Knight of the Month for April 2009 is Marvin Young.

Marvin Young

Marvin became a knight in Nebraska in 1974 and joined our council in 2007. He is an Extraordinary Minister at Sacred Heart, and volunteers at Jackson House on Tuesdays and Fridays. He helps maintain the fields at the Boys and Girls Club and the area around the McCauley Center. He was very active In the Treasure Sale doing transportation duties.

Marvin volunteered to staff the phones at the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management in Little Rock following last winter’s ice storm. He attended the Little Rock Diocese’s first workshop on Parish Social Ministry.

He served on Sacred Heart’s Disaster Response Feasibility Study Group. He is a member of Sacred Heart’s Disaster Response Team and serves on its Steering Committee with direct responsibility for training and scheduling the case managers.

He has made many trips to Mena following the tornado, one trip to help Catholic Charities dispense information to the victims, and other trips to work with Sacred Heart’s clean-up crews. Marvin will be coordinating Sacred Heart’s case managers at Mena upon the request of Catholic Charities of Arkansas.

Marvin is truly a great Knight and well deserving of this award.