{"id":16924,"date":"2025-10-03T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=16924"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:26:32","slug":"highland-center-ministries-october-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/10\/03\/highland-center-ministries-october-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Center Ministries &#8212; October 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-16928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oct2025GiveAwayThePlate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1308\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oct2025GiveAwayThePlate.jpg 1308w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oct2025GiveAwayThePlate-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oct2025GiveAwayThePlate-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oct2025GiveAwayThePlate-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Oct2025GiveAwayThePlate-1200x669.jpg 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 October 2025, we choose <a href=\"https:\/\/highlandcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highland Center Ministries<\/a> (All Souls is a partner congregation for the Highland Center Ministries).<\/p>\n<p>Our give away the plate contributions go toward our yearly pledge to help sustain these ministries, which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Highland Blessing Dinner<\/li>\n<li>A weekly low-cost Senior Lunch<\/li>\n<li>Clothing closets for all ages<\/li>\n<li>Free VITA tax preparation services for all individuals and families making $55,000 per year or less<\/li>\n<li>A partnership with Pelican Credit Union to provide low cost loans that help keep people from going to payday lenders<\/li>\n<li>A First-Time Home Buyers Program<\/li>\n<li>The Highland Thrift Store<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 North Louisiana Interfaith and then put &#8220;GATP OCT 2025&#8221; or &#8220;Highland Center Ministries&#8221; in the comment section.\u00a0 All online collection plate contributions for the month of October 2025 will go to 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 Highland Center Ministries.\u00a0 If you want less than 100% of your check to go to 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 October 2025, we choose Highland Center Ministries (All Souls is a partner congregation for the Highland Center Ministries). Our give away the plate contributions go toward our yearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2025\/10\/03\/highland-center-ministries-october-2025-give-away-the-plate-recipient\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Highland Center Ministries &#8212; October 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-16924","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\/16924","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=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16929,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions\/16929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}