28 May 2017 All-Ages Worship Service

Please join us on Sunday (28 May 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Along the Road: A Bridge and a Tunnel” — all all-ages worship service celebrating the transitions of our children and youth along with the graduation of Bayla Lanham.

The All Souls Choir will sing and two of our young musicians — Mason Upton and Camden Gibson — will play.

The children and youth will join us in the sanctuary for the entire service.

This is also monthly “Give Away the Plate” Sunday when our non-pledge contributions go to a local non-profit chosen by the congregation.

Our recipient is The Philadelphia Center — the HIV/AIDS Resource Center of Northwest Louisiana. We are pleased to welcome Philadelphia Center Director of Communications Chip Eakins and Development Director Hershey Krippendorf as our guests this morning.

Next week — 4 June 2017 — Our guest in the pulpit will be Shreveport attorney John Hodge.

21 May 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (21 May 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Of Joy and Dog Whistles” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

The All Souls Choir will sing.

A congregational meeting 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.

14 May 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (14 May 2017) at 11:00 AM for “Nasty Women and Other Mothers” with Jennifer Russell, Amanda Lawrence, and Megan Bennett.

Using the three faces of the Goddess — Maiden, Mother, and Crone — these three women — three mothers from the congregation — will explore the various faces and stages of motherhood, mothering, and the way they affect all of us in one way or another.

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.

7 May 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (7 May 2017) at 11:00 AM for “A Thing of Beauty” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

To notice beauty each day, in some form or fashion, is to reconnect to the web of life and to our own humanity.

The service will feature music from the All Souls Choir.

Also, two new members will sign the membership book and publicly declare their membership to the wider congregation.

A newcomer information session will take place after 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.

30 April 2017 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (30 April 2017) at 11:00 AM as we join in the combined work of 635-plus Unitarian Universalist congregations across the North America.

We are devoting worship and religious education time to taking an honest look at the ways we as a faith tradition have been complicit in the very system of institutional racism that we have claimed to stand against.

Come and be a part of the #uuwhitesupremacyteachin.

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.

Our children and youth will be continue exploring the anti-racism themes that our adults explored in their 9:15 AM class today.