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 (21 May 2023) 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.
This week, we will continue our discussion of Patrice Cullor’s An Abolitionist’s Handbook. We will be taking up the next two chapters:
Please join us on Sunday (14 May 2023) 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.
This week, we will take a quick look at progress (or the lack thereof) on the bills we’ve been tracking but our main focus of our time together will be our discussion of the introductory chapters and the first of the twelve steps — “Courageous Conversations” — in Patrice Cullor’s An Abolitionist’s Handbook.
Please join us on Sunday (7 May 2023) 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.
This week, we take a look at a few of the bills we are watching in the current Louisiana state legislature session — especially those affecting LGBTQIAP+ individuals and families, criminal justice, and the independence and integrity of classrooms and libraries.
We will also give some ideas for finding and following the bills that matter most to you and help us all to uphold the inherent worth and dignity of every person wherever possible.
We will also have a preview of An Abolitionist’s Handbook to decide if we want to read it together as a group.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
For the month of May 2023, we choose Shreveport Mutual Aid as our give-away-the-plate recipient.
Shreveport Mutual Aid (website / Facebook) is “the act of a community becoming empowered to meet each other’s needs by caring for one another and organizing against the unjust systems that ignored those needs in the first place.”
It takes many forms in the many places where it is practiced.
Shreveport Mutual Aid has food shares every Saturday from 1000 AM to 1200 PM at Caddo Common Park in Shreveport, Louisiana.
They have establishing a Little Free Library on Texas Avenue.
And they are currently collecting warm weather supplies for unhoused people.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2023 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Home is Here Shreveport and then put “GATP MAY 2023” or “SHREVEPORT MUTUAL AID” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2023 will go to the Shreveport Mutual Aid.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Shreveport Mutual Aid” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Shreveport Mutual Aid. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Shreveport Mutual Aid, please put the amount you want going to Shreveport Mutual Aid on the memo line.
All Souls will be participating in the 2023 Pride in the Park event on Sunday (30 April 2023) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Columbia Park in Shreveport, Louisiana.
This event has been rescheduled from Saturday to Sunday due to rainy weather forecasted for Saturday.
The setup time for our All Souls booth is 9:30 AM on Sunday.
Susan Caldwell will bring the canopy, brochures, banner, table, chairs, and giveaway items to the site. However, she will need at least 3 other people to help with unloading and setting everything up.
If you can help with this event in any capacity, please text Susan Caldwell to let her know of your availability for this event.
The 2023 Pride in the Park event has been rescheduled from Saturday to Sunday due to weather.
The event date is now on Sunday (30 April 2023).
Please join us on Sunday (23 April 2023) 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.
This week, we take a look at a few of the bills we are watching in the current Louisiana state legislature session — especially those affecting LGBTQIAP+ individuals and families, criminal justice, and the independence and integrity of classrooms and libraries.
We will also give some ideas for finding and following the bills that matter most to you and help us all to uphold the inherent worth and dignity of every person wherever possible.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
For the month of April 2023, we choose Highland Center Ministries.
As a member congregation of Highland Center Ministries, we designate that organization as our Give Away the Plate recipient twice each year.
Highland Center Ministries is a mosaic of churches and other organizations who join together to provide various ministries in the Highland neighborhood including the Highland Blessing Dinner, clothes closets for all ages, financial services through Pelican State Credit Union that provide low-cost loans and other banking services to keep citizens from falling prey to payday lenders, and free tax preparation services for anyone with an annual income of $55,000 or less.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2023 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Home is Here Shreveport and then put “GATP APR 2023” or “HIGHLAND CENTER MINISTRIES” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of April 2023 will go to the 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.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
For the month of March 2023, we choose Home is Here Shreveport (based on the program by the same name in New Orleans).
All Souls members have joined with others in the community with the aim of sponsoring more newly arrived immigrants through a program called Home is Here.
In order to raise money to get our sponsorees who have settled in the community, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention has made it possible for us to raise money for Home is Here Shreveport through their non-profit organization.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2023 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Home is Here Shreveport and then put “GATP MAR 2023” or “HOME IS HERE” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of March 2023 will go to Home is Here Shreveport.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Home is Here Shreveport” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of your check go to Home is Here Shreveport. If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Home is Here Shreveport, please put the amount you want going to Home is Here Shreveport on the memo line.
Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values.
For the month of February 2023, we choose The Whitney Plantation Museum (near New Orleans in Wallace, Louisiana).
The Whitney Plantation Museum provides a different kind of plantation tour experience — one that tells the truth about the history and legacy of slavery in our nation.
The museum has suffered during the pandemic and in the most recent hurricanes
Here’s how to help preserve this vital link to a history we need to know as light and air are vital to healing.
Two ways to donate:
Online — Go to our donation site using this link. If you are paying your pledge, select “2023 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution. Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to the Whitney Plantation Museum and then put “GATP FEB 2023” or “WHITNEY” in the comment section. All online collection plate contributions for the month of February 2023 will go to the Whitney Plantation Museum.
Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA 71106. Please put “Whitney Plantation Museum” on the memo line of the check if you want to have 100% of this check go to the Whitney Plantation Museum. If you want less than 100% of the check to go to the Whitney Plantation Museum, please put the amount you want going to the Whitney Plantation Museum on the memo line.