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North Louisiana Interfaith — July 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 July 2024, we choose North Louisiana Interfaith (an organization that All Souls supports as a member institution).

North Louisiana Interfaith and the statewide organization Together Louisiana harness the power of organized people to create real change in our communities.

Our two most significant projects of late are the Community Lighthouse project (creating solar powered community hubs that will literally save lives when the grid goes down) and Pledge to Vote (a campaign to increase voter turnout that has been highly effective in Caddo Parish and will be kicking off a statewide campaign on 1 August 2024).

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 North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP JUL 2024” or “North Louisiana Interfaith” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of July 2024 will go to North Louisiana Interfaith.

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

Meditation with Larry Androes (6 July 2024)

Please join us on Saturday (6 July 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.

21 April 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 21 April 2024 worship video here.

14 April 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 14 April 2024 worship video here.

All Ages Worship (30 June 2024)

Please join us this Sunday (30 June 2024) at 11:00 AM for “What They Don’t Know” by Nida AbuBaker (daughter of Shukri AbuBaker of the Holy Land Foundation Five).

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 16 May 2024 according to the COVIDActNow website (no updates since then on this website). These parishes are also reported as “low” on the CDC’s COVID CountyCheck website.

Additional data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.

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 June 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is Louisiana Trans Advocates.

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

Summer Fun for Children and Youth (30 June 2024)

This Sunday’s summer fun activity during the 11:00 AM worship service is Kindness Rocks.

The children and youth will paint river rocks with messages of kindness, peace, and hope.

They can keep the rocks as reminders to themselves, give them to friends, and also leave them in random places (around the church or in their neighborhoods) to offer a hopeful message to someone they are likely never to meet.