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
The All Souls Paint Party Part Deux is happening on Saturday (31 August 2013) at 10:00 AM. It’s time to put the second coat on the hallway — We have the paint and supplies on hand — We just need the volunteers.
Wear your painting clothes. Food will be provided. Let us know if you will need child care.
Please advise the office if you are coming so we will have enough supplies and food. Please bring painting supplies (brushes, drop cloths, rollers, trays, etc.) if you have them.
Starting Sunday (18 August 2013), we will have a new worship and religious education schedule for Sunday morning:
In implementing this change, we are seeking to provide a more complete worship and learning experience for all our community that takes place at a time when most of us are together at the church, and to create a more intentionally multi-generational community.
Please join us this Sunday (11 August 2013) at 11:00 AM for “The Deep End,” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. This is our annual Water Communion Service. The All Souls Choir will sing and the Children and Youth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in the service.
Water communion is an end-of-summer tradition for us and many other Unitarian Universalist congregations. We reunite bringing real and symbolic water from our experiences of the summer — whether far way, in our own backyards, or within our own hearts. We are welcome, as we are so moved, to mingle our water into a common bowl with that of previous water ceremonies, and to share our stories. We then boil, filter and freeze a portion of this combined water for use in child dedications, future water communions and other ceremonial occasions of our community.
Join us afterward for yet another water celebration, our annual Swim Party at the home of Laurie Lyons and Henry Walker (441 Drexel Drive, Shreveport LA) after the service until 3:00 PM.
Continue reading “11 August 2013 Worship Service and Swim Party”
On Saturday (10 August 2013) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, we will have our monthly building and grounds work day.
In the heat of August, this is a mostly an inside work day. We will wash windows (inside and out), polish and wax the pulpit, altar table, pew ends and backs.
We will also clean out, purge and organize our Religious Education classrooms in preparation for the new church year. Lots of tasks for all ages and abilities, so many hands will make much lighter work!
Starting 18 August 2013, the Sunday schedule will be a full hour of Religious Education classes for children, youth, and adults (9:00 – 10:00 AM) with a half-hour break before we have our Sunday Worship (10:30 – 11:30 AM).
The Sunday Worship will be for all ages together in the sanctuary every Sunday. We will still offer nursery care for all children under the age of 7 during the Sunday Worship. The Religious Education classes for children and youth will cover the pre-school through high school age ranges — infants and toddlers will have nursery care during the Religious Education class time.
A memorial celebration of the life of Dr Raghunath Misra will on Saturday (29 June 2013) at 10:30 AM in the sanctuary. “Raghu” and his wife, Therese, joined the church in 1978, and have been very supportive of the church and its endeavors ever since.
Continue reading “Memorial Service for Dr. Raghunath Prasad Misra”
We are saddened to report the death of a longtime member of All Souls, Dr. Raghunath P. Misra, who passed away on Thursday, 20 June 2013. “Raghu” and his wife Therese joined the church in 1978, and have been very supportive of the church and its endeavors ever since.
General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Attendees worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process. This year’s GA is happening in Louisville KY. Online news and updates from GA can be found here:
This month’s Building and Grounds Work Day is now Saturday (15 June 2013) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. This change is for the month of June 2013 only.
Our monthly Building and Grounds Work Day is normally scheduled for the second Saturday of each month. There is a memorial service this afternoon for Cameron Varnell — and out of respect for Cameron’s family — we are moving the date of our work day for the month of June 2013.
From: Virginia Villarreal, All Souls Board Secretary
To: All Members, Inactive Members, and Friends
Congregational Meeting
In accordance with the Bylaws of our church and as Secretary of the Board, I hereby announce that All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church will hold a Congregational Meeting.
Date: Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 12:30 PM in the Sanctuary
On the Agenda:
(1) Election of New Board Officers
(2) Moving the selection of Nominating Committee members to the December Congregational Meeting
Please make every effort to attend.
All active members should attend this meeting or give their proxies to those who can. Inactive members and friends of the church are invited and encouraged to participate, but bylaws stipulate that only those members who have been active 30 days or longer may vote. We must have a quorum. Childcare will be provided.