What Service Should I attend?
All Souls offers many regular worship services to choose from. The themes and theology of each of the services are the same, but the liturgy and style of the services differ.
Sunday mornings, the 10:00 traditional service is rooted in the liturgical form of traditional American mainline Protestant worship (hymnals, pipe organ, choir in the loft, etc.).
The 11:30 Sunday service is rooted in the liturgical style of a contemporary American Protestant worship service (songs projected on a screen, choir, drums and amplified music in front, animated unison singing at the beginning, etc.).
The first Friday of the month October through May at 7:00 pm, our alternative service, Soulful Sundown, uses mostly secular forms of expression (video, popular music, dance, etc.) to illustrate the themes, principles and theology of All Souls.
Wednesday night chapels (Labor Day through Memorial Day) at 6:30 are short, intimate, informal midweek services that include a wide range of musical styles including folk, bluegrass, classical, jazz, popular and more.
An Evening of Praise and Worship is exuberant celebration music rooted in the Christian tradition, led by Pastor David Smith and the New Dimensions Chorale. It is at 7:00 pm most often on the second Friday, September-May (October's Date is 10/21)
High-Def Praise is a dynamic praise service with inspirational Bible teaching on the fourth Wednesday, at 7:00 pm, September-May. (November will be the 30th, December there will be no High Def due to the holidays) Check calendar to confirm dates)
Some people come to one of them - some people come to all of them. 16th century Unitarian Francis David said, "We need not think alike to love alike," and in the 21st century, at All Souls Unitarian Church we need not worship alike to love alike.
Why Does All Souls Offer Different Styles of Worship?
All Souls began in 1921 with a traditional mainline Protestant style of worship with a liberal religious message. In the 1990's All Souls began an informal, mid-week service on Wednesday nights in conjunction with education programming. Then, in 2001, All Souls began our Soulful Sundown service, based in secular forms of expression, as a way of offering our message to the growing group of unchurched people in our community. In 2008, All Souls had the opportunity to begin a contemporary service with the inclusion of former members of New Dimensions Worship Center and the New Dimensions Chorale. Our working together has allowed us to offer our message for a new generation of people who have grown up in contemporary Christian worship, but who are looking for a liberal, progressive theological message and community.
Today, All Souls offers the same themes and theology in different liturgical forms in order to share our message and mission as widely as possible. What we have learned since 2008 is that there are many people leaving Non-denominational, Pentecostal and Charismatic churches in Tulsa who are looking for the relevant and progressive message we offer and yet who are accustomed to a more contemporary Protestant style of worship. The growth and popularity of all four of our services has shown us, what other churches discovered years ago. We believe our message and mission is so important in the present and to future that we continually seek new ways to offer it.