Breakfast Burritos
2021-04-25 | CO
The burritos will be assembled at Greg Sullivan’s house and sold at the 8:30 and 10:30 masses.
Here is where we need help:
4 Pre-cooks. Deliver your product to Greg Sullivan’s house at 6:45am on 28 February. Greg will bring you the materials in advance as usual.
4 Assembly cooks. Report to Greg Sullivan’s house at 6:45 am on 28 February.
3 Persons for set-up and sales. At 8am set up tables, chairs and an awning outside. Position the tall steam warmer and turn it on. Prepare the cash box and writing pad. Make sales after 0830.
3 Persons for sales and teardown. Make sales after the 1030 Mass and put away the equipment when complete. Greg will help with this part.
1 Person to transport burritos from Greg’s house to the church. Report to Greg Sullivan’s house at 8:30am.
If you are going to make a purchase of 20 or more burritos, please let us know in advance. As usual, burritos are $3 each or $20 for 7.
If you will help, you can reply to this email or you can reply to Greg by phone or text: 901-212-7660 or email: gpsmemphis@gmail.com .

Ladies Auxiliary Bake Sale
2021-04-25 | CO
From the President of the Ladies Auxiliary… Madeline McGuire:
Good afternoon/evening ladies, as you all know our bake sale is scheduled for Sunday, April 25, following the 8:30 and 10:30 masses. I am sending you this email to request help with the baking. We are looking for a donation of at least three items, five would be better,
Also, if you find that you can join us at the Parish Hall to sell items, that would be wonderful.
If you can’t help with set up/selling on the 25th, but can provide baked goods, please deliver them to the Parish Hall between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 24.

Stations of the Cross Cleanup
2021-04-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | OLP Church, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, United States
The new date is Friday, 30 April, 10 AM start.
Father Brad asked us to clean-up the outdoor stations of the cross. The debris around the stations and trail is mostly pine needles that can be raked up and bagged. If you are free, please join us with your rake and work gloves.

Monthly Meeting
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom meeting, URL to be provided in separate email
This meeting will take place in the Parish Hall but also will be available for online attendance. Please see the link for meeting to be provided in a separate email. If you can’t find it, please email admin@olpknights.org. All are encouraged to attend.

Roadside Cleanup
2021-05-22 08:00 - 10:00 | Parking Lot NW of Burgess and Black Forest, 11590 Black Forest Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
Our council will be doing a trash pick-up on our three mile stretch of Black Forest Road on Saturday 22May. We will meet at the Black Forest Road Subway parking lot at 8:00 am. Charlie Walker will lead the activity. Please come out to help – more participants means less work for everybody. Orange trash bags and high visibility vests will be provided, but you should bring gloves and anything else you might need like hats, water and sunscreen

Memorial Day Remembrance - Flags
2021-05-28 13:30 - 14:30 | OLP Church, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, United States
Kerry White is the POC for the Memorial Day detail. He is going to install the flags on 28 May at 1:30 and remove them on 1June after the morning Mass.

Walk for Life
2021-06-05 | CO
For more info, please see flyer at Walk For Life
and Life Network Event .
Join us on Saturday, June 5th as we Walk for Life and raise funds for the ministry of Life Network! This year, walkers can choose to join with us at Memorial Park in person as we safely walk at staggered times, or if you prefer, walk in your own neighborhood. At Memorial Park, we will have a 5K Fun Run at 8:00 am, followed by a Kid’s Race at 9:00! Walkers will start out in staggered groups for the 2-mile Walk at 9:30, 10, 10:30, 11 and 11:30. This is a family-friendly event for people of all ages. Participating in the Walk for Life is a great way to get your kids involved with supporting and protecting the sanctity of life!

Blood Drive
2021-06-06 | Monthly Meeting, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
Appointments will be between 8:30AM and 1:00PM. We’re looking for 29 volunteers to donate blood. To signup for an appointment, please visit Vitalant Appointment Portal
Enter your zip code and “find location” —- jump to JUNE 6, 2021 and the open appointment times will be available.

