RECRUITING CHAIRMAN

It is with great anticipation and enthusiasm that I am proud to serve as the NC State Re-cruiting Chairman for the next fraternal year. Membership growth and recruiting is something near and dear to me, both in the Knights and as a professional career. So, when I was asked to take on this role, I couldn’t help but say “YES”.

For those of you who attended the Organizational meeting, it was an honor to meet you and share with you for the time we had how to go about setting up a solid recruiting program. Many have asked if the presentation given will be provided, and the answer is yes. I am making some very minor changes in order to allow you to be able to download it in note form from my written notes to use within your councils as well as for personal use. Keep checking the State Web-site for this in the very near future, along with other materials regarding rewards and incentives that will be coming down.
For this fraternal year, as with previous years, we do have a magic number. That magic number is:

                                                                                           1125

That is the membership goal this year that we are striving for. Now, I know at this early stage, it may sound like a lot, and okay, maybe it is. But, if you break this down into simpler num-bers to manage, it really isn’t all that much.
As we discussed at the Org Meeting, the BLITZ weekends are being done away with. This means that our attention for recruiting needs to be more focused on recruiting year round, instead of just two times a year. This by no means suggests that we should not plan major recruiting events for our councils. These types of programs are very good to do if planned an executed prop-erly. All the this means is that the formality of the BLITZ weekends, and the corresponding paper-work that goes with that, no longer needs to be done.

How the numbers break down is actually very easy. For the State of North Carolina to meet these objectives, we are asking each council to work as hard as they can to bring in 9 new Knights starting with July 1 over the next 12 months. This means monthly, we should be seeing between 93 and 94 new Knights being brought in. We already hear as of the Org Meeting that we upwards of 5-8 new Knights on our way to 94 for the month. This is AWESOME!

At the Org Meeting, we learned our State Theme for this year is “We Are Called”. For re-cruiting, we added a little more to that and our theme is “Be the Miracle”. If you look at the his-tory of the Knights of Columbus over the last 129 years, we have been providing one miracle or another in support of our Faith, our families and our communities. By lives of courage and by lives of faith, over 1.8 million members of the Order worldwide; over 15,000 members in NC alone, along with their families, have the chance to provide miracles daily. Each and everyone us has the chance to be the miracle for someone else. Beginning on March 29th 1882 to today, the Order of the Knights of Columbus is the greatest example of a miracle in action. Why would you not want to ask another man to join us?
So I ask all of you to join me this year in continuing to Be the Miracle.

Fraternally,

Rick Lewis, FDD
Recruiting Chairman