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
Please join us at All Souls on Sunday (13 January 2013) immediately after our 11:00 AM worship service for our annual “Birthday Potluck.”
Bring a dish to share and sit at a multi-generational table with people born in your birth month. Then — after lunch — each table will work together on decorating a birthday cake to compete in our Best Cake Contest.
Happening at the church on Saturday (12 January 2013) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
The All Souls Program Council is delighted to honor Amanda as our January 2013 Volunteer of the Month.
Continue reading “Amanda Lawrence — January 2013 Volunteer of the Month”
Please join us this Sunday (6 January 2013) at 11:00 AM for our worship service — “The Sweetness of a New Year” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls Choir will sing.
During this worship service, you will be given the tools to engage in a new, positive, and life-affirming spiritual practice for the New Year.
Please mark your calendars for the upcoming World Religion Day celebration on 27 January 2013.
Please join us on Sunday, 27 January 2013, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport, Louisiana) for our community’s annual World Religion Day celebration.
The keynote adddress will be “Beyond Religious Dialogue” by Dr. David Otto (Professor of Religious Studies and Crawford Chair of Liberal Arts Centenary College of Louisiana).
The event’s panel discussions will include the following:
This is a great community-building event offering numerous volunteer opportunities — working at the All Souls information table, helping with set-up on Saturday (26 January 2013), and staffing the event concession stand.
Look for a place to sign up in the foyer and contact Susan Caldwell for more information.
As many of you know, Patrick Early is at home recovering from foot surgery. We have set up a meal train to help provide him with meals during his recovery, which is estimated to take about three weeks.
At our 16 December 2012 Congregational Business Meeting, we passed a provisional budget and have scheduled a special congregational budget meeting for 20 January 2013 at 12:30 PM (immediately after the Sunday worship service). If you have not yet provided your 2013 pledge to the church, please do it now.
Please join us for worship this Sunday (30 December 2012) at 11:00 AM for “Liminal Space: Standing at the Threshold” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Join us before and after the service for our New Year’s Pancake Breakfast. The breakfast will be served starting at 10:15 AM.
Ring in the New Year with pancakes, fruit, coffee, juice and various tasty breakfast treats brought to you by the Food, Folks and Fun Committee on Sunday (30 December 2012).
We will be serving before church from 10:15 to 11:00 AM, and then after the service from 12:00 to 12:30 PM (or till no one wants to eat any more — whichever comes first).
Note — For optimum experience of the event, attending before church is highly recommended! For optimum-PLUS experience of the event, staying after church to help clean up and build community with your All Souls friends is most highly recommended!
Please join us on Sunday (22 December 2012) at 11:00 AM for our Loving Others is Loving God worship service.
This worship service is a celebration of the Winter Holidays and our Fourth Source (Jewish and Christian Teachings that call us to respond to God’s love by loving our neighbors as ourselves).
Stay after the service for the All-Ages Holiday Party.
And remember to join us on Monday (24 December 2012) at 6:30 PM for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service.