Please join us next Tuesday (8 November 2022) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Announcements
Meditation with Larry Androes (5 November 2022)
Please join us on Saturday (5 November 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.
All-Ages Worship (30 October 2022)
Please join us this Sunday (30 October 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Answer in the Form of a Question” featuring special guest Michael Servetus.
It’s the format for one of the world’s most popular game shows and it’s also the way that we Unitarian Universalists often look at the Big Questions before us — with even more questions.
At this turning of the year — closest to Samhain, All Hallows Eve, and All Souls Day — it is appropriate to turn our thoughts to those who came before us . . . our own ancestors and also the ancestors of our faith (“prophetic people whose words and deeds challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love”).
One of them will even join us from the 16th century to tell us his story.
All ages will be with us for this interactive multigenerational service.
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.
Although the number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations has increased in the Shreveport metro area, we are still safe to have to in-person worship at this time.
We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.
However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.
We are also required the wearing of masks for all in-person attendees for all indoor events.
Our October 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is the League of Women Voters of Caddo/Bossier.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Children and Youth Religious Education for 30 October 2022
On this Sunday (30 October 2022), the children and youth will stay with the adults in the sanctuary for a multigenerational service and religious education for all ages.
Online Adult Religious Education — 30 October 2022
Please join us on Sunday (30 October 2022) as we resume our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM for “WhUU Dat” via Zoom and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.
This week’s readings continue in the section entitled “Our Faith” and include:
- “Bringing My Whole Self” by Dr. Takiyah Amin, pages 8-10
- “Saving Our Lives” by Rev. Roberta Finkelstein, pages 11-13
- “A Search for Truth and Meaning” by Aneesa Shaikh, pages 14-17
- “The Playground Atheist, Lost and Found” by Jake Morrill, pages 18-21
This week’s readings have been sent out to those regularly attending as a PDF document and we are also working on getting copies of the book to everyone who needs one. Six more copies are due in this week.
Park-It Market (12 November 2022)
Save the Date — 12 November 2022 — 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
The Not-Too-Early-For-a-Holiday-Market Park-It Market
For Vendors: $25.00 gets you a parking space to set up as you like you keep all proceeds of your sales. Register and pay online here.
Or if you prefer old school — download and print out a flyer and paper form here.
Mail the form to:
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Attn Holiday Market
9449 Ellerbe Road
Shreveport LA 71106
For Shoppers: Admission to shop the event is free so what you spend depends on how much you want to buy from the vendors (which will be a lot because we have some great vendors).
Need more info — Email Susan Caldwell or Maggie Molisee.
Zoom Lunch Now on Tuesdays (1 November 2022)
Please join us next Tuesday (1 November 2022) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Meditation with Larry Androes (29 October 2022)
Please join us on Saturday (29 October 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.
Samhain Ritual with Ár nDraíocht Féin (A Druid Fellowship) — 29 October 2002
Please join us on Saturday (29 October 2022) at 3:00 PM for a Samhain ritual with Ár nDraíocht Féin (a Druid Fellowship).
The Thistle Grove of Ár nDraíocht Féin invites one and all to their ritual in celebration of Samhain (pronouned SAH-win) — an ancient Celtic festival of the dead that is the source of many of our Halloween traditions but is not the same as Halloween.
Samhain on the Druid calendar is the turning of the year — a time for remembrance and reverence of the dead.
Though family-friendly and welcoming to all, the ritual is a more solemn occasion than a Halloween celebration and will include a speaking of the names of those who have died.
We will have a special ritual of remembrance for our friend Rae Goins and we invite you to honor your own departed loved ones as you participate in this spiritual ritual and learning experience.
We also invite you and yours to stick around afterward for our Halloween celebration — Trunk-or-Treat which begins at 5:00 PM.
Middle School / High School Bake Sale (29 and 30 October 2022)
Next weekend, we will have a bake sale sponsored by our middle and high school youth group. The proceeds of this bake sale will go to Holy Cross Hope House:
- Saturday, 29 October 2022, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (during Trunk or Treat Event)
- Sunday, 30 October 2022, after the 11:00 AM Worship Service
Hope House provides essential services such as meals, mailboxes, phones, showers, and laundry services for unhoused people in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana.