All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana
A home for Unitarian Universalism and liberal religion in Shreveport, Bossier City, and Northwest Louisiana since 1950
This Sunday’s summer fun activity during the 11:00 AM worship service is chalice collages (part 2) with Maggie Molisee.
As we wind down our fun activities near the end of Summer, the children and youth will have a chance to collage woodcut chalices or picture frames.
Children and youth will finish up their collage projects from last week.
There will also be an opportunity for those who missed last week to start their collage project.
There is no 9:00 AM adult religious education class this Sunday (1 September 2024).
We are taking a break for the Labor Day holiday weekend.
Sleep in a little — join us for the 11:00 AM Sunday worship service and for the Vegan Potluck afterwards.
The class will resume on next Sunday (8 September 2024) continuing our viewing and discussion of The Age of Nature.
Please join us next Wednesday (4 September 2024) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is returning to dual-platform access — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
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 September 2024, we choose Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation of Louisiana (WERLA).
WERLA is a state and federally licensed 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release sick, injured, or orphaned wildlife back into their natural habitat.
Working closely with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
and local communities, they take in a care for roughly several hundred wild animals from Louisiana each year.
To give the animals with the best chance for rehabilitation, they regularly network with local, private, state-licensed rehabilitators to provide individualized care for different species of animals.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2024 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to WERLA and then put “GATP SEP 2024” or “WERLA” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of September 2024 will go to WERLA.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “WERLA” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to WERLA. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to WERLA, please put the amount you want going to WERLA on the memo line.
Please join us on Saturday (31 August 2024) 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.
The group is free and open to all.
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.
Please join us this Sunday (25 August 2024) at 11:00 AM for “Time is the Coin” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls choir will sing.
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 COVID risks for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low as of 24 August 2024 according to the CDC’s COVID CountyCheck website.
Additional 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. The link is currently showing a marked increase in positive COVID tests as of 3 August 2024 but the trend is continuing downward as of 17 August 2024.
The CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.
Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.
Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.
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.
We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.
However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.
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.
And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.
Our August 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is A Second Chance At Life Foundation.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
This Sunday’s summer fun activity during the 11:00 AM worship service is chalice collages with Maggie Molisee.
As we wind down our fun activities near the end of Summer, the children and youth will have a chance to collage woodcut chalices or picture frames.
Please join us on Sunday (25 August 2024) 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.
Our dual-platform adult religious education class resumes this week with viewing and discussion of the PBS Documentary The Age of Nature.
The series shows how nature has the power to heal itself if given the opportunity, and how this healing process can be beneficial not only to the planet but also to the lives and livelihoods of the humans who share this home.
For this week, we will watch Episode 2, Part 2 (“Understanding“).
Please join us next Wednesday (28 August 2024) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is online-only for this week only due to scheduling conflicts. Please join us from home or any other convenient location using Zoom.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.