2018 Annual Kick-Off Dinner
Dear Six-Three Group Members,
I am extremely honored to be the C.A. Captain for our Six-Three Group this year. It is difficult to believe that we are in the month of March already. I hope everyone had a warm and cozy winter. as the weather patterns move toward spring temperatures it is now time to focus on preparing for the 2018 retreat as your C.A Captain.
The first order of business is to inform you of some upcoming events. Following tradition, our retreat will be on Father’s Day weekend starting on:
Friday JUNE 15, 2018 through Sunday JUNE 17, 2018
You are vital to the success of the Six-Three Annual Retreat. That being said, I’d like to invite you to join me at our Annual Organizational Dinner as we fine tune our recruiting efforts in preparation for this year’s retreat as well as future years.
The information for the dinner is as follows:
DATE: Thursday, March 31, 2016
MASS: 6:00 PM – St. Joe’s Chapel
DINNER: 6:45 PM – Main Dining Hall
MEETING: 7:45 PM – Main Dining Hall
If you are unavailable to attend our meeting, please send one of your men in your place.
I would also like to encourage you to take the first step in your annual recruiting effort and register right now for this year’s retreat. Then invite your men to do the same. Our one-step registration process is the easiest way to get you and your men registered. Register today!
Prosit!
Hank Matteo
C.A. Captain 2018/Six-Three Group
2016 Annual Kick-Off Dinner
Dear Six-Three Group Members,
I am honored to have the privilege of being your C.A. Captain this year and am looking forward to seeing everyone for our 95th Annual Six-Three Spiritual Retreat at St. Joseph’s in the Hills, Malvern Retreat House. Our Six-Three Group will hold its annual retreat this year as follows:
Friday JUNE 17, 2016 through Sunday JUNE 19, 2016
In recent years, we have been able to provide spiritual speakers and presentations such as last year’s Keynote Speech by Bill McGarvey. It is my goal this year to continue to provide the highest quality of spirituality for the men of the Six-Three Group.
As Six Three Group Members, I am cordially inviting you to join me at the Annual Kick-Off Dinner as we fine tune our recruiting efforts to ensure the safety of our Group and this wonderful Retreat House. If you are unable to attend please consider sending one of your men in your place.
DATE: Thursday, March 31, 2016
MASS: 6:00 PM – St. Joe’s Chapel
DINNER: 6:45 PM – Main Dining Hall
MEETING: 7:45 PM – Main Dining Hall
I would also like to encourage you to take the first step in your annual recruiting effort and register right now for this year’s retreat. Then invite your men to do the same. Our one-step registration process is the easiest way to get you and your men registered. Register today!
If you are unable to make the Kick-Off Dinner, then I look forward to joining you at Malvern on June 17th.
Prosit!
Mark Angelo
C.A. Captain 2016/Six-Three Group
Using RPS To Monitor Your Recruiting Efforts
As you may know, the staff at Malvern has worked tirelessly for the past few years to upgrade their internal systems. Included in this process was a requirement to create a new reservation and retreatant management system. This new RPS (Reservation Processing System) includes an authentication process by which the Men of Malvern can have secure access to this vital information from the internet. Well I’m happy to say that this exciting new tool is now available to all Captains, Recruiters and Retreatants to streamline nearly every administrative aspect of our retreat, including reservations, check-in, room assignments, adoration schedules and more.
So how do we use RPS while recruiting?
There are three levels of access; one for Captains, one for Recruiters and one for Retreatants. The full range of reports is available to the Captain (and to whomever the Captain authorizes); a reduced range of reports is available to Recruiters.
Note: Each report in the system will have a ‘detail button’ that will provide a brief description of the report. We will not attempt to do describe each report here.
Login procedures may seem challenging to some of our less experienced computer users however they are necessary to safeguard the system. We encourage our Captains and Recruiters to be patient with the login steps and once you are authenticated in the system you will find the quality and timeliness of the reports and information well worth the effort.
Registration Processing System
Logging In To RPS
You may log into the Reservation Processing System by clicking on the RPS icon (shown here) on our www.sixthreegroup.com home page or by locating the “Captains and Recruiters Signon” link in the main navigation menu at www.malvernretreat.com
If this is your first visit to RPS you will fall into one of two categories; A) your email is in the database or B) your email is not in the database.
A) If this is your first time logging into the system, and your email is in the database, simply enter your email address and click the logon button. This will prompt you to enter a password for your account. (if you receive regular emails from SixThreeGroup.com, your email is in the database!)
B) If this is your first time logging into the system and your email is not in our database, select the “Create an Online Account” button to create your account. If you received a warning message indicating that your email account is invalid when attempting to complete the previous step “A)”, you may not have an account or your account may not have an email associated with it. In either case, use the “Create an Online Account” and it will guide you accordingly.
