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 (7 October 2012) at 11:00 AM for “Discovering A World” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell with Special Guests Safa Michigan and Dr. Sunny Hussein. The service will also have music from the All Souls Choir.
After the service, we will have a Newcomer Information Session. Anyone interested in learning more about our faith tradition and our congregation is welcome to join us.
Please join us this Sunday (30 September 2012) at 11:00 AM for the sermon “Elevated View of the Elephant” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
After the worship service, we will have a Town Hall Meeting and Potluck Lunch. This Town Hall Meeting will be the first of many opportunities for Exploratory Committee to report their findings to the congregation. The Exploratory Committee is a ten person committee appointed by the All Souls Board to explore the options for the geographical future of our congregation.
Please join us this Sunday (23 September 2012) at 11:00 AM for “Companions for the Journey” with Judy Cantil, Pamela Raintree and Patrick Early.
This is our quarterly series featuring members who tell us about the journeys that brought them to All Souls and the reasons they stay.
On the following Sunday (30 September 2012), Rev. Barbara Jarrell will be in the pulpit.
Please join us on Sunday (16 September 2012) at 11:00 AM to hear Lady Carlson. She is the Organizer for Northern and Central Louisiana Interfaith and Recipient of the 2012 Emerson Award.
Lady will be here to remind us that the history makers are among us.
Join us for this inspiring service and stay after the service for a House Meeting around issues we wish to bring to Interfaith.
Interfaith is an organization of institutions working together on community issues that affect us all and that come up from the institutions themselves.
What do you want to see change in our community?
And what are you willing to do about it?
Come and learn how you can play a bigger role in our congregation’s Interfaith core team.
Please join us this Sunday (9 September 2012) at 11:00 AM for “Anxiety, Stress and the Practice of Buddhist Meditation” by Benjamin Riggs (Buddhist teacher and leader of the Refuge Meditation Group).
Next Sunday (16 September 2012), come join us for Lady Carlson (Local organizer for Northern and Central Louisiana Interfaith).
Please join this Sunday (2 September 2012) at 11:00 AM for “Laboring for Love” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
Next Week (9 September 2012) – please join us to hear Benjamin Riggs (Buddhist teacher and leader of the Refuge Meditation Group ) who will speak on “Anxiety, Stress and the Practice of Buddhist Meditation.”
Please join us this Sunday (26 August 2012) at 11:00 AM for the sermon “Crossroads and He Who Must Not Be Named” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell and stay after the service for a potluck.
Whether you like to cook or bake, or your preferred method of “cooking” is at a deli counter or drive-thru window — please bring a dish to share and come spend some time sharing a meal and getting to know your All Souls friends in the Social Hall immediately following the 11:00 AM service.
Can’t bring anything? Don’t let it stop you from staying to eat … there are some big-time cooks in this crowd who love to share!
Want to help out with planning, setting up and cleaning up at future potlucks? Email Food, Folks and Fun Chair Amanda Lawrence or call her at 318-402-3314 to let her know that you want to help.
Please join us this Sunday (19 August 2012) for our 11:00 AM Worship Service — Rev. Barbara Jarrell will be in the pulpit this morning.
We will have a Newcomer Information Session immediately following the service. If you are new to to the church and would like to know more about our faith and our congregation, please join us.
Please join us this Sunday (5 August 2012) for Artist Sunday.
Visual arts display and sale will be open from 10:00 – 11:00 AM before the service and from the close of worship until 2:00 PM. The Artist Sunday worship service starts at 11:00 AM.
Once a year at All Souls, we devote an entire worship service to a celebration of the arts. Each element of the entire 11:00 AM Artist Sunday worship service is some kind of artistic performance by our members and friends.
This year’s service including Buddy Flett, Tim Brogan, Robert Smith, The All Souls Choir, Nathan Woods, Carol Graywing, Byron Gates, Caroline Drury, Pamela Raintree, Kathleen Smith, Bob Jordan, Rick Carlisle, and many more!
If you weren’t invited to perform this year, please know that it doesn’t mean you won’t be asked back for future events. We try to present an inspiring and uplifting service that is also respectful of everyone’s time and we have the happy blessing of an abundance of talent among our artistic community.
If you will be hanging art for display or sale, please bring it between 12:00 PM and 5:00 PM on Saturday (4 August 2012). We do still have some available table space for displaying and/or selling craft items, jewelry, etc. The church does not ask for fees or commissions — this event is for the artists — but the artists are responsible for handling their own sales.
We are an open-minded and accepting community. In that spirit, we do ask that in selecting your performance pieces or visual artwork, you consider that ours is a family audience, and we very much prefer that you exercise that judgment at your end. If you have questions, contact Pamela Raintree at 318-946-0367 or Susan Caldwell at 318-465-3427.
Please join us for “How Geography Can Save Planet Earth” by Jon Soul with Worship Associate Pamela Carlisle.
Join us this Sunday as Montessori teacher and environmental activist Jon Soul gives us a look into his Bayou to Bay project. Jon has completed two legs of a canoe journey from Shreveport to the Gulf of Mexico via Bayou Pierre and the Red River. The goal of his project is “to reconnect people to their local waterways, for the benefit of both. Through experiential education, students will learn to care about what it means to be ‘downstream,’ one watershed at a time.” His sermon will explore the sacred dimensions of a sense of place, a “personal geography” that is truly mindful of the landscape that we see around us every day.
A slideshow of the journey will be available for viewing in the foyer before the service, and in the social hall afterward.