Announcements
Monthly Building and Grounds Work Day (Saturday, 20 September 2025)
For September 2025, our monthly building and grounds work day will happen on Saturday (20 September 2025) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
This is a change from our usual 2nd Saturday of the month.
There are tasks indoors and out for all ages and abilities along with snacks for the volunteers.
All Ages Worship (14 September 2025)
Please join us this Sunday (14 September 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Only Words” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
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.
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. The link is currently showing flu and RSV maintaining a very low level as of 6 September 2025.
However, we also continuing to show a significant COVID-19 uptick in our state as of 6 September 2025. This is an indication of the COVID-19 summer seasonal surge happening now. COVID-19 numbers are still high but they are now declining.
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.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Religious Education for Children and Youth (14 September 2025)
For this Sunday (14 September 2025), our children and youth will continue exploring the curriculum “How We Do UU.”
For this Sunday, the group continues exploring our shared Unitarian Universalist values with a focus on how we put love at the center just by being present to each other.
Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (14 September 2025)
Please join us on Sunday (14 September 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 our study and discussion of “Refusing Scapegoating, Choosing Care” — a new resource provided by queer and trans religious professionals for the purpose of supporting the trans community and educating cis allies and faith communities on the best ways to show up for them.
Quarterly Vegan Potluck (21 September 2025)
The All Souls Peace Alliance invites you to our quarterly vegan potluck on Sunday (21 September 2025) immediately after the 11:00 AM worship service.
The Peace Alliance is a group at All Souls promoting a plant-based lifestyle as a way of living in right relation with our own bodies, with the animals that share this earthly home, and with the planet itself. In other words — a path to peace.
Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, or a curious omnivore, you are welcome!
We encourage you to bring a vegan dish to share, along with the recipe, and stay for our movie selection (A Life on Our Planet with Sir David Attenbourough).
In this breathtaking film Sir David recounts the story of his own extraordinary life along with the evolutionary history of the Earth and humanity’s impact on its impending fate.
If you stay for the movie, you will be entered into a drawing to win $50 cash.
Hope to see you there!
Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (17 September 2025)
Please join us next Wednesday (17 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 (13 September 2025)
Please join us on Saturday (13 September 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.
7 September 2025 Worship Video
All Ages Worship (7 September 2025)
Please join us this Sunday (7 September 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Overcorrection” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Rev. Barbara is back in the pulpit today. The 2025-2026 Religious Education year for Children and Youth begins this Sunday.
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.
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. The link is currently showing flu and RSV maintaining a very low level as of 30 August 2025.
However, we also continuing to show a significant COVID-19 uptick in our state as of 30 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.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.