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 for our Carnival Art Market this Sunday (9 February 2020) from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM (with a break for the 11:00 AM worship service).
Just in time for Valentine’s Day and Mardi Gras, we’ll have prints, jewelry, fabric art, delicious baked goods, and more!
Come and shop before and/or after church and invite your friends from other congregations (and no congregation) to do the same!
Please join us for the 21st annual World Religion Day celebration on 26 January 2020.
This event will be happening at The Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA 71104) from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
As many as 18 different faith traditions have participated in this event, which includes table displays by each faith group as well as panel discussions and musical presentations throughout the afternoon.
We’re delighted to welcome as our keynote this year the Rev. Theron Jackson of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church — a dynamic speaker and longtime proponent of interfaith engagement and understanding.
Please join us on Monday (3 February 2020) at 7:00 PM for RiZe Up! — Roy Zimmerman in Concert at All Souls.
Admission is $25.00 (or whatever you can pay).
If you want to come to the concert, don’t let money stand in your way.
Join us, and bring your friends, to welcome Roy Zimmerman back to Shreveport and All Souls.
Roy’s signature blend of heart and hilarity has never been more necessary.
RiZe Up is ninety minutes of Roy Zimmerman’s original songs — a funny and forceful affirmation of peace and social justice.
It’s laughter and encouragement for progressive-minded people who need a lot of both.
Join us on Christmas Eve (Tuesday, 24 December 2019) at 6:30 PM for our annual Christmas Eve candlelight service.
We’ll hear the Christmas story and we’ll sing the carols with the original words as we watch the candlelight growing in the window.
The service includes special music by the All Souls Choir and guest musicians.
Afterward, we have a very low-key reception in the social hall, where you can bring any extra goodies you want out of the house and spend some time in the holiday spirit in community with your All Souls friends.
Children and youth are invited to arrive at 6 p.m. to participate in an All Souls Christmas Eve tradition.
From: Board of Directors (All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana)
To: All Members, Inactive Members, and Friends
In accordance with the Bylaws of our church and the Fifth Principle of Unitarian Universalism, we hereby announce that All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church will hold a Congregational Meeting on Sunday (22 December 2019) immediately following the 11:00 AM worship service.
On the Agenda:
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 provided.
It’s Green Bag Sunday for the Noel Food Pantry.
Bring the requested foods (or any foods) in your green bag (or any bag) to the church and place in the hatch of JoDel Adkins’ Green Kia Soul. out in front of the church.
Foods requested this week:
Please join us on Sunday (24 November 2019) at 11:00 AM for our annual Thanksgiving ritual and feast with Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
This is a holiday with a tortured history that needs recognition and reckoning. At the same time, we need time and space to recognize those people, events, and everyday gifts in our lives that cause us to feel gratitude. It is another part of the great paradox in which we live our lives. Join us as we celebrate this gratitude and sit down to a meal together.
We begin with a shorter service in the sanctuary and end with a procession to the social hall for a ritual of gratitude and our potluck feast.
If you are unable to prepare or pick up anything, please come anyway. There will be plenty. And we need people to help with set-up and clean-up which is just as good as bringing food.
The Shreveport / Bossier area Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) will be happening this Saturday (16 November 2019) at 6:30 PM. The event will be held at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church (9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA).
It is a sad fact that in 2019 we must still come together to remember those who have died simply for being who they are.
However, in this commemoration we also try to lift up the triumphs, including election results in various states in the past two years.
This observance of TDoR is planned and hosted by the Shreveport chapter of Louisiana Trans Advocates.
Rally for Climate Justice — Saturday, 9 November 2019 — 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM — Caddo Parish Courthouse.
Gretchen Upton and Gus Demerath (All Souls Youth) are the organizers of this community-wide Climate Justice rally.
We work on many important issues as a congregation as a part of multiple partnerships working for social justice and change.
This issue, however, is the most urgent for all of us, and is already affecting people all over the world, including in our own state of Louisiana.
This Sunday (3 November 2019) is the Green Bag Sunday for
Noel Food Pantry.
Foods needed at Noel this month are:
Bring your bag of food (any color bag) to church with the requested food items and JoDel Adkins will have her green Kia Soul parked out in front with the hatch open for you to place your bag inside.
JoDel volunteers at Noel and will see that the food is delivered to the Noel Food Pantry.
