Announcements

Children and Youth Religious Education Updates

We will continue to watch the local COVID numbers.  We feel encouraged by the cooling weather and the possibility of comfortable outdoor activities.

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, and because we 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 one of you 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 in January 2022 and plan to start back with classes in late January or February 2022.

Thanks to all for your patience and flexibility.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (15 January 2022)

Please join us on Saturday (15 January 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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Building and Grounds Work Day (15 January 2022)

Please join us on Saturday (15 January 2022) from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM for our monthly building and grounds work day.

There are tasks inside and out — as weather permits — for all ages and abilities.

Wear your mask and stay safely distanced from each other as you work together to spruce up our church home.

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Online All-Ages Worship (9 January 2022)

Please join us on Sunday (9 January 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Friend Me” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

We will not be open for in-person worship service during the month of January 2022.

Due to how transmissible the Omicron COVID variant is along with breakthrough COVID infection happening even for vaccinated / boosted persons, we will be worshipping online for the month of January 2022.

We hope that this longer break will enable us to reopen safely for in-person services on Sunday, 6 February 2022.

Our January 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is Volunteers for Youth 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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Sponsor Circles Meeting (10 January 2022)

Several of us are looking into the possibility of forming a group that would sponsor an Afghan refugee family through Sponsor Circles.

This is a big responsibility that would take a very intentional group of people and a number of us will be attending a meeting via Zoom this Monday evening (10 January 2022) at 5:00 PM CST to learn more.

Use this link if you wish to join us.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 9 January 2022

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

We are discussing episodes of the podcast Learning How to See with Rev. Brian McLaren, Father Richard Rohr, and Rev. Jacqui Lewis.

They are discussing the 13 kinds of bias that Rev. Barbara mentioned recently in a sermon.

The group felt that this series would keep us in the realm of our anti-racism work while also being topically relevant to our pillar on Jewish and Christian heritage as these three Christian leaders discuss our tendency toward these biases from a faith-based perspective.

Although we may play short excerpts during class, we are encouraging people to listen on their own between sessions.

For 9 January 2022 — Season 2, Episode 4 — “Boxes Within Boxes”

You can find all episodes of the podcast here.

If you have a smart speaker or other smart device from Google or Amazon, you can ask it to “play the podcast Learning How to See, Season 2, Episode 4.”

Be sure to use those specific words — if you just say the name of the podcast, you might get the latest episode from Season 2 instead.

If you are using an Apple device with Siri, you can ask Siri to “search for podcast Learning How to See” to find this episode and all other episodes released so far in Learning How to See.

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Children and Youth Religious Education Updates

We will continue to watch the local COVID numbers.  We feel encouraged by the cooling weather and the possibility of comfortable outdoor activities.

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, and because we 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 one of you 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 in January 2022 and plan to start back with classes in late January or February 2022.

Thanks to all for your patience and flexibility.

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Special Congregational Meeting (Sunday, 30 January 2022)

The congregation will meet on Sunday, 30 January 2022, at 3:00 PM via Zoom to vote on our updated 2022 budget.

If you have not yet submitted your 2022 Pledge, please do so ASAP so that the Finance Committee has the most accurate information to plan financially for 2022.

If you have not yet submitted your pledge, you can do so online here.

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