Announcements

All Ages Worship (31 August 2025)

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 16 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.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (31 August 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (31 August 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 continue watching the 2025 Ware Lecture from the 2025 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly featuring guest speaker Imara Jones.

Imara Jones is a political journalist, trans activist, and founder of Translash Media and the Translash Podcast.

Her words are well worth hearing particularly her take on the recent Presidential election and the role of the Heritage Foundation in the election result and its impact on trans rights.

Summer 2025 Swim Party Postponed

Due to a pool maintenance issue that Kathy Osuch and Mike Roberts are currently working, the Swim Party originally scheduled for this Sunday (31 August 2025) is postponed to a date TBA in the not-too-distant future.

Keep watching your emails and pulpit announcements for a pool party update.

We remain grateful to Kathy and Mike for their continued invitation for the annual pool party and look forward to the rescheduled pool party in September 2025.

Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (3 September 2025)

Please join us next Wednesday (3 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.

Meditation with Larry Androes (30 August 2025)

Please join us on Saturday (30 August 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.

All Ages Worship (24 August 2025)

Please join us this Sunday (24 August 2025) at 11:00 AM for “To Tell the Truth” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.  Members of the All Souls Choir will sing.

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 16 August 2025.

However, we also continuing to show a significant COVID-19 uptick in our state as of 16 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.

Children and Youth Summer Art Activity (24 August 2025)

For this Sunday (24 August 2025), our children and youth religious education (RE) activity will be “Re-Art for RE-Art — Recycled Plastic Bottle Flowers” with Maggie Molisee.

We welcome back Maggie Molisee who will lead an activity for all ages re-purposing plastic bottles into floral works of art.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (24 August 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (24 August 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 watch the 2025 Ware Lecture from the 2025 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly featuring guest speaker Imara Jones.

Imara Jones is a political journalist, trans activist, and founder of Translash Media and the Translash Podcast.

Her words are well worth hearing particularly her take on the recent Presidential election and the role of the Heritage Foundation in the election result and its impact on trans rights.

Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (27 August 2025)

Please join us next Wednesday (27 August 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.