Announcements
All Ages Worship (29 June 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (29 June 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Pride: Now More Than Ever” with guest speaker Sam Ortiz (LGBTQIAP+ activist and co-founder of ShrevePride).
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.
For several years, the Caddo Parish Commission has passed a resolution celebrating Pride Month in June. This year as we increasingly hear from a loud minority who feel emboldened by our country’s current leadership and seek to roll back the gains that have been made over years of struggle, the resolution faced opposition.
After one woman went to the Commission’s work session to present a diatribe against the resolution, the community mobilized, thanks in large part to organizations like PACE and ShrevePride and thanks in large part for leaders like Sam Ortiz.
Sam spoke eloquently in the meeting about the importance of Pride not only to lift up the rights of the LGBTQIAP+ community to live in peace, but also to affirm that a diverse community is a stronger, richer community.
The resolution ultimately passed 9-3.
In their day job, Sam currently serves as Director of Client Services at The Philadelphia Center and is a tireless advocate for the LGBTQ+ community in their “spare time.”
Please join us to welcome Sam Ortiz to our pulpit.
We will also take the time to thank our outgoing Board members for their service so you will have a chance to show your appreciation to them as well.
We will also have a brief reception after the service that will morph into our Vegan Potluck and movie screening for all who wish to stay.
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 COVID, flu and RSV maintaining a very low level and declining in our state as of 21 June 2025.
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 June 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OutNorthLA Film Festival.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Children and Youth Summer Art Activity (29 June 2025)
For this Sunday, the children and youth will have an opportunity to create geodes from sugar, foil, paint, and glue.
Clothing choices should probably be something that can get a little messy (at least temporarily and washed later).
Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (29 June 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (29 June 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.
Our topic will be “What Makes You Laugh?” facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.
Some of us have found that the one thing keeping us tethered to some sense of reality and/or hope is the ability to laugh and the people who help us do that.
Barbara and Susan have chosen a few samples to share with you although they’re also hoping you will have some recommendations too!
Who knows? We may even make this one a series.
We need it after all!
Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (2 July 2025)
Please join us next Wednesday (2 July 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Pride in Due Process Protest Festival (28 June 2025)
Please join us on Saturday (28 June 2025) from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM for the Pride in Due Process Protest Festival at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church.
Join us in an intersectional celebration of Pride brought to you by DSA Shreveport and various other groups including All Souls.
The event will feature speakers, table displays, music, games and more.
As the sign says — Rights for y’all means rights for all!
Don’t let them take your joy — come on out and connect with your community!
Meditation with Larry Androes (28 June 2025)
Please join us on Saturday (28 June 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.
15 June 2025 Worship Video
Northwest Louisiana Lighthouse Ribbon Cutting Ceremony (26 June 2025) — Sign-up Details
The official Ribbon Cutting of the second Community Lighthouse in Shreveport:
- Date — Thursday, 26 June 2025
- Time — 5:00-5:30 PM
- Location — The Highland Center, 520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA 71104
Sign up online for this event here. You can read more about this event here.
All Ages Worship (22 June 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (22 June 2025) at 10:00 AM for an in-person viewing of the Sunday morning worship service streaming video at this years Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) General Assembly (GA) in Baltimore MD.
Please note that this 10:00 AM time is a change from the usual 11:00 AM worship service time. We will have the church doors open at 9:30 AM so you can get settled in before the live video starts up.
We will be watching the live video from Baltimore along with the GA delegates and other Unitarian Universalists around the world while also enjoying a potluck brunch in the social hall.
Leading the year’s UUA GA gathering for 2025 will be the Rev. Dr. Nicole C. Kirk (the Rev. Dr. Frank and Alice Schulman Chair of Unitarian Universalist History at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago).
Rev. Dr. Kirk is a historian of American Religious history and also currently serves as Program Minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa OK.
We will be meeting in the social hall for the screening of the General Assembly Sunday 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 not be livestreamed on Facebook Live for this week only — if you cannot attend for the in-person brunch event, you can watch the livestream video at home:
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 COVID and RSV maintaining low levels with flu having a slight increase in our state as of 14 June 2025.
Masks will be optional indoors at All Souls. Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option. 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.
We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.
However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.
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.
And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.
Our June 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OutNorthLA Film Festival.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.