Announcements
All Ages Worship (3 August 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (3 August 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Getting Clear” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Join us to welcome Rev. Barbara back to the pulpit — 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 26 July 2025.
However, we also showing a significant COVID-19 uptick in our state as of 26 July 2025. This may be an early indication of the COVID-19 summer seasonal surge.
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 (3 August 2025)
This Sunday’s activity is still TBA — but we promise it will be something fun (possibly messy) and always an opportunity for creativity from our children and youth.
Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (3 August 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (3 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 are hosting a viewing and discussion of “Apartheid-Free Communities” (UUJME Workshop from UUA General Assembly 2025 –a Panel Discussion with the Rev. Dr. Allison Tanner, Omar Barghouti, Devin Dadah, and our own Taha Hayat).
All Souls Shreveport was the first congregation in the UUA to sign the Apartheid-Free pledge.
Last week we watched Taha Hayat’s part on this panel discussion.
For this week, we will watch the second half of the entire presentation (we watched the first half of the presentation on 27 July 2025).
Artist Sunday (10 August 2025)
Our annual Artist Sunday worship service will be happening on Sunday (10 August 2025) at 11:00 AM — a beloved All Souls tradition returns.
At this worship service, every element of the service is some form of performing art — singing, dancing, instrumental music, or some other kind of performance.
Past celebrations have included magicians, belly dancers, contortionists, martial arts demonstrations, and multiple variations on performance art.
We will also feature an art show and sale in the Religious Education wing.
Anyone interested in displaying or selling art should contact Trinity Conant by text at 318-527-7848 or by email using tlc058@email.latech.edu.
Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (6 August 2025)
Please join us next Wednesday (6 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.
Water Communion (31 August 2025)
On Sunday (31 August 2025) at 11:00 AM, we will have our annual water communion worship service.
Every year at the end of summer, we will come together once again to mingle the stories of our summer along with the actual and symbolic water that represents those stories.
The combined waters are never for drinking, but we will 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.
All-Ages Swim Party (31 August 2025)
Our annual end-of-summer swim party will be happening on Sunday (31 August 2025) after the annual water communion worship service from 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM at the home of Kathy Osuch and Mike Roberts.
We’re grateful to Kathy and Mike for opening their pool and backyard to us for our annual end-of-summer Swim Party and Potluck.
The address will be furnished at the church closer to the time of the event and will also be made available on the All Souls Caring Connection Facebook Group for members and friends.
Pizza or Jason’s Deli sandwiches will be provided — please feel free to bring and share sides, desserts, and beverages.
Red River Radio — August 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient
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 August 2025, we choose Red River Radio — our local source of unbiased in-depth news and current events, a wide variety of music including live music with local musicians, thoughtful local programming (“Illuminations” and “About Faith“), and Saturday morning laughs with “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.”
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 Red River Radio and then put “GATP AUG 2025” or “Red River Radio” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of August 2025 will go to Red River Radio.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Red River Radio” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Red River Radio. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Red River Radio, please put the amount you want going to Red River Radio on the memo line.
Meditation with Larry Androes (2 August 2025)
Please join us on Saturday (2 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.