National President’s Message

Brothers, Sisters and Ladies of the Royal Purple Elks,

It truly is an honour to be elected and serve as your Grand Exalted Ruler for the ensuing year. I want to thank you all for your continued support for myself and our National Executive.

We as Elks are facing a lot of challenges in this world today. We have Lodges that are struggling, Lodges that are closing and others that are thriving and turning things around.

My theme for this year is “Create Momentum”, So what does this mean? Each Lodge is quite different, and each Lodge has different priorities. So, what does Creating Momentum mean to you? Does it mean you want to raise money? Does it mean you want to increase your visibility in the community? Do you want to add new members? Well, creating momentum if you want to raise money means start with $1.00 then 2. Start with one new member then 2. Creating momentum in your Lodges is whatever you and your Lodge need that to be. Grand Lodge, its staff, its Executive, its National Committees are all here to support you. Not every Lodge will need the same support.

So, what I'm asking is that in your Lodge you decide what it is that is important to you and how you can be supported. Let us know, share your challenges, share your successes.

We are excited about moving forward, looking forward, not back. We have exciting things happening with a generous donation from South Vancouver Elks No. 55 for a National Marketing Plan. An extremely exciting year ahead with our Fund for Children and its new program. An exciting future with our Membership Committee and its work with our friend Richard Gathen and the USA Elks.

We at Grand Lodge are here in partnership with you. So, lets set some achievable goals, work together to achieve these goals. My goal is to stop the bleed, stop losing members. Let’s break even plus one….an achievable goal.

We as Canadians are very humble people, its time to be proud of who we are and what we do. Time to scream from the rooftops, We are Elks, we are amazing, and we are Elksproud.

We are at a Pivotal time in the Order, it is time to Double Up, Fire it Up and Create Momentum.

I am looking forward to seeing you in my travels.

Yours in Elkdom, Honoured and ElksProud.

Kari Senko
Grand Exalted Ruler
Elks of Canada
2025/2026