Category: Religious Education

Bake Sale and Bracelet Sale to benefit Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention.

Whether you’ve got cash, check, or card, this is the Sunday to bring your worthy donation to purchase some delicious baked goods and beautiful bracelets made by our children and youth along with their families and friends.

In the spirit of welcoming the stranger, all proceeds will be donated to Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LaAID).

So do a little shopping for bakery and bling before or after this Sunday’s congregational meeting.

Please join us on Sunday (17 May 2026) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

For this Sunday, we will explore “American Apartheid is Back, Part 1.”

We will continue reading some of our nation’s foundational documents, but we are pausing that for the next two weeks for a look at one man’s response to the recent Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision, the current repercussions, and those likely to come.

The man is Elie Mystal — correspondent for The Nation and author of the books Bad Law and Allow Me to Retort:  A Black Man’s Guide to the Constitution.

We will watch this interview with Mystal by Dean Obeidallah of SiriusXM Radio in two parts with time for discussion each week.

Please join us on Sunday (10 May 2026) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

For this Sunday, we will explore the Bill of Rights.

After we read the Declaration of Independence, the class got excited and said “Let’s read the Constitution!”

Then we decided to back up a little and start with the Bill of Rights.

There’s a growing movement of people rereading these documents that — even though written by land-owning and often people-owning white men — do actually belong to all of us and it’s time for us to dig in.

Please join us on Sunday (3 May 2026) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

For this Sunday, we will be exploring “Revisiting Our Declaration:  Reading the Declaration of Independence in These Times.”

We will reflect on a reading from the book Our Declaration by Danielle Allen and revisit the text of the Declaration of Independence itself.

If you have never read it in its entirety or it has been awhile since you did read it, the relevance to the present day may be startling.

Join us.

For this Sunday (26 April 2026), our children and youth will continue working on their project (bake sale and bracelet sale to benefit LAAID — Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention).  The bake sale / bracelet sale will be happening on Sunday (3 May 2026).

They will also be working on a separate project to support an event in Alexandria this coming week.