Announcements

Shreveport Green — July 2021 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Shreveport Green is a local non-profit working toward a vision of Shreveport as a

“clean, green, physically enhanced community whose citizens exhibit a strong sense of pride and concern about the environment. We maintain that an attractive city promotes respect and economic development.”

Visit their website to learn more about their various projects and initiatives to improve our city.  We have selected them as our July 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient.

Two ways to donate:

OnlineGo 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 Shreveport Green.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of July 2021 will go to Shreveport Green.

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

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20 June 2021 Worship Livestreaming Video

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services.

This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats.

For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live.  One does not have to log into Facebook or have a Facebook account to view this video.

You can find the 20 June 2021 worship video here.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (3 July 2021)

Please join us on Saturday (3 July 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 (27 June 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (27 June 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Until Love Wins” presented by the First Universalist Church of Minneapolis MN.

This is the 2021 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly Sunday Morning Worship and will be streamed live through YouTube.

All Souls members in Shreveport and Unitarian Universalists across North American and around the world will be watching this live-streaming worship service.

The order of service (PDF) for this worship service can be found here.

Our June 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Louisiana Trans Advocates.

Watch our weekly email announcements for info on the next in-person worship service and other opportunities to gather in smaller groups in person.

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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No Online Religious Education for Children on 27 June 2021 — Next Event TBA

Our Sunday afternoon Zoom religious education class for children will take a break for 27 June 2021 while our religious professional staff are attending the 2021 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly.

Please check our social media and web site for future announcements on our next children’s religious education event.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 27 June 2021

Please join us on Sunday (27 June 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 12 — “Where Do We Go From Here?”

This final chapter in the book looks at the ways we can use what we’ve learned as we move forward in the work of antiracism.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (26 June 2021)

Please join us on Saturday (26 June 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 (20 June 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (20 June 2021) at 11:00 AM for “From Generation to Generation” with John Allen and Steve Caldwell.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

Two fathers from the All Souls community will speak on the the important things they hope to pass along to their own children and how that relates to the way they were parented.

Our June 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Louisiana Trans Advocates.

Watch our weekly email announcements for info on the next in-person worship service and other opportunities to gather in smaller groups in person.

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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