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 on Sunday (20 November 2016) for our annual Thanksgiving Worship Service led by Rev. Barbara Jarrell which will be followed by our Thanksgiving feast.
As always, we will have a shorter service in the sanctuary followed by a Thanksgiving Communion ritual in the social hall and our feast.
If you wish to bring a dish for our Thanksgiving feast, here is how you can contact Amanda and let her know.
If you wish to bring a dish and/or volunteer to help clean-up afterwards, please check out the online sign-up form provided by Amanda Lawrence.
If you want to volunteer but don’t want to use the online form, email Amanda Lawrence. Or you can call or text her using 318-402-3314.
Please join us on Tuesday (8 November 2016) at 6:00 PM for this month’s Second Tuesday World Religion Speaker Series Talk.
This month’s talk will feature Rev. Barbara Jarrell (minister — All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Shreveport LA) speaking on Unitarian Universalism.
This series of talks is presented by the World Religion Day Committee of Shreveport / Bossier City LA.
Unity Church of Shreveport LA has generously agreed to host this series (670 Stoner Avenue, Shreveport LA).
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Please join us for a free screening of the award-winning PBS documentary series RACE: The Power of an Illusion.
This free screening will happen on two nights:
Concessions and child care will be available.
This screening is sponsored by All Souls and NOW Shreveport-Bossier.
Please join us for our monthly building and grounds work day — Saturday, 8 October 2016 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
With the exception of some basic lawn work and cleaning, most of the work of maintaining our building and grounds falls to us, the membership.
Once a month, we gather to do what needs to be done, inside and out.
There are tasks for all ages and abilities.
Come for the whole time, or for whatever length of time you can manage.
If you can’t stay, consider dropping off snacks for the crew.
The End-of-Summer Swim Party originally scheduled for Sunday (14 August 2016) after church has been cancelled due to the high probability of severe weather including thunderstorms tomorrow.
We will have a potluck after church.
Please bring the goodies you were planning to share and we will enjoy those together after our water communion service.
Please join us on Sunday (22 May 2016) for “Reason and Science: Dancing with My Short Suit” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
The All Souls Choir will sing.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Our congregational meeting will follow this worship service.
Our spring Congregational Meeting will happen on Sunday (22 May 2016) after the worship service.
On the agenda will be the election of the new board members.
Child care will be provided.
All of our business meetings are open to all.
However, you must be a member in order to vote.
Please join us on Saturday (30 April 2016) at 7:00 PM for Trapped — a documentary on “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers” (TRAP) laws and their effects on reproductive justice (link for trailer).
Since 2010, 288 Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures. Unable to comply with these excessive and medically unnecessary measures, clinics have taken their fight to the courts.
As the U.S. Supreme Court decides in 2016 whether individual states may essentially outlaw abortion (Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt), Trapped follows the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
Trapped is a feature-length documentary from director Dawn Porter, whose previous work includes Gideon’s Army (the Emmy and Independent Spirit Award-nominated film about public defenders in the Deep South) and Rise: The Promise of My Brother’s Keeper.
Trapped selected All Souls as a community screening site in March 2016 and — with the support of Hope Medical Group for Women, Shreveport-Bossier National Organization for Women (NOW), and several private donors — the screening license was fully funded in less than 24 hours.
This event is free and limited to 60 seats. Child care is available upon request. The movie runs 1 hour, 21 minutes.
You may reserve seats and child care in advance by emailing
office@allsoulsshreveport.org.
Please join us on Easter Sunday (27 March 2016) at 11:00 AM for “To Let the Spirit Rise” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Join us to celebrate the return of new life to the Earth and the spirit of resurrection available all around and within each of us.
The service includes an optional communion ritual that is open to all and inclusive of all theologies and none.
The All Souls Choir will sing and we will have special music from guest trumpeter Don “Dirty Redd” Crenshaw.
Join us before the service at 9:45 AM for an Easter Brunch Potluck before the service and stay afterward for fun and fellowship as the children enjoy our annual Easter Egg Hunt.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.