All Ages Worship (20 September 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (20 September 2026) at 11:00 AM for “Invisible Prisons” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

All Souls is now meeting for worship and religious education classes in The Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA  71104) after the sale of our former building located on Ellerbe Road.

Drive around to the back of The Highland Center and enter from the ramp-accessible entrance on Topeka Street, take the second hallway to the right, and our worship will be in the first room on the right.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

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.

RSV and Flu are both maintaining low but steady numbers in Louisiana as of 5 September 2026.

COVID is continuing its decline as of 12 September 2026.  However, the Louisiana Department of Health website does also say “Recent counts likely to change as more data are received.”

We should all be paying attention to these trends so we can keep everyone safer.

Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.

We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots.  This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.

Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.

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.

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.

If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our September 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is Northwest Louisiana Out of the Darkness Walk.

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

Religious Education for Children and Youth (20 September 2026)

For this Sunday (20 September 2026), our children and youth will continue our first pillar of the church year — Unitarian Universalist Identity — where we focus our shared religious identity, history, and heritage.

This Sunday’s topic is our shared value of equity, and how it can look different from equality when paired with its companion value justice.

Special art projects in Maggie’s art studio will continue as an integral part of these sessions.

No Adult Religious Education — 20 September 2026

There will be no 9:00 AM adult religious education class on 20 September 2026.

You can sleep in just a little or have more time for a leisurely Sunday breakfast — then join us for our 11:00 AM worship service.

The class will possibly resume on 27 September 2026 and will definitely resume on 4 October 2026.

Sorry to add that touch of mystery to your life but all will be revealed.

On Sunday (4 October 2026), our discussion of the book Erasing History:  How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley  will resume with Chapter 6 (“Classical Education”).

Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (23 September 2026)

(Cat not provided — you must supply your own feline)

Please join us next Wednesday (23 September 2026) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

With the busy lives of our regular participants, our in-person Zoom lunches are on hold for the time being but the link is always open to join at noon every Wednesday.

Meditation with Larry Androes (19 September 2026)

Please join us on Saturday (19 September 2026) 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.

All Ages Worship (13 September 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (13 September 2026) at 11:00 AM for “What’s Love God to Do With It? — Just About Everything” by Claudia Harris.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

All Souls is now meeting for worship and religious education classes in The Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA  71104) after the sale of our former building located on Ellerbe Road.

Drive around to the back of The Highland Center and enter from the ramp-accessible entrance on Topeka Street, take the second hallway to the right, and our worship will be in the first room on the right.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

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.

RSV and Flu are both maintaining low but steady numbers in Louisiana as of 5 September 2026.

COVID may be slowing its increase as of 5 September 2026.  However, the Louisiana Department of Health website does also say “Recent counts likely to change as more data are received.”

We should all be paying attention to these trends so we can keep everyone safer.

Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.

We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots.  This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.

Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.

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.

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.

If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our September 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is Northwest Louisiana Out of the Darkness Walk.

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

Religious Education for Children and Youth (13 September 2026)

For this Sunday (13 September 2026), our children and youth will continue our first pillar of the church year — Unitarian Universalist Identity — where we focus our shared religious identity, history, and heritage.

This Sunday’s topic is “Love at the Center: Our Unitarian Universalist Identity” focusing on the most important of our shared values — love that is at the center of our faith.

Today, we will look at the tradition of Unitarian Universalists throughout history speaking up for justice and how they may inspire our actions today.

Special art projects in Maggie’s art studio will continue as an integral part of these sessions.

No Adult Religious Education — 13 and 20 September 2026

There will be no 9:00 AM adult religious education class on 13 September 2026 and 20 September 2026.

You can sleep in just a little or have more time for a leisurely Sunday breakfast — then join us for our 11:00 AM worship service.

The class will possibly resume on 27 September 2026 and will definitely resume on 4 October 2026.

Sorry to add that touch of mystery to your life but all will be revealed.

On Sunday (4 October 2026), our discussion of the book Erasing History:  How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley  will resume with Chapter 6 (“Classical Education”).

Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (16 September 2026)

(Cat not provided — you must supply your own feline)

Please join us next Wednesday (16 September 2026) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

With the busy lives of our regular participants, our in-person Zoom lunches are on hold for the time being but the link is always open to join at noon every Wednesday.

Meditation with Larry Androes (12 September 2026)

Please join us on Saturday (12 September 2026) 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.