All Ages Worship (8 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (8 June 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Juneteenth” with Barbara Deger and friends.

Yes, we are a few weeks early — but to give Juneteenth and Father’s Day each their due — we decided to take this one first.

19 June 1865 was the day that news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally officially reached enslaved people in Texas although enslavers had known it much longer.

Why didn’t more of us learn this in school?

Join us to explore the history of the holiday, as well as current efforts in some cities to cancel the observance.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.  The link is currently showing COVID,  flu and RSV maintaining a very low level in our state as of 31 May 2025.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our June 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (8 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (8 June 2025) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

Our topic will be Naomi Klein on the rise of end times fascism facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger

We will view and discuss an interview with award-winning journalist, author, and Professor of Climate Justice at British Columbia University.

She spoke with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman about the recent article she co-authored with Astra Taylor (“The Rise of End Times Fascism“).

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor say:

We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line.

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Tie-Dye Sunday (8 June 2025)

Our traditional kickoff to the summer and one of our favorite summer fun activities for children and youth is happening on 8 June 2025 during the worship service.

Tie-Dye Sunday is back!

Parents — be sure that your kids are wearing clothes that won’t get hurt during the tie-dye activities — the dyes are permanent!

We will have oversized t-shirts children can wear as smocks if needed, but it’s better to send them in something that can stand a little extra color on this Sunday.

Also, we usually have plenty of dye and grownups attending the service are welcome to join us afterward to create their own wearable work of art.

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Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (11 June 2025)

Please join us next Wednesday (11 June 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.

If you do want to meet in person, send Susan a text message (318-465-3427) to let her know.

Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

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Meditation with Larry Androes (7 June 2025)

Please join us on Saturday (7 June 2025) at 10:30 AM for our weekly meditation group with Larry Androes.

This group will be meeting via Zoom and not in person.

This is a sitting Buddhist meditation including a brief introduction to mindfulness meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, and followed by a weekly teaching.

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All Ages Worship (1 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (1 June 2025) at 11:00 AM for “Milestones: An Affirmation Sunday Service” in celebration of our children and youth and also honoring the graduation of Natalie Nicksic.

Our multi-age religious education class will give a presentation they’ve been working on, Natalie will speak, members of the All Souls Choir will sing, and there will be a few surprises as well.

We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so.

Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person.

State-level COVID data can be found on the Louisiana Department of Health’s respiratory virus dashboard web page.  The most sensitive metric to follow for current COVID trends is the “Laboratory Surveillance Data” link.  The link is currently showing COVID and flu rates with a slight uptick as of 24 May 2025 while RSV is maintaining a very low level in our state.

Starting on 13 November 2022, masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.

Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.

We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.

We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.

We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.

However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.

If you are recovering from COVID and have no symptoms, you should mask in public until you have tested negative twice in a 48 hour period.

We also ask that you go by the previous CDC guidelines of waiting at least 5 days past the onset of symptoms rather than the current 24 hour recommendation.

And of course — if you have symptoms (COVID or other respiratory illness) — please stay home and take care of yourself.

Our June 2025 give-away-the-plate recipient is the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (1 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (1 June 2025) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

Our topic will be “How Fascism Works Explained – A Video Exploration of the Book by Jason Stanley” and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.

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Zoom Lunch This Wednesday (4 June 2025)

Please join us next Wednesday (4 June 2025) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch.

Our weekly Zoom lunch is zoom-only this week.

If you do want to meet in person, send Susan a text message (318-465-3427) to let her know.

Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

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OutNorthLA Film Festival — June 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of June 2025, we choose the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

This film festival is North Louisiana’s acclaimed LGBTQ film festival which returns 5-11 September 2025.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to OutNorthLA and then put “GATP JUN 2025” or “OutNorthLA” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of June 2025 will go to the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “OutNorthLA” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to OutNorthLA.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to OutNorthLA, please put the amount you want going to OutNorthLA on the memo line.

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