{"id":13643,"date":"2023-12-23T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T04:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=13643"},"modified":"2023-12-24T10:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T16:50:03","slug":"christmas-eve-candlelight-service-24-december-2023-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2023\/12\/23\/christmas-eve-candlelight-service-24-december-2023-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve Candlelight Service (24 December 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/allsoulsshreveport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13649 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023ChristmasEveScheduleSlide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1033\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023ChristmasEveScheduleSlide.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023ChristmasEveScheduleSlide-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023ChristmasEveScheduleSlide-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023ChristmasEveScheduleSlide-768x397.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Please join us on Sunday night (24 December 2023) at 6:30 PM for our Christmas Eve candlelight worship service.<\/p>\n<p>If your children want to participate in the &#8220;Twelve Days of Christmas&#8221; song, please bring them by 6:00 PM for a short rehearsal.\u00a0 If your children want to participate in the boomwacker performance, please bring them by 5:45 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Choir rehearsal will happen at 5:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>We will sing the carols with the original words, hear the Christmas Story from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gospel_of_Luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gospel of Luke<\/a>, have special music from the All Souls Choir, and watch the growing candlelight in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>All ages welcome.<\/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 risk for Caddo, Bossier and De Soto Parishes (the Shreveport metro area) are all low &#8212; 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\/12\/02\/north-louisiana-interfaith-december-2023-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our December 2023 give-away-the-plate recipient is North Louisiana Interfaith<\/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 night (24 December 2023) at 6:30 PM for our Christmas Eve candlelight worship service. If your children want to participate in the &#8220;Twelve Days of Christmas&#8221; song, please bring them by 6:00 PM for a short rehearsal.\u00a0 If your children want to participate in the boomwacker performance, please bring them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2023\/12\/23\/christmas-eve-candlelight-service-24-december-2023-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Eve Candlelight Service (24 December 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":[11,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minister","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\/13643","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=13643"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13651,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}