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 (7 February 2024) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is returning to dual-platform access — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
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 February 2024, we choose the North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition (NLCRC).
The NLCRC is currently restoring the Old Galilee Baptist Church to be the home of the North Louisiana Civil Rights Museum.
The organization provides educational research and collection of civil rights data along with collaboration with high schools, higher education, government, churches and other community organizations in the continued effort to preserve and protect the civil rights history of this area.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2024 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition and then put “GATP FEB 2024” or “North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of February 2024 will go to the North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition” or “NLCRC” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to the North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to the North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition, please put the amount you want going to the North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition on the memo line.
Please join us on Saturday (3 February 2024) 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.
The group is free and open to all.
Please join us on Sunday (28 January 2024) at 11:00 AM for “What a Difference: Reflections from Sally Wood and Jennifer Russell.”
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.
The risk for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low — the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in “low” risk areas.
See the CDC website and the COVIDActNow website for more details.
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.
Please use this link to evaluate the current COVID risk for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area as you make your decisions regarding masking and other COVID preventive measures while attending All Souls.
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.
Please use good judgment and stay home if you have any symptoms. Even those who have tested negative for COVID can later test positive.
Our January 2024 give-away-the-plate recipient is Volunteers for Youth Justice.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
We will have a congregational meeting for voting on our 2024 budget on Sunday, 4 February 2024.
This meeting will happen immediately after the Sunday worship service and we must have a quorum.
You can attend in person or via Zoom.
For this Sunday (28 January 2024), our children and youth classes will continue with a focus on world religions.
Please join us on Sunday (28 January 2024) 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.
For this Sunday, we will listen to part 1 of a podcast from the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) titled “Nationalism vs. Patriotism: What’s the Difference?”
This is a discussion featuring NAE President and Pastor Walter Kim and Paul Miller (Southern Baptist and Professor of Practice of International Affairs — Georgetown University School of Foreign Service).
Join us as we listen to Part I of this discussion between two Evangelical Christians who express their concern about the rise of Christian Nationalism in the evangelical movement.
They are part of a small but growing segment of that movement who worry that this trend is a turning away from the teachings of Jesus.
Please join us next Wednesday (31 January 2024) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is returning to dual-platform access — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Please join us on Saturday (27 January 2024) 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.
The group is free and open to all.