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
Don’t forget to bring mittens, socks, gloves, hats, scarves and other warm outerwear to decorate our Mitten Tree for Maggie Lee’s Closet — the children’s clothes closet at Highland Center Ministries.
The Mitten Tree will be in the Social Hall to make room for our guest musicians in the sanctuary, but it’s not too late to add a little more warmth for the kids who go to Maggie Lee’s Closet.
All gifts delivered to Community Support in time for the holidays — Thank you once again for stepping up to grant holiday wishes for 30 children in our community.
Please join us on Sunday (13 December 2015) at 11:00 AM for our Sunday worship service.
Rev. Susan Smith is in the pulpit this Sunday.
Join us in the social hall afterwards for our 5th Annual Monster Cookie Swap.
At 12:30 PM, we will have our congregational meeting where we will vote on our 2016 budget and elect 3 members to our nominating committee.
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.
From: Kathy Osuch (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 in the sanctuary.
New Date and Time: Sunday, 13 December 2015 at 12:30 PM
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 will be provided.
Update — Please note that pledges for 2016 are about $30,000 less than they were for 2015.
As a result, there are many cuts to the budget and we will need volunteers to assist in making these changes possible.
The Director of Religious Education position is funded till the end of June 2016 based on current pledges.
If you have yet to make your pledge or would like to update your pledge information, please contact Board Treasurer Melissa Gibson at (318) 550-1296 or melissainkdesigns@gmail.com.
Join us on Saturday (12 December 2015) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM for our monthly building and grounds work day.
All ages and abilities are welcome to assists with tasks around the church.
Please join us on Saturday (14 November 2015) from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM for our monthly building and grounds work day.
Weather permitting, we will continue on the nature trail this Saturday along with the usual tasks — indoors and out.
Almost all of the work of our congregation is done by volunteers and working side by side with your All Souls friends can be a good way to get to know them better and to build community within the congregation.
Stay the whole time or just an hour or so. If you can’t stay, consider dropping by some snacks for the crew.
Please joins for our Stewardship Kickoff Breakfast this Sunday (25 October 2015) at 10:00 AM in the Social Hall at the church.
We’re getting closer to the season of giving as we kick off our 2016 Stewardship Campaign.
It’s time to think about what All Souls means to you and what you are able to give back in terms of time, talent, and treasure.
Members have found that when they give in all three ways — to the extent that they are able — they gain a greater sense of ownership in the church.
As Barbara reminds us each Sunday, this church is sustained in every way by its members — and that includes everything from singing in the choir to working on the Building and Grounds to paying the light bill.
Join us as we dream together and share a delicious breakfast.
If you have a particularly wonderful breakfast item you’d like to bring, or if you’d like to help in some other way, please contact Amanda Lawrence via email or via phone (318-402-3314).
For October 2015 only, our monthly building and grounds work day has been moved to the third Saturday of the month (17 October 2015).
The work day tasks will run from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
We want to spiff up the place in preparation for the memorial service for Carol Graywing’s mother Colleen Talbot (Saturday, 17 October 2015, starting at 3:30 PM).
We are moving our regular Building and Grounds Day to Saturday (17 October 2015) to accommodate today’s wedding.
However, if you yearn to do some Grounds work today (Saturday, 10 October 2015) … Bayla Lanham, his Dad, and some of the other Boy Scouts will be out working on the nature trail this morning starting around 9:00 AM.
Today’s work will be outside only (to be respectful of the wedding party preparations).
The Building and Grounds Work Day — usually scheduled for the second Saturday of the month — is on the third Saturday for September 2015 only.
We will be working from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Saturday (19 September 2015).
Tasks available inside and out for all ages and ability levels.
Come for the whole time, or just for an hour.
If you don’t even have that much time, consider dropping off some snacks for the crew.