Knights of Columbus – March 2023
Celina - Coldwater - St. Henry - Fort Recovery - Sidney - Versailles - Greenville - Russia Covington - Wapakoneta - St. Marys - Minster -Russells Point - McCartyville - Spring eld Urbana - Bellefontaine Fairborn - Eaton - Huber Heights - Vandalia - Englewood - Piqua Troy - Tipp City - New Carlisle - Dayton - Xenia - Beavercreek -Centerville - Kettering Hamilton - Fair eld - Harrison - North Bend - Monroe - West Chester - Carthage - Sharonville New Burlington - Norwood - Shandon - Wilmington - Morrow - Mason- Lebanon - Milford - Loveland - Spring el Middletown - Miamisburg - Franklin - Trenton - Cincinnati - Ripley - Fayetteville - Hillsboro - Green eld - West Union - Waynesville
March Membership Blitz! Spring is beginning to peek at us from around the corner and that means it’s time for the March Membership Blitz! And what better time to grow the Order than during the very start of growing season. Let’s till the soil, spread the fertilizer, and plant those seeds. Invite the husbands and wives of your parish to attend a bene t watch party (see page 4), or host a Delta Church Drive. There are plenty of great March growth incentives and you can nd out more in State Membership Director Michael Friel’s column on page 2 of this issue. Fish fry season has begun and this too is an excellent time to recruit new members. Speaking of sh fries, they are also a good time to sell Super Cash Bonanza tickets. Some council Super Cash chairman are partnering with their sh fries to o er a dollar o a sh dinner if the customer purchases a Super Cash ticket! The sh fry still gets the dollar and the councils sells more tickets! It can be a winwin. If your sh fry is run by another organization
you could kick back more than that dollar to the group or even another group. There are so many possibilities. The 2022 Matching Funds Campaign in support of the six Ohio diocesan o ces of Evangelization or Religious Education concluded this past November. At the January mid-fraternal year meeting in Columbus program chairman Jim Maslach presented Michael Schafer, the Director of Communication and Evangelization for the Cincinnati Archdiocese with a check on our behalf for $15,950.86 which included a $5,620.00 match from the Ohio Charity Foundation and the State Council. We came in third statewide in donations and was only $250 shy of the top donor Columbus. Thank you brothers! Fraternally yours, Michael J. Felerski State Treasurer
The state council is setting up a Disaster Relief Aid for those in East Palestine to assist when the need arises. If your council wishes to donate to the this Relief Aid, please make checks out to the Ohio State Council, Knights of Columbus and mail to: Je Kiliany, State Secretary 559 Walnut Street Leetonia, OH 44421 Please mark the memo line as Disaster Relief. Finally, please keep the people of East Palestine in your prayers as they continue to deal with the after a ects of this tragedy. Vivat Jesus,
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