The following post is part of a series entitled the “Be Different Spotlight.” This post will display a chapter’s effort to grasp the concept of the theme for this year. Each chapter was challenged by the State Master Councilor, Adam Pritchard, to “Be Different.”
Challenge Accepted! This is the story of how Elizabethtown Chapter embraced that challenge...
Our Chapter proudly
accepted the challenge and decided to do something different for our Frank S.
Land Memorial Obligatory Day by doing something we have never done before.
With the cooperation of family and friends of our members, with some kind and
courteous Masonic Village Residents helping, we collected nearly 400 gently
used books and presented them to the Children’s Dyslexia Center of Lancaster. We presented the books in support of the
center's book give away which was held as a part of the Extraordinary Give in
Lancaster County on Friday, Nov. 20th. This one day, 24-hours of online giving
raised over 6.1 million dollars for over 350 charitable organizations. The Children’s Dyslexia Center had over
$7,000 donated to it in just 24 hours. The books that were collected and
donated were available for pickup by anyone who stopped by the Dyslexia Center
on Nov. 20th.
In addition to
donating the books, 8 members of our Chapter willingly donated a total
of $225 for the purchase of any other books in support of the book drive that
brought donors into the center. Over the
past 15 years Elizabethtown Chapter has raised and have been honored to donate nearly
$35,000.00 to the center through various fundraisers, which includes our annual
chicken pot pie dinners. Our Chapter Advisor,
Dad Jesse Spence, makes a very good chicken pot pie, and if you haven't had one yet I highly recommend it to you! Our next chicken pot pie dinner and special
auction of gifts and passes will be held on Saturday, April 16, 2016. 100% of
our profits are donated to the center, our state charity that helps kids get
the help they need to overcome dyslexia and succeed in school.
Along with presenting
the books, 5 of our chapter members helped prepare and serve a luncheon for the
Lancaster Lodge of Perfection. The Lancaster Lodge of Perfection, Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, is the main
sponsoring agency of the Children's Dyslexia Center of Lancaster. We thought
that supporting the Scottish Rite in this way was especially appropriate since the
founder of DeMolay, Frank S. Land, was an employee of the Scottish Rite Valley
located in Kansas City. The officers of Elizabethtown DeMolay were happy with
the success of the luncheon and donation of the books, and appreciated the
support of family members, friends, residents of the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown,
and our advisors, as without them this would not have been possible.
From the Officers,
Members, and Families of Elizabethtown Chapter, Order of DeMolay we want to
wish you a Happy and Safe Holiday Season! Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year!
This blog post was written by current Senior Councilor of Elizabethtown Chapter, Blake Anderson. Thank you Brother Blake for your contribution.
Elizabethtown Chapter has completed the challenge to “Be Different.” What has your chapter done in order to change things up a bit? Send in program details or write a post for your chapter and send it to me at JAPullin@pademolay.net.
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