Joint Rosary with SK Joe Graff Brother's Council
2021-06-09 20:30 | Online, URL to be provided
Brothers,
We would like all members possible to join us online at 830pm via zoom to pray the Rosary. I coordinated this with my brother who is the DGK of that council and we will be praying the 2nd and the 4th Glorious mystery decades. The link is here:
We will be praying the Rosary tomorrow night, at 8:30 PM, on Zoom. This is open to anyone who would like to attend. Simply click on the following link. Rosary Link
If you are interested in leading one of the above decades please let me know and I can send you the meditation for that decade.
SK Joseph Graff
Grand Knight-Elect

Farewell for Former GK Kerry White and SK Mark Russell
2021-06-10 18:00 - 20:00 | CO
Brother Knights,
Two members of our council and their wives will be leaving the Colorado Springs area to be closer to family. Past Grand Knight Kerry White and Rebecca White will be moving to Oklahoma. Also, Past Officer Mark Russell and Jill Russell will move to Montana.
We are happy that these couples shared our parish with us and were brother knights, so we would like to bid them farewell with a party. The date of the event is June 10th, which is our normal member meeting date. The time and place for the party is 6 pm to about 8pm at the church hall.
We will be serving plates with hamburgers and hot dogs, chips, a dessert and a drink. You can stop by for dinner or just stop by to chat and bid the couples farewell.
Please RSVP via email on whether or not you will be having dinner at the gathering so that we can have a good idea of how much to buy. Don’t be shy. Also, we will need help preparing and serving the meal, so if you would like to help, let us know.

Monthly Meeting
2021-06-10 19:00 | Monthly Meeting, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States

Sir Knight Leon Hunt Funeral
2021-06-11 10:30 - 12:00 | OLP Church, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, United States
Sir Knight Leon Hunt passed to the Lord on May 23rd. He has been a knight for 25 years and a member of our council since its inception. Please include our departed brother and his loved ones in your prayers.
The Funeral Mass for departed brother Leon Hunt will be on Friday June 11th at 11 am. The Mass will be preceded by a Rosary led by John McGuire at 10:30 am.

Breakfast Burritos - Tentative
2021-06-13 | Breakfast Burritos, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
The burritos will be assembled at Greg Sullivan’s house and sold at the 8:30 and 10:30 masses.
Here is where we need help:
4 Pre-cooks. Deliver your product to Greg Sullivan’s house at 6:45am on 28 February. Greg will bring you the materials in advance as usual.
4 Assembly cooks. Report to Greg Sullivan’s house at 6:45 am on 28 February.
3 Persons for set-up and sales. At 8am set up tables, chairs and an awning outside. Position the tall steam warmer and turn it on. Prepare the cash box and writing pad. Make sales after 0830.
3 Persons for sales and teardown. Make sales after the 1030 Mass and put away the equipment when complete. Greg will help with this part.
1 Person to transport burritos from Greg’s house to the church. Report to Greg Sullivan’s house at 8:30am.
If you are going to make a purchase of 20 or more burritos, please let us know in advance. As usual, burritos are $3 each or $20 for 7.
If you will help, you can reply to Greg by phone or text: 901-212-7660 or email: gpsmemphis@gmail.com .

Installation of Officers for New Fraternal Year
2021-06-24 18:15 - 19:00 | Monthly Meeting, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
Our Officers Installation has been scheduled for 6:15 PM on Thursday evening, June 24th . Please RSVP to my email so we know how many officers may not be able to attend. If any of my brother knights that are not officers would be willing to attend the installation I know already that we will need 4-6 brothers to stand in for those who cannot make it. If you are willing to be a stand-in please RSVP to me as well.
We will need a little help setting up so for those who are able and willing we can start setting up at 5:45pm Our District Deputy Tony Ricardelli will lead the installation. The installation will take about 30 minutes or so.

