Announcements

Meditation with Larry Androes (8 May 2021)

Please join us on Saturday (8 May 2021) 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 (2 May 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (2 May 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Empty Space” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

Our May 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LA-AID).

More details and information on how to donate to LA-AID can be found here.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

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 Religious Education for Children (2 May 2021)

Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (2 May 2021) at 1:00 PM via Zoom.

The Zoom link will be available on the All Souls Slack and on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

“Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights” — We will watch a video combining this story read aloud with video from protests of last summer.

We will also spend some time talking about which of the activities in the book we have done and which we might like to do or need to do in working on the issues that face us now.

Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.

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High School Youth Gathering (4 May 2021)

Our High School youth will be meeting on Tuesday (4 May 2021) at 7:00 PM via Zoom.

The group is getting together for updates on congregational work on the Eighth Principle, calendaring / planning the end of the year Affirmation Sunday service, and updates on denominational opportunities for youth and young adults.

Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions or need information on this upcoming Zoom meeting.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 2 May 2021

Please join us on Sunday (2 May 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will resume our White Fragility book study group with Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger (using the book by Robin DiAngelo).

This week we will concentrate on Chapter 5 — “The Good/Bad Binary.”

White people often buy into the notion that “since only bad people are racist, and I am a good person, I have no complicity in racism and no responsibility to work on dismantling it.”

How do we move away from that kind of thinking into a more constructive mindset?

We have one additional copy of this book available if anyone else needs a copy.  And we can also order more if needed.

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Help Needed for Immigrants Released from Detention

Many thanks to all the people (including several All Souls members) who have been helping to transport, feed, and shelter a large number of immigrants who are being released from detention centers around the state awaiting the outcome of their asylum claims with family members here in the US.

Check the All Souls Caring Connection Facebook Group or text Susan Caldwell to be connected to folks who can give you the details on how you can help.

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Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LA-AID) — May 2021 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Our May 2021 give away the plate recipient is Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LA-AID).

Under the Biden administration, immigrants are being released from detention centers around the state just about every day so they can join family members around the nation as they await adjudication of their asylum claims.

LA-AID has been helping to house and feed them temporarily along with transporting them to their destinations.  Funds are used to buy plane and bus tickets, food, hotel rooms, clothing and other necessities along with reimbursing those who have stepped up to provide those things.

LA-AID is a volunteer organization dedicated to the abolition of immigrant detention.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2021 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to LA-AID.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2021 will go to LA-AID.

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

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