Welcome to the Iowa Grand Master's Website.
This site is designed to be a focus for communication between the Grand
Master and the Craft of Iowa for the 2007-2008 Masonic Year.
Please visit often, since the contents are likely to change frequently.
Who Am I?
For your convenience, here are the links to
new locations on the site.
Quick Facts and Figures
Hope Lodge Donations to Date from Pin Program > $63,000
(THANK YOU BRETHREN)
Masonic Cookbooks Sold
About 365
Cookbooks Remaining (Unless we order more)
About 75
Oxford Lodge Donates $1000 to Hope Lodge
** IOWA MASONIC LICENSE PLATE APPROVED
** ORDER FORM NOW AVAILABLE--ORDER
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READ THIS IOWA MASONIC MEMBERSHIP RETENTION FORUMS READ THIS
Farmer's Lodge Bluegrass Jam and Festival
Memorial for M.W. Brother C. Glenn Brown
Memorial for M.W.
Brother Laverne R. Clary
Frequently Used Links
Note: some of these links are not yet connected.
If a link brings you back to this home page, that is because it has not
been populated, YET. Please be patient.
I believe that one of the best ways ways we can help the lodges is to persuade them to use their efforts on activities that promote their lodge, invigorate their lodge, excite their members, and make them visible to the community. And that does NOT mean having stated meetings that run for two hours, including reading aloud a list of all bills paid during the past month, reading aloud a set of minutes that tells in detail the names of everyone who attended the last meeting, everyone at the last meeting who was recognized as a Past Master, everyone at the last meeting who was recognized as a Veteran, everyone at the last meeting who managed to stay awake for the entire meeting, etc. Christopher Hodapp, the author of Freemasons for Dummies, wrote an excellent paper on this very topic. It is called Boring Our Members to Death. Every Mason should read this paper. Every Lodge Officer should really read this paper. Then they should all go to lodge and convince their brethren that there really is a better way to do things. I got this article off the Grand Lodge of SD website. I have seen it since in a couple other publications. Read it HERE.
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Note: All opinions expressed on this page and other pages on this website are nothing more than the personal opinions of the author. No person speaks for Freemasonry. Not the Grand Master, not the Grand Secretary, not the Grand Anybody. NOBODY. Anyone who claims that they know differently than that because their great uncle twice removed was the next door neighbor of a man who was a 47th Degree Black Belt Holy Patriarch of the Mystic Secret of the Blue Knights of Jerusalem and that he revealed the true secrets of the fraternity on his deathbed is, sadly, mistaken, deluded, and misled.
Also note: This is NOT an official site of the Grand Lodge of Iowa. This is the personal Web Site of Donald Mosier. All opinions expressed on this site are his and his alone. Well OK, I suppose some other folks may share his opinions, but the expression of them on this site is solely his responsibility. So if you disagree with something you see here, don't complain to the Grand Lodge of Iowa, any of its officers (other than Don Mosier) or anybody else. Send them right here.
If you have comments regarding this website, please send me a message at WebMaster I am the webmaster, so it will come directly to me.
Web Site Contents Copyright 2007,2008, Donald E. Mosier
Last Updated 06 April 2008
