The North Carolina Mason

November/December 2018 The North Carolina Mason Page 9 CATEGORY 4 CATEGORY 5 MASONIC MEMBERSHIP AFFILIATED CONNECTIONS Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ Ý___________________________ ÝÝÝÝÝ ÝÝÝÝ COMPLETE #1 AND 4 OF REMAINING 9 ITEMS COMPLETE 4 OF 12 ITEMS 1. Contact no less than 50% of each inactive member, a minimum of once per year, either by phone (voice contact, voice messages do not count) or make a visit to their residence. [An inactive member for this purpose is any member who has not attended a meeting within a twelve-month period.] Provide a list of names and dates when contacted. 2. Hold an appreciation dinner for lodge families and widows. 3. Improve your outreach to lodge widows. Describe your outreach in 2018 and how you will improve it in 2019. 4. Confirm valid email addresses, phone numbers and occupation information in MORI for at least 75 percent of lodge members. 5. Adopt and use the Our Lodge Page function in MORI. Hold a Masonic education program to explain OLP to members. 6. Help plan and participate in a district-wide event such as a fundraiser for Masonic charities, a Masonic education event (not including a School of Instruction, Lecture Service or Grand Master district meeting), a district-wide degree, a district-wide funeral service, a district-wide fellowship dinner with Masonic education speaker, or a district- wide community service project. 7. Engage new brethren at the lodge or district level. Form an Under 5 degree team consisting of Masons with less than five years in the Craft or require new members to deliver papers or Masonic education programs within three months of raising. 8. Plan an observance of the Feast of St. John the Baptist on or near June 23 as a lodge or a district, with a meal and Masonic speaker. Submit your event announcement, flyer or other advance event publicity to qualify. 9. Host a member of the Grand Lodge Masonic Renewal Committee for a program at a stated communication. 1. Host an appreciation meal for local fire fighters, police officers and/or rescue personnel/EMTs as a district or lodge. 2. Hold a lodge Open House and invite the community. 3. Contribute a minimum of $5/member to support a charitable cause in your local community. 4. Participate in a Habitat for Humanity Program in your community by providing labor to support one of their projects. Donations only do not count towards this item. 5. Partner with a local public school on literacy. Read to students, contribute to a school library or book drive, or establish a Bikes for Books-type reading reward program as a lodge or district (www.masoniccharitablefoundation.org/programs/Masonic-bikes- books/). 6. Grow the Masonic family by having at least one lodge member join the York Rite, Scot- tish Rite, Shrine, Order of the Eastern Star or Amaranth, or contribute to the formation of, or support for existing DeMolay or Rainbow Girls organizations in your lodge or district. 7. Utilize the MHCO Print Shop for printing requirements in your lodge or a District event coordinated by your lodge. 8. Sponsor a Blood drive in your community. 9. Sponsor a cooking team for the MHCO Homecoming Festival or the Pig Jig. 10. Sponsor a youth organization (Little League, Soccer, Volleyball, etc.) in your community. 11. Attend a Masonic and/or Eastern Star function at Camp Gray Rock. 12. Support a School Project, "Stuff the Bus", "Backpack Program for summer food support to the needy" or other similar programs. MY LODGE'S SCORECARD (Not an official application) To apply, submit an official application or write a letter of application listing the items your lodge chose to complete. Provide details about your lodge's performance on or plans for completing each selected item. Send your letter to Past Grand Master A. Gene Cobb, Jr. by email to gcobb@glnc.us. Recipients will be notified by Aug. 1, and will be recognized during the Sept. 27-28 Annual Communication in Winston-Salem. ENTRY DEADLINE JUNE 30, 2019 Keep track of how your lodge is doing toward winning an award in 2019 Category 1: EDUCATION Category 2: PATRIOTISM Category 3: PHILANTHROPY Category 4: MASONIC MEMBERSHIP Category 5: AFFILIATED CONNECTIONS

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