Greetings from Bethel #4.
June is a busy and exciting month for us. Our installation of Officers is June 18th at 3:00 pm. Ali Keepers is being installed as Honored Queen and is very excited, as she has worked her way thru all the line officer stations to get to this position. We hope some of you will be able to attend. We only have 4 daughters in the Bethel and always love to see sideliners. Read More
For the past several months, Bethel #4 has been very busy. We have participated in Initiations at other Bethels, Majority Ceremonies, Burgerville Fundraiser (thank you to the lodge members that came and supported us), Even a kidnap breakfast where the girls were picked up at their homes and had to go to breakfast in their pajamas, Grand Bethel Weekend as well as attending other Bethel meetings around the area. Read More
By: Charles Benvegar
I saw them tearing a building down, a group of men
in a busy town.
With a hefty blow and a lusty yell, They swung with zest, and the sidewall fell.
I asked the foremen, “are these men skilled? The kind you would hire, if you had to build?”
He looked at me, and laughed, “no, indeed! Unskilled labor is all I need. Why, they can wreck in a day or two, What has taken builders years to do.”
I asked myself, as I went my way, which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder with rule and square, measuring and constructing with skill and care?
Or am I the wrecker, who runs the town, content with the business of tearing down?
Attended a Leadership Workshop last month, conducted through Grand Lodge, and was a very well attended event. With the following subjects being discussed; Read More
Furthermore it is the clearest emblem of authority in conducting a meeting. Therefore the game of taking a Lodge’s gavel serves to encourage a sporting, classical competition and exploit an individual Mason’s sense of Lodge pride to encourage extensive travel and exchange between Lodges.
Some of the gavels taken by and from Friendship Masonic Lodge
No one really knows how it began, but the custom of seizing a gavel is one of those uniquely playful games Brothers play, without which Freemasonry might well seem incomplete.
By visiting other Lodges we not only come to know more Brothers, but can glean insights from how they perform their work, and bring that light back to their Mother Lodge just as they incorporate it into their individual Masonic journey.
So now you have what you need. Travel well and often, Brethren!
