Wednesday Community Connections
Wednesday Community Connections is an opportunity to engage, support, and learn with each other. We start with a dinner at 5:30pm, followed by chapel at 6:30pm and classes at 7:00pm. All our classes are free for adults, open to the public, and include anything from yoga, meditation, arts and crafts, Path to Membership, and more! Depending on the class, you can attend in-person, on Zoom, or hybrid. Childcare is available from 6:15 to 8:30.
Scroll for class descriptions and check back for this week’s menu.
Class List for April 24, 2024
Click each folder below to learn more. You can also visit our Calendar page for future dates and classes.
Want To Teach A Class?
Have an idea for a class you’d like to teach or see at Wednesday Community Connections? Reach out to Shannon Boston at sboston@allsoulschurch.org to pitch your idea.
All Souls Trekkers: Cancer Advocacy and Support (online only)
Weekly | 5:30 pm | Online: bit.ly/astrekkers
Trekkers is an educational, advocacy support group open to all who are affected by the cancer experience, including care givers.
Creative Play with Linda Alred (in-person only)
Weekly | Linda Alred
Re-ignite your creativity with the New Year, play along with others, relieve stress, try new things, and have fun! We’ll be thinking outside the box with a variety of materials and ideas throughout the season. Bring your ideas and your imagination.
Dirt 2 Soil: Regenerative Gardening (in-person only)
Weekly | All Souls Garden & Grounds Team
Meet weekly to share gardening tips and methods to improve our environment when gardening in Green Country. Classes will be lecture/discussion until weather permits outdoor hands-on learning.
Check back for this week’s resources soon!
Easing the Burden of Criminal Sanctions
April 24 | Judge Bill Kellough & Criminal Justice League | Room 120
Easing the Burden of Criminal Sanctions: The Oklahoma Experience, with former District Judge Bill Kellough and sponsored by the Criminal Justice League.
This class will focus on the recently enacted Fines and Costs reform mreasures, which Judge Kellough had a hand in drafting, and diversion from incarceration, which embraces the 1st Step Male Diversion experience.
Reimagining Your Own Theology II
Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar | April 3-24 | In-person and on Zoom
Shawl Ministry
April 10 | Tiffany Cross | Thoreau Lounge
Knitters, crocheters, quilters and other fiber artists of all skill levels are welcome! Come learn to knit! Don’t have any needles or yarn? We have plenty!
The Shawl Ministry is a group of fiber artists who make a spiritual practice of creating shawls to give to people in our church community who are in need of comfort and solace. Members and friends infuse each shawl with positive intentions, prayers, hope, love, and healing. Completed shawls are blessed and sent along the way.
We also make baby hats, blankets, booties and more.
Wednesday Circle (in-person and Zoom)
Weekly | In-Person: Room 206 | Online: bit.ly/wednesdaycircle
Members moderate this conversational ministry from a spiritual point of view, governed by a commitment to our covenant. Topics change weekly and generally follow those chosen by the Circle the Sunday preceding. All are welcome to join in person or by Zoom!
Women's Self-Defense & Empowerment (in-person only)
Noah Johnson of Aspire Fitness | 2nd and 4th Wednesdays | President’s Room
Learn self-defense using judo and jiu jitsu techniques with local trainer Noah Johnson of Aspire Fitness.
This class is for anyone who identifies as a woman, and it is open to all levels of fitness and ability.
Bring water and wear comfy clothes.
Class fees are donation-based.
Yoga for Every Body
Weekly | Presidents’ Room | Stacie Beckert
Take part in empowering, restorative yoga for every body type. Come expand your mind and stretch your body. With Stacie Beckert.
Youth Jams
All Souls Youth | Weekly | Sponge Room
Plan and produce “Youth Sunday” – the best Sunday of Youth with services created and presented entirely by the Youth Department.
This year, Youth Sunday is on April 28th, 2024.
Come to the Sponge Room and get absorbed!
Join Us For Dinner
Every Wednesday, we invite you to join us for dinner at 5:30pm before classes. Donations are encouaged – $5 helps a little, $10 covers the meal, $20+ helps sustain our programs.
Volunteer at Wednesday Connections Dinner!
Shifts include 3:30pm prep, 5:30pm serve, and 6:30pm clean up. Email Paula Vella, pvella@allsoulschurch.org to volunteer.
