Knights In Action - Community
Knights are called to serve others. Our first principle is Charity – at home with our families and in our communities. When Knights of Columbus members come together they accomplish great things.
Here are Community Programs our council participates in.
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Giving Back to the Community
Coats For Kids
Along with other Councils across North America, our Council purchases new winter coats and distribute them to the children in need. Locally we donate them through the Our Lady Of Mercy Outreach Center.
The goal of the Coats for Kids program is to ensure that no child in North America goes without a coat during the winter season. Through the dedication of councils across the United States and Canada, hundreds of thousands of new winter coats have been distributed to children since the program’s inception.
Habitat For Humanity
Building homes with families in need, Knights of Columbus councils work closely with Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit Christian organization, to build homes for families in need at substantially reduced costs. Each year, councils throughout the Order donate considerable volunteer hours and dollars to this worthy cause.
We donate funds from our annual 5k race, The Turkeyday Run & Gobble Wobble, to the local Habitat For Humanity program.
Catholic Citizenship Essay
Is designed to encourage youth to become citizens grounded in their faith through creative writing and is open to all qualifying Catholic students. This contest encourages our youth to connect more to their community and faith.
The goal of this program is to involve young Catholics in grades 8 to 12 (public, private, parochial, or home schools during the current school year) in civic discourse and instill in them religious and life-affirming values. The essay is 500-750 words on a specific topic, changing every other year. Entrants are judged on grammar, style, and how clearly they present the theme in a way that showcases creativity, imagination, and overall development of the topic.
Our council participates through Charleston Catholic School, however we encourage participation of students in our parishes. Certificates and prizes are award to the participating and winning students from each council in a District. The winnwers advance to the District competition. The winners of the District Competition then advance to the State Competition and finally nationally.
Helping Hands
Putting our faith into action, we help people who are less fortunate in the community. In the spirit of our founder, Blessed Michael J. McGivney, councils like ours, lead efforts to assist those most in need.
The Helping Hands program is designed to recognize the important work many councils already do to care for the most disadvantaged members of our communities — the homeless, the addicted, the elderly who may feel isolated and abandoned, and many others.
In addition to supplying water and food to shelters, and Coats For Kids, we have a Socktoberfest sock donation drive. It has resulted in the donation of close to a thousand pairs of socks to the homeless shelter.
George Young Toys for Tots Toy Drive
In 2021 Our Council began a new giving program at the request of our beloved Brother and Fellow Knight, Sir Knight George Young. To give to the Charleston Chapter of the Marine Toys For Tots. It began as a simple idea to give a few hundred dollars to the Corp. for the purchase of toys.