2024 GRAND CHAPTER PROJECTS
Special Project: Oh the Pawsibilities Retrieving Freedom Service Dogs Projects)
Eastern Star is partnering with Retrieving Freedom this year to help support their dedication to training service dogs. Their primary focus is training dogs to serve the needs of veterans and children with autism.
Proceeds from:
Sale of the Bicycle Pins
Note Cards
Quilt Raffle
SK/Walk-a-thon Social-September 28, 2024
OES Golf Outing - Friday, June 28, 2024
Mystery Dinner Theaters - July 13, 2024 in Eastern Iowa & July 27, 2024 in Western Iowa
Bake Goods Sales at the Conferring of the Degrees by the Grand Officers
Coin March at Official Visits in April, May, June, July
ESTARL:
Sale of Nuts by Grand Officers at Receptions
Sales of March Music and CDs
Coin March, Official Visits in March
Youth: (Rainbow, DeMolay, Job's Daughters)
Sales of the Bird House Pin
Stuff the Bird House
Activities with the Youth
Birdhouse Raffles
Collection of Pop Tabs
Dinner & Silent Auction
Memorial/Honorary Birds
Basket Pin
Worthy Grand Matron Special Pin
Loose Change Jars
Coin March at Official Visits (August, September, October) TLC: This year our primary emphasis for the TLC project will be on -
Angel Gowns
Quilt of Valor Day - April 21, 2024 (See Flyer)
Quilts for Dog Recipients
Hearts and Receiving Blankets for Hospital NICU
Little Free Libraries
Bird Houses
Members In Care Facilities:
Members are encouraged to visit one of the homes in their community.
Deliver card and gifts to shut ins and those in nursing homes.
2024 General Grand Chapter Projects
Service Dogs: Information and Awareness
Regenerative Medicine
March: Songs of Perseverance
Music to Carry Bible In: In This Very Room
Attending at the Altar, Opening: Surely the Presence
Opening Ode: Morning has broken
Flag Tribute:This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
Coin March:You've Got A Friend In Me, You Are the Light of the World, Broadway Showtunes
Attending At the Altar, Closing: Here I Am, Lord
Closing Ode: Shalom to You
Song in Closing March: Pass It On
Draping Music: Sometimes
Removal of the Drape: I'll Fly Away
Session: "Life is a Journey" Session
November 7-10, 2024
Holiday Inn -Airport, Des Moines IA
Theme: Find Joy In the Journey
Motto: It's the friends we meet along the way That help us appreciate the journey
Aim: To spread the light of Eastern Star to our Members and our communities
Watchwords: Family, Friends, Fidelity, Faith, Peace
Travel Emblems: Gavel, Baton, and Baton Holder, Drape, Holy Bibles
Colors: Blue, Burnt Orange, Gray
Flowers: Perennials (Black Eyed Susan, Coneflowers, Hosta, Lily of the Valley, etc.) and Sunflowers
Symbols: Bicycles. Bird Houses, Old Fashioned Streetlamps, Iowa Songbirds, Peace Cranes
Honor Stations: Marshal, Sentinel, and Chaplain
Honor Groups: Membership, Volunteers, Service Members, Veterans and Veterans Service Organizations
Scriptures:
WGM:
Hebrews 11:1...Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Matthews 5:14-16...You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
WGP
Proverbs 4:23...Above all else guard your heart, for everything you do comes from it.
Acts: 20:35...1 have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, "It is more blessed to give that to receive.