Mission Statement

1. Pride in the past, participate in present faith in the future

2. Empower, encourage, enlighten

3. Support religious training, social enjoyment, Cheerful Companionship & Service to Community

4. Provide Service to Community

5. Work Closely with Fraternal Organizations – Masonic

6. Embrace Social & service activities uniting members in fun & fellowship

7. Assist local chapters in membership & programs to increase

8. Increase membership & create reason for involvement

9. Provide leadership to chapters.

10. Communications from Grand Chapter to Local Chapters & Individual members

11. Support & Advance OES Charities, member in times of need, foster growth & vitality of chapters

& members.

12. Grand Chapter is Yours!

13. Instill in prospective members the values of OES

Local Chapters:

1. Great People 2

2. Fellowship 10

3. Ritual 2

4. Friendship, hugs & sense of belonging 3

5. Family 2

6. Privilege 1

7. Commitment 1

8. New, vital members 1

Grand Chapter

1. Mission

2. History

3. Renewing friendships 8

4. Friends from all over

5. More observation of who we are ( Beauty of work/order)

6. Working together to make it happen

7. Structure/organization

8. Pomp & circumstance 3

9. Special programs

10. New ideas

11. Friendlines

Local Chapters – Better

1. Improve community recognition 11

2. Print activities in the paper 3

3. Blow our own hour 2

4. Make visitors & members feel more welcome 2

5. Involve everyone 10

6. Programs/mtg. 9

7. 2 meetings per month 9

8. Effective, time-efficient meeting 7

9. ?/social/1 formal mtg. per month 8

10. Social activities apart from Masonic centers 3

11. More ritual work at meetings 2

12. Active fundraising events 1

13. Telephone committee to call members 3

14. Active / revitalize committees 7

15. Readjust time of some meetings to attract attendance 3

16. Find times to get together when dark 7

17. Involve distant members meaningfully 4

18. E-Newsletter & printed newsletter 3

19. Find & use ways to communicate with everyone. 5

20. PGM/PGP valette message emulated at local level 4

21. Statewide Newsletter (local Chapters Quarterly) 10

22. Transportation offers. 0

23. Form Local car pools 2

Grand Chapter Better

1. Proceedings on disc 2

2. Involve more member by asking them to participate.10

3. Involve the local chapter officers in some of the activity 2

4. More time for fun 5

5. Cut down on long formal introductions 5

6. Cut down on Cost of meals 8

7. Get together more (Mini Grands) 8

8. WM as Pages 3

9. Fewer days/less redundant activity 8

10. Pre-print reports, cut down verbal reporting 11

11. Wear what what we want and donate $ to proj. 2

12. State wide newsletter 8

13. 2 minute time limit on speeches enforced 0

14. Preprint & distribute amendments to al attending 8

15. Activate committees 2

16. Meet / great all out-of-states 0

17. Delete speeches 3

18. Shorten flag tributes 1

19. Straight forward, less “flowery” for whole GC. 2

20. Update job descriptions/goals & objectives for each committee 2