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Online All-Ages Worship (16 May 2021)

Sanctuary - View from RearPlease join us on Sunday (16 May 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Build Back Better” with Bennett Upton, Eric First, Claudia Harris, and Eleanora Lawrence.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

“Build back better” is a phrase used often by the President of the United States.

Please join three of our own congregation’s Presidents (our current President and two past Presidents) along with one youth who grew up in the church to talk about what “build back better” might look like for us as a church community.

What do we want to preserve?

What do we want to let go or change?

Our May 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LA-AID).

More details and information on how to donate to LA-AID can be found here.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

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Online Religious Education for Children (16 May 2021)

Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (16 May 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

This Sunday, we will continue the “Build Back Better” theme with a look at some of the different ways we can come back together safely in person and how that will look different from before.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 16 May 2021

Please join us on Sunday (16 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 6 — “Anti-Blackness.”

While it can be helpful and necessary to speak in generalizations about white people and interrupt the hyper-individualist mindset, that same type of generalization can be damaging to people of color as it may trivialize the different patterns of racism that each group experiences.

In this chapter, DiAngelo explores the uniquely anti-black pattern of racism that has been integral to white identity, the idea of black people as “the ultimate racial other” and how that is the underlying foundation of white fragility.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (15 May 2021)

Please join us on Saturday (15 May 2021) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.

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Online All-Ages Worship (9 May 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (9 May 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Mothers Are Not All Alike” with Rev. Barbara Jarrell and Dr. Jennifer Russell

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

Our May 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LA-AID).

More details and information on how to donate to LA-AID can be found here.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

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Children and Youth Religious Education Schedule Changes This Week (9-15 May 2021)

Family Religious Education will not meet this Sunday afternoon (9 May 2021 — Mothers Day) and high school youth will not meet next Tuesday evening (11 May 2021) due to family travel conflicts.

Family Religious Education will resume the following week (16 May 2021) and high school youth will stay in touch about the next meeting via the text message thread and the All Souls Slack channel.

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No Adult Religious Education Class This Sunday (9 May 2021)

The adult religious education class will not meet this Sunday (9 May 2021 — Mother’s Day) but will resume on the following Sunday (16 May 2021).

On 16 May 2021, we will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

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No Building and Grounds Day at Church This Saturday (8 May 2021)

We are not doing our customary second Saturday of the month building and grounds work day this Saturday (8 May 2021).

Instead, all who is available are welcome to help with packing for a congregant who is moving in the early part of next week.

If that might be you, check the All Souls Shreveport Caring Connection on Facebook or the General channel on the AllSoulsUU Slack workspace for the details.

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