All Ages Worship (29 March 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (29 March 2026) at 11:00 AM for “In Woody’s Shadow:  Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment” featuring Unitarian Universalist poet and author Alan Gann.

We welcome our guest speaker Alan Gann, who will present a service comprised of his original poetry.

Alan discovered Unitarian Universalism soon after graduating from college and moving to Dallas TX.  He spent his young adult years at First Unitarian Church of Dallas.

For the last 30 years has been an active member of Horizon Unitarian Universalist Church in Carrollton TX where he served as a board trustee and taught middle school Our Whole Lives classes.

Recently retired, Alan has worked as a teaching artist, facilitating creative writing workshops at under-served schools.

He has published three volumes of poetry, including his most recent book — Better Ways to See from Assure Press.  He also wrote DaVerse Works — a performance poetry curriculum.

Alan is an avid birdwatcher who would rather be outdoors.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.

Flu and RSV are both showing declines in their numbers as of 21 March 2026.  COVID is maintaining low but persistent numbers as of 21 March 2026.

Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.

We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots.  This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.

Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our March 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is the YWCA of Northwest Louisiana.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

Religious Education for Children and Youth (29 March 2026)

For this Sunday (29 March 2026), our children and youth will continue their exploration of peace, social justice, and the interdependent web.

For this Sunday, they will look at Palm Sunday as a lesson in peace and justice.

The group will revisit the story of Jesus’s ride into Jerusalem on a humble donkey, what that meant to the people who had awaited him and his vision of justice, the danger he knew he faced, and what we can take from that story today.

They will also continue their work with Maggie on a decoupage project for Easter.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (29 March 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (29 March 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 have “Taha’s Petition Party and Other Legislative Updates.”

We have given a lighthearted name to a fairly serious gathering.

Taha Hayat will join us to give us an update on several important issues near and far including opportunities for us to speak out on these issues.

Jazmine Carroll from the Philadelphia Center will be with us to talk about pending legislation to update the current HIV criminalization bill bringing legislation more in alignment with modern medical science.

Finally, Barbara and Susan will also provide a few updates from the current Louisiana legislative session.

Vegan Potluck and Documentary Screening (15 March 2026)

The All Souls Peace Alliance is hosting a vegan potluck and documentary movie screening this Sunday (15 March 2026) following the 11:00 AM worship service.

Please bring a vegan dish to share and please bring copies of the recipe to share with others.  Stay for the movie and be entered to win a $50 cash drawing.

We will be viewing The Land of Ahimsa.

The Hindu concept of ahimsa is compassion for all beings, but this documentary focuses on the dairy and farming practices of India that do not necessarily live into that ideal.

Religious Education for Children and Youth (15 March 2026)

For this Sunday (15 March 2026), our children and youth will begin their exploration of peace, social justice, and the interdependent web.

For this Sunday, they will look at  “Justice for immigrants . . . and What We Can Do.”

Susan Yellott will continue her talk with the children and youth about the work she does for Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LAIID).

The class will continue planning a project to benefit the LAIID organization.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (15 March 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (15 March 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 watch The Librarians (Part 3).  This is the third and final installment for this documentary.

For this week and next week, we will continue watching this award-winning documentary on the disturbing trend of book banning around the nation, and the librarians who have become the first responders in the crisis.

All Ages Worship (8 March 2026)

Please join us this Sunday (8 March 2026) at 11:00 AM for “ERAS-HER:  A Look at One of Christianity’s Hidden Heroines for Women’s History Month” by Jennifer Russell.

In honor of International Women’s Day, we will learn the story of a woman that the early Christian Church tried to erase.

Don’t forget that we “spring forward” this Sunday.  Although many clocks we use now reset automatically — if you still have any that need to be reset, don’t forget to set them forward one hour.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

We are moving our videos from Facebook to YouTube for long-term storage and viewing — you can find our worship videos on YouTube here.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.

Flu have shown a significant increase followed by a decline followed by a secondary increase but may be starting to decrease in our state as of 28 February 2026.

RSV appears to be resuming its decline as well.

COVID is maintaining low but persistent numbers.

Masking and COVID vaccination are optional for attending in-person events at All Souls.

We encourage you to be vaccinated against COVID and to also have the most-current COVID booster shots.  This provides greater protection to the individual and the church community.

Anyone who prefers wearing a mask is welcome to do so for in-person events and attending worship through livestream video is also an option where required for medical or schedule conflict reasons.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

If you have symptoms for COVID or other respiratory illness, please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our March 2026 give-away-the-plate recipient is the YWCA of Northwest Louisiana.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

Religious Education for Children and Youth (8 March 2026)

For this Sunday (8 March 2026), our children and youth will begin their exploration of peace, social justice, and the interdependent web.

For this Sunday, they will look at  “Justice for immigrants . . . and What We Can Do.”

Susan Yellott will talk with the children and youth about the work she does for Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (LAIID).

The class will talk about planning a project to benefit the LAIID organization.

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (8 March 2026)

Please join us on Sunday (8 March 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 watch The Librarians (Part 2).

For this week and next week, we will continue watching this award-winning documentary on the disturbing trend of book banning around the nation, and the librarians who have become the first responders in the crisis.