Florida DeMolay
Registration opens Dec. 1
4-5-2025 Early Bird Form
By completing this form you will receive an email on December 1, 2024 with the link to register for the event, Completion of this form does not guarantee placement in the event on April 5, 2025
Your donation helps us attend Escape to Florida and allows us to use our fundraising efforts to help others.
The cost of Conclave and Escape to Florida goes up nearly every year. For one member to attend both conferences, it costs at least $700.
At these conferences, we attend and assist with initiations and other ceremonies, attend leadership classes, vote on DeMolay state legislation, and give input on DeMolay’s future course in Florida.
We also have fun activities and socials where our members meet and interact with their peers from around the world. (DeMolay members rom attend Escape from more than 25 countries and other US jurisdictions.) In addition to the cost for a single boy to attend a conference, some of our advisors must attend as chaperones and receive additional training in DeMolay history, procedures, and how to make the Chapter more successful.
This year we are asking for help sponsoring our members to these events. (Every donor will receive an auto-generated tax receipt)
FLORIDA REGISTRATION NUMBER CH57982 “A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.”
The event was a success – thank you everyone who came out and participated.
Dinner, Bingo, and Drawing
November 2, 2024
Landmark Lodge # 383
720 N Apache Circle, Deltona, FL 32725
Dinner was served at 6 pm, and Bingo began at 6:30 pm
We had a prize table with small items and half our games were for cash prizes equal to 1/20th of our Bingo income for the night.
Thanksgiving Dinner Raffle Drawing was at 8 pm –
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported Dale Chapman DeMolay BINGO and Thanksgiving Raffle.
Thanksgiving Raffle Winners are as follows:
FLORIDA REGISTRATION NUMBER CH57982 “A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL FREE (800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.” NO PURCHASE NECESSARY FOR RAFFLE TICKETS, DRAWING AT Landmark Lodge # 383 720 N Apache Circle, Deltona, FL 32725 AT 8 PM ON NOVEMBER 2, 2024
We had 18 vendors signed up for our first Flea and Farmers Market
Our Farmer’s and Flea Market showcased a wide array of local talent with food, plants, jewelry and more.
Landmark Lodge, 720 North Apache Circle, Deltona
Vendor access began at 6:30 am.
Vendors must provide tables, chairs, and cover if needed/wanted *
September 2024 vendors
| JRose Creations | Baked goods, quick breads, cookies, mini cakes |
| Handmade Things by Joy | Jewelry and accessories, Resin Art, Clothing |
| Mimi’s Succulents | Succulents/Plants |
| Hawt Tastes | Stuffed Chick’n in Waffle, Spicy Chick’n Cone, Spicy Balls and spicy Eggrolls |
| Carol J Williams | Angels, bracelets, anklets, earrings, and barrettes. All items are created by me. |
| BSA Troop 635 | Popcorn |
| Bunnie Grove Bakery | Biscotti |
| Scentsy | Wax warmers, waxes, room sprays, and scent buddies for kids |
| Ohana Custom Creations LLC | Tumblers, coffee cups, coasters, hand towels, pens, apparel and more |
| sackshack.com | |
| Roxanne’s Crafts | Wreaths and flower pots |
| Olde Times Heritage Farms llc | Raw Local Honey and natural products |
| Southern Sweets | Desserts |
| Blossomed Flavors | Baked Goods. dessert breads |
| Health Planning Council Of Northeast Florida | Non-profit Free Navigator help and health Resources |
| Sisters and Sons | Plants |
| GoJuice | |
| Rainbow Girls | |
Our chapter is active in our district and visits any lodge or independent body that invites us. We are willing and happy to serve our community and have answered the call to clean yards and help individual Masons/Eastern Star and community organizations with their projects.
Our members and advisors work throughout the year to pay for our charities and other program activities. Each year, our major service project/charity is donating a holiday dinner (Thanksgiving or Christmas) and a week’s worth of food to several needy families. Over the last couple of years, we have been blessed by growing support from our local lodges and chapters, and we have grown this effort.
