Melissa Lewis will be outside at the church from 2:00 to 4:00 PM on Sunday afternoon (2 May 2021) to collect food for Noel Food Pantry.
Requested items this week are canned mixed vegetables, cereal, and Jiffy Cornbread Mix.
Announcements
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.
Zoom Lunch (5 May 2021)
Please join us next Wednesday (5 May 2021) 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 (1 May 2021)
Please join us on Saturday (1 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.
25 April 2021 Worship Video
Online All-Ages Worship (25 April 2021)
Please join us on Sunday (25 April 2021) at 11:00 AM for “A Whole Lot of Intersections” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.
Our April 2021 give-away-the-plate recipient is Volunteers for Youth Justice. More details here.
We will have a virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Remember Election Day (Saturday, 24 April 2021)
Our fifth principle of Unitarian Universalism is “the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.”
One way you can promote the use of democratic process is to turn out to vote in Saturday’s runoff election.
More information including a sample ballot customized for your precinct can be found on the Louisiana Voter Portal web site.
Now go out and vote on Saturday.
Online Religious Education for Children (25 April 2021)
Please join us online for our family religious education class on Sunday (25 April 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.
This Sunday we will celebrate Earth Day with some ideas on how we can all work to fight climate change and also trash monsters!
We will make creatures out of the recyclables in our houses and show them on Zoom or show pictures of them as you prefer.
Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.
Online Adult Religious Education — 25 April 2021
Please join us on Sunday (25 April 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 4 (“How Does Race Shape the Lives of White People?”) with attention to the phenomena of white solidarity and racial silence.
We have additional copies of this book available if anyone else needs one.
We can also order more if needed as well so don’t hang back.
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.