Building Belonging

Lake Fellowship member Marnie Karger will lead a program to explore September's theme: Building Belonging. To prepare for this program, Marnie invites you to consider the following questions:

1. Think of a time (or a place, or a group) when you felt like you genuinely belonged. What was that and how did it feel -- what about that time/place/group gave you the sense that you belonged?
2. On the flip side, think of a time when you felt like you did not belong, and you maybe felt like you were an outsider. What was that, and what about it made you feel this way? What did you do about it? Did you want to belong but it was difficult, or did you want to escape and not be part of it? Did anyone try to help or succeed in helping you feel like you belonged?