Dec 18
Brother Knights, let us all welcome two new brothers to our council! Brothers James Abroguena and Joey Garcia are the two latest men to join the Knights of Columbus at the Exemplification ceremony held 8.15 pm at St. Paul’s parish Centre in Richmond.
Brothers Sherwin, Joey and James with GK Mark. Congratulations guys!
Dec 18
Our on-again, then off-again and finally on-again Christmas potluck party was held after the Saturday evening mass on Dec 14th. We had a healthy group of men, who together with their spouses, and one child enjoyed great food and cheer with our Pastor Fr. Au. There were many highlights in the food, including Filipino Pancit and a Malaysian/Canadian dish called “Moose Rendang”, some great curry chicken and of course some great wine to add to the cheer.
Kudos to brothers Sam and Rommel who set up the popcorn machine, music as well as Christmas tree and tables for the small party. I’m pretty sure everyone enjoyed themselves thoroughly!
Dec 17
Brothers, I’m sure most of you would have seen the Christmas Crib by now. These pictures are for our viewers from other parts of the country and the interweb, who might be interested in our crib…and how we in St. Joseph’s keep Christ in Christmas!
Dec 02
The Coffee Break Raffle was conceived by Bro. David Kiwanuka, who was touched by Fr. Alfred Okelo’s mission of rescuing and caring for Ugandan orphans who had been forced to become child soldiers. Br. David came to the council asking for help and we advised him to that the council will assist in a raffle of a gift basket called the “coffee break” raffle.
Tickets for the raffle were to be sold over two weekends and the entire profits were to be sent to Fr. Okelo in Uganda to the benefit of the Rechele Comprehensive Secondary School, of the Northern Uganda-Lira Diocese.
As Fr. Au was away on Sunday, we had Fr. Claude pick the winner after the Noon mass, witnessed by a number of parishioners as well as Knights. The winner of the Raffle was ticket: 259409.
The net proceeds for this raffle was $250.00 and this will be sent to Fr. Okelo.
Here is a letter of thanks from Father Okello:
Dear Father Richard Au and the Brother Knights of the KoC St. Joseph’s Council 9846,I am happy to inform you that I have received your kind donation of Canadian $250 (Uganda shillings 550,000). I thank all those who sacrificed to raise the funds and endeavored to make me receive it.Brother Knights, I am so grateful to you for thinking of my mission work, and especially for the school that I am heading.This is a very welcome and blessed donation at this time of the academic year. I will let the students, teachers and the school board members know about it and I am sure they will appreciate very much your generosity. We do not have anything to do for you but we will pray that God may continue blessing you in so many ways, especially as you serve His people that are in your care. Thanks for making contributions to our school.To the parishioners of St. Joseph, Port Moody, I thank you for the short but memorable and wonderful time that I spent with you last August. All of you were so kind and good to me. I learnt a lot from you within the short time. Thanks for what each one of you did for me. May you keep up the spirit. I request you to continue praying for me and my mission.I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year, 2014.Thank you,Fr. Alfred Okello
Dec 02
The idea was to create a Christmas Star…a Bethlehem Star if you wish, that will light up the way for pilgrims and the three wise men and herald the coming of the Christ child. Through the combined efforts of a number of notable Knights, Br Sherwin Ruiz, who lent us his CAD skills to create an accurate cutting template for the star, to brothers David Ho, David Kiwanuka, John Rochard, Zeus Custodio, Mark Custodio, Samuel Hu and of course, the indomitable Brian Derrick …we managed to get the star cut to size, and all holes drilled.
The base was a challenge, but through the dedicated efforts of the brother Knights who stayed to finish it in the bitter cold of Fr. Au’s garage, we managed to finish it! We started at 9.00 am, and when the final screw was driven in, it was closer to 4.30 pm. Much of the delay happened due to the fact that we needed to drill holes on both sides for the smaller lights – 9/16ths on one side and 1/2 inch on the other, to make sure the bulbs sat nicely.
After a test run, we decided that it would be too much work to prime the wood and paint the star and have it ready for Saturday evening mass, and instead settled for a launch date of the coming weekend, the 2nd Sunday of Advent. We will be doing this over the course of the week. If you’re able to help, simply contact bro John Rochard, Brian Derrick or myself to arrange a suitable time.
The original plan was to raffle each LARGE bulb for $5.00 and each SMALL bulb for $2.00 to give everyone in the parish an opportunity to be a part of this star. We will discuss this, as well as the Council Christmas party, at the upcoming Executive Meeting on Thursday.
Meanwhile, enjoy the pictures of Knights at work….Lighting up for Christ!!!
Dec 02
Through the fund-raising efforts of you brother Knights, our council has donated $100 to St. Vincent De Paul Society. Here’s Margaret Rowe Chairman of SVDP St. Joseph’s receiving the cheque.
Your council has also donated $100 to Covenant House charity for homeless youth who made a desperate appeal for donations to help troubled youth. 
Council then donated an additional $100 from Charity Appeal Rebate to SVDP again. Here is GK Mark handing over the cheque to the VP of SVDP Barry, at the recent Christmas Parish Breakfast.
Below, is an excerpt from an email from the President of SVDP, Margaret Rowe:
Thank you so much for your generosity. We delivered 60 boxes of food this morning plus gifts for 23 children. Our cupboards are now low so we will buy food to replenish in case we get any requests for emergency hampers over Christmas.
Nov 17
Brothers, please click here to read the important letter from the worthy State Deputy. The State Council has put together a mechanism for us to channel our fundraising efforts to the Philippines, through Columbus Charities. We will discuss at our upcoming meeting, but your Executive has already made plans to donate the proceeds of the next Parish Breakfast, coming up on the 24th, to this effort. We were just waiting for the right fundraising mechanism to announce it.
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The net proceeds from our latest Parish Breakfast event was $142.00. This entire net profit was donated to the Philippine’s Disaster Relief Fund. Thanks to the brother Knights who showed up all day to help run and manage the Breakfast event!
Nov 11
In keeping with tradition, Council 9846 served its patriotic duty by presenting themselves for the parade and march past at the Cenotaph at Port Moody. As in years past, the Grand Knight of the council, brother Mark Pan laid a wreath to honour the memory of ‘The Fallen Soldier’. Flanked by Sir Knights Zeus Custodio and Mark Edward Custodio, these Knights of Columbus participated in this community event with full gravitas and somberness befitting the event.
Here are some pictures that were taken by brother Sam of the event.
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