KofC Council 7117
Knights of Columbus Padre Pio Council 7117
(is a nonprofit incorporated council)
Our individual Padre Pio Council 7117 was formally adopted back on May 4th, 1978, with is first bylaws.
We are about 75 men in our council from the
St. Joseph the Worker Parish and the
Sacred Heart Church of Battle Ground Parish.
Our Council's primary work is to support financially or by directly working with these humanitarian services.
Sharehouse, food bank, Winter Hospitality Overflow, Larch Correction facility along with this countries Military Veterans just to name a few.
We would like to cordially invite the men of our parish community to join with us in promoting God's call to holiness.
Any Catholic man 18 yrs or older is welcome to apply
for membership in our order.
He must be a practicing Catholic.
If interested, please contact one of the Knights in church or Executive members listed on the contact page.
Thanks to the efforts of Father Michael J. McGivney, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven and some of his parishioners, the Connecticut state legislature on March 29, 1882, officially chartered the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal benefit society. The Order is still true to its founding principles of charity, unity and fraternity.
The Knights was formed to render financial aid to members and their families. Mutual aid and assistance are offered to sick, disabled and needy members and their families. Social and intellectual fellowship is promoted among members and their families through educational, charitable, religious, social welfare, war relief and public relief works.
The history of the Order shows how the foresight of Father Michael J. McGivney, whose cause for sainthood is being investigated by the Vatican, brought about what has become the world's foremost Catholic fraternal benefit society. The Order has helped families obtain economic security and stability through its life insurance, annuity and long-term care programs, and has contributed time and energy worldwide to service in communities.
The Knights of Columbus has grown from several members in one council to more than 14,000 councils and 1.8 million members throughout the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Mexico, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, Guatemala, Guam and Saipan.