Mission Statement 

  Members of the Lakeside Club gather monthly the majority of the year to share fellowship and intellectual/cultural stimulation.  The Lakeside Club of Manistee supports various organizations within the Manistee area with the proceeds of its one major fundraiser, The Lakeside Club Annual Tour of Homes held the third Saturday in July.

Keep us, O God, from pettiness

Let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.

Let us be done with fault finding

and leave off self–seeking.

May we put away all pretense

and meet each other face to face,

without self-pity and without prejudice.

May we never be hasty in judgment

and always be generous.

Let us take time for all things:

make us grow calm, serene, gentle.

Teach us to put into action our better impulses,

straightforward and unafraid.

Grant that we realize it is

the little things that create differences,

that in the big things in life we are at one.

And may we strive to touch and to know

the great, common human heart of us all,

and O Lord God, let us not forget to be kind.

Mary Steward 1951