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On January 14, join Lake Fellowship members, MUUSJA, and other organizations at the Minnesota Capitol for the start of the legislative session. Let’s show our elected officials that we’re paying attention to their work and are a voice for justice and equity! Meet us starting at 10 am outside the rotunda to get supplies.

The Message from the Board chair is now posted on the new LFUU Blog on our website! Other notices, such as from our Social Action committee, are also there. When Matthew, our website expert, suggested it, I said yes right away. It will give visitors to the website a good feel for what we’re about and stand for. So, Matthew added the code to make it so. Check out our LFUU Blog.

Join Rev. Dr. Andrea Johnson for a two-part webinar series on January 14 and 21, exploring Unitarian Universalist theologies of racial justice. We’ll discuss how UU theology and the liberal theological tradition can inspire our work to dismantle white supremacy culture and live out our anti-racist, anti-oppression values.

Minnesota offers “universal” Free School Meals—but those free meals are hardly universal. They exclude kids who follow a plant-based diet as well as those whose religions have very specific considerations for how meat is handled. An opt-in plant-based option (already implemented in Illinois!) would make these lunches truly available to everyone. MUUSJA and Genevieve Vavreck, a UU working with MN Plant-Based Kids, invites us to send letters of advocacy to our MN House and Senate representatives.

It’s a New Year! A time to reflect on and learn from the past year. To be grateful for what’s working in the present and let go of what’s not. To dream for the coming year and commit to actions that will help make those dreams come true.

Hello Lake Fellowship members/friends.  I am wishing for fewer people that are food insecure during 2025!  Lake Fellowship has donated approximately 50 lbs of food/month, $100.00 and 20 personal items.  That is outstanding!

I am challenging you to increase the amount of food donated/month to 75lbs. We start this challenge this Sunday, Jan. 5th.

You’ve got this Lake Fellowship.

At last Sunday’s program we were in three small groups talking about how the spiritual practice of Presence, this month’s theme, can help us live our new UU values. We chose between three of the values: Love, Transformation, and Generosity. When our group discussed what we’re already doing to practice Presence to live Transformation, I said that as a congregation we’re constantly Transforming what and how we do things to fit our members’ Transforming needs and wants. Because we are small and don’t have one leader, we’re able to be more Present to those and Transform relatively quickly.

Our monthly themes this program year all start with “Living Love through the Practice of (Invitation, Deep Listening, Repair, Presence, etc.).” The intent is that by practicing the theme we will live out our core UU value of Love. When I first saw that, I thought, “That’s great! I want to do that!” But so far, I have not been practicing the themes, probably because I don’t like to
practice things, possibly because I didn’t commit to using a specific tool to, and perhaps because I wasn’t accountable to anyone.

We’re trying something new for an upcoming program and need your questions! We are having a speaker on neurodiversity in February for our theme of The Practice of Inclusion. He has autism and is a night owl. He asked if he could prerecord his program. We said sure. Because we like to ask questions, we’re soliciting those ahead of time from you so he can answer them in his talk. So, please submit questions about:

1. Neurodiversity in general and/or
2. Inclusion of those who are neurodivergent