Knight's Korner

Why Join the Knights of Columbus? Why you Should become a Knight?

Becoming a Knight of Columbus (KOC) can transform your life. As a Knight, you have the opportunity to support your parish, give back to your community, grow in your faith and gain exclusive access to our top-rated insurance program to protect your family.

These are some of the reasons to become a Knight. We are a "band of brothers," a network of men in communities around the world dedicated to doing good in the service of God and neighbor.

What Services We Provide:

• Support the parish with its needs
• Help meet the needs of those in the local community
• Provide “Coats for Kids” and “Food for Families”
• Support programs that benefit people with Intellectual disabilities
• Aid victims of natural disasters and other catastrophic events, local and worldwide
• Donate wheel chairs to people without mobility at home and abroad
• Save lives through initiatives such as the “Ultrasound Program”

Charity is the first principle of the Knights of Columbus

Knights are men who get things done. We volunteer our time to serve our parishes and our communities. And by working together, we were able to donate more than $1.4 Billion and 664 million volunteer hours to worthy causes in the past decade.

Support

A unique "band of brothers": with shared values and the support to live out our Catholic Faith more fully. Unity and Fraternity are the second and third principles of the Knight of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus offer its members the opportunity to grow in their faith through living the example of a charity that evangelizes and personifying what it means to be a Catholic gentlemen through the practicing of good works.

Stability

(1) Exclusive access to our top-rated life insurance products, available only to members and their families (2) Your insurance agent is a Knight dedicated to helping his brother Knights protect their families.

The Knights of Columbus is not just a fraternity in name

It is a brotherhood of Catholic men who each play a part in improving the world around them, one community at a time. They stand together in faith, dedicated to uphold the principles they cherish while lending their support and strength to parish, home and fellow Knight.

Currently The Knights of Columbus (KOC) is holding a Membership Drive. We are always in the market for new members.

Please contact John Spearing, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) current Grand Knight or call him at 719-321-2799.

St. Joseph Announces Scholarship Recipients

John Spearing from the KOC congratulates Jonah Parker along with his mother, Gina at the KOC June breakfast.St. Jospeh Catholic Church has announced the schoalrship recipients for 2024 from both the Knights of Columbus (#9456) and the Council of Catholic Women (CCW).

The Knights of Columbus presented it annual scholarship winners at its monthly breakfast on June 9 in the Fr. Charles J. Murray Parish Hall.

Jonah Parker, a graduate of Pueblo South High School was the only member who came for the presentation. He was given a $1,000 scholarship he will use for attending the University of Colorado in Boulder and majoring in film production.