Announcements

Meditation with Larry Androes (1 July 2023)

Please join us on Saturday (1 July 2023) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

Please note that this group is still meeting via Zoom.  You will need to contact Larry for the Zoom link information using the contact information at the end of this post.

The group is free and open to all.

For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.

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All Ages Worship and Sunday Brunch (25 June 2023)

Please join us on Sunday (25 June 2023) at 9:30 AM for brunch and at 10:00 AM for a group viewing of the Sunday morning worship at this Sunday’s Unitarian Universalist General Assembly.

You can use this link to watch this worship service at home.

Join us to be part of the largest annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists worshipping together — streaming live from this year’s General Assembly  Meeting in Pittsburgh PA.

Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti (Pittsburgh native and Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor MI) will lead the service on the theme of “Ever Willing: Becoming the People Our World Needs.”

From the UUA GA program:

The pandemic has wrought change and created uncertainty for institutions, like our Unitarian Universalist congregations, and our wider world.  Who and what are we becoming, individually and collectively?  Our GA Sunday service explores these themes as we gather in community to celebrate the best of who we UUs are.

There is no children and youth religious education this Sunday but there will be art materials available for all ages who would like something to do with their hands while they watch the service.

The current COVID risk for the Shreveport metro area (Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, DeSoto Parish) is now “low” and 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.

Our June 2023 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Philadelphia Center.

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

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No Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education This Sunday — 25 June 2023

There will be no adult religious education class this Sunday (25 June 2023).

Please join us next Sunday (2 July 2023) 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.

For that week, we will continue our discussion of Patrice Cullor’s An Abolitionist’s Handbook.  We will be discussing this one chapter:

  • Step 12 — Fight the U.S. State rather than make it stronger
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Zoom (and In-Person) Lunch on Tuesday (27 June 2023)

Please join us next Tuesday (27 June 2023) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Our weekly Zoom lunch is going dual-platform — 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.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (24 June 2023)

Please join us on Saturday (24 June 2023) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

Please note that this group is still meeting via Zoom.  You will need to contact Larry for the Zoom link information using the contact information at the end of this post.

The group is free and open to all.

For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.

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All Ages Worship (18 June 2023)

Please join us on Sunday (18 June 2023) at 11:00 AM for “Dad Jokes:  Humor as a Spiritual Tool in the Parenting Toolbox” with John Allen, Amanda Lawrence, and Susan Caldwell.

Dad jokes, amiright?  The worse, the better.  You will more than likely hear a few of those this Sunday and also perhaps hear and share some stories of how you or your own parents have used humor as a way of lightening a tense moment or smoothing away the rough edges.

Our elementary class has done a curriculum this year by Katie Covey called Toolbox of Faith in which humor is called the “sandpaper” in the toolbox for that reason.

We’ll also take some time in the service to acknowledge that this is also Juneteenth weekend — the second year this day in our nation’s history has been set aside as a federal holiday.

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 current COVID risk for the Shreveport metro area (Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, DeSoto Parish) is now “low” and 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.

Our June 2023 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Philadelphia Center.

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

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education — 18 June 2023

Please join us on Sunday (18 June 2023) 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.

This week, we will continue our discussion of Patrice Cullor’s An Abolitionist’s Handbook.  We will be discussing these two chapters:

  • Step 8 — Practice Accountability
  • Step 9 — Embrace Non-Reformist Reform
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No Zoom (and In-Person) Lunch on Tuesday (20 June 2023) — Zoom Lunch Resumes 27 June 2023

There will be no Zoom lunch this Tuesday (20 June 2023).

Please join us on the following Tuesday (27 June 2023) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Our weekly Zoom lunch is going dual-platform — 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.

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