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Fondy Key Club Update

Monday Morning

There were 19 members at our Monday meeting plus one guest. Our guest speaker was a no show. Key Club Officer, Alyssa Weiorka joined us for breakfast. “Happy Bucks” were offered by Jim Freiberg, Del Waldschmidt, Gary Miller and Jan Krug. Marlin needs your ticket sales money as soon as possible.

Dan Leeds was the winner of the 50/50 raffle drawing and he drew the five of clubs for $5.00 dollars Next Monday’s 50/50 Raffle will have 49 cards in the game including the eight pay cards.

Alyssa Weiorka, Fondy High Key Club President

Alyssa filled in for our missing speaker. She is a senior and transferred from WLA. She joined the Key Club to get more involved in helping others. Her first choice for college is Northwestern. She thanked our club for all our support. One of the officer’s goals is to increase the number of events. They are working harder to get better attendance from the Key Club to our club. Some of their events are ARC Christmas bingo party, books to the hospital, Halloween events and the Pink Pumpkin Race. They sold candy for their first fund raiser of the year. They have ninety paid members.

Hixson Award Winners

The board of Directors awarded two Hixsons this year. A $1,000 donation has been made to Kiwanis International Foundation in of the name of Sharon Kollman and Pastor Dan Leeds. This is to recognize these individuals for their hard work for Kiwanis. Congratulation to both Sharon and Dan.

Dan Leeds Discusses Christmas Prophecies

Monday Morning

We had sixteen members that ventured out for our regular Monday meeting. Jan Krug had a “Happy Buck” for Del’s upcoming heart surgery. Prayers are welcome for Del’s speedy recovery. John Cooper drew the Nine of Diamonds in the 50/50 Raffle, not a winner. Next week’s drawing will have 37 cards with seven pay cards and a pot of at least $195.

Dan Leeds – Christmas Prophecies

Dan Leeds is pastor of Trinity Baptist Church and Kiwanis of Fabulous Fond du Lac member. His presentation of Christmas prophecies focused on the gospel of Matthew. The gospel of Matthew was written with the agenda of proving to the Jews that Jesus was their Messiah, their promised King. The man Matthew was familiar with the Scriptures:

approximately 50 direct quotations from the Old Testament
about 75 allusions are made to Old Testament events
25 different Old Testament are mentioned or referred to by Matthew
16 times Matthew writes “might be fulfilled” and most of those times the reference is about Christ
nine times Matthew said “it is written”

Dan then talked about two broad areas that helped to frame Matthew’s prophecies regarding Jesus’ birth. First was “The Virgin Birth”. Much of this discussion was based on Matthew 1:21-23 and Isaiah 7:1-16 and discussed God’s attempt to convince King Ahaz of Judah not worry about Syria and Samaria attaching Judea.

The second area was Herod’s order to kill all boys two and under in and around Bethlehem. For this area of discussion reliance was placed on Matthew 2:17-18 and Jeremiah 31:15.

Dan’s presentation of the scriptural background provided a very interesting perspective on Matthew’s prophecies regarding the birth of Christ.

Why You Should Join Kiwanis!

Monday Morning
We had 19 members and three guests at Monday’s Membership Meeting back at The Main Street Café and Lounge. Joining us were potential members Kari Baker (Gary Ring), Sarah Leeds (Dan Leeds) and Gary Thorpe (Bonnie Baerwald). “Happy Bucks” were offered by Dan Leeds for he and Lin heading out to England to see their grandchild, Gary Miller for being back from Ireland, but disappointed he didn’t find any Kiwanis Clubs in his travels, Bonnie Baerwald for Gary Thorpe joining us, Gary Ring for Kari Baker joining us and the nice weather over the past weekend and Bob Kahl ($4) for finishing his stint of babysitting four of his grandchildren in Monona. Bonnie Baerwald was the 50/50 Raffle Winner and she drew a King of Clubs. Not a winner so the prize continues to grow. Monday’s game will have 23 cards, seven pay cards and a pot of at least $380.

Why Join Kiwanis? Dan Leeds
Dan Leeds was our program on Monday and he did an excellent job explaining what Kiwanis meant to him and also some great history and statistics about the size and reach of our worldwide Kiwanis organization. Statistically, Kiwanis is in 96 countries with over 8,400 Clubs and over 600,000 members worldwide. There are over a 150,000 Kiwanis projects performed every year that produces over 6M volunteer hours. Volunteer hours for all of the K-Family Clubs totals over 18M hours and over $100M of donations worldwide every year. The K-Family is comprised of K-Kids (elementary schools), Builders Clubs (middle schools), Key Clubs (high schools), Circle K (college), Aktion Clubs (disabled members) and Kiwanis Clubs. Dan talked about two of our major programs, Infant Swaddle Sacks and The Parenting Newsletter that we’ve been involved with the other two Kiwanis Clubs in town for a number of years.
Dan ended his presentation by telling us that he joined Kiwanis for two reasons; to give back to his community and for the camaraderie of the group and the relationship building that comes from belonging to our Kiwanis Club.