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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Worship <worship-bounces@fuusm.org> on behalf of Martha McGovern via Worship <worship@fuusm.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 3, 2017 9:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> worship@fuusm.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Martha McGovern<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Worship] Agenda for Wed. Dec. 6 2017 meeting of Worship & Music Committee - Parlor, 5:00 p.m.</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size:14pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%">Agenda for December<span style="">
</span>6, 2017<span style=""> </span>Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee </span>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%"><span style=""> </span>Wednesday, December 6, 2017 -<span style="">
</span>5:00 p.m., Parlor</span></b></p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Minutes of the
<span style=""> </span>November meeting to be approved </span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Correspondence:<span style="">
</span><b style="">Martha </b></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Reports from Specific Task Teams:<span style="">
</span></span>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Aesthetics Team:
<span style=""> </span><b style="">Jane Tumas-Serna</b> – request for feedback on decorations, possibility of including brief explanation of displays in worship services, December 10 (two Christian displays, Guadalupe, Solstice) and December 17 (Hanukah, Kwanzaa),
lights in swags?</span><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%"></span></b>
</li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Special Music Team:<b style=""> Suzyn</b></span><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%"></span></b>
</li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style=""> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Worship Associates Team:<span style="">
</span>Chris Jacobs and Andrew Clovis have joined the WAs. </span><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%"></span></b></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%">Piano Task Force<b style="">:<span style="">
</span></b></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%">Technology Task Force</span><span style="font-size:14pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%">:
</span><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%"><span style=""> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%">The Committee agreed that multi-directional microphones continue
to be a need.<span style=""> </span><b style="">Martha</b> <b style=""></b></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%">Task Force for the Time for All Ages:<b style=""></b></span>
</li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; line-height:115%">Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:<span style="">
</span><b style="">Maggie</b><span style=""> </span><b style=""></b></span></li></ol>
</li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Re-Usable Folder:<span style="">
</span><b style="">Adeline and Kat</b> </span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Board policy concerning special collections:
<b style="">Shari </b><span style=""> </span>Need to clarify procedures for counting, recording contributions to special causes<span style="">
</span>--<span style=""> </span>deferred to December meetin<b style="">g</b></span>
</li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Holiday Decoration</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Thank you to Women’s Group; coordinator for gathering to dismantle, 2:00 p.m. on Wed., Dec. 27 with dinner and meeting to follow.<span style="">
</span></span></li></ol>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thank you to Men’s Group, date of dismantling?<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span></span></p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Social Justice and Communication</span>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style=""> </span>Peg expressed the need to have contact names and numbers for often requested community services.<span style="">
</span>The Committee agreed that it would be good to provide directories in the church and a link on the website and to give members of the congregation a card for quick reference.<span style="">
</span>– <b style="">Kat </b>will speak to the Board about the issue and training of greeters, Caring Committee members, and others.</span></li></ol>
</li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Transition to Social Hall because of painting and repair of the Sanctuary
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height:115%"><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Theme for Year 2017-2018</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> will be “How do we create a world
of our values?”</span></p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Possible Topics and speakers for future services:<span style="">
</span><b style="">Sustainability</b>: <b style="">Annie Warmke, <a href="mailto:annie@bluerockstation.com">
<font color="#0000ff">annie@bluerockstation.com</font></a>, </b><span style=""> </span><b style="">Touchstone REACH Packet, Hungry Town</b>, multiple intelligences with additional one - existential-spiritual, powerful children’s stories, ages of women, This
I Believe, family stories as carriers of family values, June Teenth celebration, reflections of people who grew up in UU congregation (Jay Phillips, Mike Bailey, Dean Banziger), Bill Bauer and
<b style="">Peg Clifford</b> on suicide and kindness, <span style=""> </span>reflections of former ministers,<b style="">
</b>LeeAnn Gallucci on recovering from loss, Living Mindfully – Prepare for the Unexpected<b style="">
</b>(Robin Bozian, Anita Newhart, Sue Montera, Virginia Mayle), anti-bullying and Shari’s Flower Story, Quill as a storyteller, Quakers on consensus, morality of artificial intelligence.
