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Murrieta Mission
Council #11393 is based at St. Martha Catholic Parish located at 37200
Whitewood Road, Murrieta, CA 92563. The Grand Knight for the Columbian year
July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010 is Don E. Wantz. You can contact the Knights
by phone at (951) 461-7753.
The Murrieta
Mission Council meets the second Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in
O'Neil Hall at St. Martha Catholic Church. Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m.
In September of 1993,
Rev. Charles Schultz, pastor of St. Martha's Parish, asked Harris Gehl (PGK,
FDD, CP) and Bill Franklin (PGK, FDD) to form a K of C council for his
parish. Harris then contacted the District Deputy, Joseph Cherpin (PGK,
FDD, PCJ), to inquire into what had to be done. Joseph, in turn,
established the rules and regulations of forming a new council and set the
criteria for the necessary 30 new members along with 60 transfers from
neighboring Temecula Council 9964. The 90 names were submitted to
Supreme with a request for the date of institution to be July 1, 1994. A list
of new council officers including Joseph Flaim (PGK, FDD), the charter GK,
was submitted to Rev. Shultz and the members for a vote. The charter
was approved by Supreme and effective July 1, 1994 and Murrieta Mission
Council 11393 came into existence.
Our council
works closely with St. Martha Catholic Parish, providing funds for various
projects associated with people and organizations in need. One of the main
events each year is the Drive for People with Mental Disabilities in which
council members, their families, friends, and neighbors raise funds to
support local organizations such as Special Olympics and the Murrieta Unified
School District special day classes. During the past 10 years, our council
has presented over $64,000 to these organizations combined.
We are also
active in fund raising events and non-fund raising activities for our
Community, Church, Council, Youth, and Pro-Life each year and have raised
thousands of dollars and spent thousands of volunteer man-hours to assist
those people and organizations in our community that are in need.
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