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 Wednesday (16 April 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.
The annual Pride in the Park celebration is happening on Saturday (12 April 2025) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Columbia Park.
This is a fun and family-friendly event — we hope the terrific weather forecast holds for next Saturday.
Steve Caldwell is coordinating our booth at Pride this year and he can use help with the following tasks:
Email Steve or reply to the post on the All Souls Caring Connection if you can help next Saturday.
Our monthly building and grounds work day happens on the second Saturday on the month.
For April 2025, the work day will happen on Saturday (12 April 2025) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
We are switching over to our summer hours for the monthly building and grounds work day to avoid the summertime heat.
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.
Please join us on Saturday (12 April 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 this Sunday (6 April 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Poetry Survival Kit 2025” — a worship service by the members and friends of All Souls.
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 a lower level and RSV decreasing as of 29 March 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.
The annual Pride in the Park celebration is happening on Saturday (12 April 2025) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Columbia Park.
This is a fun and family-friendly event — we hope the terrific weather forecast holds for next Saturday.
Steve Caldwell is coordinating our booth at Pride this year and he can use help with the following tasks:
Email Steve or reply to the post on the All Souls Caring Connection if you can help next Saturday.
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 (6 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 watching Part 2 of Jon Stewart’s interview with Maria Ressa.
Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American Nobel Laureate, journalist, activist, and author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator.
Maria Ressa is an extraordinary person whose voice is so necessary in the world right now.
As a journalist and CEO of the Filipino online news site Rappler, she was a prominent critic of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and was arrested by the regime on 10 different charges (two which she is still contesting.
She is the author of the book How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future.
Our monthly building and grounds work day happens on the second Saturday on the month.
For April 2025, the work day will happen on Saturday (12 April 2025) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
We are switching over to our summer hours for the monthly building and grounds work day to avoid the summertime heat.
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.
Please join us next Wednesday (9 April 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.