Grand Knight :  Brandon Bong (brandon@zyserver.com)

General Council Meeting:  Every first Thursday of the month at 7:30pm in Gathering Area.

We host BBQs (May-August) and Pancake Breakfasts (Septermber to April) to raise funds for charitable causes in our parish and for the community at large. They are usually on the third Sundays of every month with the Pancake Breakfast after 8:30am and 10:15am Masses and the BBQ after 10:15am and 4pm Masses.

On Lent Fridays, the council organises fish and chips sale to raise funds for various causes.

Every Friday evening, the council is involved in bagging donated bread to raise funds for Vision Quest (an abstinence-based recovery house for addiction)

Many brother knights are very active in the prayer life and activities in support of Immaculate Conception Parish.

The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the mariner Christopher Columbus. Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to low-income immigrant Catholics, it developed into a fraternal benefit society dedicated to providing charitable services, promoting Catholic education and Catholic public policy positions, and actively defending Roman Catholicism in various nations.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_Columbus)

In Father Michael McGivney (1852-1890), born and raised in a Connecticut factory town, the modern era's ideal of the priesthood hit its zenith. The son of Irish immigrants, he was a man to whom "family values" represented more than mere rhetoric. And he left a legacy of hope still celebrated around the world.

In the late 1800s, discrimination against American Catholics was widespread. Many Catholics struggled to find work and ended up in inferno-like mills. An injury or death of the wage earner would leave the family penniless. The grim threat of chronic homelessness and even starvation could fast become realities. Called to action in 1882 by his sympathy for these suffering people, Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that has helped to save countless families from the indignity of destitution. From its uncertain beginnings, when Father McGivney was the only person willing to work toward its success, it has grown to an international membership of more than 1.8 million members.  (see http://www.parishpriest.org/en//index.html)