{"id":12951,"date":"2023-06-16T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=12951"},"modified":"2023-06-16T21:43:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T02:43:51","slug":"all-ages-worship-18-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2023\/06\/16\/all-ages-worship-18-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"All Ages Worship (18 June 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allsoulsshreveport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12952 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/18June2023Worship.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/18June2023Worship.png 1017w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/18June2023Worship-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/18June2023Worship-768x425.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Please join us on Sunday (18 June 2023) at 11:00 AM for &#8220;Dad Jokes:\u00a0 Humor as a Spiritual Tool in the Parenting Toolbox&#8221; with John Allen, Amanda Lawrence, and Susan Caldwell.<\/p>\n<p>Dad jokes, amiright?\u00a0 The worse, the better.\u00a0 You will more than likely hear a few of those this Sunday and also perhaps hear and share some stories of how you or your own parents have used humor as a way of lightening a tense moment or smoothing away the rough edges.<\/p>\n<p>Our elementary class has done a curriculum this year by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/people\/katie-covey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie Covey<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/re\/tapestry\/children\/toolbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Toolbox of Faith<\/em><\/a> in which humor is called the &#8220;sandpaper&#8221; in the toolbox for that reason.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also take some time in the service to acknowledge that this is also <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juneteenth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth<\/a> weekend &#8212; the second year this day in our nation&#8217;s history has been set aside as a federal holiday.<\/p>\n<p>We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.\u00a0 Please join us in person at <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/YCVJBHuJ8GAsDJGL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA\u00a0 71106<\/a>\u00a0if you are able to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allsoulsshreveport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our service will also be livestreamed on Facebook Live here if you cannot attend in person<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The current COVID risk for the Shreveport metro area (Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, DeSoto Parish) is now &#8220;low&#8221; and the CDC does not recommend mandatory masking for all indoor events in &#8220;low&#8221; risk areas.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/your-health\/covid-by-county.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC website<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/covidactnow.org\/us\/metro\/shreveport-bossier-city_la\/?s=44953245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVIDActNow website<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on 13 November 2022,\u00a0masks will be optional indoors at All Souls.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who prefers to keep wearing a mask is welcome to do so and attending worship through livestream video is also an option.<\/p>\n<p>We will still have KN95 masks available in the foyer for anyone who needs one.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to recommend that you stay home if you have any symptoms, and that you keep up with all available vaccinations and boosters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covidactnow.org\/us\/metro\/shreveport-bossier-city_la\/?s=44663212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please use this link<\/a> to evaluate the current COVID risk for the Shreveport-Bossier City metro area as you make your decisions regarding masking and other COVID preventive measures while attending All Souls.<\/p>\n<p>We no longer require proof of vaccination against COVID for all attendees ages 11 and up for indoor events.<\/p>\n<p>However, we do strongly encourage that anyone attending our worship services or other indoor events at All Souls be vaccinated against COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Please use good judgment and stay home if you have any symptoms.\u00a0 Even those who have tested negative for COVID can later test positive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2023\/06\/03\/philadelphia-center-june-2023-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/\">Our June 2023 give-away-the-plate recipient is the Philadelphia Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2022\/03\/06\/online-and-offline-giving-options-during-covid-19-pandemic-updated-6-march-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And you can contribute to All Souls using this online resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Sunday (18 June 2023) at 11:00 AM for &#8220;Dad Jokes:\u00a0 Humor as a Spiritual Tool in the Parenting Toolbox&#8221; with John Allen, Amanda Lawrence, and Susan Caldwell. Dad jokes, amiright?\u00a0 The worse, the better.\u00a0 You will more than likely hear a few of those this Sunday and also perhaps hear and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2023\/06\/16\/all-ages-worship-18-june-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All Ages Worship (18 June 2023)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","category-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12953,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951\/revisions\/12953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}