The October 2024 edition of the monthly council Neumann Knights Newsletter is now available!

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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.

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 2 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.

Our Knights of Columbus council will be holding a Weekend Membership Drive the at the following locations and week-ends:

• Resurrection Parish, September 21/22, 2024
• St. John Neumann, October 26/27, 2024

If you are not a Knight of Columbus, please talk to one of our members and consider joining the largest men's Catholic fraternal organization.

If you are a member, please consider signing up to hand out information and answer questions prospective members may have.

Please click here to signup for St. John Neumann.

Please click here to signup for Resurrection.

The local Knights Councils in Michigan District 114 have been requested to support the Special Olympics Fall Soccer Games competition on Saturday, September 28 to be held at Independence Park, 1898 Denton Rd, Canton, MI (click here for map). Knights and their families are asked to support the event by providing food cooking and serving, as well as site set-up and cleanup.

Past participants have found this to be a great family activity and a great way to support the Special Olympics cause.

NOTE: We also need help from a few people with large vehicles like vans or pickup trucks to transport the grills to Independence Park.

For more information, click here to vist the Special Olympics website at https://www.somi.org/fallgames.

Please click here to sign-up.

The next Corporate Communion for our Council will be Sunday, September 29, 2024, 10:30am. Fr. Paul will recognize the Knights of Columbus that are in attendance. Note that the Knights will be covering the service positions. Knights are asked to wear their KofC shirt (if you have one). Please bring the entire family to this special Mass!

Please click here to sign-up.

Join the St. John Neumann Respect Life Group for the Annual “Life Chain” on Sunday, October 6th, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm on Wayne Rd north of Warren (by Westland Mall).

The Life Chain is a nationwide event held each year on Respect Life Sunday. Find the vehicle with signs in it to get a sign for you hold up (like those below) as you stand silently on the sidewalk facing traffic on Wayne Road as a witness to those babies lost to abortion. The back sides of the signs have prayers that you can reflect on while standing. We will gather for a prayer at the end of event. Come for all or any portion of the 1 1⁄2 hours.

For more information, contact Marshall Grazioli at mgraz5@yahoo.com or 248-535-3450.

Please click here to sign-up.

Our Knights of Columbus Council is sponsoring a table at the AAA Pregnancy Center Annual Fundraising Banquet on Thursday, October 10, 2024. Kevin Sorbo ("Hercules" TV series) will be the keynote speaker for the evening. This will be an exciting evening where we celebrate God and His Truth about the Sanctity of Human Life.

Particpation is for the first 10 people on a first-come, first-served basis. Please click here to sign-up and reserve a seat at the table.

For more information, click here to go to the Friends of the AAA Pregnancy Center 2023 Annual Banquet web page.

For more information, contact Marshall Grazioli at mgraz5@yahoo.com or 248-535-3450.

The Fall 2024 MI Drive will be October 12/13, 2024. We will be taking donations for Tootsie Rolls at Resurrection and St. John Neumann after all week-end masses.

This is a great way to get family involved, including spouses and older children!

Click here to sign up to take donations at Three Brothers Restaurant and Joy Road and General Drive.

Click here to sign up to take donations at Mans Lumber, 47255 Michigan Ave, Canton, MI 48188.

Click here to sign up to take donations after one of Resurrection's masses on October 12/13.

Click here to sign up to take donations after one of St. John Neumann's masses on October 12/13.

The St. John Neumann Family Fall Fun Fest will be Saturday, October 12, 2024. Events will include:

• Chili Cook-off - $10 entry fee (click here for additional information, click here to sign up)
• Cornhole Tournament - $10 entry fee (click here to sign up)
• Beer Tasting

• Coloring table
• Fall crafts
• Kids Cornhole
• Movie Room showing It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• Costume Parade at 2:00pm for those that come dressed as their favorite saint or super hero

• Entrance Fee: $10 per/person or team for each event for Chili, Cornhole, Beer
• A meal combo including a hotdog, chips, bottled water, and a dessert will be available for $3.
• Prizes will be awarded for Chili cook off, Cornhole Tournament, and Jeopardy winners.

Help is also needed for this event. Please click here to sign up to help.

For more information, contact Bill Springer at springerbill@yahoo.com.

Knights of Columbus council 8284 Msgr. Clement H. Kern will be sponsoring a Prolife Workshop on Saturday, October 12, 2024 from 9:00AM to 1:30PM at St. Thomas a'Becket Catholic Church, 555 S Lilley Rd, Canton, MI 48188 (click here for map).

Mike Spencer, president of Project LifeVoice, will be the featured speaker.

To RSVP, email Mike Goodhart at mgoodhart1@gmail.com. For more information, you can email Mike or call 734.502.7850. You can also click here or on the flyer for more information and for Mike Spencer's biography.

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!

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.