UPDATE — Noel Food Pantry Donation Drive This Week (28 February 2021)

Our apologies for posting inaccurate information about this on our web site.

Today (Sunday, 28 February 2021) from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Melissa Lewis will be at All Souls collecting donations for the Noel United Methodist Church food pantry.

The Noel Food Bank is asking for new and unused travel-size toiletries:

  • lotion
  • toothbrushes
  • shampoo
  • conditioner
  • body wash
  • deodorant

No mouthwash please.

Online All-Ages Worship (28 February 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (21 February 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Can We Talk?” by Wealthia Jackson.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

We are honored and delighted to welcome All Souls member Wealthia Jackson to our virtual pulpit.

Using her own recent research within a local group that meets to discuss race relations in Shreveport as well as some guiding principles from the book Talking Across the Divide by Justin Lee, Wealthia will explore some ways we might begin difficult conversations with the people in our lives who do not share our views.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

 

Online All-Ages Worship (21 February 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (21 February 2021) at 11:00 AM for “Reparations:  A Debt Owed” by Candice Battiste.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

This Sunday, please join us to welcome Ms. Candice Battiste (Northwest Louisiana organizer for the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice) who will speak on the topic of paying reparations to African Americans for the years of slavery and the resulting long-term inequities of political access and generational wealth-building.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

 

First Sunday Food Pantry Day (7 February 2021)

Melissa Lewis will be outside in front of the church building collecting food for Noel United Methodist Church Food Pantry on the first Sunday afternoon of February 2021 (7 February 2021) from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

Requested foods this month:

  • canned soup
  • canned green beans
  • 12 oz boxes of breakfast cereal

First Sunday Food Pantry Day (7 February 2021)

Melissa Lewis will be outside in front of the church building collecting food for Noel United Methodist Church Food Pantry on the first Sunday afternoon of February 2021 (7 February 2021) from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

Requested foods this month:

  • canned soup
  • canned green beans
  • 12 oz boxes of breakfast cereal

Online All-Ages Worship (17 January 2021)

Please join us on Sunday (17 January  2021) at 11:00 AM for our Martin Luther King Sunday worship service with Dialogue on Race Facilitators Jennifer Russell, Tena Hines,  and John Ratcliff.

Our service will be livestreamed on Facebook Live here.

We will have a  virtual coffee hour after the service on Zoom.

While we are remaining physically distant, we want to know how you are doing, what you need, and what you are interested in.  You can let us know using these online surveys.

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

Online Religious Education for Children (17 January 2021)

Please join us this Sunday (17 January 2021) at 1:00 PM for our weekly family religious education online class via Zoom.

The Zoom link will be on the All Souls Religious Education Facebook group and on the church’s Slack General channel.

What can kids do?  On this MLK Sunday, we’ll hear the story of Ruby Bridges — a little girl who made big changes.

Not everyone will be at the center of history the way Ruby was but everyone of every age can do something to make the world better.

Contact Susan Caldwell by email if you have any questions.

Online Adult Religious Education — 17 January 2021

Please join us on Sunday (17 January 2021) at 9:00 AM for our adult religious education class (please note that we are changing back to our regular time for this class for the rest of the church year).

We will be meeting via Zoom.

Gandhi and King — As we continue our exploration of world religions, we use this Martin Luther King Sunday to look at the way Gandhi’s practice of his Hinduism inspired King’s practice of his Christianity, and how both men felt called by faith to transform their societies for the sake of all people.