<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Martha,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It looks like you had a very good response to your meeting yesterday, including a number of Zoom participants. I hope you did not feel forced into the nursery to start your meeting. We were intending to vacate the tables in Fellowship Hall and went past the 11am time frame when we realized that you were setting up in the nursery. Hope your meeting went well; the corona virus is forcing us to be flexible in ways that we had not envisioned....maybe that's a good thing?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Joe<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 7:49 AM Martha McGovern via Worship <<a href="mailto:worship@fuusm.org">worship@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Minutes of Worship & Music Committee
Meeting March 22, 2020 11:00 -
noon Nursery face-to-face and with
Zoom</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">In Attendance: Kat Hawbaker, Martha
McGovern, Suzyn Mills, Ralph Olander, Maggie Meyer [via
Zoom]: Rebecca Phillips, Adeline Bailey, Nancy Luthy, Peg Cifford, Jane
Tumas-Serna, Randy Kidder</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">NEXT MEETING: March 29, 11:00 a.m., Social
Hall at FUUSM and on Zoom</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><u>Responses to First Question: What are we
trying to do with what we provide or link to? (What needs are we
meeting? What results are we hoping for?)</u></font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><u></u></font> </div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">1. maintain our sense of
community</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">2. provide support to the
congregation</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">3. offer inspiration</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">4. increase awareness of opportunities for
applying our principles in the current circumstances</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">5. increase our sense of personal
well-being</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">6. keep congregation informed</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">7. decentralize sharing,
communication</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">8. be strategic, coordinated</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">9. meet the needs of the most
vulnerable</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">10. plan for redundancy of leadership so
FUUSM maintains consistent operation</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><u>Responses to Second Question: What
options are available for achieving those aims</u>?</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">1. Maintain our sense of
community</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">Revive the Call
Tree <strong>Board</strong>
apparently established one for emergency closings, etc. It
needs to be revived.</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">Schedule small group gatherings, such as Chalice Circles, that
abide by public health guidelines</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">Schedule Zoom gatherings </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> Use FUUSMchat
for Joys & Sorrows, discussion of shared readings/viewings/news
reports</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri"> Use
Women's Group and Men's Group lists for email sharing, check-ins</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> Hold established
sessions, such as Meditation, in combined face-to-face and Zoom
form </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> Use Facebook
Live to broadcast short services</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri"> Draw upon
the UUA's Church of the Larger Fellowship -- View identified service or talk
show (current or archived) and discuss (email, Zoom,
face-to-face)</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">Access FUUSM website for archives of Reflections -- Listen to
identified reflection and discuss (email, Zoom, face-to-face)</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">2. Provide support to the congregation,
especially the most vulnerable</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">Caring Committee has already organized to be in touch
consistently with those most in need.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> <font size="4" face="Calibri"> </font></font>Make extra effort to stay in contact with
those not technologically connected by distributing information in targeted ways
and by providing specific training.
<div> </div></font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">How do we define
"support"? <strong> Board,
Finance Committee</strong> need to address absence of Sunday offering
collection, etc. </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> ??? Kat
provides emotional/spiritual support, but if she is unable to do so, are
there others we can call upon?</font></div>
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<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">3. Inspire, Increase sense of
personal well-being </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> Share quotations,
poetry, visuals, and music via links, email, Facebook</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">4. Reach out to the larger
community</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">Caring Committee is organizing a pen pal program with a local
nursing home.</font></div>
<div> <font size="4" face="Calibri">Run a monthly column or do periodic press releases in the local
newspapers to inform the public of liberal religious resources and opportunities
available to them </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> (e.g.,
Church of Larger Fellowship, materials on FUUSM website, initiatives
related to our principles).</font></div>
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<div><strong><font size="4" face="Calibri">IN SUM</font></strong></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">We have a variety of means for achieving these
goals/objectives, and we can combine them to increase
effectiveness.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> face-to-face
interaction</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> telephone</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> email </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> snail mail</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> newsletters,
newspapers</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> Facebook -- usual
postings, live-streaming</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> Zoom conferencing,
broadcasting</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> Church of the Larger
Fellowship website</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"> FUUSM
website</font></div>
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