Announcements

20 December 2015 All-Ages Worship

Holiday_LightsPlease join us on Sunday (20 December 2015) at 11:00 AM for “The Gifts We Bring” — an all-ages worship.

The season of light is also the season of giving — yet the kind of giving encouraged by our consumerist society can leave many of us feeling not only depressed and inadequate but broke as well.

Join the children, youth and adults of All Souls for this Winter Holiday celebration of the gifts we can all learn to give, and to receive. The All Souls Choir will sing.

Please join us after the service for our all-ages holiday party.

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BOLT Training — 19 December 2015

BOLT_ChalicePlease join us on Saturday (19 December 2015) at 11:30 AM for BOLT Training (BOLT = “Bearers of Light and Tradition”).

Our BOLTs are children and youth entrusted each Sunday with the lighting of the chalice and the reading and candle lighting celebrating the principles and sources we are lifting up during each season of our Unitarian Universalist liturgical year.

Children and youth of middle elementary grades through high school age are welcome to become BOLTs.

Requirements include reading and the ability and willingness to follow instructions and learn good techniques for speaking into the microphone, lighting the chalice, using the long candle lighter, and appropriate demeanor in the pulpit.

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13 December 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

AllSoulsAutumnPlease join us on Sunday (13 December 2015) at 11:00 AM for our Sunday worship service.

Rev. Susan Smith is in the pulpit this Sunday.

Join us in the social hall afterwards for our 5th Annual Monster Cookie Swap.

At 12:30 PM, we will have our congregational meeting where we will vote on our 2016 budget and elect 3 members to our nominating committee.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

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UPDATED — Congregational Meeting — Sunday, 13 December 2015

From: Kathy Osuch (Board Secretary)
To: All Members, Inactive Members, and Friends

In accordance with the Bylaws of our church and as Secretary of the Board, I hereby announce that All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church will hold a Congregational Meeting in the sanctuary.

New Date and Time: Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 12:30 PM

On the Agenda 

  • Vote on 2016 Budget
  • Elect three members to the Nominating Committee

Please make every effort to attend.  All active members should attend this meeting or give their proxies to those who can.  Inactive members and friends of the church are invited and encouraged to participate but bylaws stipulate that only those members who have been active 30 days or longer may vote.

We must have a quorum.  Childcare will be provided.

Update — Please note that pledges for 2016 are about $30,000 less than they were for 2015.

As a result, there are many cuts to the budget and we will need volunteers to assist in making these changes possible.

The Director of Religious Education position is funded till the end of June 2016 based on current pledges.

If you have yet to make your pledge or would like to update your pledge information, please contact Board Treasurer Melissa Gibson at (318) 550-1296 or melissainkdesigns@gmail.com.

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Adult Religious Education — 13 December 2015

TheNewJimCrowPlease join us on Sunday (13 December 2015) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — Book Study and Discussion — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Our Discussion of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow continues with Chapter 6 — “The Fire This Time” — which explores the multi-faceted strategies necessary to begin to address the problem of mass incarceration.

This will be our last class meeting for this book.  After this Sunday, the adult religious education class will take a break until after the holiday season is over.

Two books are still available (cost $12.00).  Also, if you want a book, you may have one.  Don’t let the cost be an obstacle.  You are welcome to buy or have a book whether or not you come to the class.

You are welcome to come to the class whether or not you are reading the book.

We have good discussions that stand on their own, although you will probably get more out of them if you do the reading.

Books are available from Amazon or let Susan know if you want one reserved for you.

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6 December 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

MenorahPlease join us on Sunday (6 December 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Making Light of It” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

We continue our exploration of the season of light and the All Souls Choir will sing.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

We will have a newcomer information session immediately following the service.  Child care will be provided.

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Adult Religious Education — 6 December 2015

TheNewJimCrowPlease join us on Sunday (6 December 2015) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — Book Study and Discussion — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Our Discussion of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow continues with Chapter 5 — “The New Jim Crow” — which will expound on the many parallels between the era of Jim Crow and the current era of mass incarceration.

This will be our next to last class meeting for this book.  After next Sunday (13 December 2015), the adult religious education class will take a break until after the holiday season is over.

Two books are still available (cost $12.00).  Also, if you want a book, you may have one.  Don’t let the cost be an obstacle.  You are welcome to buy or have a book whether or not you come to the class.

You are welcome to come to the class whether or not you are reading the book.

We have good discussions that stand on their own, although you will probably get more out of them if you do the reading.

Books are available from Amazon or let Susan know if you want one reserved for you.

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2015 Scentsy Fundraiser

Scentsy2015Many thanks to All Souls board member Jocelyn Lanham for doing a Scentsy fundraiser for All Souls!

If you follow this link to shop at her website, she will donate 100% of the proceeds to All Souls.

Fill your house with festive aromas just in time for the holidays.  This holiday fundraiser lasts through the December holiday season.

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29 November 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

AllSoulsAutumnPlease join us on Sunday (29 November 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Fall in the Soul” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

It is “Give Away the Plate Sunday” at All Souls where we give all of our non-pledge contributions to a charitable or service organization in our area.

This month’s Give Away the Plate will go to the Volunteers of America Veterans’ Transitional Living Program.

Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.

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