Please join us next Tuesday (3 May 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
United Way of Northwest Louisiana — May 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient
Our give-away-the-plate recipient for May 2022 is the United Way of Northwest Louisiana.
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.
This time-honored national organization works locally to help children succeed in school, beginning with their participation in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, giving free books to children from birth to age 5 throughout the region, and continuing throughout the school years with support for each phase of the academic journey through graduation and beyond.
Their Bank On Northwest Louisiana program provides banking services and low-cost loans to underbanked individuals to help them avoid the payday lenders and improve their financial stability.
They have programs to improve access to health care for children and adults, and they work to meet immediate needs of people in crisis, whether from natural disasters or more personal crises such as domestic abuse.
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 United Way. All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2022 will go to the United Way.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “United Way” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of this check go to the United Way. If you want less than 100% of the check to go to the United Way, please put the amount you want going to the United Way on the memo line.
Meditation with Larry Androes (30 April 2022)
Please join us on Saturday (30 April 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.
24 April 2022 Worship Video
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10 April 2022 Worship Video
3 April 2022 Worship Video
All-Ages Worship (24 April 2022)
Please join us on Sunday (24 April 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Embracing the World” — a service in celebration of Earth Day 2022 featuring a Unitarian Universalist flower communion — with Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
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.
The number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations has dropped in the Shreveport metro area where we are safe to return to in-person worship.
When we are indoors at All Souls, we will continue to require proof of vaccination for all attendees ages 11 and up and the wearing masks for all.
We are considering relaxing our mask mandate and changing the vaccine requirement to proof of vaccination or a negative test within the last 24 hours.
We are asking how you feel about that and we want to show the utmost respect for those of you in attendance as we have this discussion.
We will continue to provide a livestream of the service for those who prefer that options or who cannot attend in person at 11:00 AM on Sunday.
Religious education classes for children and youth resumes this Sunday as well. The children and youth will be with us for the first 15-20 minutes of the worship service before we sing them out to their classes.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Online Adult Religious Education — 24 April 2022
Please join us on Sunday (24 April 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
This Sunday we begin our work through the book Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad.
As the author says, “This is not a book you read, this is a book you do” and we will be discussing some of the journal prompts throughout the book.
Layla Saad is a black Muslim woman who was raised in the UK but who now lives in Qatar. She has written, taught, and offered workshops to a global audience.
We will be discussing the journal prompts from days 9, 10, and 11 (all deal with anti-blackness):
- Day 9 — “You and Anti-Blackness Against Black Women”
- Day 10 — “You and Anti-Blackness Against Black Men”
- Day 11 — “You and Anti-Blackness Against Black Children”
Children and Youth Religious Education (24 April 2022)
On this Sunday (24 April 2022), children and youth religious education classes will resume in person and will happen during our 11:00 AM worship service.
We will resume our pre-COVID practice where the children and youth will join us in the sanctuary for the first 15-20 minutes and then we will sing them out to their classes.
If your child does not want to go to class, that is also OK — our services are welcoming for all ages.
We will be starting out initially with two classes grouped by age / grade:
Elementary – Pre-K – 5th Grade (Teachers: Ashford McLain and Kevin Henry) — Our theme is “Peace, Social Justice, and the Interdependent Web.” This week we will be focusing on Earth Day and making coffee filter flowers with leftover Easter Egg dye (there’s so much of it left over that we couldn’t bring ourselves to throw it out).
Middle and High School (Teachers: Ken Peterson and Eric First) — The group will celebrate raising $319 for Laughing Dog Ranch, update their mural plans, and focus on the Earth Day theme for this Sunday.
Note — We have not yet brought back nursery care for our littlest members and visitors who cannot yet be vaccinated for COVID. However, babies and toddlers are welcome to stay with their parents in the sanctuary. We are very understanding about baby sounds in worship.