We attend two state conferences each year. Conclave is our summer conference. It is a ‘working’ conference with classes, competitions, ceremonies, and meetings relating to the future of DeMolay in Florida. Our winter conference is popularly referred to as Escape to Florida. There, our members interact with youth from more than 25 US jurisdictions and other countries. The only formal activity of the winter conference is an Initiation. The rest of the time is spent on team building and other fun interactive activities.
Our Meatball Madness Spaghetti Dinner was a great success! Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket, donated food and supplies, and/or came out and enjoyed a relaxing meal with our DeMolay. Our Advisors cooked dinner from scratch (homemade -meatballs and sauce, even homemade desserts).
We had a lot of fun and made some money.
Our goal with this dinner was to help offset the cost of our Chapter’s attendance at Escape to Florida in January. Our members work hard to raise the money to attend events. We look forward to working with the various lodges in our district to serve dinner at their Installations and participate in other activities with the lodge throughout the coming year.
We are still working on paying our way to Escape in January – Please help us out by donating through Zeffy
Thank you to all of our friends and family who helped to make our fall DeMolay Bingo and Raffle a hit.
We held Bingo at Landmark Lodge this time, and several of the Brothers and their families came out to participate. We sold ham or pulled pork sliders, veggie snack bags, apple slices, and chips in our snack bar (plus chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin cheesecake and pecan pie brownies)
We auctioned off several cakes (thank you everyone for participating) and had some wonderful prizes (including restaurant gift cards)
Pictured here are just a few of the many prizes that were won.
Our Raffle prize winner will receive his prize at the Landmark Lodge December meeting.
Thank you again everyone who worked to make this a success, and everyone who came out to have fun with us.
This summer our members voted to raise money and collect donations to give Thanksgiving dinner and nearly a week’s worth of groceries to six families for needy Middle School Families. We have done this as our “Day of Comfort” Charity each year for the last several years.
This year several local Masonic Lodges and Eastern Star Chapters donated money to help our members meet their goals. We also received several individual donations of food.
Our members spent last Wednesday, Nov. 15th finalizing our service project.
We started by divvying up the donated food and pre-purchased turkeys onto 6 tables
Then we went to Walmart and spent an additional $500 on food and laundry baskets for six families,
Our members picked a menu for Thanksgiving Dinner (Turkey and Ham, Green bean casserole ingredients, cranberry sauce, boxed mashed potatoes, stuffing, and a pie.)
They then added a 5 lb bag of potatoes, and bags of onions, apples, and oranges. Also peanut butter and jelly, cereal, more canned vegetables, macaroni and cheese, beans and rice.
Jace, Jacob, Kayden, Ryon, Airon and Zander with six laundry baskets full of food we donated to families through a Deltona Middle School.
A massive thank you how’s out to everyone who helped make this a success.
Last night 4 of our brothers and 3 of our advisors attended dinner and the public portion of the opening ceremony of New Smyrna Beach Lodge #149 to present a 70-year pin in recognition of Don Needham.
We would like to thank the officers and members of New Smyrna Beach Lodge for the privilege of attending the opening of their meeting to make the presentation,. We also thank the sisters of New Smyrna Beach Chapter, OES, for their hospitality and for serving us a delicious dinner.
Afterward, we went to Dairy Queen and enjoyed a frozen beverage before returning home.
This week seven of our officers and two of our advisors visited Bahia Chapter. While we were there we assisted with their meeting and met the State Master Councilor from Connecticut. We also worked with their officers to come up with a plan for our Installation of Officers on Sept. 10 at 7:30 pm (Dinner at 6:30 pm).
It was approximately a 1 hour drive from our homes to Eola Lodge, during the drive we talked about what we want to do during the next 6 months and where we want to go on our fun nights. On the way home the conversation continued. We left Deland at about 6pm and everyone was home before 9:45 pm. Our officers are looking forward to visiting more Chapters in the future. Check our calendar for future events.
