List of Everything We Do
At our monthly 9924 business meeting on October 8th, 2025 PGK Rick Kuertz spoke about everything our council does to serve our Church, Community and Families. Rick thanked our members for always being there to share their time, gifts and talents whenever a call is made to help or volunteer.
Enumerated below is the list presented by Rick, in no particular order, of what we do on a regular basis. As always, thank you Brothers, for all you do!
- Supporting our Priests, Father Jay and Father Saji
- Blue Mass
- Corporate Communion
- Circle of Life Charity Golf Event
- Knights Breakfast – Best Breakfast in Venice
- Saying the Rosary before our monthly business meetings
- Serving dinner before our monthly business meetings
- Monthly Food Drive
- Blood Drive
- Collection for Our Mother’s House
- Backpack program
- Selling Coffee
- Monthly Bingo in support of local chaities (e.g. Meals on Wheels)
- Automating our Council operations and getting back on track with our website using Square and Zeffy
- Moving Officer’s meeting to a week before the meeting so we don’t focus on finances as much
- CFA Raffle – grown from 600 tickets to 1,000 tickets
- Knights Scholarship Program
- William Samuel Morris Scholarship Program
- Oversee Barbara Diehl Fund
- Parish Picnic
- 5th Sunday Rosary
- Annual Traveling Rosary Congress
- Youth Basketball Free Throw Competition
- Yearly Columbus Day Retreat
- Italian Night for Operation Warrior Resolution
- Irish Night for our Council
- New York Tenors – coming in December
- Christmas Party with CCW
- 4th Degree participation
- Notes to sick Brothers and cards of condolence
- Altar Serving Award – engaging our youth
- Brothers showing up to Brother’s funerals, meaning a lot to families
- Proclamation read at funerals
- Getting to know Brothers better
- Membership Drives
- Quarterly Exemplifications
- Serving as Ushers, Lecturers, Altar Servers and Eucharistic Ministers
- Kitchen crew for demolition and rebuilding project