Monthly Officers Meeting
2021-07-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Monthly Meeting, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States

Monthly Council Meeting
2021-07-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Monthly Meeting, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
All are encouraged to attend.
. It would be great if you would consider these questions and come to Thursday’s general meeting with your ideas.
1. Ideas on how to increase our membership? Some ideas so far include:
a. Recruit men that are involved in TMIY
b. Adding a sign on the knight’s kiosk in the foyer with a “Interested in the Knights” “forms are found here”,
c. Getting more exposure in the parish by announcing some of our activities ahead of time and inviting the parish men to join us.
d. Periodic pulpit talks by the GK to explain some of our activities to the parish? Fr. Brad has already approved presenting our check to the youth ministry at the end of mass in a few weeks which will give us a chance to explain to the parish that all the delicious burritos that they buy go back to helping the parish.
2. How can we make our membership meetings more interesting/fun or other ways to increase attendance? Some ideas presented so far include:
a. Coordinating with the youth ministry teams and getting the older youth involved in some of our activities like burritos, fish fry/soup dinner, etc. (This will require safe environment training from everyone that is involved however).
b. Offer more social time at meetings. (Making meetings more concise so it will allow for more social time after the meeting with snacks, drinks etc.)
c. Adding a guest speaker to our meetings on a unique topic of interest such as, grilling/cooking/smoking meat, knight’s benefits (not just insurance but financial planning etc.),
3. Do we want to create an exemplification team?
4. Starting a Monthly zoom rosary with another council?
5. Would it be helpful to receive a Monthly letter to the council members from GK?
6. We would like to add a business directory to the council web site.
7. Finalize a date for a September evening anniversary dinner. September 9th or 10th are our target dates depending on which is available for the facility. Will be starting with a mass in honor of Fr. McGivney and the invite list will include state officers and our new Bishop, Bishop Golka.
8. Father Brad’s priorities: several projects are still in need around the parish. These include:
a. continued pine needle cleanup and some mitigation in the treed areas around the church. Trips to the slash will be needed as well.
b. Some of the memorial pavers are ready to be installed.
c. Lenten Friday evening events (fish fry or simple soup and bread dinner) are also approved.
9. Summer picnic is scheduled for August 1st and we need to plan to prepare food for the event (hamburgers/hot dogs) that will be supplied by the church.
10. Fr Brad has also agreed to allow us to have a Pig roast on a separate date and we would like to target September or October.
11. We would also like to bring back our Taco nights on Saturday after the 4:30pm mass.
12. Burritos are scheduled for Sunday July 25th, but we need more volunteers to help in preparation early Sunday morning? We have also tentatively scheduled August 29th for burritos as well.
We also will have a couple of ‘old business’ items to discuss at the meeting as well. Rod McNeil will update us on the information concerning the new Chesterton Academy at St Gabriel’s. We need to officially approve the May 2021 meeting minutes. And finally, we need someone in the council to prayerfully consider stepping up to fill our Worthy Recorder position. If you have interest in helping the council, please reach out to me or any of the officers and let us know.

Breakfast Burritos
2021-07-25 | Breakfast Burritos, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
If you are going to make a purchase of 20 or more burritos, please let us know in advance. As usual, burritos are $3 each or $20 for 7.
If you will help, you can reply to Greg by phone or text: 901-212-7660 or email: gpsmemphis@gmail.com .

Monthly Officers Meeting
2021-08-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-02 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Monthly Meeting, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
The announcing email has a Zoom link for those that cannot attend in person. If you can’t find that, please email admin@olpknights.org.

Monthly Council Business Meeting
2021-08-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-09 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-14 19:00 - 20:00 | Monthly Meeting, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
All are encouraged to attend. The announcing email has a Zoom link for those that cannot attend in person. If you can’t find that, please email admin@olpknights.org.

OLP Mitigation Project
2021-08-28 08:00 - 11:00 | OLP Church, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, United States
Saturday, August 28th we are meeting at the church parking lot at 8am to do some of the basic mitigation and taking a couple of runs to the Black Forest Slash and Mulch. Brother Charlie Walker is heading up the project and we could use some help. So far, we have only had 4 of our brothers respond to help out. Please RSVP to Charlie at (719) 529-0175 and let him know if you will be able to help out.

