Program

Annual Talent Show and Picnic 2026

Please join us, for our final program of the 2025 - 2026 program year!  This year, we're continuing our "Photo of the Year" feature, in which we will be sharing our "Photo of the Year" with one another, in a slideshow presentation format. We'd like you to select your single favorite photo from the past year. You don't need to have taken the photo, but if you use someone else's work, please be sure to credit the photographer. The photo can be of any family-friendly subject: historic, natural, portrait, or scenic -- whatever you'd like to share.

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"Growing Through the Turmoil: Nurturing Spiritual Resilience in Uncertain Times" with Guest Speaker, Linda Valerian, MA, LPCC, CCTP

In times of uncertainty, discussing spirituality becomes essential as it plays a crucial role in how we navigate and make sense of life’s challenges. Our spiritual beliefs are not just sources of meaning, purpose, and connection—they also shape our sense of safety and identity. This presentation explores how nurturing spiritual resilience can help us grow through turmoil, reclaim stability, and foster healing even amidst profound uncertainty.

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Embracing Possibility

Lake Fellowship member Marnie Karger will lead a program to explore April's theme: Embracing Possibility. As a self-proclaimed "Possibilian," Marnie will revisit neuroscientist David Eagleman's proposal for Possibilianism, and invite us to consider how not knowing can be more of a window of opportunity than an insurmountable wall.

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Guest Speaker: Lee Stagg

Lake Fellowship is happy to welcome back guest speaker, Lee Stagg.

Lee will present on the theme of Paying Attention and we will look at stories from the Bible and other literature that speaks to this theme in ways that may apply to us today, or that we can take lessons from for our lives, especially given the recent events in the Twin Cities.

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"Standing up to Christian Nationalism and the Growing Fascism in the Nation," with guest speaker, Senator John Marty

Lake Fellowship warmly welcomes Minnesota State Senator John Marty for this program. Senator Marty's program will tie well with the 2025 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly Action of Immediate Witness, which is "Faithful Defiance of Authoritarianism, a Call to Action: Reaffirming our Covenant for Democracy and Freedom."

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