Announcements

Monthly Building and Grounds Work Day (11 January 2025)

Our monthly building and grounds work day usually happens on the second Saturday on the month.

For January 2025, this will happen on Saturday (11 January 2025) from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (please note the change from the times we used for past building and grounds work days).

There are tasks indoors and out for all ages and abilities along with snacks for the volunteers.

This is a great way to build relationships with your All Souls community — working side by side to maintain the physical structure of our spiritual home.

New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund — January 2025 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 January 2025, we choose the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

Additional information on the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund can be found here.

Two ways to donate:

OnlineGo to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 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 JAN 2025” or “New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of January 2025 will go to New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund.

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

5 January 2025 Worship Livestreaming Video

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.

You can find the 5 January 2025 worship video here.

29 December 2024 Worship Livestreaming Video

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.

You can find the 29 December 2024 worship video here.

24 December 2024 Christmas Eve Worship Livestreaming Video

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.

You can find the 24 December 2024 Christmas Eve worship video here.

22 December 2024 Worship Livestreaming Video

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.

You can find the 22 December 2024 worship video here.

All Ages Worship (5 January 2025)

Please join us this Sunday (5 January 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Universal Principle of Balance” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

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.

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.  The link is currently showing all three respiratory viruses increasing on 28 December 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 January 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the New Orleans New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

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

Religious Education for Children and Youth (5 January 2025)

On this Sunday (5 January 2025) as we enter the new year, the children and youth will have a chance to record their wishes, hopes, and dreams for the New Year using spy paper and stir them into a common bowl of water.

They can also use this ritual to release all that they want to leave behind in the old year.

The New UU Class Resumes 5 January 2024

The New UU class will resume after we enter the new year and will be facilitated by Bennett Upton.

We will meet Sundays after service – 12:30 PM resuming on 5 January 2025

This 6 session course is for all new members, people interested in becoming members, and not-so-new members who might need a refresher and reminder of what we’re doing here.

The 6 sessions cover the history of Unitarian Univesralism and this congregation also exploring our practices and shared principles and values.

Email Bennett  if you are interested in joining this class.

Upcoming Class Schedule

  • 5 January 2025 – Religious education
  • 19 January 2025 – Church governance
  • 26 January2025 – A visit with the minister (this date may be subject to change)

“A Case of Outrageous Injustice” (Documentary Screening on the Arrest and Imprisonment of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui — 5 January 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (5 January 2025) at 3:00 PM for a screening of “A Case of Outrageous Injustice” (a documentary on the arrest and imprisonment of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui).

The documentary will be screened at The Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA  71104) in the large conference room.  Please use the Olive Street entrance and follow the signs and the directions from the volunteers who are running this event.

The documentary screening is sponsored by the Shreveport chapter of UUJME (Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East).

Admission is free and snacks will be provided.

There will be discussion afterward and an optional letter-writing campaign for those who wish to participate.