10 September 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (10 September 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Companions for the Journey” with Jeff Gauger, Juan Villarreal, and Richard Denton.

Our recurring series which helps us to get to know our fellow members and the diverse spiritual paths that have brought them to All Souls and inspire them to stay.

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.

3 September 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (3 September 2017) at 11:00 AM for “A Place Within a Dynamic Faith” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

This Sunday begins the season of our church year when our focus turns to Unitarian Universalist identity — the principles and sources of our faith, the values we hold dear in our covenanted community, and the people who created and walked the path before us.

Today also begins the religious education year for our children and 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.

27 August 2017 Water Communion Worship Service and End-of-Summer Swim Party

Please join us on Sunday (27 August 2017) at 11:00 AM for “What Sort of Body of Water is This?” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

This is our annual celebration of coming back together in community. We are all encouraged to bring a small container of water — whether brought from an ocean far away or from your own kitchen sink — to add to the common bowl as we share our stories of summer.

This need not be a travelogue — some of the greatest journeys happen in our own backyards or simply in our own hearts.

Immediately after this worship service, please join us for our end-of-summer swim party and picnic at the home of Kathy Osuch and Mike Roberts (149 Atlantic Avenue, Shreveport LA).

13 August 2017 Worship Service and Summer Fun for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (13 August 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Understanding” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

This Sunday’s Summer Fun activity is seed bombs with Cindy Mandarino.  Seed bombs are a creative way to toss a little beauty into places in need of it that might not get regular beautification and care.

Artist Sunday (6 August 2017)

Please join us on Sunday (6 August 2017) at 11:00 AM for Artist Sunday — a celebration of the performing and visual artists among our members and friends.

Artist Sunday is a worship service in which every element of the service is some aspect of the performing arts — singing, instrumental music, poetry, prose, dance, and sometimes even martial arts and magic.

Before and after the service, enjoy a visual art show and sale in the Religious Education wing.

This will be an all-ages worship service — our children and youth will stay in the worship service.

30 July 2017 Worship Service and Summer Fun for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (30 July 2017) at 11:00 AM for “How UUs Say Grace in a Graceless World:  Awful, Amazing, Gritty Grace” by Claudia Harris.

We are delighted to welcome our own Claudia Harris back to the pulpit this Sunday to share her own thoughtful, unique and often humorous perspective on our world in these “interesting times.”

For the final Sunday of the month, we give our non-pledge contributions to a local, regional, or national organization that supports and promotes the values we hold dear and walks that out into the world.

For July, we are excited to tell you that we are giving away the plate to the effort to bring the Our Whole Lives Comprehensive Sexuality Education Program to our entire community — a much-needed supplement to the inadequate abstinence-only program currently offered in our schools.

Thanks to NOW Shreveport – Bossier City (local chapter of the National Organization for Women), we are able to collaborate to make this happen for our youth in the congregation and in the wider community.

This Sunday’s Summer Fun activity is Theater Games with Leigh Anne Chambers.