Greetings Brethren and Masonic families. Thanks for coming to the Luau and stated meeting. Very well attended and fun for all. It would be nice if we could keep all the brothers who attend the dinners to walk down one floor to the Stated Meeting. And I know how.
With the help of Brothers Steve Merritt and Past Masters; Kevin Stroud and Richard Anderson, we are attempting to maintain classes for Entered Apprentices and Fellow Craft Masons who need their proficiencies to advance to Master Masons and thus attend the Stated meetings.
Believe me. When their proficiencies are completed they will advance at the scheduled degrees. What concerns me is the continued support from all Master Masons. The first half of the year we had a deluge of new members, proficiencies, degrees for advancement in Masonry, and attendance at the degrees. Lately, the lodge room at the degrees has the appearance of a ghost town.
Brethren, it's simple, it's "roots". You start at Entered Apprentice, you go to proficiency school, you advance to Fellow Craft, and then to Master Mason. Something we all want as Masons.
The officers of this lodge practice for just that! And in the interim, as Master Masons, you attend the degrees and you root these brothers on. You want them to advance, you need them to advance. And when you finish your fun and entertaining stated dinner, you walk down with them one floor, side by side, as Master Masons.
Bring that same spirit at the dinners to the scheduled degrees and then share with me the thrill of watching someone walk the same path as you have.
Fraternally, Dennis Wallace, Worshipful Master.
