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 Saturday (13 May 2017) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM for our monthly building and grounds work day.
Tasks for all ages and abilities — inside and out.
Check the to-do list above, bring any equipment you may have to help, or just bring yourself and your willingness to help.
Stay for a little while or the whole time.
Can’t stay? Consider dropping off snacks for the crew. We will need sustenance for the work ahead!
Immediately following our 11:00 AM Sunday (26 March 2017) worship service, we will have our Grounds Master Plan Kickoff Meeting.
We will have a plant giveaway at the same time. A light lunch will be served.
We want as much input from you as possible before the meeting. Please call or email Cindy Mandarino with your comments, concerns, and suggestions:
Continue reading “Grounds Master Plan Kickoff Meeting — 26 March 2017”
Please join us on Sunday (22 January 2017) for the Shreveport and Bossier City celebration of World Religion Day from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
The theme for this year is “One Light, Many Windows.” The event location is the Highland Center (520 Olive Street, Shreveport LA).
Join us for this 18th annual celebration of the great religious diversity present right here in Shreveport and Bossier City.
As many as 18 different faith traditions participate in the event, which includes table displays, music performances, and multi-faith panel discussions that seek out our common ground and celebrate our differences.
Want to know how you can help?
Please join us this Sunday (11 December 2016) at 11:00 AM for “A Tradition of Faith” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
On this day that new members will sign the membership book, we celebrate our congregation — a covenanted community within a Living Tradition that belongs to all of us.
We will have a Congregational Business Meeting following the service — child care will be provided — we must have a quorum.
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.
Please join us on Saturday (10 December 2016) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM for our monthly building and grounds work day.
This ginkgo tree pictured to the left is dedicated to the late Alan Mitchell — All Souls member and friend to many who in a single person, embodied much of the diversity found at All Souls.
In his sixties at the time of his passing, the Viet Nam veteran, Buddhist, gay man who to the end was trying to reconcile his eighty-something conservative Christian parents to those identities. Alan was also a kind person in love with learning and concerned for all generations.
Alan’s tree is still in its glory for at least a few more days, but as you can see, it has joined its many tree companions in the spiritual practice of letting go that is autumn.
Blowing the leaves that blanket the parking lot is just one of many tasks available, indoors and out, to all ages and abilities at Building and Grounds Day at All Souls.
Come and help to take care of something you love about our surroundings here.
Vacuum the sanctuary, straighten the classroom, blow the leaves, clean the gutters, change the light bulbs (the ones we can reach), dust something, sort something, and enjoy being in community with your friends while you do it.
Stay a little while or the whole time. If you can’t stay, consider dropping off snacks for the crew. Hope to see you tomorrow.
From: James Peck (All Souls Board Secretary)
To: All Members, Inactive Members, and Friends
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 on Sunday (11 December 2016) at 12:15 PM in the sanctuary.
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 by-laws stipulate that only those members who have been active 30 days or longer may vote.
We must have a quorum. Child care provided.
Our monthly building and grounds work day is happening on Saturday (19 November 2016) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Still needing all who can come, still offering tasks inside and outside, for all ages and abilities. Other than some basic cleaning inside and mowing outside, all the work to maintain our building and grounds is done by US, the members and friends of the church.
Working together is a great way to get to know your church community a little better, and to feel a sense of ownership in the community as well.
Stay the whole time or just an hour or so, as your schedule permits. Can’t stay? Consider dropping off snacks for the crew.
Our monthly building and grounds work day has been moved to next Saturday (19 November 2016) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
For November 2016 only — our monthly work day will be moved from its usual second Saturday to the third Saturday.
Still needing all who can come, still offering tasks inside and outside, for all ages and abilities. Other than some basic cleaning inside and mowing outside, all the work to maintain our building and grounds is done by US, the members and friends of the church.
Working together is a great way to get to know your church community a little better, and to feel a sense of ownership in the community as well.
Stay the whole time or just an hour or so, as your schedule permits. Can’t stay? Consider dropping off snacks for the crew.
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.
Please join us on Sunday (21 August 2016) at 9:15 AM as our Committee on Ministry continues a class on church governance.
Our congregational governance and polity is rooted in the history of our faith tradition — a history of congregations who govern themselves independently while still being a part of a larger association.
Join members of the Committee on Ministry to learn about the structures of church governance, our congregational bylaws, our covenant of right relations, and some basics on Robert’s Rules of Order.
This week, Bennett Upton will review the church bylaws.
For more information, contact John Ratcliff at 318-573-2733 or Susan Bettinger at 318-868-0863.