Florida DeMolay
Due to Florida DeMolay’s suspension of in-person events, we will have to postpone the Bingo night and bake sale. We will let you know when we are able to set a new date. We will also be postponing/suspending all meetings practices and fun nights through at least April 5th.
At our committee meeting this Wednesday, our chapter went over plans for the painting party. The committee discussed costs, and the party was going to cost us over $1000, while we expected to make less than $400 net profit.
The members decided that they would scrap the paint party and instead hold a bingo night. We will still be delivering scones and pies and will have other snacks and baked goods for sale at the event.
So come one all and join us for a rousing good time playing Bingo. We will have individual bingo cards and books of cards available that night. We would love to presale/ reserve cards so that we have an idea of how many people are coming, but walk-ins are welcome.
We would like to thank Landmark Lodge for including our DeMolay in their community pancake breakfast. We had a lot of fun working with you and getting to know you better.
We met several families from our community, as well as several activists. At this time we would like to extend another invitation to any interested adult. You are always welcome at our meetings. Young men (under 21) are welcome to stop by any of our events (except during the actual meetings – 2nd Wednesdays 7:30 to 8:30ish) and get to know us better. If you would like to learn more and join DeMolay we would love to have you.
Tonight Dad Bidoli, Sion K. and Connor G. met at Landmark lodge and collected all of the food we have gathered along with the Brothers of Landmark Lodge. They then went shopping with cash donations and $50 from our Almoner’s fund to purchase staples and Christmas Dinner for a family from a local high school.
Tomorrow Mom Tingler will drop the food off at the school for the family to enjoy.
We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Blessings of the New Year.
Airon K. worked with the Tall Cedars this last Saturday to decorate their float for the Deland Christmas parade. We would like to express our appreciation to the Tall Cedars Forest 193 for including us on their float. Sion, Airon, and Zander (along with 2 of our advisors) had a lot of fun yelling Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and Felize Navidad while we traveled down Mainstreet Deland with the Tall Cedars, and Molly their MDA Ambassador.
We would like to express a heartfelt thank you to everyone involved in the spaghetti dinner fundraiser for Tommy Turlington tonight (Dec. 11, 2019).
We had four advisors, five officers and a prospect (little Ryon) at the fundraiser.
We would especially like to thank the officers of New Smyrna Beach Lodge for all of their cooking and preparation, and for inviting Dale Chapman Chapter DeMolay to serve the dinner. Special thanks also go out to everyone who donated a tip to the DeMolay. We raised over $360 toward our trip to Mini Conclave ( our winter leadership convention).
We had a great time at our ChickFilA sandwich and poker night tonight. A Great Big Thank You goes out to everyone who helped to support us.
In addition to buying sandwiches, several Masons hung out with us and visited. We did have a bit of a snafu with Chick-Fil-A as they had a different date on their calendar, but they were able to come through for us and we had 50 sandwiches in an electric hot bag at the lodge by 7:15.
Everyone had a lot of fun. Several of our members brought friends (prospects) and some of our less active members were joined us for the night. We had a great visit with a Senior DeMolay who works at Pine Ridge High school. We hope to see him again.
Remember – We will not be meeting the day before Thanksgiving, so the next time we get together will be for our fun night on Dec. 4th. We will have a meeting on Dec. 11th and either a fun night or practice on Dec. 18th.
I hope all of you, your friends and your families have a blessed and very Happy Thanksgiving!
Many if not most members of DeMolay are active in other civic organizations in their communities. Today we would like to recognize those members who are boy scouts.
This weekend and last weekend Boy Scouts all over the US were collecting food for local food pantries (Scouting for Food). Last weekend, Scouts distributed door hangers to let their neighbors know about the drive. On the second, Scouts revisited those houses to pick up bags full of canned food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, juice and other nonperishable items.
Airon, Andrew and Zander, members of Dale Chapman Chapter, are also Boy Scouts with Troop 599. They spent several hours placing the door hangers last weekend and then this weekend, were back out lugging bags of food to vehicles and then to the local collection point.
The Florida DeMolay state line officers hosted an Advanced Leadership Training Academy for District #3 at Bahia Chapter on October 26, 2019.
Several of our brothers were out sick, but we took 2 DeMolay and a prospect.
We spent about 3 hours learning about DeMolay traditions, procedures, and ways to introduce DeMolay to friends and strangers among other things. There was plenty of interaction with the state line, and everyone learned something useful.
After the class, we had pizza, nachos and a social. We met a family, new to the area, whose son was initiated in another state. Everyone had a grand time, and we look forward to the next Academy.
We had a great time at our Lock-in this last Saturday. We would especially like to thank our visitors from
We had a great time with a nerf war, and several game tournaments. Some of us crashed around midnight, and the rest were still awake when Mom Sandy arrived with breakfast burritos and donuts for breakfast.
We ended the night by cleaning the lodge, and sweeping and mopping the dining hall.
We are looking forward to helping at the Grand Master’s official visit this Saturday, and then attending Cotillion next weekend where we will initiate Ryon into the Squire program, and assist with DeMolay and King Solomon’s Initiations.
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