Announcements

Middle and High School Religious Education — 23 August 2020

The All Souls middle and high school youth will be meeting via Zoom for religious education this Sunday (23 August 2020) at 2:00 PM.

“Ratifying the Eighth Principle” — After a check-in and some planning for the year to come, we’ll take a look at the proposed eighth principle of Unitarian Universalism and talk about introducing this to the congregation later this fall.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 23 August 2020

Please join us on Sunday (23 August 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will continue the next series of Faith Forward — UU Theology.

UU Theology is a six-session series exploring various theological concepts through a Unitarian Universalist lens.

Each session addresses the question “What does our Unitarian Universalist tradition teach about this concept, and how does that help me clarify and act on my own beliefs?”

For this week (Session 2 – “What Are God and Spirit?”), we will explore the range of beliefs about God and Spirit that are encompassed within Unitarian Universalism.

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Zoom Lunch (26 August 2020)

Please join us next Wednesday (26 August 2020) 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.

This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.

At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.

Hope to see you there!

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16 August 2020 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 16 August 2020 worship video here.

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Great Decisions Group Meets Saturday Night (22 August 2020)

The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night  (22 August 2020) at 6:00 PM.

Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association.

If you are interested in being a part of the group, email Melodie here and she will send you the link for the meeting.

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Online All-Ages Worship (16 August 2020)

Please join us on Sunday (16 August 2020) at 11:00 AM for “As American as Motherhood and Suffrage Pie” with Pamela Carlisle and worship associate Susan Bettinger.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

We welcome Pamela Carter Carlisle (All Souls Member and Outreach Specialist for the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center) who will present “As American as Motherhood and Suffrage Pie” — a look at how far we’ve come in the 100 years since the passage of the 19th Amendment and how far we have yet to go.

We also welcome worship associate Susan Bettinger (All Souls member and President of the Caddo Parish League of Women Voters).

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 and Youth (16 August 2020)

Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (16 August 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom at 1:00 PM after the virtual coffee hour is over.

The Zoom link  for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.

We had originally planned for a socially-distanced tie-dye event for this Sunday.
However, we’re going to postpone that for now:
  • Along with the recent surge throughout our state, we keep learning more about this virus and the wider age spectrum of people who are getting sick from this virus.
  • With schools reopening and our families in various stages of preparation — in-person or virtual — we don’t feel responsible bringing people together for additional in-person gatherings that — however fun — are not essential.
  • When the weather gets cooler, we’ll figure out some multi-generational outdoor activities that require less handing of things from person to person and allow for better physical distancing.
  • If your family was looking forward to tie-dye, email Susan and she will get a tie-dye kit to your house with a few colors of dye, some soda ash, and all the instructions.  Otherwise, we promise we’ll get together and tie-dye as soon as it’s safer.

We can still use your art work illustrating our principles and sources.

You can post it on the All Souls Religious Education page on Facebook or send it to Susan at dre@allsoulsshreveport.org.

We can use more illustrations of the third and fourth principles and — of course — the eighth principle too:

  • How people act when they support each other and learn together
  • How people act when they are free to search for truth in their own lives?
  • How people act when they are working to dismantle racism and create beloved community?

Join us using the religious education Zoom link about 5 minutes after the worship service.

If you aren’t on Facebook, send Susan Caldwell an email or text her at 318-465-3427 to get into Zoom for online religious education class.

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Online Adult Religious Education — 16 August 2020

Please join us on Sunday (16 August 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.

We will begin the next series of Faith Forward — UU Theology.

UU Theology is a six-session series exploring various theological concepts through a Unitarian Universalist lens.

Each session addresses the question “What does our Unitarian Universalist tradition teach about this concept, and how does that help me clarify and act on my own beliefs?”

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Zoom Lunch (19 August 2020)

Please join us next Wednesday (19 August 2020) 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.

This a chance to connect and catch up midweek.

At some point we may decide to bring in speakers but for now we’re just hanging out and enjoying each other’s virtual company.

Hope to see you there!

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9 August 2020 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 9 August 2020 worship video here.

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