Parish Picnic and Request for Cooking Help
2021-08-29 10:00 - 15:00 | La Foret, 6145 Shoup Rd, Colorado Springs, CO, 80908, United States
Our parish picnic at La Foret. The picnic runs from noon to 3pm. Show time for us will be at 10am at La Foret. We are cooking hamburgers and hot dogs for the event and we should plan on getting started grilling by 11am or so. We are also running our soccer challenge that afternoon. We need a couple of cooks to man the grill and at least a few more to run food back and forth. As of Monday we already had 275 parishioners rsvp to attend so we will be cooking quite a few burgers and dogs. Please rsvp to me via phone or text at 719-661-2747 if you can help us out. We may also need a few knights to help with parking directions as well.

Council's 25th Anniversary Celebration
2021-09-16 18:30 - 21:00 | OLP Church, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, United States
You are cordially invited to attend a Special Mass honoring Blessed Father Michael Givney and celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Our Lady of the Pines Knights of Columbus Council 11730.
Our Lady of the Pines Catholic Church
Thursday, September 16th, 6:30 PM

We are blessed to have Bishop James Golka of the Diocese of Colorado Springs as the main celebrant.
Several Priests and State Officers will be in attendance.
Hors d’oeuvres, refreshments, and dinner will be served.
Parish Hall after mass. RSVPs are required.
Please RSVP to Cynthia at CynthiaS@OurLadyOfThePines.org or call 719-495-2351 x225.

Storage Area Move
2021-09-18 08:00 - 09:00 | OLP Church, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, United States
We need to move the contents from one storage location to another. Looking for 6-8 volunteers… please contact Pierre.

Breakfast Burritos
2021-09-26 | Breakfast Burritos, 11020 Teachout Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
WE NEED YOUR HELP! The last 2 times out we left a very disappointed group of parishioners after the 10:30 mass. In order to make enough burritos this time around, Greg Sullivan will be leading 2 assembly lines beginning at 6:30am in the parish hall kitchen. We need to have as many as possible to help out! Cooking and burrito assembly begin at 6:30am, setup and sales crews at 9:20 and 11:20. Please reach out to me or to Greg Sullivan to let us know that you will be helping out on Sunday! Brother Greg can be reached at (901) 212-7660 (text him). I think we could easily use 6-8 volunteers for that 6:30 shift as well as 4-6 for both of the sales crews!
You can reply to Greg by text: 901-212-7660 or email: gpsmemphis@gmail.com .
If you are going to make a purchase of 20 or more burritos, please let us know in advance. As usual, burritos are $3 each or $20 for 7.

Roadside Cleanup
2021-10-02 08:00 - 10:00 | Parking Lot NW of Burgess and Black Forest, 11590 Black Forest Rd, Black Forest, CO, 80908, United States
Our council will be doing a trash pick-up on our three mile stretch of Black Forest Road on Saturday 8 Oct. We will meet at the Black Forest Road Subway parking lot at 8:00 am. Charlie Walker will lead the activity. Please come out to help – more participants means less work for everybody. Orange trash bags and high visibility vests will be provided, but you should bring gloves and anything else you might need like hats, water and sunscreen

Fellowship Breakfast
2021-10-21 08:00 - 09:00 | Omelets Etc, 1337 Interquest Pkwy, Colorado Springs, CO, 80921, United States
we will have our first fellowship breakfast in quite a while. So, please RSVP if you will be attending so we can get a good headcount. We will meet at Omelet’s Etc. in Falcon at 8am this coming Thursday, October 21st. This is a good opportunity to learn more about your fellow knights and spend some fellowship time with your fellow Catholic Gentlemen! Our Brother Tim Brotherton is coordinating these monthly breakfasts once again so many thanks to Tim for bringing these opportunities to us!
