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 Tuesday (14 March 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.
Our monthly building and grounds work day will happen on Saturday (11 March 2023) from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
We will have tasks available for all ages and abilities — inside and out.
This is a great way to get to know others in your All Souls community while working side by side. Please come and join us on 11 March 2023.
Please join us on Saturday (11 March 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.
Please join us on Sunday (5 March 2023) at 11:00 AM for “The Transience of Solutions” 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 current COVID risk for the Shreveport metro area (Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, DeSoto Parish) is now “medium” and the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “medium” 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 March 2023 give-away-the-plate recipient is Home is Here Shreveport.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
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 March 2023, we choose Home is Here Shreveport (based on the program by the same name in New Orleans).
All Souls members have joined with others in the community with the aim of sponsoring more newly arrived immigrants through a program called Home is Here.
In order to raise money to get our sponsorees who have settled in the community, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention has made it possible for us to raise money for Home is Here Shreveport through their non-profit organization.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2023 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Home is Here Shreveport and then put “GATP MAR 2023” or “HOME IS HERE” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of March 2023 will go to Home is Here Shreveport.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Home is Here Shreveport” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Home is Here Shreveport. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Home is Here Shreveport, please put the amount you want going to Home is Here Shreveport on the memo line.
Children and youth will attend the worship service for the first 15-20 minutes and then are dismissed to their classes.
We are now discussing peace, social justice, and the interdependent web and these ideas connect to our Unitarian Universalist faith.
More details to be announced on this later today (please see our weekly email newsletters and our social media feeds for updates).
Please join us on Sunday (5 March 2023) as we continue our new series in our our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.
Our adult religious education class is still meeting via Zoom.
We have several persons in the adult religious education class who are new to our faith tradition and others who would like a chance to revisit the principles around that Unitarian Universalist congregations covenant to affirm and promote (including the eighth principle).
We are going to take some Sundays to do that.
How many Sundays? We don’t know yet.
We are also be continuing the conversation about “Where do we go from here?”
If you have questions, email Susan Caldwell or text her with your questions.
Please join us on Friday (17 March 2023) from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM for the resumption of our annual St. Patrick’s Day Party featuring the music of
Bob Jordan and friends.
The suggested donation of $10.00 at the door (or whatever you can pay — don’t let money keep you away). Kids get in for free.
Libations for donations including Guinness and Bailey’s Irish Cream (alone or over ice cream). Free sodas for designated drivers and free snacks for all.
The St. Patrick’s Day Party was the first event we had to cancel in March 2020 so we look forward to bringing it back with spirit!
