It’s official…2,007 pounds of food donated to date! Parish, you’ve done it again. Thank you! May you all have a blessed and joyful Easter!

As of today, the 40 Cans for Lent food donation total is 1,922 pounds! Amazing! Only 78 pounds of food stands between us and the 2,000 mark. Will it arrive in the next 2 days? Stay tuned!

GOAL REACHED…and Goal Broken! Thank you, parishioners of Saints Peter and Paul. You have, once again, shown your abundance of generosity. Last week’s food donations of 383 pounds have pushed our total donations (thus far) to 1,854 pounds, including $50.00 in cash contributions! This exceeds our posted goal of 1,500. We still have a week to go in order to credit donations to the “40 Cans for Lent” program. God Bless you for your charity!

Our amazing parish continues to rock! As of 4/4/2022, our total of donated food is 1,471 pounds…thanks to 324 pounds that was donated last week. Keep up the great work!

As of March 28, 2022, the total amount of food donated to this year’s 40 Cans for Lent program stands at 1,147 pounds! Way to go, parish!

As you know, for the last month or so, we have been working on obtaining a supply of K of C flags to place on the graves of the deceased Knights in the Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery.  We were first made aware of the need by Mike Wasilko, Chairman of the Cemetery Committee.  Thanks to the efforts of Deacon Jerry and George Wasilko, we now have brand new flags which have been fitted with dowels, mounted in the metal emblem holders, and appropriately placed… just in time for Memorial Day.  Our thanks to these Worthy Brothers who have made it possible for our Council to continue this tradition of honor. “Tempus Fugit…Memento Mori”

Although it seems like ancient history now, we kicked off 2020 with a council and parish sponsored St. Valentine’s Day dance/social featuring the Moore Brothers Band. The event was well received and attended by our parish family and many members of the local community.

During Lent, we ran a “40 Cans For Lent” food collection program to benefit the Philipsburg Food Bank at Community Action.  As a substitution for our parish Fall Fest (which was cancelled due to COVID), we also ran a Fall Food Drive which spanned the fall and winter seasons culminating with Christmas.  Both programs collected a combined total of 2,357 pounds of food and $500 in monetary donations in support of the food bank.

On October 10^th, we supported a community Rosary Rally which was held in the Philipsburg Park.

Council-sponsored American Red Cross blood drives were held in July, October, and December which collectively produced 122 units of blood.

In September, our council officially donated our supply of brand-new winter coats to the local YMCA as part of the Knights of Columbus “Coats For Kids” program.  We presented 14 insulated coats ranging in sizes from S to XL to the Director who accepted them with the intent to distribute them via the YMCA Christmas giving program.

Thanks to Deacon Jerry, we conducted a “Keep Christ In Christmas” campaign which involved our Knights providing the parish with gift magnets professing the “Keep Christ in Christmas” message.

All of these initiatives resulted in at least 61 hours of volunteer service offered by our brothers.

This is amazing , especially during a year that restricted our ability to interact with each other in so many ways.  Well done, Brothers!

We have officially begun our “Fall Food Drive.”  With this year’s “Fall-Fest” celebration cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns, we hope that this drive will help redirect the positive, charitable enthusiasm that our parish experiences during our annual Fall-Fest towards supporting our community food pantry.  Much like our “40 Cans for Lent” program, we hope to collect generous amounts of food donations for our local Community Action food bank.  We have left our food goal undesignated, but the record to beat is the 1,237 pounds of food that our 40 Cans drive collected.  We will continue to track the success of our collections regularly via the “thermometer” scales on our signage.  We will be running our Fall Food drive through the Advent season in order to help Community Action with their usual holiday supply needs.  Depending on the volume of the donations received, we will need Knights to help weigh and transport the donations once a week (or more) for the duration of the drive.