I hope this year will find you and your families being drawn deeper into the

lives of Jesus and His Church. How is this to happen you might ask? The answer, as always, lies not in our actions but in those of God. God is offering us all the grace to live the life he wants us to live through the sacraments of His Church and the life of prayer. To that end, perhaps this is the year when we start to focus not so much on doing things, but rather entering into conversation with God, letting Him re-veal to us what it is He wants us to be.

This is in line with a philosophic prin-ciple that doing flows from being, and not the other way around; we can never hope to do the will of God in our life if we are not first the person who He created us to be. So let us have a renewed focus on our prayer and spiritual lives this year, setting aside time every day where all we “do” is be silent in the presence of the Lord. This can be in an adoration chapel, in our rooms, or some other quiet spot.

In this time let us lay our lives before the Lord, asking Him that He would form us into the persons that He created us to be. May you and your families all have a

Brother Knights and families,

I hope this message finds you all well as we continue to celebrate the Christmas

season and welcome the New Year. Our Council is hosting the District Ma-jor Degree on Saturday, January 27. This is a great time for our Council members to consider who would be good addi-tions to our Council and membership, and to build upon and continue the support that the Knights of Columbus provides for our priests, church, school and community. Requirements for mem-bership are to be a practical Catholic male 18 years and older. Please prayer-fully consider invitations among your family, friends and associates.

Our annual Dad's Belgian Waffle Breakfast will be on Jan. 21st. Please join us for delicious waffles. Money raised from the breakfast will be used to support St. Vincent de Paul School Scholarships.

Keep Friday, Jan. 26th at 7 p.m. open to join us for the Marion Hour prayer program (details in an article on this page. I will end this month with a pas-sage from St. Paul. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God

for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) God Bless

Happy New Year and know that you will be in my prayers! live it fully.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Every Sat. at 10 a.m. the rosary is prayed at the Robbinsdale Abortion Center,

3819 West Broadway, Robbinsdale.Jan. 2, Reg. business meet., 7 p.m.Jan. 11, School Free Throw ContestJan. 21, Belgian Waffle BreakfastJan. 26, Holy Family prayer programJan. 27, 1st, 2nd & 3rd degreeJan. 30, Planning meet., 7 p.m.

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Brother Knights please pray for the peo-ple on our prayer list: Don Pfau, Bruce Guggemos, Carl Keeney, Bill Johnson, David Ahner, Heather Olson-Tveita (Scott Pass-more's daughter), Dan Spanier, Tony Jochim, Mike Ball, Delores Gammelgaard (Arnie's wife), Harry Long, Chuck Lynde, Dorothy Olmstead (Tom's wife); Dorothy Stevenson (Robert's wife), Rich & Mary Scherber, Peter Crego, Evan Steeves, son of Mark Steeves; Arlene Niles (Bob Fashing's daughter); Marty Whatmuff (Dave's wife); Bill Peloquin Sr., Frank Butina (Russ Funk's father-in-law); Bob Vogelpohl, Jim & Marlys Wishy, Vin-cent Bazzani, Austin Loeffler, Joyce Kirscher (Jack’s wife), Don Kramer, Toy McGee (Lar-ry’s wife), Christine Munoz (Bob Clark’s daughter).

Remember family members & friends who are sick or are having surgery, men and women serving in the military and those men studying for the priesthood or deaconate. If you know of any Knight or family member who you would like to be included on our prayer list please call Dave Wilhelm, 763-425-7754 or Tom Hel-temes, 763-425-2314 or e-mail: tom@heltemes.com

CRUFIX WINNERS: Pictured above are Joan Montroy and Bruce Guggemos. They won the drawings at the Commu-nion Breakfast in December for 2 cruci-fixes made by Paul and Mark Greninger.

GUEST SPEAKER: Brother Knight Lee Halbur showed a video and talked about his trip to Nigeria with BIZAA at our December membership meeting.

Marion Hour Program

Brother Knights, bring your wives and families to the Holy Family Prayer Program and rosary on Friday, January 26th at 7 p.m. in the SVDP main worship space. Our chaplain, Fr. Paul Baker will be the main cele-brant and there will again be a beau-tiful blessed icon of the Holy Family on display. This is part of the specal Knights of Columbus annual Marion Prayer program.

If you would like to help usher-ing or welcoming duties, call Tom Olmstead or leave a message at 763-639-4187.

Dad's BelgianWaffleBreakfast

On Sunday, January 21, 2018 we will be hosting another Dad’s Belgian Waffle Breakfast from 8:30-12:30. The breakfast will be in the St. Vincent dePaul gym and cafe-teria with a menu of sausage & all you care to eat waffles with flavored syrups. Beverages will be coffee and either juice or milk.

Don't miss this great breakfast, if you were at the breakfast the last few years you know how good Dad's Belgian Waffles are. Bring your fam-ily and friends.

Anyone that would like to help please call Kelvin at 763-391-5700 or Jack, 425-8065.

Kelvin Landeis, Jack Barr, chairmen

2018

Seminarian Report I spent the summer at

the parish of Saint Eliza-beth Ann Seton in Hast-ings. I lived with the priests and got involved in parish ministry as much as a new deacon can. I did a LOT of preaching, a few Baptisms, and a few more funerals/burials. I also brought Holy Communion to some of the homebound and visited with them, as well as visiting some other parishioners for dinner. I really enjoyed parish life; it has such a different feel to seminary life, and it was really refreshing.

