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 (29 September 2013) at 10:30 AM for “Coming to America: John Murray and Universalism in the New World.” Come and meet the man largely responsible for the establishment of Universalism in America and hear the story of the accident that made that happen. The All Souls Choir will sing.
At 9:30 AM, we will also continue on with our all-ages religious education classes for focusing on Unitarian Universalist identity and theology.
Please join us on Sunday (22 September 2013) at 10:30 AM for our worship service — “No Reward or Punishment – Just Consequences” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls choir will sing. We continue the exploration of our Fourth Principle — the Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning.
At 9:30 AM, we will also continue on with our all-ages religious education classes for focusing on Unitarian Universalist identity and theology.
Please join us on Sunday (15 September 2013) at 10:30 AM for our Worship Service — “Beginning the Search Responsibly: A Step Toward Wholeness” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
At 9:30 AM, we will also continue on with our all-ages religious education classes for focusing on Unitarian Universalist identity and theology. Continue reading “15 September 2013 Worship Service and Religious Education Classes”
Please join us on Sunday (8 September 2013) at 10:30 AM for our Homecoming Worship Service. The service’s title is “This I Believe” and the theme it will address is our free and responsible search for truth and meaning.
In this service, you will hear the personal credo statements of three All Souls members:
We will also honor nine of our members who have been members for 25 years or longer. We will also have an ingathering of new members.
The All Souls Choir will sing and the children and youth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in the service. Join us in the Social Hall following the service for a brief reception and a birthday celebration for one of the youngest of our community — Everly Gibson.
On Sunday at 9:30 AM, we will also continue on with our all-ages religious education classes for focusing on Unitarian Universalist identity and theology.
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Please join us on Sunday (1 September 2013) at 10:30 AM for “Laboring for More Than Love” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls Choir will sing; the children and youth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in this service.
And please join us at 9:00 AM for our Religious Education (RE) classes for children, youth, and adults. Our classes and worship for all ages will begin the year with a focus on our Unitarian Universalist History, Heritage, Identity, and Theology:
We will still provide nursery care for both RE classes and worship as well as an activity time during the 10:30 AM worship for children under age 7.
BOLT (Bearers of Light and Tradition) training for children and youth — Saturday (31 August 2013) at 1:00 PM (during the Paint Party).
Because our worship services now involve our entire multi-generational community each week, we will be seeking to involve more of our children and youth in the worship experience in ways befitting their ages, abilities and interests.
To that end, we plan to offer a second training this Saturday that will cover these various ceremonial tasks of worship:
Parents, please encourage your children to take part in this session. They will need to take the training before they can participate in the service in these ways. We would like to make our worship services as much a community experience as possible.
If they are interested in the training but cannot make this session, don’t worry, we will do it again.
Please join us at 9:00 AM for Religious Education classes for Children, Youth, and Adults. Our classes will begin the year with a focus on our Unitarian Universalist History, Heritage, Identity, and Theology.
And please stay for our 10:30 AM Worship — “Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men – Part II: The Women” where we will hear dramatic presentations of Katarzyna Weiglowa, Olympia Brown, Viola Liuzzo, and our special guest Alice Mae Wilkinson.
The All Souls Choir will sing, and the children and youth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in the service.
Starting Sunday (18 August 2013), we will have a new worship and religious education schedule for Sunday morning:
In implementing this change, we are seeking to provide a more complete worship and learning experience for all our community that takes place at a time when most of us are together at the church, and to create a more intentionally multi-generational community.
BOLTS (Bearers of Light and Tradition) training for children and youth will happen on Saturday (17 August 2013) at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
Because our worship services will involve our entire multi-generational community each week, we will be seeking to involve more of our children and youth in the worship experience, in ways befitting their ages, abilities and interests. To that end, we plan to offer a training this Saturday that will cover these various ceremonial tasks of worship:
Parents — please encourage your children and youth to take part in this session. They will need to take the training before they can participate in the service in these ways. We would like to make our worship services as much of a community experience as possible. If they are interested in the training but cannot make this session, don’t worry, we will do it again.
Please join us this Sunday (11 August 2013) at 11:00 AM for “The Deep End,” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. This is our annual Water Communion Service. The All Souls Choir will sing and the Children and Youth will remain in the sanctuary to take part in the service.
Water communion is an end-of-summer tradition for us and many other Unitarian Universalist congregations. We reunite bringing real and symbolic water from our experiences of the summer — whether far way, in our own backyards, or within our own hearts. We are welcome, as we are so moved, to mingle our water into a common bowl with that of previous water ceremonies, and to share our stories. We then boil, filter and freeze a portion of this combined water for use in child dedications, future water communions and other ceremonial occasions of our community.
Join us afterward for yet another water celebration, our annual Swim Party at the home of Laurie Lyons and Henry Walker (441 Drexel Drive, Shreveport LA) after the service until 3:00 PM.
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