</span></li></ol>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hal Walker –
<b style="">Suzyn<span style=""> </span><span style="">
</span></b>Michael Dowd – <b style="">Adeline</b><span style=""> </span>-- perhaps in 2018</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Catherine Roma –
<b style="">Kat<span style=""> </span></b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span><b style="">Peg Clifford</b> – What does democracy look like to whom?, We are all brothers (Day of the Dead),
</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>5 words for learning in Hebrew, immigration – world map of our origins</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Protest – contrast burning cross & burning flag<span style=""> </span>(Barb Kidd)</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Diversity: awareness of brain injury – (Beverly Bradley)</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Services based on songs:<span style=""> </span>“We Would Be One,” “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – Negro National
</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Anthem , Cat Stevens’s “Just Can’t Keep It In”</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Summer Institute:<span style=""> </span>Encouraging attendance, using resources<span style="">
</span>e.g., Non-Violent Communication </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span><b style="">(Jeff Danner, Rebecca Phillips)</b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span><b style="">Bill McNeely – “New Insights into Consciousness”<span style="">
</span>(April)</b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>For Pledge Drive:<span style=""> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kerry Blair singing “If I Were a Rich Man”</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span><b style="">Kat – activist from Cleveland area</b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span><b style="">February 1-7, World Interfaith Harmony Week</b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">November
</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>5<span style=""> </span>Lay Service:<span style=""> </span>Interfaith Dialogue: A Beginning (George Banziger, MJ Ebenhack)</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>WA: Rebecca Phillips</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>12<span style=""> </span>Kat – Reflection on 25 years in ministry “Harvest the Power”</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>WA: Chris Jacobs</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>19<span style=""> </span>Kat – ALL AGES <span style=""> </span>Thanksgiving<span style="">
</span>WA:<span style=""> </span>Peg Clifford</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>26<span style=""> </span>Kat – Letters from the Heart </span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height:115%; text-indent:0.5in">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(Community Card Project)<span style="">
</span>[facilitators:<span style=""> </span>John Maddox, Diane McMichael]<span style="">
</span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>WA:<span style=""> </span>Dawn Hewitt<span style=""> </span>
[Randy’s day off]</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">December</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>3<span style=""> </span>[Advent begins]<span style=""> </span>Lay Service – Prepare the Way - Ribbon Ceremony<span style="">
</span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height:115%; text-indent:0.5in">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Worship Leader: Martha McGovern</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>10<span style=""> </span>Kat – Count Your Lucky Stars<span style="">
</span>WA: Suzyn Mills</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height:115%; text-indent:-0.5in">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style=""> </span>
17<span style=""> </span>Kat – ALL AGES Holiday Celebration<span style="">
</span>Peg – <i style="">Jackie’s Gift:</i> <i style="">The Year the Jewish Family
</i></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; line-height:115%; text-indent:-0.5in">
<i style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Had a <span style=""></span>Christmas Tree </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">by Sharon Robinson<span style="">
</span>WA:<span style=""> </span>Peg Clifford</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>24<span style=""> </span>Kat – Cozy Holiday Brunch Potluck<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>Coordinator:<span style=""> </span>Chris Jacobs<span style="">
</span></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Questions:<span style="">
</span>What holiday do you observe at this time?<span style=""> </span>What greeting do you use in the holiday season and why?<span style="">
</span>What’s your favorite holiday song?<span style=""> </span>What is your most memorable/powerful memory of the holiday season?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span><b style="">Evening:<span style=""> </span>7:00 p.m.<span style=""> </span>
Candlelight Service<span style=""> </span></b>WA: Suzyn Mills<b style=""></b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>31<span style=""> </span>Kat with Jim Rapp - Fire Communion<span style="">
</span>WA: needed?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">January<span style="">
</span>2018</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>7<span style=""> </span>Kat with Peg – “Knapsack of White Privilege”<span style="">
</span>WA: _____</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>14<span style=""> </span>[MLK Day]<span style=""> </span>Kat – TBA<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>
WA:_____</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>21<span style=""> </span>Dr. Mark Sibicky “The Wisest One in the Room”<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>WA: _____<span style=""> </span>(no Kat)</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>28<span style=""> </span>(no Kat)<span style="">
</span>WA: _____</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">February<span style="">
</span><b style="">Kat – Samuel Prince<span style=""> </span>Which date?<span style="">
</span>Jane Tumas-Serna – social justice art</b></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>Peg Clifford – “Where did I come from & why?” testimonials from members/friends</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="">
</span>4</span></p>
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</span>18</span></p>
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