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All Ages Worship (4 May 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (4 May 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Building a New Way” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

We will welcome 8 new members who will be ingathered this Sunday.  Members of the All Souls Choir will sing.

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.

State-level COVID 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 COVID and flu rates decreasing while the RSV rate is increasing as of 26 April 2025.

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 May 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is Shreveport Green.

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

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Religious Education for Children and Youth (4 May 2025)

This Sunday’s religious education activity for children and youth during the 11:00 AM worship service will be exploring peace, social justice, and the interdependent web.

The last line of our Chalice Lighting says:

“We care for the Earth and for each other.”

This week we begin our season of emphasis on social justice as a spiritual practice in our history and in our actions in the present moment.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (4 May 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (4 May 2025) 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.

We will be viewing “The Love of Liberty” by Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter (Senior Minister – First Unitarian Church of Dallas) followed by discussion.

We will be viewing and discussing a video of Rev. Kanter’s post-election sermon from 11 November 2024.  It’s an important message that gives us all an opportunity to determine how we’re doing living in the world as it is.

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Shreveport Green — May 2025 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 May 2025, we choose Shreveport Green.

Shreveport Green programs include:

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Shreveport Green and then put “GATP MAY 2025” or “Shreveport Green” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2025 will go to Shreveport Green.

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

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Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (7 May 2025)

Please join us next Wednesday (7 May 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.

If you do want to meet in person, send Susan a text message (318-465-3427) to let her know.

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 (3 May 2025)

Please join us on Saturday (3 May 2025) 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.

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All Ages Worship (27 April 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (27 April 2025) at 11:00 AM for “A Day for Earth” with Rev. Barbara Jarrell and music from members of the All Souls Choir.

In this week of Earth Day, we will hold a service in reverence and celebration of the only home we have.

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.

State-level COVID 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 COVID and RSV rates holding steady at lower levels while influenza is decreasing as of 19 April 2025.

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 April 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is Volunteers for Youth Justice.

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

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Bake Sale and Dessert Swap (27 April 2025)

We will have a bake sale and dessert swap sponsored by the children and youth of All Souls to benefit our congregation.

This will happen before and after the 11:00 AM worship service.

Bring a baked good or other dessert to swap and share — or just bring your worthy donation and take home a collection of sweet treats.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (27 April 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (27 April 2025) 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.

We will be viewing and discussing the video “How Atheists Can Embrace Spiritual Practices” with Britt Hartley (Atheist Spiritual Director).

Because we as Unitarian Universalists are united not by creed but by covenant, our theological spectrum is a wide one including everyone from Universalist Christians to atheists and multitudes in between.

Britt Hartley is an atheist spiritual director who encourages atheists to embrace the possibility of a spiritual life that does not include the supernatural.

She talks about the meaningful spiritual practices in her own life and the importance of preserving the benefits of a spiritual life without the supernatural element.

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42nd Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service of Northwest Louisiana (27 April 2025)

The 42nd Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service of Northwest Louisiana will be happening on Sunday (27 April 2025) at 3:00 PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (275 Southfield Road, Shreveport LA  71105).

Since 1984, various community partners have gathered to present a service in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

The Chair of the service this year is Father Michael Cannon of St. Paul’s and the featured speaker is award-winning author and child of Holocaust survivors Kathy Kacer.

Register here if you plan to attend.

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