Please join us on Sunday (15 May 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Remaining Faithful” by Lee Arthur Jeter, Sr. (Recipient of the 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award).
Every year, All Souls confers the Emerson Award upon the individual or organization in the wider community who has done the most to embody the principles and values of liberal religion.
This year, the award goes to Lee Jeter (Executive Director of the Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana).
The late Millard Fuller founded the national Fuller Center for Housing after leaving Habitat for Humanity which he had also founded.
The Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana works with other service organizations and numerous volunteers to provide an affordable path to home ownership for those who could not otherwise achieve it through conventional means. Prospective homeowners attend credit counseling and home management classes, and contribute sweat equity as well as money toward their own homes.
More recently, the Fuller Center has established the Fuller Grocery and Deli in the Allendale neighborhood, which was a food desert prior to the store’s opening.
In addition to his leadership of the Fuller Center, Lee Jeter has worked tirelessly on other issues of importance to our community, including reducing mass incarceration, seeking adequate funding for the public defender’s office, and seeking to correct the historical racial imbalance of jury selection in Caddo Parish.
Please join us to welcome Lee back to our pulpit, to celebrate this award, and to hear his message.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
For this Sunday only, the middle/high school class will leave worship for a brief check-in and will return to hear Lee Jeter’s sermon.
