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 (9 October 2016) at 11:00 AM for “I Will Not Be Afraid” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
A newcomer information session will follow the service.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please join us on Sunday (2 October 2016) at 11:00 AM for our annual “Blessing of the Animals” worship service.
“Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to animals and so to share the blessings of the merciful.” – Albert Schweitzer
Our annual tribute to the companions who share our home in the interdependent web of all existence.
Today they join us for worship in the sanctuary and it’s OK if some of them decide to sing along with the hymns.
Please bring your pet either on a leash or confined in a carrier. Even the most docile animals can behave unpredictably in strange circumstances.
If you do not currently have a pet or yours is not ready for prime time, please feel free to bring a picture or a stuffed animal to be blessed.
This service is intergenerational — the children and youth remain with us and our pets in the sanctuary for the entire service.
We will still provide nursery care for infants and toddlers 3 and under.
Please join us on Sunday (25 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “No Greater Love” by Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith.
What are we willing to sacrifice for the well-being of our loved ones? What about for people we don’t even know, but for whom we feel deep empathy?
Today, we explore the nature of risk and human caring as we remember those in our faith who defied evil though their lives were in danger.
Rev. Smith is a Congregational Life Staff for the Southern Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association and is the primary contact for UU congregations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Pensacola, Florida.
He lives in the Memphis area and has been an ordained UU minister for 21 years.
Before returning to the Southeast, Rev. Smith served congregations in the Northeast Corridor and in the San Francisco area.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please join us on Sunday (18 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Uni-tarian Uni-versalists and the Oneness of Everything” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. The All Souls Choir will sing. We will have a newcomer information session immediately following the service.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please join us on Sunday (11 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Run, Spectate, or Commit” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
In the film City of Joy, Joan, a social worker in a clinic in the slums of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), asserts that life really boils down to these three choices.
On this 15th anniversary of an event that calls for our grief and tribute, we look to what is ours to do.
Join us, and stay afterward for a presentation by Stacy Eppers of Volunteers for Youth Justice. They are in need of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) volunteers willing to work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please join us on Sunday (4 September 2016) at 11:00 AM for “A Living Tradition or a Community of Like-minded?” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. This is a question to ponder in contemplating our next bold move forward.
The service will feature music from an ensemble of the All Souls Choir and a special musical tribute to Woody Guthrie by Bob Jordan in honor of Labor Day.
Please join us after the service for a farewell celebration for Jax Schmidt, who will be leaving us for Atlanta this week.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please join us on Sunday (28 August 2016) for “A Sense of Belonging” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.
What does it mean to have a “sense of belonging” in a faith community? Or in every aspect of one’s own life? We will also have an ingathering of new members as a part of this service so — whether you are welcoming or being welcomed — please join us.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please join us on Sunday (21 August 2016) at 11:00 AM for “From Ashes to Action: The Rebirth of the YWCA” by Rachel Scott.
Join us as we welcome Rachel Scott (President of the Board of the newly revitalized YWCA and Minister of Service and Outreach at Noel Memorial United Methodist Church).
Rachel will be speaking on the dialogues on race — deep small group discussions happening now to help improve and strengthen the state of race relations in our community.
Religious education classes for children and youth are offered during the 11:00 AM service — children and youth attend the first 15-20 minutes of the service and then are dismissed to class.
Please join us on Sunday (14 August 2016) at 11:00 AM for our annual water communion worship service.
This is the time of year when we return from our various summer adventures and activities, and share water from those experiences.
This is not a travelogue or a competition for who has the best travel tale — although your water may be from faraway places or from nearby.
Whether your water comes from the Mediterranean Sea or your own kitchen sink, we invite you to bring it to add to the communal waters and to tell briefly the story of why you have brought it.
If you forget or couldn’t bring water, we will have water on hand to pour symbolically into the common bowl. The children and youth will be with us in the sanctuary this morning.
The combined water is filtered, boiled, and frozen for future use in child dedications or other church rituals.
Following the service, we will have a potluck lunch at the church (see 14 August 2016 Swim Party Cancelled on our web site for more details).
