Please join us next Tuesday (7 June 2022) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Announcements
Louisiana Trans Advocates — June 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient
Our give-away-the-plate recipient for June 2022 is Louisiana Trans Advocates.
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.
Louisiana Trans Advocates is a statewide organization advocating for the rights of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people in Louisiana.
The local Shreveport chapter meets at All Souls every first Sunday of the month at 1:30 PM.
Louisiana Trans Advocates provides support, advocacy, and crisis support for trans people, as well as resource lists of health care providers, legal assistance, and a guide to the necessary ID documents for making name and gender changes
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2022 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Louisiana Trans Advocates. All online collection plate contributions for the month of June 2022 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 “Louisiana Trans Advocates” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of this check go to Louisiana Trans Advocates. If you want less than 100% of the check to go to Louisiana Trans Advocates, please put the amount you want going to Louisiana Trans Advocates on the memo line.
Meditation with Larry Androes (4 June 2022)
Please join us on Saturday (4 June 2022) 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.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
All-Ages Worship (29 May 2022)
Please join us on Sunday (29 May 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Poetry for Peace — A Memorial Day Service” by the members and friends of All Souls.
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 number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations has dropped in the Shreveport metro area where we are safe to return to in-person worship.
When we are indoors at All Souls, we will continue to require proof of vaccination for all attendees ages 11 and up. However, if you cannot be vaccinated, we also accept a negative COVID test in the past 24 hours. We are also required the wearing of masks for all in-person attendees.
Religious education classes for children and youth resumes this Sunday as well. The children and youth will be with us for the first 15-20 minutes of the worship service before we sing them out to their classes.
Our May 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is the United Way of Northwest Louisiana.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Online Adult Religious Education — 29 May 2022
Please join us on Sunday (29 May 2022) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom.
This Sunday we continue our work through the book Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad.
As the author says, “This is not a book you read, this is a book you do” and we will be discussing some of the journal prompts throughout the book.
Layla Saad is a black Muslim woman who was raised in the UK but who now lives in Qatar. She has written, taught, and offered workshops to a global audience.
We will be discussing the following journal prompts:
- Day 24 — “You and Your Friends”
- Day 25 — “You and Your Family”
- Day 26 — “You and Your Values”
Children and Youth Religious Education (29 May 2022)
On this Sunday (29 May 2022), children and youth religious education classes will continue to meet in person during our 11:00 AM worship service.
We have resumed our pre-COVID practice where the children and youth will join us in the sanctuary for the first 15-20 minutes and then we will sing them out to their classes.
If your child does not want to go to class, that is also OK — our services are welcoming for all ages.
We will be starting out initially with two classes grouped by age / grade:
Elementary – Pre-K – 5th Grade (Teachers: Ashford McLain and Kevin Henry) — Our theme is “Peace, Social Justice, and the Interdependent Web.” This week — along with their weekly service project of cleaning up the grounds and plans for their Art Swap — the group continues its focus on responding to bullies.
Middle and High School (Teachers: Ken Peterson and Eric First) — This Sunday the group will be discussing the epidemic of gun violence in the US — both the school shootings like the one in Texas and white supremacist hate crimes like the murders in Buffalo.
We also will talk about the vast numbers of people lost every day to what has horrifyingly become “ordinary” gun violence.
What is the way forward?
Note — We have not yet brought back nursery care for our littlest members and visitors who cannot yet be vaccinated for COVID. However, babies and toddlers are welcome to stay with their parents in the sanctuary. We are very understanding about baby sounds in worship.
Zoom Lunch Now on Tuesdays (31 May 2022)
Please join us next Tuesday (31 May 2022) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Meditation with Larry Androes (28 May 2022)
Please join us on Saturday (28 May 2022) 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.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
All-Ages Worship (22 May 2022)
Please join us on Sunday (22 May 2022) at 11:00 AM for “You Say the Sun Isn’t Shining” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
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 number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations has dropped in the Shreveport metro area where we are safe to return to in-person worship.
When we are indoors at All Souls, we will continue to require proof of vaccination for all attendees ages 11 and up. However, if you cannot be vaccinated, we also accept a negative COVID test in the past 24 hours. We are also required the wearing of masks for all in-person attendees.
Religious education classes for children and youth resumes this Sunday as well. The children and youth will be with us for the first 15-20 minutes of the worship service before we sing them out to their classes.
Our May 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is the United Way of Northwest Louisiana.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
North Louisiana Interfaith Regional Assembly of Congregations and Citizen Organizations (14 June 2022)
Mark Your Calendar — the North Louisiana Interfaith Regional Assembly of Congregations and Citizen Organizations will be meeting on Tuesday (14 June 2022) from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (Brown Chapel – Centenary College of Louisiana).
Imagine if all our organizations worked together to build a way for ordinary people to take action to solve our common problems.
We know that we are most effective in creating change in our community and in our state when we work in partnership with others.
Please join us for this relaunch and rededication of North Louisiana Interfaith.
We have committed to bringing at least 20 All Souls members and friends to this event. Can we do more? Join us and find out.