The April 2025 edition of the monthly council Neumann Knights Newsletter is now available!

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Each January every Knights of Columbus council and assembly provide to the Supreme Council a summary of their fraternal hours for the last calendar year. This information is used by Supreme to understand the total number of charitable hours for the entire order for communications and to help with the order tax-exempt status.

In order to gather this information, the councils and assemblies ask their members to provide the number of charitable hours, and other charitable activities such as sick visits and blood donations, to the program director and grand knight. To make this easier, the council is providing this spreadsheet to help you track this information.

You may be thinking, "I have time to look at this later." However, please open the file and take a look at the structure so that your end of year submission may be easier. It is a simple Excel Document that you can capture hours/visits/mtgs on a monthly basis. Looking at this monthly, it may result in better accuracy and less stress thinking about it at the end of the year.

In the first tab titled "Member Name", please Type your Name, Membership Numbers and the Year in the light gray areas. Then proceed to capture your hours/visits/mtgs in the open light gray cells and they will be summarized automatically. Remember to include all Planning, Prepping and Actual Execution of the event. (Note that many Rows, Columns and cells are protected to retain consistency from file to file.)

In the second tab title "Explanation", we included activities we typically conduct, and placed them in categories which seemed reasonable. If you don't find a particular program you were involved with, then simply add the hours to an existing category and capture any comments in the Comments Column. The actual categories are fixed by Supreme.

Save the File in a folder for your future use this year by "SAVE AS" and include Your Name in the File.

At the end of the year, a reminder for you will be sent to either email the file to PD16169@mikofc.org, or Print the Tab and the Program Director will collect it. If you are not comfortable using Excel, please print the file and write in your hours and the Program Director will collect it from you at the end of the year. Additionally, the Program Director will make these available again as hard copies at the November General Meeting.

Please email PD16169@mikofc.org with any questions you may have.

Thanks, and God Bless!

None of our seminarians should be forced to leave the seminary because they don't have enough money to complete their studies. Our council is asking the parishioners of St. John Neumann to continue to donate cans and bottles to the Knights of Columbus, with the proceeds going to help seminarians of our Archdiocese.

For this to be successful, we need your help! Volunteers are needed to pick up cans and bottles from the church and return them to get the deposit back.

Brother Steve Otting is leading this effort. Volunteers are being asked to collect a few times on Monday through Thursday or they can volunteer to collect on Friday through Sunday. (Note that the first and the last time slots may have an additional day or two or may be shortened by a day or two depending on when the months start and end.)

Steve Otting can be contacted via email at dotting@comcast.net or called or texted at 734-788-0446.

Please click here to sign-up.

Bring the wife! Bring the kids! Bring your shovels, rakes, gloves, wheel barrow, tree trimmers, and garden tools! We have the parish grounds and gardens to clean up, plant and mulch. More hands make light work! We will be at St. John Neumann on Saturday, May 17, 9:00am to about 12:00pm.

Please click here to sign-up.

We will be removing the Right To Life crosses on Saturday, May 24, 2025, starting at 9:00am. All family members are invited to come and help.

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On Wednesday morning, May 28, 2025, at 9:00am, the Knights of Columbus will be helping with the Resurrection Parish property upgrade, including wood chip removal and reseeding.

This is a list of everything that is planned, as well as what we feel is needed. All items are included in the signup. Please signup for all the tools/equipment you plan to bring, as well as the worker slot. (This way we will have a good feel for what we can expect.)

• Wood chip removal and reseeding area facing parking lot where 3 large trees were recently removed.
• Remove wood chips and put them in the trash dumpster. Replace with 1- 2 inches of black dirt to help with new grass seeding and growth. Need to plant grass seed and cover w/straw.
• Need 4 wheel barrows to take extra dirt to low areas at cattails.
• Need 4 battery sawzalls and clippers for cutting off roots in the ground.
• Need 12 shovels, 8 steel rakes and a few smaller plastic rakes for black dirt.
• 2 small lightweight aluminum shovels for black dirt.
• Need 3 brooms and several knee pads.

Please click here to sign-up.

St. John Neumann has a long tradition of asking parish families to take home our Vocations Chalice for one week to pray for priestly vocations. Joe Camill, our Vocations Chairman, is asking brother knights, and their families, to step up to this very worthy activity and sign up to take the Vocations Chalice for a week. With almost 200 knights in our council, we have enough knights for almost 4 years of families praying for vocations!

For more information on this program, please contact Joe Camill at jcamill@wowway.com.

Please click here to sign-up.

The knights will be grilling and serving up pancakes on Sunday, June 8, 2025, at the Sunday 8:30am, 10:30am and 12:30pm masses. For these "pancake" masses, we need 8 to 10 people.

We will also be serving donuts and coffee after Saturday 4:30pm. We need 2 people for this.

This includes one brother to man our KofC information table.

Please click here to sign-up.

The St. John Neumann Knights of Columbus will be sponsoring St. John Neumann Parish Golf Outing on Monday, June 23, 2025, at Fox Hills Golf & Banquet Center, 8768 N Territorial Rd, Plymouth, MI 48170 (click here for map).

Cost is $150 per person (or $45 for dinner only), and includes a cart. The format will be a four-person scramble with check-in starting at 7:50am, a putting contest at 8:40am, and a shotgun start at 9:00am. Lunch at the turn and dinner are included. There will also be a Chance Auction and Basket Raffle

Both men and women are invited to participate.

Contests will include Hole in One Opportunity, Closest to the Pin, Straightest Drive and Longest Drive.

Registration and Sponsorship/Donation Opportunities are Open until June 6. Sponsorship opportunities are available for $2000 (Gold), $1000 (Silver), $600 (Hole-in-one), $300 (Putting), and Hole ($200).

To register, or to become a sponsor, click here.

For more information contact David Trost at dtrostmichigan@gmail.com.

Your help is needed to help make the St. John Neumann Golf Outing a success. We need help with check-in, selling 50/50 tickets, monitoring the hole-in-one contest and other activities. Many hands make light work, and this is a great opportunity to meet other members, parishioners and also help with the event.

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The Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus are committed to protecting children and adults from harm. Protecting God's Children is a three hour workshop that helps individuals understand the commitment and actions needed to ensure a safe environment. Participating in the workshop is required for anyone that will be working with children and young adults.

Sessions can be found at www.virtusonline.org

To attend a workshop:

1. Go to www.virtusonline.org.
2. Click on First Time Registrant.
3. Register for the course ASAP.