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 for our online religious education for children and this Sunday (5 April 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over.
The Zoom link for this group will be found on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook Group.
This Sunday: Every Person is Important and Valuable!
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Please join us online today (Sunday, 5 April 2020) at 2:00 PM for our weekly middle and high school check-in.
We will be meeting online using this Zoom link.
Our middle and high school youth will meet Sunday afternoon for an online check-in with Noah Wagstaff and Susan Caldwell.
We’re trying this again, getting the word out a little more widely this time.
We’ll see how everyone is doing, and also think about some other ideas for keeping the group connected online during this time.
We hope to see you Sunday afternoon.
On Sunday (5 April 2020) at 1:30 PM, the Shreveport chapter of Louisiana Trans Advocates will meeting online via Zoom (information for this meeting can be found on the Shreveport LTA Facebook group).
The Shreveport chapter of Louisiana Trans Advocates (LTA) meets on the first Sunday of every month at 1:30 PM.
Before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Shreveport LTA would meet in the All Souls Social Hall.
Shreveport LTA is meeting online for the 5 April 2020 meeting in order to flatten the Coronavirus curve.
All transgender, non-binary, and gender-fluid individuals are welcome along their supportive family and friends.
This group provides social support as well as practical advice for people at all points on the spectrum of gender identity and sexual orientation.
Please watch your emails for notice of a Special Virtual Congregational Meeting beginning in the next few days and lasting through Sunday (19 April 2020) at 3 PM.
On the Agenda:
Application for a small business loan through the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) for the purpose of paying our employees through the time that COVID-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions are in place.
You will receive via email a form which will allow you to vote for or against this loan application.
You may vote upon receipt of the form.
Or if you have questions, you may pose those questions at any time between now and 19 April 2020 using the church’s Slack channel using #board-agenda tag.
We will also hold a meeting via Zoom on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 1 PM where you may ask questions of the Board using Zoom (we will supply a link for this before the Zoom meeting).
The deadline for voting will be on Sunday (19 April 2020) at 3 PM.
Please join us on Sunday (5 April 2020) at 9:15 AM for our online adult religious education class “Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19” with facilitator Susan Caldwell (we will be meeting online via Zoom using this link).
We all need to stay in our homes to flatten the curve of the spreading COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and yet our activism is needed now more than ever.
We’ll look at updates from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Amnesty International, the Poor People’s Campaign, and the Industrial Areas Foundation for ways to stay engaged even as we stay home.
And we’ll check in to see how everyone is doing this week.
Please note this is a new link for the adult religious education class.
Because of security concerns, Zoom is now requiring a meeting ID and password for meetings. If you are a regular (or even semi-regular) class participant, please use this link to join the adult religious education class.
The scammers are at it again.
During the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, our congregants are once again receiving scam emails that are fraudulent and that claim to be sent from our minister Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
The first one arrives as as brief cursory email saying “email me right back.”
Many people, seeing such a message from the pastor, are inclined to do as asked.
Please do not! Mark as spam and delete immediately.
If you missed the last round of scam warnings and have already responded to the first email and received the second asking for gift cards for cancer patients, coronavirus patients, anyone or any cause at all, do not send anything.
The fraudulent email sender may claim to be Rev. Jarrell or All Souls Board President Bennett Upton.
Rev. Jarrell and Bennett Upton did not send these emails.
These types of email are scams — please do not fall for the scam.
The Federal Trade Commission has more information on this type of scam on their web site.
Neither Rev. Jarrell nor anyone in congregational leadership at All Souls will ever ask you for money, gift cards, or anything like this for any reason.
We are grateful to the congregants who received it this time around and and took the time to let us know.
If you ever receive a pitch for donations that is not part of a pledge drive nor part of our monthly “Give Away the Plate” efforts, please do not reply to that address and do not send them anything.
Please do take the time to call, text, or email us at our legitimate email addresses and phone numbers which are available in all church materials and on our web site.
Please join us online today (Sunday, 29 March 2020) at 2:00 PM for our weekly middle and high school check-in.
We will be meeting online using this Zoom link.
Our middle and high school youth will meet Sunday afternoon for an online check-in with Noah Wagstaff and Susan Caldwell.
We’re trying this again, getting the word out a little more widely this time.
We’ll see how everyone is doing, and also think about some other ideas for keeping the group connected online during this time.
We hope to see you Sunday afternoon.
Please join us online on Sunday (29 March 2020) at 11:00 AM for “Strengthening the Web” with Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
As we continue our season of focus on peace, social justice, and the interdependent web, we turn our focus to the ways that we sustain the web of connections between ourselves and all life.
Like everything in our lives right now, we are adapting to the changes in our daily routines. This service will be changing again this week.
In order to follow the stay-at-home order issued by Louisiana Governor Edwards, each presenter in the service will be speaking from their respective homes.
We hope you will join us from your home.
Because the church page is a public page, you should be able to see the worship service whether or not you have a Facebook account. However, you do need a Facebook account to “like” and comment on our online worship service.
And if you miss our worship due to work or other challenges in your life, we will save the worship video on our Facebook page and our web site (check back later for more information).
Immediately after our all-ages online worship service this Sunday (29 March 2020), we will have our online religious education class for children and youth. This online session is for children, youth, and the adult caregivers / parents in their lives.
This Sunday — “Covenant is All the Time!”
We will be using the religious education Zoom link (click on the link to download Zoom, if you don’t have it already and then join the class).
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