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Independent Order Of Odd Fellows

IOOF

Friendship

You gain a new family in the members of your Lodge and a vast network of Brothers and Sisters worldwide. By joining Odd Fellows with your friends it helps to give a deeper purpose and meaning to your friendship. We are a diverse organization and have members of all faiths, races, genders, occupations and abilities with over 600,000 members in over 10,000 Lodges in 30 countries.

Love

The historic command of the Odd Fellow is to “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.” You get to take an active role in helping your community and the world be a better place. Local Lodges help out their communities in any way they choose and are unified together in larger projects.

Truth

Be a part of the HISTORY and the MYSTERY. As an Odd Fellow you get to be a member of one of the world’s oldest and largest fraternal Orders. Rituals, symbols, and degrees are designed to “elevate and improve the character of mankind.” By taking these lessons to heart you become a better person and help to make the world around you a better place.

IOOF

The command of the IOOF is to “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.”
The mission of the IOOF is to "improve and elevate the character of mankind."

Have you been searching for a way to help others and be a part of something bigger than yourself?

So ask yourself:

Are you Odd Enough?

Do you want to learn to be a better person and empower yourself to be more successful in all parts of your life?

Do you want to help make your community a better place and help those in need?

Do you feel lonely or crave quality social interactions and want to be part of something important?

If you answered YES to any of these questions then you are ODD enough to be an Odd Fellow!

Evolving from earlier Orders of Odd Fellows first founded in England during the 1700's, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian co-ed international fraternal order founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland. The IOOF Pacheco Lodge, Concord, California was established in 1869.

Contact us if you are interested in becoming a member of one of the oldest active “Secret Societies”, and be a part of the HISTORY and the MYSTERY of being an Odd Fellow.

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IOOF

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is one of the oldest and largest fraternities in the world. We are non-political and non-sectarian. Membership is open to all regardless of sex, race, religion, political affiliation and social status -all bound by the desire to improve ourselves and the calling to live and promote the principles of Friendship, Love, and Truth which transcends labels. We believe that by developing close friendships among each other and by working together in our communities, we can make a difference in the world and among ourselves! Discussing political, sectarian or any other debate is forbidden in the Lodge, so it breaks down the social walls and labels used to view others and opens hearts and minds to start seeing people as Brothers and Sisters.

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