Quite a few of the brothers that moved away simply won’t demit from their home lodge, for whatever reason. Even if they never plan on coming back. Whatever state they moved to, I would assume there is a local lodge that would be happy to have them attend there. So, contacting those brothers is sort of pointless, isn’t it? To quote a …
Quite a few of the brothers that moved away simply won’t demit from their home lodge, for whatever reason. Even if they never plan on coming back. Whatever state they moved to, I would assume there is a local lodge that would be happy to have them attend there. So, contacting those brothers is sort of pointless, isn’t it? To quote a famous movie gangster “he’s gone, and we couldn’t do nothing about it”.
Then you have the aged who didn’t move away, but are not capable to go to lodge unassisted. Chances are they are too embarrassed to ask. Those the lodge should reach out to and see if they would like to have someone come and pick them up.
Next are the ones that have been driven out by other members of the lodge. Good luck getting those back. Lodges tend to forget that our organization is strictly volunteer.
There are a handful of brothers who have been faced with family issues that require them to make hard decisions about priorities. You have to respect that and let the brother go. Someday he might be able to come back. Just keep them abreast of lodge activities though mailing lists, social media, etc.
Finally, there are the brothers who quit because they just didn’t find that masonry was what they expected it to be. Either the lodge lied to them or they lied to themselves. We’ve covered that particular topic before. If they lied to themselves that’s on them. If the lodge made promises to the candidate, and failed to meet those expectations, then the lodge needs to rethink how it does things. Almost none of the lodges do, they tend to think everything is fine, when it’s not. Those lodges are the worst, because they fail to recognize it’s own failings, and refuse to change, being comfortable in their mediocrity.
There are various types of lodges. Social, educational, esoteric, etc. whichever one you are, be the best at it.
Quite a few of the brothers that moved away simply won’t demit from their home lodge, for whatever reason. Even if they never plan on coming back. Whatever state they moved to, I would assume there is a local lodge that would be happy to have them attend there. So, contacting those brothers is sort of pointless, isn’t it? To quote a famous movie gangster “he’s gone, and we couldn’t do nothing about it”.
Then you have the aged who didn’t move away, but are not capable to go to lodge unassisted. Chances are they are too embarrassed to ask. Those the lodge should reach out to and see if they would like to have someone come and pick them up.
Next are the ones that have been driven out by other members of the lodge. Good luck getting those back. Lodges tend to forget that our organization is strictly volunteer.
There are a handful of brothers who have been faced with family issues that require them to make hard decisions about priorities. You have to respect that and let the brother go. Someday he might be able to come back. Just keep them abreast of lodge activities though mailing lists, social media, etc.
Finally, there are the brothers who quit because they just didn’t find that masonry was what they expected it to be. Either the lodge lied to them or they lied to themselves. We’ve covered that particular topic before. If they lied to themselves that’s on them. If the lodge made promises to the candidate, and failed to meet those expectations, then the lodge needs to rethink how it does things. Almost none of the lodges do, they tend to think everything is fine, when it’s not. Those lodges are the worst, because they fail to recognize it’s own failings, and refuse to change, being comfortable in their mediocrity.
There are various types of lodges. Social, educational, esoteric, etc. whichever one you are, be the best at it.