Holy Family Council 7800 meets at 7:00 P.M. on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at the Stratford Senior Citizen's Center, 302 Union Avenue. Officer's meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 P.M. at the Senior Center.

The Grand Knight for 2008- 2009 is Joseph Deighan. He can be reached via email gk7800@njkofc.org.

Important announcements about the council, its members, St. Luke Parish, or other communuity information.

In the beginning…..

Several men, in cooperation with a District Deputy, gathered together to see if they could establish a Knights of Columbus council in Stratford NJ. At that time, 1981, Supreme was trying to set up new councils within an individual parish and thus it was that the Church of St. Luke was the foundation area for recruitment.

Early leaders included Jack McGuigan, Bill Robbins, Joe Chiumento and others. Their task was to find a minimum of 20 prospective members to form the council. Many of the new members would be from Stratford via transfer out of other councils. These early leaders were very successful and recruited 33 charter members to form the council.

A very important task was to come up with a name for the new council considering the restriction that it could not be named after a living person. Jack McGuigan was leaving home to go to the meeting to consider our name, he asked his wife if she had any suggestions. It is no surprise that Faith McGuigan instantly suggested the name “Holy Family”, because, after all, we would be a family. The meeting that night quickly found consensus on the name and thus we became known as “Holy Family Council #7800, Knights of Columbus.