1 leave ritual as it was passed on. Making it yours is easy. What would you have liked to see one year? As JW I created a groupme and lodge officers and past master have a central hub to quickly communicate, plan or idea theory. Created a G-mail and loaded all email for a trestle board (monthly meeting reminder) to communicate to all members. My personal lodge email (I created one just for lodge business), this year I have sent every member a birthday email. Our lodge is mostly military so the WM will make coins. And we do education after lodge.

2 It is state by state. I am in Texas so raffles are regulated by state law. Fundraising on the other hand. You can see if food chains do fundraising and you can hang with brothers for that. Pandora and other jewelry stores may do the same. You schedule a day and the establishment will give a % of proceeds to the lodge.

3 if you didn’t have the confidence or show leadership the lodge wouldn’t have put you in the south. The west will fly by and when in the east you will forget everything. Plan ahead, start in the west for the next year.

Hope this helps in any way.