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"LEAD LIKE ANDREW"
Membership Newsletter Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Welcome to Our Bi-weekly Newsletter
Volume 96, "LEAD LIKE ANDREW"
Here's our latest edition with important meetings and other news you can use! Take a look ...
Please share news, tidbits, or notices of upcoming events in your area so we may include them. We also value your feedback on this newsletter and how we may better serve you. Don't hesitate to contact:
will discuss the Georgetown Project which deals with high school-age students experiencing homelessness as defined by the McKinney-Vento Act Homeless Assistance Act. Read more about the project at https://www.georgetownproject.org/
YOUR CHAPTER REPORT IS A VALUABLE TOOL
Filing your annual chapter report is the perfect way to give the Brotherhood Board feedback about and for your chapter. Without your participation, the Board cannot effectively assess and plan ministries, resources and support for you. Please check with your chapter officers to make sure your report for 2024 was filed or email admin@brothersandrew.net with your chapter number to check. If it hasn't been filed, please file this 2024 report eitherONLINEorPRINT, complete and mail as soon as possible. Your response helps make the Brotherhood a better organization of prayer, study and service for all!
SECOND TUESDAY DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS
The monthly seminars are always on the second Tuesday of each month at 8 pm/Eastern.
Hosted by: President Roy Benavides & Sr. VP Jeff Butcher
Future Second Tuesday Development Seminars
JUNE: Loneliness & Isolation
JULY: Regional Workshop Preparation
AUGUST: Founders Day Planning
SEPTEMBER: Roundtable for Chapter Directors
OCTOBER: Disciplines of Prayer & Study
NOVEMBER: Lead Like Jesus/Recruiting
A Graduation Gift That Lasts
Many of us will watch “Senior Sunday” in the coming weeks. Another group of high school seniors will move on to work, college, enlistment in military service, the Peace Corps, and the like. What a touching gift it would be for a Brotherhood member to gift a “Jr. Membership” to those young men in their lives, both in and out of the parish.
As Junior Members, those young adults will receive all our digital communications like this one, have our website resources and opportunities to connect with the body of believers. We encourage you to gift a membership as a means to support them as they take this new road in life. Here’s the link you can use:
and include the Student's name in the "Write a Note" field.
You've Got a Friend
Directly Speaking
Tom Welch, Executive Director
“Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7 (NOAB)
Not long ago I was praying with some brothers during one of our Wednesday mid-day prayers webcasts. (Join us sometime. The link is in every newsletter.) As is common, prayer requests of others often touch our own heart on various levels.This time was no different.
Many years ago when I was in my late 20’s, I taught junior high Sunday school at my home church, St. Philip’s in Jackson, Mississippi. By that time in my life I had just completed ten years of being a radio disc jockey in my hometown, just an hour south of Jackson. As I would prepare the upcoming Sunday school lessons for these teens ,I often found myself dusting off my memory bank, looking for “Billboard Magazine’s Top 100” tunes from recent years to use that week. Music is always a great way to build connections.
At that time, two of the teens in that class were living through the divorce of their parents, one had a chronically unemployed father, one had just lost two of his four grandparents within weeks of one another. To them, struggles seemed just too much to handle. That led me to a series of three weeks on getting through rough periods. Each week ended with a different song being heard. Often lines from the song were interwoven into our lesson to build the connection.
The point to the series was that God is always, always with us in every experience. The same holds for you and for me, dear reader. If you are perplexed, struggling and wondering where on earth is God in all of this, remember to call upon Him. Carly Simon wrote a song for her then husband James Taylor, that I shared with those young adults that day. Today, this song is for you (with link below). As you listen, think of it as a love ballad from our Risen Lord directly to you. If you do, I believe you will never hear it in the same manner again. When that happens my prayer for you will have been answered. Easter blessings, one and all.
What better way to level set during the middle of the week? We will hold a weekly Wednesday noon (CDT) prayer time over ZOOM that is open to all brothers and guests. Let's pray for the Brotherhood, for our Brothers, and even share some stories of how Prayer has impacted you or someone you know!
We can all spare 20 minutes in prayer. It's like stopping at the faith service station to fill your prayer tank!
Please join us every week when you can to recharge your prayer batteries!
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew, The Brooklyn and Queens Assemblies, and The Diocese of Chicago wish to remind you to join the weekly Bible Study on Thursdays, 8 p.m. EDT/7 p.m. CDT/6 p.m. MDT/ 5 p.m. PDT. Joining this group will allow you to continue to gain deeper knowledge, awareness, and understanding of the Bible.
BIBLE STUDY ID: 448 502 7479 (no password necessary)
2. By PHONE:
646-876-9923
ENTER ID#: 448 502 7479, THEN PRESS #
New members to receive "welcome call" from
their Province President and/or Diocesan Leaders
New members are starting to receive email notification from the Service Center when their complete and funded applications are processed. Packets are also sent via USPS. Often, our Executive Director Tom Welch, makes a welcome call. Our senior leadership wants to take it a step closer to the ground. Each member of the Brotherhood has a Province President, and many have a Diocesan Coordinator contact. "What province am I in?" A map is below.
Every month province presidents receive a list of the new members in his province. You should have already received a welcome call from him by now or will in the near future. It's all about building connections so we may build community and leadership. One or more of our leaders will be calling new members by phone, so you may see an odd phone number show on your phone. Take a chance and see if it is a new Brotherhood friend on the other end. They would like to get to know you.
Likewise, every month for those new members who have indicated an interest in one or more of our seven ministries, that Ministry VP will also receive your name and plug new members into that ministry silo.
If new members aren't able to answer the call, our leaders will leave a message for a call back opportunity from our new members. What makes a new member join? What does their parish look like? What would they share to others about the Brotherhood? These are the type of questions we want to learn so we may grow in the Lord together.
A special welcome to these new members joining since April 16:
Kathy Copas, our editor, would like to include more news of chapter events and ministry meetings or events. If you have something to share, please send it to
