Category: Education

1. Give a special incentive to top line signers of new petitioners (Pins, clothing, certificates etc). 2. Plan a Guest Night for potential candidates. 3. Identify your most at-risk members and target them for additional contact. 4. Do a member survey of your least active members. Let those who respond know that you are listening…

The Mentor Program is the most useful aid for assisting Lodges to bond with their new members. It assists with the new member’s Masonic education and gives him pride in being a Mason. The bonding that happens between two Masons when the mentor program is used will continue long after the degrees are completed. The…

Ever think about who the owner of your Lodge is? Let’s put this thought into perspective. Who owns Ford Motor Company?  Well, the stockholders. Now, who owns Florida State University? We do, the taxpayers. Who owns your Lodge?  You do, you’re a member. (By now you should have reached the “aha” moment.) If you have…

Almost eerie shadows bounced and danced their solemn dance to the candlelight casting its shadows and souls upon the walls of the lodge, the temple. The men moved in silence in a circumambulation around their altar. Dress in tailcoats, their hands gloved, the aprons of the finest lambskin. The Brothers took their seats and the…

When you petitioned your lodge and eventually met with the investigating committee, you received your first experience of what might be expected of you as a Freemason. Their sole purpose was to ascertain if you were indeed a true man, of good reputation and in good standing within the community and to report their findings…

One bad leader killed our fraternal brothers. One pompous, self-righteous, egotistical bastard was single-handedly responsible for the destruction of a holy Order that had existed for nearly two hundred years, and for the death of two men who, like our own Grand Master Hiram, became martyrs to their fidelity. Before we even begin to discuss…

Every Mason practices public relations whether we realize it or not, if we wear a ring, a lapel pin, or have an emblem on our car, we are PR men for Masonry. Simply put, public relations is the relationship an organization has with the general public. Whatever we do, while wearing a Masonic emblem, we…

Yes. In a very real sense, education is at the center of Masonry. We have stressed its importance for a very long time. Back in the Middle Ages, schools were held in the lodges of stonemasons. You have to know a lot to build a cathedral — geometry, and structural engineering, and mathematics, just for…

Today, I will contemplate my presence here on earth and that my Creator has a purpose for my existence which may or may not always be clear to me, but will live by his Commandments in order that I might not spot or stain the character which has become me. Today, I will strive to…

The years found me an admirer of the great work the Masonic Order has been doing in making this world a better place for all of us to live. I have, for a long time, desired to be one of you and rejoice that now I can proudly boast of my membership in one of…