{"id":15454,"date":"2025-02-01T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=15454"},"modified":"2025-02-01T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:26:39","slug":"highland-center-ministries-february-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/02\/01\/highland-center-ministries-february-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Center Ministries &#8212; February 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highlandcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15458 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Feb2025GiveAwayThePlate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1398\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Feb2025GiveAwayThePlate.png 1398w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Feb2025GiveAwayThePlate-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Feb2025GiveAwayThePlate-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Feb2025GiveAwayThePlate-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Feb2025GiveAwayThePlate-1200x657.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/beliefs\/what-we-believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitarian Universalist values<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the month of February 2025, we choose the <a href=\"https:\/\/highlandcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highland Center Ministries<\/a>\u00a0(All Souls is also a member organization of the Highland Center Ministries).<\/p>\n<p>Along with the weekly Highland Blessing Dinner (where All Souls members volunteer on the first Thursday of each month), Highland Center Ministries provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clothing closets for all ages and genders<\/li>\n<li>Senior lunch on Tuesdays<\/li>\n<li>Thrift store with all kinds of bargains<\/li>\n<li>Partnership with Pelican Credit Union to help people avoid predatory lenders<\/li>\n<li>Home for St. Francis Episcopal Church for the Highlands<\/li>\n<li>Free tax preparation service for anyone making $67,000 or less annually<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the Highland Center Ministries makes its home in the Highland Center building which houses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basicnecessitiesla.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basic Necessities<\/a> (a diaper and period products bank), the <a href=\"https:\/\/thearccaddobossier.org\/our-services\/children-s-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goldman School<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/laaid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention<\/a>, and some small local business start-ups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two ways to donate:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Online<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsuu.breezechms.com\/give\/online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to our donation site using this link<\/a>.\u00a0 If you are paying your pledge, select &#8220;2025 Pledges&#8221; and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.\u00a0 Then select &#8220;Collection Plate&#8221; to give the amount you would like to give to Highland Center Ministries and then put &#8220;GATP FEB 2025&#8221; or &#8220;Highland Center Ministries&#8221; in the comment section.\u00a0 All online collection plate contributions for the month of February 2025 will go to the Highland Center Ministries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Offline<\/strong> &#8212; Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA\u00a0 71106.\u00a0 Please put &#8220;Highland Center Ministries&#8221; on the memo line of the check if\u00a0 you want to have 100% of your check go to the Highland Center Ministries.\u00a0 If you want less than 100% of your check to go to the Highland Center Ministries, please put the amount you want going to Highland Center Ministries on the memo line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 February 2025, we choose the Highland Center Ministries\u00a0(All Souls is also a member organization of the Highland Center Ministries). Along with the weekly Highland Blessing Dinner (where All &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/02\/01\/highland-center-ministries-february-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Highland Center Ministries &#8212; February 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient&#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":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454","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=15454"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15461,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions\/15461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}