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
Our monthly building and grounds work day happens on the second Saturday on the month. For May 2025, it will happen on the third Saturday of the month.
For May 2025, the work day will happen on Saturday (17 May 2025) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
There are tasks indoors and out for all ages and abilities along with snacks for the volunteers.
This is a great way to build relationships with your All Souls community — working side by side to maintain the physical structure of our spiritual home.
On Sunday (18 May 2025) immediately after the 11:00 AM worship service, we will have a congregational meeting.
On the agenda — approval of new board.
You can attend in person or via Zoom.
Please join us next Wednesday (14 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.
Please join us on Saturday (10 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.