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​​September 
See you on Zoom Sunday at 10:30 am 

Theme for this month is Renewal

September 27 at 10:30 am
Sore and Strong with Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen, Guest Preacher

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Many of our hearts, spirits and bodies are sore right now. Tired, fatigued, worn out from effort. But being sore does not necessarily mean we're doing it wrong. It's part of life - whether we're kneading bread dough, singing at the top of our lungs or chasing down a child or pet, a moment of soreness reminds us of our limits and our strengths. And the sacredness of both. 

Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen is a Midwesterner at heart, lives in Boston, and is learning all the time about liberation, solidarity, courage, and cowardice. She is the Immigration Bond Coordinator with the National Bail Fund Network and previously did faith-based justice work and youth organizing. She is a Unitarian Universalist minister and is passionate about progressive organizing in the Vietnamese American community, building power across prison walls and feeding people. 

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Know you are one with community as you join us online.
Because of COVID-19, All Souls Church's regularly scheduled programs have moved online.

Connection Circles are our small group offerings: Online
Tuesday Mid-day Meetup, Friday Coffee Hour, and Discussion Groups are Open to All Souls Members, Friends and Visitors.


Tuesday Mid-Day Meetup
Meet up with us for some
online conversation and companionship Tuesdays at 1 pm.

Friday Morning Coffee Hour
Join us Fridays at 10 am for online coffee and conversation.


​Book Group

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​The Book Discussion Group meets monthly via ZOOM on the first Tuesday of the month at 7 pm.  All are invited to join in the discussion. For our October meeting on October 6, we will be reading and discussing The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel  by Kim Michelle Richardson 
 The New York Times and USA Today bestseller!
"…a hauntingly atmospheric love letter to the first mobile library in Kentucky and the fierce, brave packhorse librarians who wove their way from shack to shack dispensing literacy, hope, and — just as importantly — a compassionate human connection."—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.
Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler.
Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home.​"

​Please join us for discussion and camaraderie even if you have not read or completed the book. 
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All Souls’ Spiritual Writing Group

​The Writing Group will meet on Zoom, Wednesday, September 30, at 4 pm. Equality will be the theme of our first meeting of the writing year.

We will put our inspiration into stories, essays
​and poetry and address the many ways equality is defined. 
​For example:
What is the difference between equality and fairness,
​is there any difference?
Is justice part of the equation?
How do we measure equality?
What examples can we find that may approximate equality?
We encourage all who are interested to join us for an interesting discussion of our writings.
 
Diane Doucette – for ASC Writing Group

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Covid-19 Update

Over the summer, the board and Rev. Jo have been working carefully and closely to plan for the fall. After much reflection, research, and listening, we’ve crafted the following plan for the fall at All Souls Church. 

  • That All Souls' Sunday morning services remain online-only through December 2020. We want to make sure no one is pressured to jeopardize their health to participate in Sunday services, or misses out.
  • That we help members and friends who want to meet in person gather as safely as possible while continuing our small groups meeting by Zoom and phone
    • Our various small groups are all ways of staying connected with each other, so why not name them as such? Connections Circles are our small group offerings: Tuesday's mid-day meetup, Friday's coffee hour, the spiritual writing group, the book group, plus a new antiracism group I’ll be facilitating later this fall. All are ways to stay connected with each other.
    • We’ll be launching one in-person connection circle. We’ll be sending out an interest form, and individuals who wish may self-organize, choosing whether the group will be social and unstructured or have a focus. When meeting in person, this group may meet in the parish hall (with some guidelines), in public spaces like parks, or at people's homes. 
    • We will organize at least one experimental outdoor service/gathering in September or October, for a time other than Sunday morning. We'll learn from that and see if there's energy to have additional outdoor/distanced programming.
      That the board checks in at its monthly meetings to reassess as we go and as the situation(s) change. We'd allow some lead time to prep our plans and the physical space once we decide to resume in-person services.

      We hope this will help us maintain and strengthen our connections to one another, as well as keeping us and our neighbors safe. 
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EMAIL SCAM ALERT

​Dear All Souls Church Community,

I wanted to let you know that the email scam is back! Someone has set up a new gmail account using my name, and is emailing congregants, pretending to be me, asking for a quick reply/favor, and then asking for gift cards or money.  

This is a scam that has hit hundreds of congregations over the last several months. Please ignore and delete the emails, or report them as "phishing" if you can.

This is not a "hack" per se, because they have not broken in to any real emails, so it is not a security problem, just a very annoying and frustrating scam. You can read more about scams like this here

If you have any questions about whether or not an email is real, please start a brand new email to me at  "minister.allsouls@gmail.com." 

Please know that I will never email you asking for gift cards, period. No one from the church will ask that you do this. Even if the email address appears to be from someone at church you know, we will never do this. 

Be well and let's all stay connected to one another.
With gratitude and love,
Rev. Jo

​Musical Interlude with Judy Cobble.   Listen to our Playlist on YouTube

​Our Vision and Our Mission

All Souls Church is open and accepting, where all are welcome and valued. As a happily diverse community, we attempt to remain engaged with each other's differing views. We learn while sharing, remaining open to rational argument or spiritual enlightenment. Our Vision is to be an open-minded spiritual community that celebrates diversity and lives successfully with both its gifts and challenges. We seek to understand and appreciate the great diversity of people and ideas in the world.
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​Our Mission. With our vision in mind, Our Mission, as All Souls Church, is to come together in community, to create opportunities for spiritual expression and exploration, to learn with and from each other, and to make a difference in the world. We welcome all people to our spiritual community without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, color, national origin, religious heritage, ethnic background, socioeconomic status, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. Grounded in our Unitarian Universalist principles and purposes, we affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person.
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