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
The All Souls Paint Party Part Deux is happening on Saturday (31 August 2013) at 10:00 AM. It’s time to put the second coat on the hallway — We have the paint and supplies on hand — We just need the volunteers.
Wear your painting clothes. Food will be provided. Let us know if you will need child care.
Please advise the office if you are coming so we will have enough supplies and food. Please bring painting supplies (brushes, drop cloths, rollers, trays, etc.) if you have them.
We thank Bob for his musician gifts that he shares with on every Sunday singing in the choir or performing a folk musician. We also thank Bob for his work in our wider community as an Alternatives to Violence Project facilitator/educator.
Please join us at 9:00 AM for Religious Education classes for Children, Youth, and Adults. Our classes will begin the year with a focus on our Unitarian Universalist History, Heritage, Identity, and Theology.
And please stay for our 10:30 AM Worship — “Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men – Part II: The Women” where we will hear dramatic presentations of Katarzyna Weiglowa, Olympia Brown, Viola Liuzzo, and our special guest Alice Mae Wilkinson.
The All Souls Choir will sing, and the children and youth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in the service.
Please join us on Sunday (18 August 2013) at 10:30 AM for “A Good Starting Place” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls Choir will sing, and the children and touth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in the service.
Our Sunday morning schedule for worship and religious education has changed — please read more about these changes here and here.
Starting Sunday (18 August 2013), we will have a new worship and religious education schedule for Sunday morning:
In implementing this change, we are seeking to provide a more complete worship and learning experience for all our community that takes place at a time when most of us are together at the church, and to create a more intentionally multi-generational community.
BOLTS (Bearers of Light and Tradition) training for children and youth will happen on Saturday (17 August 2013) at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
Because our worship services will involve our entire multi-generational community each week, we will be seeking to involve more of our children and youth in the worship experience, in ways befitting their ages, abilities and interests. To that end, we plan to offer a training this Saturday that will cover these various ceremonial tasks of worship:
Parents — please encourage your children and youth to take part in this session. They will need to take the training before they can participate in the service in these ways. We would like to make our worship services as much of a community experience as possible. If they are interested in the training but cannot make this session, don’t worry, we will do it again.
Please join us on Saturday (17 August 2013) from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM for “Religious Education for Children and Youth: Teacher Training.”
Please call/text Susan Caldwell at 318-465-3427 or email her if you want to sign up — also let her know if you will need child care.
If you’re not sure about teaching, attending the training is a good way to find out what’s involved.
Training Includes:
Please join us this Sunday (11 August 2013) at 11:00 AM for “The Deep End,” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. This is our annual Water Communion Service. The All Souls Choir will sing and the Children and Youth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in the service.
Water communion is an end-of-summer tradition for us and many other Unitarian Universalist congregations. We reunite bringing real and symbolic water from our experiences of the summer — whether far way, in our own backyards, or within our own hearts. We are welcome, as we are so moved, to mingle our water into a common bowl with that of previous water ceremonies, and to share our stories. We then boil, filter and freeze a portion of this combined water for use in child dedications, future water communions and other ceremonial occasions of our community.
Join us afterward for yet another water celebration, our annual Swim Party at the home of Laurie Lyons and Henry Walker (441 Drexel Drive, Shreveport LA) after the service until 3:00 PM.
Continue reading “11 August 2013 Worship Service and Swim Party”
On Saturday (10 August 2013) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, we will have our monthly building and grounds work day.
In the heat of August, this is a mostly an inside work day. We will wash windows (inside and out), polish and wax the pulpit, altar table, pew ends and backs.
We will also clean out, purge and organize our Religious Education classrooms in preparation for the new church year. Lots of tasks for all ages and abilities, so many hands will make much lighter work!