Announcements
All Ages Worship (19 July 2026)
Please join us this Sunday (19 July 2026) at 11:00 AM for “Before We Turn the Page” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
This is our final service at our Ellerbe Road location — a quieter service for grieving, cherishing, and remembering.
Please join us in the sanctuary or via Facebook Live for a very bare-bones worship service.
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.
RSV and Flu are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 11 July 2026. COVID may be starting an increase as of 11 July 2026 and we will be paying attention to this.
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 July 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OUTNorthLA Film Festival.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
“What’s in a Home? Thoughts on a Trip to Palestine” Worship Service (26 July 2026)
Our first worship service in our new home will be “What’s in a Home? Thoughts on a Trip to Palestine” by Melissa Gibson.
Our new home after we leave Ellerbe Road will be in The Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA 71104)
All Souls member Melissa Gibson drops in from Omaha, Nebraska to discuss her recent trip to Palestine.
She will explore the idea of what home means — appropriate as we conduct our first service in our temporary home at The Highland Center.
Melissa is a seminarian pursuing a Masters in Divinity degree at Starr King School for the Ministry and is on the staff at First Unitarian Church of Omaha, Nebraska. Melissa is also an Aspirant within the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Ministerial Fellowship process.
Members of the All Souls choir will sing for this worship service.
Drive around to the back of The Highland Center and enter from the ramp-accessible entrance in the back on Topeka Street, take the second hallway to the right, and our worship will be in the first room on the right.
No Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education This Sunday (19 July 2026)
There will be no 9:00 AM adult religious education class this Sunday (19 July 2026).
Sleep in just a little and then join us at 11:00 AM for a very special worship service — our final goodbye worship services for our current home on Ellerbe Road.
Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (22 July 2026)
Please join us next Wednesday (22 July 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.
Online and Offline Giving Options — Updated 18 July 2026
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we realized that our member would want to have online and offline ways to offer their continued support for All Souls.
We are continuing to provide these ways to support All Souls as we move from our old Ellerbe Road location to our new temporary Highland neighborhood location.
If you want to donate to All Souls, you can click on the link provided to our secure donations server.
On donations web site, there are multiple options for your donation:
- Current Year Pledges
- Previous Year Pledges
- Give Away the Plate Contributions
- Collection Plate
- Unitarian Universalist for Justice in the Middle East (Shreveport Chapter)
Pick the desired options for your donation. Your donation can be a one-time donation or a recurring donation (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or yearly).
Note: If you give online, be sure to include your name in your entry. Several of our pledges are showing up anonymously. If you wish to remain anonymous, thank you for your generosity and we will certainly honor that. But if you want credit on your All Souls pledge statement, be sure you are filling in the space that says “Name on Card.”
If the name on the card is different from the pledging member, please specify the name on the pledge account in the Comments section and again — thank you!
If you want to send a check, please mail your check to:
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
520 Olive Street
Shreveport LA 71104
Please indicate on the memo line of your check if your check is for the current year pledge campaign, the capital fund drive, the collection plate, or the general fund.
Thanks for your continued support.
Meditation with Larry Androes (18 July 2026)
Please join us on Saturday (18 July 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.
12 July 2026 Worship Video
All Ages Worship (12 July 2026)
Please join us this Sunday (12 July 2026) at 11:00 AM for “Celebrate Moving On: An Artist Sunday-Style Worship Service in Celebration of Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going”
This will be our next-to-last service at our current 9449 Ellerbe Road location — we plan to make it a celebration of music, dance, poetry, prose, and community. to honor, bless, and celebrate our time in this beautiful space, and to look hopefully to the journey onward.
Performers will include Barbara Jarrell, Barbara Deger, Laura Flett, George Hancock, Sandra Odom, Cookie Garner, Phoebe Jordan, the All Souls Choir and more — including a surprise guest.
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.
RSV and Flu are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 4 July 2026. COVID may be starting an increase as of 4 July 2026 and we will be paying attention to this.
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 July 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OUTNorthLA Film Festival.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
No Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education This Sunday (12 July 2026)
There will be no 9:00 AM adult religious education class this Sunday (12 July 2026).
Sleep in just a little and then join us at 11:00 AM for a very special worship service — one of our two goodbye worship services for our current home on Ellerbe Road.
We are not sure if there will be a class next Sunday (18 July 2026) so watch this space for updates.