Author: Steve Caldwell, Web Editor

Meditation with Larry Androes (8 October 2022)

Please join us on Saturday (8 October 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.

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Building and Grounds Work Day (8 October 2022)

Please join us on Saturday (8 October 2022) from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM for our monthly building and grounds work day.

There will be tasks for all ages and abilities — indoors and out.

The weather’s getting so nice — the high is only 78°F on Saturday and the low is 54°F.

There is also a high probability of snacks in the vicinity.

Come and get to know your All Souls friends a little better while working side by side.

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All-Ages Worship (2 October 2022)

Please join us this Sunday (2 October 2022) at 11:00 AM for our annual Blessing of the Animals worship service with Jennifer Russell and Eva Kate Peck.

Bring your ready-for-prime-time pets (either on a leash, carrier, or other appropriate container) to join us in the sanctuary to celebrate our shared home in the interdependent web of all existence.

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 children and youth will remain with us for the entire worship service on this Sunday.

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.

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Trunk or Treat (29 October 2022)

Join us Saturday (29 October 2022) from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM for a Halloween Trunk or Treat celebration!

Decorate your car — and yourself!

Bring some candy or something kid-friendly and fun to give away, and if you want, a game or craft for the children to do at your car.

Children will trick or treat from car to car — fun for all ages!

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Online Adult Religious Education — Slave State Documentary Screening (2 October 2022)

Please join our adult religious education class on Sunday (2 October 2022) at 9:00 AM for a screening of the documentary film Slave State followed by a Q and A session with Slave State author Curtis Davis.  Our adult class will be meeting via Zoom.

This is a documentary film inspired by the book Slave State:  Evidence of Apartheid in America by Curtis Ray Davis II.

All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church is honored to host a screening of this documentary film.  This is an encore screening for those who could not attend our live audience screening last Saturday.

This is Policy Films first film of this length — produced in collaboration with the non-profit organization Decarcerate Louisiana.

The documentary highlights the grassroots movement by Decarcerate Louisiana to sponsor Louisiana legislation to remove slavery from the state constitution with the help of State Rep. Edmond Jordan of District 29.

Come and learn how slavery still exists in Louisiana along with the importance of voting yes on Amendment 7 on 8 November 2022 to abolish slavery in our state.

Here is the trailer for this film:

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League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier — October 2022 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

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 October 2022, we choose the League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier — a member organization of the League of Women Voters at the state and national levels.

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 League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier and then put “GATP OCT 2022” or “LWVCB” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of October 2022 will go to League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of this check go to League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier.  If you want less than 100% of the check to go to League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier, please put the amount you want going to League of Women Voters of Caddo-Bossier on the memo line.

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