On Monday February 20, 2023 Grand Knight Ken presented a $4,000.00 check to Father Pagano for our annual in budget General Purpose Fund Contribution.

Brother Knights Joe Cruz, left, and Mark Van Engelen, right, presented roses and rosaries to the mothers
and fathers at the Feb. 19 Baptisms.
Council 16492 continues to take part in this meaningful and emotional tribute to Mothers and their
babies. At each Baptism, we present white roses to the mothers indicating purity, and rosaries,
purchased from the SJPII Rosary Ministry, to the fathers stressing the importance of everyday prayers in
their families’ lives. We also assist the SJPII Moms’ Ministry by handing out gifts from them to the
mothers. Baptisms will resume after Easter and anyone who would like to help can contact Deputy
Grand Knight Pete Falcone.

The Council 16492’s $3,000 check to Ascension St. Vincent’s Mobile Health Unit will support health and lifestyle improvements for those in need throughout northern St. Johns and southern Duvall counties.

From left to right are: Ascension St. Vincent’s Foundation’s Jennifer Stockman, Development Director; Pete Falcone, Deputy Grand Knight; Mary Anne Thomas, Development Director: Cory Darling, Ascension St. Vincent’s South Hospital Administrator; Mobile Health Unit Staff/drivers Bill Remley and Kim Forth; and Sir Knight Mike Spigelmire.

The Catholic Charities Food Pantry received a $3,000 check to support their program to help Senior Citizens in need of food and care. In conjunction with the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, the program is aimed at making sure no needy senior citizens are left unattended or go without a meal.

Tara Provini, Regional Director of the St. Augustine Regional Office, accepts the check from Deputy Grand Knight Pete Falcone

A check for $3,000 was presented to Judith Dembowski, Executive Director of Port in the Storm by Joe Pitisci, Council 16492’s Community Faith in Action programs director, right, and Pete Falcone, Deputy Grand Knight. The supplemental funding will add to the Port in the Storm’s mission of assuring homeless young people in St. John’s County have a place to stay and are provided with skills to improve their lives.

Habitat for Humanity donation of $3000 was presented in person to Malinda Everson, Executive Director, on Jan 27th.

We also visited one of the developments that is nearing completion. Habitat for Humanity is formed in a community as a Christian ministry that not only builds homes for those in need, but also transforms communities.

The Knights were asked to help with the food distribution at the Guardian School on Saturday December 3rd.

Our Knights came through once again to help in the community to get food to those who needed our support!

There were about a dozen pallets of assorted food items and it took about 2 hours of distributing all the items to a steady stream of cars.

Thanks very much to all the brothers in our council for your act of kindness and charity!