Our Council plans our annual LAMB campaign around the Christmas (Advent) Season to align with our Christmas Party for the local special needs children.  Each year, proceeds from store-front (tootsie roll) solicitations go directly to teachers in Moore County (with a small percentage going to other areas in need throughout NC), at the Christmas Party, along with a personalized wrapped present (donated by a Knight or Parishoner), given to each child by a jolly fella in red.

In 2018,  $4307.76 went directly to special needs teachers at Vass-Lakeview, Southern Pines Primary and Aberdeen Elementary Schools.




The Operation LAMB story starts in 1960 at the local Knights of Columbus council of William “Bill” Scott.  Bill and his wife, Maureen, had two children with intellectual disabilities and experienced firsthand the desperate need to help fund facilities and organizations that care for, educate and support people like their children.

Bill’s idea grew, and by 1974 he enlisted the help of fellow state officers to present his program to the local Knights of Columbus councils across North Carolina. The idea was simple: If each local council collected funds on an entirely volunteer basis, all of the money raised could go directly where it’s needed most: to institutions that care for people with intellectual disabilities.

The program was unanimously approved and adopted, with Knights of Columbus across the state donning iconic yellow aprons and handing out Tootsie Rolls while raising money for Operation LAMB, which is an acronym, derived from the Biblical phrase in Matthew to serve the “Least Among My Brethren.”

The LAMB Foundation of NC, Inc. was officially incorporated in 1999 to accommodate Operation LAMB’s growth and give us fully tax deductible nonprofit status.

To find out more about LAMB in NC, visit - http://www.lambnc.org/