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.

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Tom served the council very ably during the last year as its Church Director.  Tom was one of the leaders encouraging knights to attend the retreat at the Jesuit Montserrat Retreat Center in Lake Dallas, TX.  He also saw to it that the knights did their job at the March for Life in Little Rock and the Mass and Procession for the Unborn Child on March 25th.

Tom is the inspiration and the leader of our First Degree Exemplification Team and serves as the Commander of the 4th Degree Honor Guard.  In addition to being a lector and a member of the Sacred Heart choir, he is also a cantor at 10:00 mass on Sundays and a song leader  during the week.