Our 9:00 AM Sunday adult religious education class will not be meeting this Sunday (6 October 2024) — this class will resume on the following Sunday (13 October 2024).
Announcements
Zoom (and In-Person) Lunch on Wednesday (9 October 2024)
Please join us next Wednesday (9 October 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.
Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter) — October 2024 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 October 2024, we choose Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter).
Students for Justice in Palestine committed to raising awareness of the injustices inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli military invasion and to foster social and political education for their own members and for the local and international community.
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 Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter) and then put “GATP OCT 2024” or “Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter)” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of October 2024 will go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter).
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter)” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter). If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter), please put the amount you want going to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter) on the memo line.
Meditation with Larry Androes (5 October 2024)
Please join us on Saturday (5 October 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.
All Ages Worship (29 September 2024)
Please join us this Sunday (29 September 2024) at 11:00 AM for “The Flip Side” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Remember to join us after today’s worship service at 1:30 PM for ribbon cutting ceremony honoring the first Community Lighthouse in Northwest Louisiana at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — click here for more information.
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 as of 14 September 2024 according to the CDC’s COVID County Check website.
Additional 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 a downward trend in COVID positive tests as of 21 September 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.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Religious Education for Children and Youth (29 September 2024)
This Sunday’s religious education activity for children and youth during the 11:00 AM worship service is Lego Values.
Children and youth will explore our Unitarian Universalist values that will include stories, games, and creative activities involving Legos and other media for self-expression.
This week’s focus is “Pluralism.”
Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (29 September 2024)
Please join us on Sunday (29 September 2024) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.
Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.
Our dual-platform adult religious education class will explore “A Tale of Three Cities (OK — Two Towns and a Forest).”
We wrap up this session on climate change as we look at two small Southern towns working their way toward 100% renewable energy — the hopes, dreams, and drawbacks — and a North Carolina farm family finding the balance between paper and lumber needs and reforestation.
Zoom (and In-Person) Lunch on Wednesday (2 October 2024)
Please join us next Wednesday (2 October 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.
Meditation with Larry Androes (28 September 2024)
Please join us on Saturday (28 September 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.