Announcements

Online All-Ages Worship (6 March 2022)

Please join us on Sunday (6 March 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Heart of the Storm:  Living Into the Answers” by. Rev. Barbara Jarrell

Please join us in the sanctuary 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.

The number of new COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations has dropped  to the point that we can return to in-person worship.

We will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for all attendees ages 11 and older.  And wearing a mask is also required for all attendees.

However, we will continue to provide a livestream of our worship services as well when we resume in-person worship.

We hope to resume in-person religious education classes for children and youth on 13 March 2022.

Our March 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is The Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

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Online Adult Religious Education — 6 March 2022

Please join us on Sunday (6 March 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

This Sunday’s topic is Anti-Racism Within Islam.

In a sermon now known as the Farewell Address, the Prophet Muhammad said:

“There is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, or of a non-Arab over an Arab, and no superiority of a white person over a black person or a black person over a white person, except on the basis of personal piety and righteousness.”

Join us for a presentation on movements within Islam endeavoring to live into this teaching.

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Children and Youth Religious Education Updates

We will continue to watch the local COVID numbers and we feel encouraged by the dropping COVID case rates.

Religious education classes for children and youth will resume on 13 March 2022.

As before, the children and youth will join us in the sanctuary for the first 15-20 minutes of the worship service and then we will sing them out to their classes.

We also have “busy bags” for kids sitting in the pews with their parents when we are in person as well as opportunities for children and youth to participate in services whether in person or online.

Our services are welcoming for all ages.

We have already heard from some who wants to get back to teaching and we are so grateful for your interest in this.

If others of you are out there, email Susan Caldwell.

We will probably schedule a teacher training soon and plan to start back with classes with at least two class dates in March 2022.

Watch our social media accounts, weekly email newsletters, and web site for more details as they become available.

Thanks to all for your patience and flexibility.

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First Sunday Food Pantry Day (6 March 2022)

Melissa Lewis will be at the church parking lot this Sunday afternoon (6 March 2022) from 2:00 to 4:00 PM to collect food and other items for the Noel United Methodist Church Food Pantry.

Items requested this month are Jiffy cornbread mix, canned soups (any brand), and cereal (any brand).

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The Power Coalition for Equity and Justice — March 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Our give-away-the-plate recipient for March 2022 is The Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.

For the month of March 2022, we selected the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice — an organization working locally and statewide to amplify the voices of those who have been historically ignored in our state and organize them into a unified movement.

The Power Coalition is framed by a commitment to the following shared principles:

  • The people closest to the problem are the people closest to the solution.
  • Government should be accountable to citizens for its actions.
  • Intersectionality is mandatory in policy advocacy.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2022 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Power Coalition.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of March 2022 will go to the Power Coalition.

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

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Meditation with Larry Androes (5 March 2022)

Please join us on Saturday (5 March 2022) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

The group is free and open to all.

For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.

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Online All-Ages Worship (27 February 2022)

Please join us on Sunday (27 February 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Resonance ” with Rev. Barbara Jarrell along with friends Barbara Deger, Jennifer Russell, Susan Caldwell, and more.

Please join us in the sanctuary 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.

The number of new COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations has dropped  to the point that we can return to in-person worship starting this Sunday (20 February 2022).

We will require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for all attendees ages 11 and older.  And wearing a mask is also required for all attendees.

However, we will continue to provide a livestream of our worship services as well when we resume in-person worship.

We hope to resume in-person religious education classes for children and youth resume in March 2022.

Poetry can resonate with us for all kinds of reasons — it can bring us comfort in hard times, a pathway through confusion and groundlessness, a reminder to stop and breathe, resolve to meet the challenges at hand, or a connection to the sacred.

It can bring tears or laughter — sometimes both at the same time.

Join us as members and friends read the poems that resonate — their original work and the work of poets that they love.

Our February 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Whitney Plantation.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

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Online Adult Religious Education — 27 February 2022

Please join us on Sunday (27 February 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

This Sunday’s topic is “Faith and Reason:  Pema Chödrön Talks with Bill Moyers.”

Last Sunday (20 February 2022), we watched Part 1 of a Bill Moyers interview with American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön (author of The Places That Scare You, When Things Fall Apart, and No Time to Lose).

For this Sunday (27 February 2022), we will watch Part 2 of this Bill Moyers interview.

Pema Chödrön speaks on the value of meditation and mindfulness in those times when we experience groundlessness.

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Children and Youth Religious Education Updates

We will continue to watch the local COVID numbers.  We feel encouraged by the dropping Omicron COVID case rates.

We are not resuming regular classes for children and youth at this time because our classrooms are too small to be safe for unvaccinated children.

We also want some time to be together and nurture each other before we start recruiting people to do stuff.

We will have “busy bags” for kids sitting in the pews with their parents and our services will be welcoming to all ages when we return to in-person worship.

We have already heard from some who wants to get back to teaching and we are so grateful for your interest in this.

If others of you are out there, email Susan Caldwell.

We will probably schedule a teacher training soon and plan to start back with classes with at least two class dates in March 2022.  Watch our social media accounts, weekly email newsletters, and web site for more details as they become available.

Thanks to all for your patience and flexibility.

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