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
Our monthly building and grounds work day happens on the second Saturday on the month.
For July 2025, the work day will happen on Saturday (12 July 2025) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
There are tasks indoors and out for all ages and abilities along with snacks for the volunteers.
Please join us next Wednesday (9 July 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.
If you do want to meet in person, send Susan a text message (318-465-3427) to let her know.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Please join us next Wednesday (2 July 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Please join us on Saturday (28 June 2025) from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM for the Pride in Due Process Protest Festival at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church.
Join us in an intersectional celebration of Pride brought to you by DSA Shreveport and various other groups including All Souls.
The event will feature speakers, table displays, music, games and more.
As the sign says — Rights for y’all means rights for all!
Don’t let them take your joy — come on out and connect with your community!
The official Ribbon Cutting of the second Community Lighthouse in Shreveport:
Sign up online for this event here. You can read more about this event here.
Please join us on Sunday (22 June 2025) at 10:00 AM for an in-person viewing of the Sunday morning worship service streaming video at this years Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) General Assembly (GA) in Baltimore MD.
Please note that this 10:00 AM time is a change from the usual 11:00 AM worship service time. We will have the church doors open at 9:30 AM so you can get settled in before the live video starts up.
We will be watching the live video from Baltimore along with the GA delegates and other Unitarian Universalists around the world while also enjoying a potluck brunch in the social hall.
Leading the year’s UUA GA gathering for 2025 will be the Rev. Dr. Nicole C. Kirk (the Rev. Dr. Frank and Alice Schulman Chair of Unitarian Universalist History at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago).
Rev. Dr. Kirk is a historian of American Religious history and also currently serves as Program Minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa OK.
We will be meeting in the social hall for the screening of the General Assembly Sunday 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 not be livestreamed on Facebook Live for this week only — if you cannot attend for the in-person brunch event, you can watch the livestream video at home:
State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page. The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link. The link is currently showing COVID and RSV maintaining low levels with flu having a slight increase in our state as of 14 June 2025.
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.
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.
If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.
We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.
And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.
Our June 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OutNorthLA Film Festival.
And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.
Our usual monthly building and grounds work day for June 2025 has been cancelled. Please join us on second Saturday in July 2025 (12 July 2025) and most second Saturdays in the future.
Other than some basic cleaning and mowing, most of the work for our spiritual community’s physical home is done by the members and friends of All Souls.
We usually do this on the second Saturday of the month and we are now using our summer schedule 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
For June 2025 only, our work day is cancelled because there is just so much is happening in Shreveport and beyond.
Please join us next Wednesday (25 June 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.
Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.
Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.
Please join us on Sunday (29 June 2025) after the 11:00 AM worship service for a vegan potluck and screening of the documentary film The Invisible Vegan preesented by the All Souls Peace Alliance.
Bring a vegan dish to share. And if you need a recipe, just Google for recipes, look on Pinterest, or ask Joy Walker for suggestions.
The Invisible Vegan is a documentary by Jasmine C. Leyva that explores the problem of unhealthy dietary patterns in the African American community, and the possibilities enabled by plant-based vegan diet and lifestyle choices.
Join us for the official Ribbon Cutting of the second Community Lighthouse in Shreveport:
Community Lighthouses are a network of grid resilience hubs equipped with commercial-scale solar power and a backup water supply.
These hubs are designed to act as neighborhood response centers during power outages and emergencies.
Power ourages are the leading cause of death in the wake of a disaster: not the flood waters, the winds, or the ice. Community Lighthouses save lives!
Register to attend here — If you like, you can stay for the Highland Blessing Dinner following the ribboncutting ceremony.