Church - 4th Sunday Latin Rosary - 10:15am

November 26th @ Gohan Buffet 5150 Stone Mountain Hwy - Knight's Lunch - 12:30pm

December 1st @ Reynold's Hall - Monthly Breakfast - 9:30am - 1:00pm

December 2nd @ Houston Feaster Center - Officer/Planning Meeting - 7:00pm, Rosary - 6:30pm

December 3rd @ TBD - Knight's Lunch - 12:30pm

December 7th @ SJNRCS - Breakfast with Santa - 8:30am - 11:30am

BK Frank Swider cooking clam chowder for our fundraiser

Reserve your space for next year's Striper game

Support Life Teen at our Spaghetti Dinner in November