Category: Social Justice

Highland Center Ministries — October 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of October 2025, we choose Highland Center Ministries (All Souls is a partner congregation for the Highland Center Ministries).

Our give away the plate contributions go toward our yearly pledge to help sustain these ministries, which include:

  • The Highland Blessing Dinner
  • A weekly low-cost Senior Lunch
  • Clothing closets for all ages
  • Free VITA tax preparation services for all individuals and families making $55,000 per year or less
  • A partnership with Pelican Credit Union to provide low cost loans that help keep people from going to payday lenders
  • A First-Time Home Buyers Program
  • The Highland Thrift Store

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP OCT 2025” or “Highland Center Ministries” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of October 2025 will go to Highland Center Ministries.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Highland Center Ministries” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Highland Center Ministries.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Highland Center Ministries, please put the amount you want going to Highland Center Ministries on the memo line.

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1000 Conversations — A House Meeting Training with Our Neighbors (7 October 2025)

Please join us for 1000 Conversations – a House Meeting Training with our neighbors at Grace Community United Methodist Church (9400 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106)

Please note the re-scheduled date — Tuesday, 7 October 2025.  The time is still 6:00 PM.

On Tuesday (7 October 2025) at 6:00 PM, members and friends of All Souls will join our neighbors at Grace Community UMC for a House Meeting Training aimed at creating a more vibrant, healthy, and equitable community.

Because 10 voices are louder than 1 and 100 are louder than 10, we will learn how to facilitate small group listening sessions where neighbors can listen and share with each other — and together can not only build lasting relationships, but also work together to meet the needs and create change in our congregations — our neighborhoods, and the wider community.

Scan the QR code above or register here to help our organizers plan.

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Religious Education for Children and Youth (21 September 2025)

For this Sunday (21 September 2025), our children and youth religious education focus on “How We Do UU” continues with “Justice:  The Story of the Nuns on the Bus”

The group continues exploring our shared Unitarian Universalist values with a focus on justice and a story about Sister Simone Campbell and the Nuns on the Bus who have traveled across the United States in the name of justice since 2012.

This lesson is adapted from Flourish Together by Austin Peterson and Rev. Michelle Collins and along with other sources.

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House Meeting Training (30 September 2025)

On 30 September 2025 at 6:00 PM, members and friends of All Souls will join our neighbors at Grace Community United Methodist Church (9400 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106) for a House Meeting Training aimed at creating a more vibrant, healthy, and equitable community.

Because 10 voices are louder than 1, and 100 are louder than 10, we will learn how to facilitate small group listening sessions where neighbors can listen and share with each other, and together can not only build lasting relationships, but also work together to meet the needs and create change in our congregations, our neighborhoods, and the wider community.

Scan the QR code above or register here to help our organizers plan.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (14 September 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (14 September 2025) 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 continue our study and discussion of “Refusing Scapegoating, Choosing Care” — a new resource provided by queer and trans religious professionals for the purpose of supporting the trans community and educating cis allies and faith communities on the best ways to show up for them.

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Quarterly Vegan Potluck (21 September 2025)

The All Souls Peace Alliance invites you to our quarterly vegan potluck on Sunday (21 September 2025) immediately after the 11:00 AM worship service.

The Peace Alliance is a group at All Souls promoting a plant-based lifestyle as a way of living in right relation with our own bodies, with the animals that share this earthly home, and with the planet itself.  In other words — a path to peace.

Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, or a curious omnivore, you are welcome!

We encourage you to bring a vegan dish to share, along with the recipe, and stay for our movie selection (A Life on Our Planet with Sir David Attenbourough).

In this breathtaking film Sir David recounts the story of his own extraordinary life along with the evolutionary history of the Earth and humanity’s impact on its impending fate.

If you stay for the movie, you will be entered into a drawing to win $50 cash.

Hope to see you there!

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (7 September 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (7 September 2025) 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 read and  discuss “Refusing Scapegoating, Choosing Care” — a new resource provided by queer and trans religious professionals for the purpose of supporting the trans community and educating cis allies and faith communities on the best ways to show up for them.

 

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Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter) — September 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of September 2025, we choose Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter).

Students for Justice in Palestine committed to raising awareness of the injustices inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli military invasion and to foster social and political education for their own members and for the local and international community.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to North Louisiana Interfaith and then put “GATP SEP 2025” or “Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter)” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of September 2025 will go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S) Chapter.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter)” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter).  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter), please put the amount you want going to Students for Justice in Palestine (LSU-S Chapter) on the memo line.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (31 August 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (31 August 2025) 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 continue watching the 2025 Ware Lecture from the 2025 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly featuring guest speaker Imara Jones.

Imara Jones is a political journalist, trans activist, and founder of Translash Media and the Translash Podcast.

Her words are well worth hearing particularly her take on the recent Presidential election and the role of the Heritage Foundation in the election result and its impact on trans rights.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (24 August 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (24 August 2025) 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 watch the 2025 Ware Lecture from the 2025 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly featuring guest speaker Imara Jones.

Imara Jones is a political journalist, trans activist, and founder of Translash Media and the Translash Podcast.

Her words are well worth hearing particularly her take on the recent Presidential election and the role of the Heritage Foundation in the election result and its impact on trans rights.

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