All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana
A home for Unitarian Universalism and liberal religion in Shreveport, Bossier City, and Northwest Louisiana since 1950
Please join us on Saturday (13 September 2025) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
Please join us this Sunday (7 September 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Overcorrection” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Rev. Barbara is back in the pulpit today. The 2025-2026 Religious Education year for Children and Youth begins this Sunday.
We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service. Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106 if you are able to do so.
Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.
We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.
State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page. The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link. The link is currently showing flu and RSV maintaining a very low level as of 30 August 2025.
However, we also continuing to show a significant COVID-19 uptick in our state as of 30 August 2025. This is an indication of the COVID-19 summer seasonal surge happening now.
Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.
We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots. This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.
Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.
We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.
We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.
If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.
We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.
If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
For this Sunday (7 September 2025), our children and youth will explore the curriculum “How We Do UU” and finishing up our plastic bottle flower project with Maggie Molisee.
We begin the 2025-2026 Religious Education year for children and youth, and we will also be finishing the recycled art that we started with Maggie two weeks ago.
Lessons are adapted from the one-room schoolhouse curriculum “Flourish Together” and other sources.
For this Sunday, the group will create a covenant for the new church year while finishing up their summer project (recycled plastic bottle flowers, with Maggie Molisee).
Please join us on Sunday (7 September 2025) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.
Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.
For this Sunday, we will read and discuss “Refusing Scapegoating, Choosing Care” — a new resource provided by queer and trans religious professionals for the purpose of supporting the trans community and educating cis allies and faith communities on the best ways to show up for them.
Please join us next Wednesday (10 September 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Between the blazing hot weather and the busy lives of our regular participants, our in-person Zoom lunches are on hold for the time being but the link is always open to join at noon every Wednesday.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.
For the month of September 2025, we choose Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter).
Students for Justice in Palestine committed to raising awareness of the injustices inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli military invasion and to foster social and political education for their own members and for the local and international community.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP SEP 2025” or “Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter)” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of September 2025 will go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S) Chapter.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter)” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter). If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter), please put the amount you want going to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter) on the memo line.
Please join us on Saturday (6 September 2025) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
Please join us this Sunday (31 August 2025) at 11:00 AM for “In Waves — A Water Communion Service” with Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
On this Sunday all ages will come together once again to mingle the stories of our summer along with the water — actual and symbolic — that represent those stories.
The combined water is never for drinking — we boil, filter, and freeze it to save for child dedications and other important rituals of church life.
Bring your water and your story and join us.
The children and youth will be with us for the entire service and are encouraged to participate in sharing their family’s water stories.
Children and Youth Religious Education will resume next Sunday (7 September 2025).
This Sunday’s pool party will be rescheduled (new date TBA) due to pool maintenance issues in work.
We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service. Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106 if you are able to do so.
Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.
State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page. The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link. The link is currently showing flu and RSV maintaining a very low level as of 23 August 2025.
However, we also continuing to show a significant COVID-19 uptick in our state as of 23 August 2025. This is an indication of the COVID-19 summer seasonal surge happening now.
Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.
We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots. This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.
Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.
We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.
We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.
If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.
We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.
If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.
Our August 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is Red River Radio.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.