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Membership Recruitment Central - Bob Baemmert

Membership Recruitment East Eddie Parazoo

Membership Recruitment West Eddie Abellera

New Council Development & Round Table Central - Marcel Bergeron

New Council Development & Round Table East - Tom Sokol

New Council Development & Round Table West - Eugene Daly

This month I have been given the great opportunity to write the Membership column for the State bulletin. One of the aspects of Membership that I like is in the area of Recruitment. Now we all recruit in different ways. Some may like to recruit at breakfasts or dinners, others while at church; before or after mass. Maybe you like to set up appointments with new prospects. What I am getting at, is that there are a multitude of different ways to recruit new members into the Brotherhood. Just like a mechanic uses many tools to fix a car, so should your Council use many recruiting tools to get new members. Getting new members means getting new ideas and new talents and that energizes and revitalizes your council.

One of my favorite Recruiting tools is the Round Table!

Does your council have one? Could your council have one? Let’s go into more detail about them, Brothers. There are two types of Round Tables. The first one is the “Church-Based Round Table”. In this type of round table, a member of your council represents your council in a parish that does not have a council yet. For example, your council is in Seattle and you have a brother Knight who moves to Tacoma. He is now going to a church in a parish in Tacoma that does not have a council, so he starts up a Round Table. He gets to stay in your council and everyone recruited for the Round Table in that parish belongs to your Council. SWEET! Your Council grows and the Round Table is helping this happen.

The other type of round table is an “Ethnic Round Table”. If your parish has a large ethnic group you could form a round table for guys with this common bond.

I have found, and I am sure you will find that having a round table is one of the easiest and quickest ways to recruit new members. These churches without Councils do not have the recruitment pressure that our home parishes do. Once the “ground-work” is done; visiting with the priest of the church and forming a plan with some of your brothers in that parish- Recruiting is simple and productive.

I would also like to point out that recruiting new members sometimes is not the easiest thing to do for some of us. I know this better than most because anyone that knows me knows that I am the kitchen guy for my Council. By stepping outside of my comfort zone and being the front man at numerous church drives, I have grown as a man and as a Knight. If I can do it, you can too! Find a round table for your council! Be the one to step out and do some recruiting. Not only will your council grow and prosper, but so will the men and families you meet. AND YOU WILL TOO!

In Christ, Eugene “Big Love” Daly

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