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 on Saturday (12 November 2022) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
Please join us this Sunday (6 November 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Slave State”
featuring special guest speaker Curtis Ray Davis II.
Wrongly imprisoned for 25 years in Angola, Curtis Davis got a firsthand look at what it means to be the property of the State of Louisiana.
He has worked tirelessly ever since to try and change that status for others who are still incarcerated.
Join us to hear his story, and to hear why now is the time to remove slavery from the Louisiana Constitution.
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.
Although the number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations has increased in the Shreveport metro area, we are still safe to have to in-person worship at this time.
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.
We are also required the wearing of masks for all in-person attendees for all indoor events.
Our November 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us on Sunday (6 November 2022) as we resume our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM for “WhUU Dat” via Zoom and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger continuing our discussion of the Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide.
This week’s readings continue in the section entitled “Our Faith” and include “Not the Last to Need Saving,” by Rev. Megan Visser (pages 22-24).
We’ll also cover the entire section entitled “Our Worship”:
This week’s reading has been sent out to the regular attendees as a PDF document. We also have one extra book at the office.
The book is being reprinted and more copies will not be available until January 2023 as a printed book. It is available on Amazon and Google as an e-book for reading on computer, tablet, or phone.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
For the month of November 2022, we choose the The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.
The Food Bank is the primary resource for fighting hunger in Northwest Louisiana.
The Highland Blessing Dinner, the Noel Food Pantry, and other food programs throughout the community are able to do a lot with a little because they get so much from the Food Bank.
Their vision is to ultimately end hunger and food insecurity in Northwest Louisiana.
All Souls is proud to assist them in this worthy goal.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2022 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana and then put “GATP NOV 2022” or “Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of November 2022 will go to The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Food Bank NW LA” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of this check go to The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana. If you want less than 100% of the check to go to The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana, please put the amount you want going to Food Bank on the memo line.
Please join us next Tuesday (8 November 2022) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Please join us on Saturday (5 November 2022) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.
This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.
The group is free and open to all.
For more information, contact Larry via email or phone using (318) 272-0014.
Please join us this Sunday (30 October 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Answer in the Form of a Question” featuring special guest Michael Servetus.
It’s the format for one of the world’s most popular game shows and it’s also the way that we Unitarian Universalists often look at the Big Questions before us — with even more questions.
At this turning of the year — closest to Samhain, All Hallows Eve, and All Souls Day — it is appropriate to turn our thoughts to those who came before us . . . our own ancestors and also the ancestors of our faith (“prophetic people whose words and deeds challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love”).
One of them will even join us from the 16th century to tell us his story.
All ages will be with us for this interactive multigenerational service.
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.
Although the number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations has increased in the Shreveport metro area, we are still safe to have to in-person worship at this time.
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.
We are also required the wearing of masks for all in-person attendees for all indoor events.
Our October 2022 give-away-the-plate recipient is the League of Women Voters of Caddo/Bossier.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Please join us on Sunday (30 October 2022) as we resume our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM for “WhUU Dat” via Zoom and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.
This week’s readings continue in the section entitled “Our Faith” and include:
This week’s readings have been sent out to those regularly attending as a PDF document and we are also working on getting copies of the book to everyone who needs one. Six more copies are due in this week.
