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 next Wednesday (5 June 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.
Please join us on Friday (14 June 2024) at 6:00 PM for a screening of the documentary film The Holy Land Five (a film by Mohammad Omar).
We will be screening this film in the church social hall.
This film is a documentary exploring the arrest, trial, and subsequent sentencing of five leaders of the Holy Land Foundation (the largest Muslim charity in the US until after 9/11 when it was shut down, assets seized, and leaders arrested by the FBI).
The film features interviews with defense and prosecution attorneys, witnesses, and family members as well as courtroom recreations looking back at the case.
We will have a discussion afterward.
This event is sponsored by the Shreveport chapter of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
For the month of June 2024, we choose Louisiana Trans Advocates (LTA), a statewide organization offering support, resources, and advocacy for trans and non-binary youth and adults, their supportive family members, and allies.
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 LTA and then put “GATP JUN 2024” or “LTA” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of June 2024 will go to Louisiana Trans Advocates.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “LTA” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to LTA. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to LTA, please put the amount you want going to LTA on the memo line.
Please join us on Saturday (1 June 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.
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.
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.
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 (26 May 2024) at 11:00 AM for “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” by Rev. Joy Walker.
Rev. Walker returns to our pulpit with her message:
“Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life!”
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 — the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.
See the CDC website and the COVIDActNow website for more details.
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.
Please use this link to evaluate the current COVID risk for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area as you make your decisions regarding masking and other COVID preventive measures while attending All Souls.
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.
Please use good judgment and stay home if you have any symptoms. Even those who have tested negative for COVID can later test positive.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
For this Sunday (26 May 2024), both classes — grades pre-K through 5 and middle school / high school — will continue their focus on peace, social justice, and the interdependent web as they continue learning about the proposed Unitarian Universalist values on the agenda for General Assembly this summer (thanks to the wonder of JETPIG — justice, equity, transformation, pluralism, interdependence, and generosity with love at the center).