Maintaining Your Information
Top Section – Shows your Retreat Group and a selected Retreat Date. You are able to select the current (opened) retreat or as far back as three previous retreats (closed).
Personal Information – Shows YOUR information on three tabs, “Retreatant”, “Contact Information” and “Retreats”. You are able to modify most of these fields so that your personal profile remains up to date. Any field which is not accessible and requires modification must be updated by the retreat house staff. Please email the CA Captain at captain@sixthreegroup.com to request a modification on a restricted field.
Retreatants – From here you will be able to view basic information about each of your recruits and update their reservation status! YES, if you have a firm commitment from a man that he WILL attend, you may log into RPS and update his reservation status from “Invited” to “Registered”. Please make sure it’s FIRM!
- Click on Retreatants
- Click on a man’s name
- Click on the “Retreats” tab
- Click the date of the upcoming retreat and select “Registered” in the Status select box.
- No deposit is required in this process so be sure to remind your man that he will submit his free will offering in the green envelope while on retreat.
Add a New Retreatant – (click the plus sign next to Retreatants to reveal this feature)
This brand new feature (2013) allows recruiters to add new retreatants directly into the RPS system! Simply complete the form on the “Retreatant” tab and fill in as much of the “Contact Information” tab as possible (basic contact info is required), and your new recruit is registered to attend the upcoming six three retreat. No deposit is required in this process so be sure to explain the green envelope and our free will offering concept to a new man BEFORE retreat.
Recruiters Reports >> Reservation Status Report – Will show you the status (reservation date or “none”) for each of your recruits along with their contact information. This report allows you to quickly see and print a report of who has not yet registered and requires a follow up call.
Video Overview (by Patrick McKay – Malvern)
Still Having Trouble?
No problem, contact me (Ralph Shicatano) with a detailed email indicating where you are having a problem and I’ll get it straightened out and send you response. No detail is too small!
ralph@sixthreegroup.com
A Final Word From Our 2014 Captain
Gentlemen,
Our 2014 C.A. Captain Dr. Stephen Humbert asked us to share with you some final personal thoughts regarding our 2014 retreat. But before we do that, the Six Three Executive would like to thank Dr. Humbert for sharing with us his special brand of motivation and heartfelt devotion to the Six Three Group. Dr. Humbert and his family are living proof of the impact that one man can have on the lives of his family (8 currently active Humbert’s in Six Three).
…one more thing…it’s not too early or too late to register for our next Retreat!
Register Now for Six Three Retreat
Here is Dr. Humbert’s hand written comment:
…one more thing…it’s not too early or too late to register for next Retreat!
Register Now for Six Three Retreat
Why The Founders Did It?
Fellow Recruiters,
In our day and age, there are many challenges to recruiting men and women to the retreat house for spiritual nourishment but perhaps the greatest challenge in recruiting today is the fear of being perceived as a religious fanatic. If we are honest with ourselves, many of us fear the consequences of talking about religion with our friends and family, out of fear that we will be seen as overzealous or judgmental. Continue to read and you will discover the solution to the problem. I have thought long and hard about this reality and it led me to go back to the beginning of the Malvern Retreat House and dig deep into how it started and what made the first recruiters, our founders, so successful? This led me to review our archives and take a close look at our founders: John Ferrick, John Sullivan, John Cabrey and Richard McSorley. These men started the laymen’s retreat league because they passionately and truly believed the best way to deal with the pressures of the world was to step into an extended period of silence with the trinity to receive the infinite gifts of wisdom, courage, right judgment and more. Read more
Recruiting Tips
Dear Fellow Recruiters!
In order to be an active member in the New Evangelization you must know your culture.
When you encounter each individual prospect, be mindful of where they are at in their faith journey. This can be quite a challenge, but if you really pay attention, you can establish attunement with them and then extend an appropriate invite according to where they are at in their life. Read more
Recruit with SixThreeGroup.com ID cards!
Start recruiting with SixThreeGroup.com ID cards!
We continue to emphasize the concept of “Bring a Man”. If each recruiter were to bring one new man in addition to his normal recruiting effort, we would be successful from this effort alone. To help facilitate this process each recruiter received five SixThreeGroup.com awareness cards that can be used by you and members of your group to help recruit. Use these cards to introduce your friends and family to Six Three and Malvern.
 SixThreeGroup.com ID Card Front |
 SixThreeGroup.com ID Card Back |
The front of the ID card prominently displays the SixThreeGroup.com website url and a grapic of the Pieta shrine which was reconditioned and dedicated to Malvern by the Six Three Group in 2010.
The rear face of the ID card also shows the website url along with an inspirational call-to-action to come and join us. In addition, it features a convenient QR code link to our website so that mobile users can easily scan and visit our site using their mobile device during a break, while communting or when relaxing at home with their iPad or tablet.
