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All Ages Worship (17 May 2026)
Please join us this Sunday (17 May 2026) at 11:00 AM for “Companions for the Journey: Reflections from Our Members” with Ann Andrews, Steve Caldwell, and Tara Haskins.
Three All Souls members will reflect on the question “What does being a Unitarian Universalist mean to you?”
Come and celebrate this diversity of perspectives that help to make up the mosaic of our faith.
Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.
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.
Flu, RSV, and COVID are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 9 May 2026.
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 May 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Highland Center Ministries.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Religious Education for Children and Youth (17 May 2026)
Bake Sale and Bracelet Sale to benefit Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention.
Whether you’ve got cash, check, or card, this is the Sunday to bring your worthy donation to purchase some delicious baked goods and beautiful bracelets made by our children and youth along with their families and friends.
In the spirit of welcoming the stranger, all proceeds will be donated to Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LaAID).
So do a little shopping for bakery and bling before or after this Sunday’s congregational meeting.
Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (17 May 2026)
Please join us on Sunday (17 May 2026) 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 this Sunday, we will explore “American Apartheid is Back, Part 1.”
We will continue reading some of our nation’s foundational documents, but we are pausing that for the next two weeks for a look at one man’s response to the recent Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision, the current repercussions, and those likely to come.
The man is Elie Mystal — correspondent for The Nation and author of the books Bad Law and Allow Me to Retort: A Black Man’s Guide to the Constitution.
We will watch this interview with Mystal by Dean Obeidallah of SiriusXM Radio in two parts with time for discussion each week.
Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (20 May 2026)
Please join us next Wednesday (20 May 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 (16 May 2026)
Please join us on Saturday (16 May 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.
10 May 2026 Worship Video
All Ages Worship (10 May 2026)
Please join us this Sunday (10 May 2026) at 11:00 AM for “In Every Beginning . . . Except One” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Rev. Barbara is in the pulpit this Mother’s Day with additional reflections from Jennifer Russell and Kelli Coffey along with music from members of the All Souls Choir.
Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.
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.
Flu, RSV, and COVID are all showing low numbers in Louisiana as of 2 May 2026.
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 May 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Highland Center Ministries.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Religious Education for Children and Youth (10 May 2026)
For this Sunday (10 May 2026), it’s tie-dye Sunday in the religious education wing.
By popular demand of the children and youth, we are doing tie-dye for Mom this year!
We encourage kids and adult helpers to wear grubby clothing because these dyes are permanent (but it’s worth it to create long-lasting classic wearable art)!
Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (10 May 2026)
Please join us on Sunday (10 May 2026) 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 this Sunday, we will explore the Bill of Rights.
After we read the Declaration of Independence, the class got excited and said “Let’s read the Constitution!”
Then we decided to back up a little and start with the Bill of Rights.
There’s a growing movement of people rereading these documents that — even though written by land-owning and often people-owning white men — do actually belong to all of us and it’s time for us to dig in.