In Christ,Deacon Aric AamodtTheology IVSaint Paul Seminary – St. Paul, MN

LEAFLET HELP Need a Brother Knight to take

over having the the KC newslet-ter printed, folded, sealed and mailed. I have been doing it for over 28 years and it's time for someone else to do it. I can still put it together and send a PDF to you. Please call 763-425-2314 or email: tom@heltemes.com

Guest visitorFather Paul Baker, Council 9139

KC Chaplain, has agreed to visit our Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Knights of Columbus meeting. Please attend so we can give Father a standing ova-tion. Father Zehren has tentatively agreed to visit us on Tuesday, Feb-ruary 6, 2018. I have promised both of them that this will be an informal visit; we are not expecting from them a dissertation on the encyclical on Human Suffering!

Duane Crosland, lecturer

In memoriumWalt Schumacher, a former charter

member of our council and also of St. Joseph the Worker council passed away Dec. 13, 2017. He was also a member of the 1st degree staff for many years and a 70-year KC member. Our condolences to his wife Betty and the rest of his family.

OSSEO/MAPLE GROVE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUSST. VINCENT de PAUL PARISH

Vol. 29 No.7 Osseo/Maple Grove Council 9139 January, 2018

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2017-2018 CounCiloffiCers & DireCtorsGr. Knight, Kelvin Landeis ..... 391-5700 kelvinll@comcast.netDeputy GK, Ken Smith ...........420-6794 mplssmiths@comcast.netChancellor, Carl Crimmins ...... 493-5364 carlmnpipetrades@aol.com Chaplain .......................... Fr. Paul BakerTreasurer, Tom Clifford .............. 420-5224

Jaclifford@aol.comRecorder, Paxton Casimir, 952-454-8009 pcasimir@gmail.comWarden, Ryan Johnson .....952-454-8009 ryanjohnson110@gmail.comAdvocate, Robert Moreland .. 557-0874 Kingcolor@comcast.netIn. Guard, Dan Johnson ......... 228-2105 bunjee49@msn.comOut. Guard, Gary Hanauska 612-889-9325Financial Sec., Sean Olmstead 712-5457 kc.finsec9139@gmail.comTrustees:(3-year) Paul Greninger ........ 425-7316 PaulandKim9918@gmail.com(2-year) Kevin Ahlers ............ 427-2330 kaahlers@comcast.net(1-year) Russ Funk ................. 420-5527 funkx012@umn.eduLecturer, Duane Crosland ..... 442-1033 dcrosl@aol.comMembership, Recruitment & Retention: Robert Moreland ............... 557-0874 Bob Clark ........................... 424-5509Program Director Carl Crimmins

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Have You Insured Your Most Valuable Asset?

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Income Armor, an individual disabil-ity income insurance product from the Knights of Columbus, should be a key part of your overall financial plan and family’s protection. If you think full in-come replacement is too costly, at least consider a supplemental plan such as a “GUM” plan, which would cover Gro-ceries, Utilities and the Mortgage in the event you were off work. And if you have coverage at work, you should consider a supplemental plan to make up for the shortfall that these plans entail.

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SOCCER CHALLENGE WINNERS: Back to Front: Connor Swan, Grace Speva-cek, Owen Robinson, Joe Morri, Yawa Matayo, Isaac Swenson, Maggie Cronen, Kiera McMullen, James Ward, Samuel Feuerborn. Ken Smith, chairman of the event is on the left.

St. Vincent de PaulElementary SchoolPre-School & Kindergarten1st Place – Lauren Kobernat 2nd Place – Lucy Koch 3rd Place – Claire Bourn1st & 2nd Grade1st Place – Sabriya Anderson2nd Place – Penelope McQuade 3rd Place – Naveen Kapoor 3rd & 4th Grade1st Place – Kiley Bartsch 2nd Place – Arlene Nguyen 3rd Place – Abby Swenson 5th & 6th Grade1st Place – Kylie Hatcher2nd Place – Ava Justin3rd Place – Caitlin Pham

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Free Throw Contest

The KC Free-throw Contest for St. Vincent’s School is set for Thurs-day, Jan. 11th from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. At least 6 Brother Knights are need-ed to help keep score. Any other youth ages 9-14 can shoot free throws on Jan. 21st during the Waf-fle breakfast.

Girls and boys ages 9-14 will par-ticipate, with the winners moving on to the District Contest Feb. 18th. If you can help call Ken Smith at 763-443-4268.

Keep Christ in Christmas poster/coloring contest winners will be in next month's newsletter

Pastoral Minister, Margaret Schauer holds a check for Christmas baskets for St. Vincent de Paul from our council.

"KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS" POSTER/COLORING CONTEST JUDGES: L to R front row: Bernie Souvignier, Carol Ampe, Julie Wilhelm. Back row: Marge Long, Judy Borkovec, Shirley Homan, Jan Martin, Mary Lee Ruegemer, Sue Kuske & Rita Bachmeier.

VestsOur council sells a new vest with your name on it for $40.00 dollars. Also

we have used vests that were given back to our council. We can put your name on one of these vests for a donation to our charity fund. Any questions call Bob Andrews 763-425-2575 OR e-mail bd@andrews4.com

From the Editor: Deadline for the newsletter is the 15th of each month. If any Brother Knight has any information to be published, please feel free to mail it to me at 9955 Pilgrim Way, Maple Grove or e-mail it to: tom@heltemes.com DIRECTORS please get me an article before your event & following the event to keep all members informed.--Tom Heltemes, Editor--425-2314

Looking for atax deduction?• Don't sell your car, DONATE

IT!! If you or someone that you know has a car, truck, boat or

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and dents no problem. Call Broth-er Knight Paul Greninger 763-425-7316 for details on how to donate.

Thank you to those who have.