Announcements

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (5 July 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (5 July 2026) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

For this Sunday, we will have a viewing and discussion on “They’re Trying to Silence Us:  Students and Faculty on the Silencing of Gaza Protests at University Graduations.”

We will viewing followed by discussion on a segment from Democracy Now featuring interviews with Rutgers law professor / Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat and CUNY law graduate / President of CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine Shivani Desai.

The tradition of student speakers has been eliminated at many university graduations across the country for the past two years over the issue of protests of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

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Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (8 July 2026)

(Cat not provided — you must supply your own feline)

Please join us next Wednesday (8 July 2026) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

With the busy lives of our regular participants, our in-person Zoom lunches are on hold for the time being but the link is always open to join at noon every Wednesday.

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OUTNorthLA Film Festival — July 2026 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of July 2026, we choose the OUTNorthLA Film Festival.

The festival always features a collection of innovative films that lift up a variety of voices from the LGBTQIA+ experience.

Usually at least one film maker, actor, or cast is present in person for a panel discussion after selected screenings.

Past distinguished guests have included Bruce Vilanch, John Waters, and Margaret Cho.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2026 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP JUL 2026” or “OUTNorthLA Film Festival” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of July 2026 will go to the OUTNorthLA Film Festival.

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

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Meditation with Larry Androes (4 July 2026)

Please join us on Saturday (4 July 2026) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

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All Ages Worship (28 June 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (28 June 2026) at 11:00 AM for “Uncomfortable Truths, Ultimate Love” by Kelli Coffey — a service in celebration of pride month.

Given recent events in our city, our state, and our nation, it is more important than ever that we honor the struggle and celebrate the triumphs of the LGBTQIAP community.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.

Flu, RSV, and COVID are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 20 June 2026.

Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.

We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots.  This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.

Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our June 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is North Louisiana Interfaith.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (28 June 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (28 June 2026) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

For this Sunday, we will continue our viewing of “David Brooks:  How America Will Recover from All This” followed by discussion.

David Brooks is a conservative commentator who always considered himself more “center right” — but like many who considered themselves an old school conservative — he has found the ground shifting rightward under his feet.

David Brooks is not a supporter of the current administration to say the least.

Agree, disagree, or perhaps a little bit of both — we think he has some interesting things to say about how we come back from the current state of affairs.

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Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (1 July 2026)

(Cat not provided — you must supply your own feline)

Please join us next Wednesday (1 July 2026) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

With the busy lives of our regular participants, our in-person Zoom lunches are on hold for the time being but the link is always open to join at noon every Wednesday.

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Saturday Packing Days Every Week Thru 18 July 2026

In preparation for our move out of our current building, we will have Saturday packing days every week from 27 June 2026 to 18 July 2026 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Moving day is approaching — and we while we made decent progress in one classroom last week — we need to be doing the keep-donate-toss routine with lots of our stuff.

In other moving news . . .

If all goes well, our plan is to have a celebratory service similar to Artist Sunday at 11:00 AM on Sunday, 12 July 2026.  The theme will be “Celebrate Moving On.”

On the following Sunday (19 July 2026), our service will be more attuned to the grieving that many of us will need to do.  Remember that each of us will be processing this differently in different ways at different times.

Let’s remember to be kind and continue to care for each other in the way you always have.

From 26 July 2026 until we find our new church home, we will be worshiping at The Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA  71104).

We will be meeting in The Highland Center’s conference room (which you reach by the ramp entrance in the back on the Topeka Street side).

Our speaker that day will be Melissa Gibson speaking on her trip to Palestine.

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