10 January 2016 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

OpenDoorPlease join us on Sunday (10 January 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Yes is the Door” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

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 January 2016 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

AllSoulsChoirPlease join us on Sunday (3 January 2016) at 11:00 AM for “Grow Into Harmony … ” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

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.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service — 24 December 2015

XmasEveCandlesPlease join us tonight (Thursday, 24 December 2015) at 6:30 PM for our annual Christmas Eve service that includes a reading of the Christmas story as well as special music and carol singing.

Please bring the children by 6:00 as they have a special part at the beginning of the service.

All children are welcome in the sanctuary for this service — nursery care is available for infants and toddlers.

20 December 2015 All-Ages Worship

Holiday_LightsPlease join us on Sunday (20 December 2015) at 11:00 AM for “The Gifts We Bring” — an all-ages worship.

The season of light is also the season of giving — yet the kind of giving encouraged by our consumerist society can leave many of us feeling not only depressed and inadequate but broke as well.

Join the children, youth and adults of All Souls for this Winter Holiday celebration of the gifts we can all learn to give, and to receive. The All Souls Choir will sing.

Please join us after the service for our all-ages holiday party.

BOLT Training — 19 December 2015

BOLT_ChalicePlease join us on Saturday (19 December 2015) at 11:30 AM for BOLT Training (BOLT = “Bearers of Light and Tradition”).

Our BOLTs are children and youth entrusted each Sunday with the lighting of the chalice and the reading and candle lighting celebrating the principles and sources we are lifting up during each season of our Unitarian Universalist liturgical year.

Children and youth of middle elementary grades through high school age are welcome to become BOLTs.

Requirements include reading and the ability and willingness to follow instructions and learn good techniques for speaking into the microphone, lighting the chalice, using the long candle lighter, and appropriate demeanor in the pulpit.

13 December 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

AllSoulsAutumnPlease join us on Sunday (13 December 2015) at 11:00 AM for our Sunday worship service.

Rev. Susan Smith is in the pulpit this Sunday.

Join us in the social hall afterwards for our 5th Annual Monster Cookie Swap.

At 12:30 PM, we will have our congregational meeting where we will vote on our 2016 budget and elect 3 members to our nominating committee.

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.

6 December 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

MenorahPlease join us on Sunday (6 December 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Making Light of It” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

We continue our exploration of the season of light and the All Souls Choir will sing.

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.

We will have a newcomer information session immediately following the service.  Child care will be provided.

29 November 2015 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

AllSoulsAutumnPlease join us on Sunday (29 November 2015) at 11:00 AM for “Fall in the Soul” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell.

It is “Give Away the Plate Sunday” at All Souls where we give all of our non-pledge contributions to a charitable or service organization in our area.

This month’s Give Away the Plate will go to the Volunteers of America Veterans’ Transitional Living Program.

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.

Annual Thanksgiving Worship and Feast (22 November 2015)

Please join us on Sunday (22 November 2015) at 11:00 AM for our annual Thanksgiving Worship Service and Feast — our annual Thanksgiving Service, communion ritual and feast.

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The bread and water communion ritual is focused on community and is inclusive of all theologies.

Afterward, we join together in a fantastic Thanksgiving feast.

If you can cook a turkey or bring your favorite recipe, please let Amanda Lawrence know via email, phone, text (using 318-402-3314), or post to the All Souls Shreveport Caring Connection Facebook group.