The Lodge has a responsibility to provide you with opportunities to meet and interact with others, to help you do their share, and to provide knowledge about the Fraternity.

This requires an education/mentoring program which must become a team effort aimed at developing each new Brother to his fullest potential.

This mentoring program consists of assigning each candidate, like yourself, an experienced Brother to act as his mentor, educator and companion, who will be with you throughout this journey through the Craft degrees. He will provide you with the appropriate literature to explain each of the three degrees. So, from just being a candidate, you will become an active, motivated and educated Lodge member.

Many new members, like yourself, do not stay active in the Lodge after the Third Degree because you're not stimulated enough. Usually, this is due to not fully understanding the Fraternity you have just joined.

Every candidate is a stranger to Freemasonry and Freemasonry is a stranger to him. It is not merely a Lodge that you join, but a great Fraternity with a history stretching back over many centuries.

As a candidate, you have every right to expect that the Lodge will provide you with as much information as you need. But we find many Brethren in our state never receive this information and are permitted to come—and perhaps go— undirected and uninstructed.

At Arts & Sciences, you will be assigned a mentor who will contact you and advise you through the Degree program schedule and invite you and your lady to any open Lodge and/or social functions.

This New Member Education site has been established for you to supplement your experience with the assigned Lodge mentor.  You will find the necessary materials to guide you through the Entered Apprentice through the Master Mason Degree.