Savannah City Joint Council of Affairs

This page serves as a platform to keep the community informed about upcoming events, charitable initiatives, and the impactful work we do within the Savannah District. Our story began in a meeting some 70+ years ago when Dr. William Venoid Banks held a meeting in Ohio with 21 other friends to conceptualize International Free & Accepted Modern Masons, Incorporated and Order of the Eastern Star (IFA

MM). Banks with the two additional signers on the founding documents being Rev. William Kirksey and Brother Henry Allen. The focus was to form a Christian Fraternal Society that held very high ideas about the development of men, women and children. IFAMM’s purposes are moral, financial, benevolent, and charitable leadership with the focus to serve the present age, hence Modern in the name. Since our beliefs are firmly rooted in the Bible, our members are taught to be charitable and of service to all mankind. Our intentions are to induce an ethical way of life which brings about those improvements necessary to the construction of good, clean respected citizenship.