Announcements

All Ages Worship (3 May 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (3 May 2026) at 11:00 AM for “White Noise” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

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.

Flu, RSV, and COVID are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 25 April 2026.

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 May 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Highland Center Ministries.

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

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Religious Education for Children and Youth (3 May 2026)

For this Sunday (3 May 2026), our children and youth will continue working on their project (bake sale and bracelet sale to benefit LAAID — Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention).

The bake sale / bracelet sale will now be happening on Sunday, 17 May 2026.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (3 May 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2026) 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 be exploring “Revisiting Our Declaration:  Reading the Declaration of Independence in These Times.”

We will reflect on a reading from the book Our Declaration by Danielle Allen and revisit the text of the Declaration of Independence itself.

If you have never read it in its entirety or it has been awhile since you did read it, the relevance to the present day may be startling.

Join us.

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Congregational Meeting (17 May 2026)

All Souls will have a congregational business meeting on Sunday (17 May 2026) immediately following the 11:00 AM worship service in the sanctuary or on Zoom.

From:  Kathryn Osuch (Board Secretary)

Please attend this semiannual event to elect new Board members.

We will vote on the slate from the nominating committee:

  • Vice President: Jane Webster
  • Secretary: Tena Hines
  • Members-at-Large: Ann Andrews, Tara Haskins

We will also accept nominations from the congregation during the meeting.

Other Board members completing their two year terms in 2027 are:

  • President: Susan Yellott
  • Treasurer: Kelli Coffey
  • Members-at-Large: James Peck and Taha Hayat
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Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (6 May 2026)

(Cat not provided — you must supply your own feline)

Please join us next Wednesday (6 May 2026) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

With 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.

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Highland Center Ministries — May 2026 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 May 2026, we choose the Highland Center Ministries — a partnership of congregations providing a variety of services to the Highland community:

  • Weekly Highland Blessing Dinner
  • Clothing closets for all ages and genders
  • Tax preparation services for people making $55,000 a year or less
  • Other sustainable services for the people of the Highland neighborhood

All Souls is proud to have been a part of this vital collaboration for 14 years.

Our two give-away-the-plate collections for Highland Center Ministries each year help All Souls with our pledged contribution to the Highland Center Ministries.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2026 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Highland Center Ministries and then put “GATP MAY 2026” or “Highland Center Ministries” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2026 will go to the Highland Center Ministries.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Highland Center Ministries” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to the Highland Center Ministries.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to the Highland Center Ministries, please put the amount you want going to the Highland Center Ministries on the memo line.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (2 May 2026)

Please join us on Saturday (2 May 2026) 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.

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All Ages Worship (26 April 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (26 April 2026) at 11:00 AM for “Justice, Not Stigma” by Jazmine Carroll (Coordinator — GBT Health Center and PrEP Clinic — The Philadelphia Center, Shreveport LA)

Join us this Sunday to hear Jazmine Carroll from the Philadelphia Center (a full-service HIV/AIDS clinic and resource center and our Give Away the Plate Recipient for the month of April).

Jazmine will update us on the efforts to bring current HIV/AIDS criminalization laws into closer alignment with the actual science.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

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.

Flu, RSV, and COVID are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 18 April 2026.

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 April 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is The Philadelphia Center.

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

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Religious Education for Children and Youth (26 April 2026)

For this Sunday (26 April 2026), our children and youth will continue working on their project (bake sale and bracelet sale to benefit LAAID — Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention).  The bake sale / bracelet sale will be happening on Sunday (3 May 2026).

They will also be working on a separate project to support an event in Alexandria this coming week.

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