[Council] Worship & Music - Minutes of July 3 2018 meeting

[Martha McGovern]

Minutes for July 3, 2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee  

In Attendance:  Adeline Bailey, Peg Clifford, Kat Hawbaker, Randall Kidder, Martha McGovern, 

            Shari Miller, Suzyn Mills

Next Meeting:  Wednesday, August 8, 2018   5:00 p.m., Parlor

  1.. Approved minutes of the June meeting with addition of Maggie Meyer in the attendance list.    
  2.. Correspondence:  up to date 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team: The Committee identified the need for a Worship Associate's Checklist in the Social Hall.  Martha will send the checklist via email to all Worship Associates and Kat will place a copy in the podium in a plastic page-saver. 
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn - Special music is planned for July 29.
Andrew McKnight has agreed to provide special music and the reflection for September 23.  Cost will be $200.  

Dennis Warner (Beads on One String-anti-bullying) is a possibility for fall of 2019.  She 

            is coordinating with other venues.

    3.. Worship Associates Team:  Orient/re-orient so that all duties are addressed consistently. 
    4.. Piano Task Force:  Suzyn 
    5.. Technology Task Force: Mike Bailey has purchased another multi-directional microphone and charged the purchase to the 2017-18 budget.  Martha will remind him to submit for reimbursement. 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
  3.. Affirmation in hymnals:  Suzyn will prepare labels; Suzyn & Martha will place in books. 
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie (Please see email with report.) 
  5.. The Committee suggested that all committees allocated a bulletin board (Membership, Social Justice, Green Sanctuary) should designate a person to keep the display up-to-date and attractive.  Kat recommended that Nancy Lee coordinate this oversight.  
Nancy Lee has agreed to oversee the bulletin boards for Community Resources and FUUSM Events. 

  7.. Board Update: Shari and Kat reported on the implementation of the special collection for Black Lives UU and the Going Forth pilot project. 
  8.. Expenditures:  The Committee agreed that Mike Bailey should seek reimbursement for the personal phone charges incurred when that connection was needed for live-streaming of the GA worship service.  Martha will remind him to do so. 
  9.. Assessment of June services:  
Flower Communion service 

What went well:  The overall service was beautiful, and the choir piece very appropriate.

What to refine:  Have clear segments/procedures for contributing, blessing, and taking away flowers, so the tone of a communion is established and maintained.  Bring the service to complete, graceful closure before introducing any other element [e.g., photograph, announcements].

Diverse Perspectives:  communicated by flowers and content of service

Thematic:  World of our values - diversity, respect for individuality

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: communion

Life Span:  an all-ages service

Short Service at Multicultural Festival Picnic

Attendance (48) was good, and the gathering built community, especially for those who live in the Parkersburg area.

The Committee suggested that the service be abbreviated to a grace before the brunch with a basket available for donations.  Attendees would be encouraged to participate in the Inter-Faith Service at noon.

Kat observed that coverage of a booth at the Multicultural Festival was difficult to arrange and suggested, instead, that FUUSM visibility might be more effectively achieved by being a sponsor of the event for a cost of $500.  Our name and information would be on the website and other advertisements.

[Displaying the FUUSM banner at the picnic site also gives visibility.  Other idea:  UUs could wear our t-shirt on Sunday and carry information cards to pass out when people inquire.] 

  10.. Services for July, August, September:  
  11.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  [Try inductive approach and re-cap] 
  12.. 2017-18 "How do we create a world of our values?"  
June

3          Kat - Flower Communion WA: Jim Rapp   (Jim & Nancy Novak)

            10        *Meg and Todd Hoke  "5 Happy Things"    WA:  Dawn Hewitt

            17        Father's Day Picnic      WA:  Peg Clifford

            24        UUA Live-Streaming       [Breakfast snacks provided by W & M Committee]

July 

1              [no Kat] Martha McGovern & Jane Tumas-Serna - "People's State of the Union" Readers 

      Theatre             Worship Leader:  Martha McGovern

            8          Kat - "We Circle Around"    WA:  Rebecca Phillips

            15        Kat    "Thinking Without Bannisters"   WA:  Peg Clifford

            22        Kat    Annie & Jay Warmke - "How to Use the Economics of Happiness to Re-Organize 

                                    Your Life"

            29        Kat & Suzyn Mills  "Are We Exceptional?"   WA:  Dawn Hewitt

August

            5          [no Kat]  Sherm Koons - Issues underlying March for Our Lives  

Worship Leader: Jim Rapp

            12        Kat      Nkenge Friday - TBA              WA:  Suzyn Mills

            19        Kat      Planetarium                               Cozy Conversation:  Peg Clifford

            26        Kat      UU Carnival                             WA:  Dawn Hewitt             

September

            2          [no Kat]  "The Changing World of Work"   Worship Leader: Martha McGovern

            9          Kat      Water Ceremony          WA:

            16        Kat      Take Time to Trust       WA:

            23        Andrew McKnight        WA:  Suzyn Mills

            30        Kat "Who's Your Neighbor?"  WA:

October

November

December

2019

January

February

March - March 24 - Farmer Tantoh of SYFA in conjunction with reveal of children's book

 

Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  

Rancho Mirage Writers Festival (published on February 17, 2017) - Questions from Bret 

            Stephens:  

Are we a country that seeks and attracts human capital and believes in being fundamentally open 

to the world?  Are we a self-critical country or a country of blamers?  Do we define our interests 

according to our values or vice versa?  Do we have a healthy innovation culture?  Do we have a 

healthy civic culture?  Are we still a nation of optimists?  What are our attitudes toward

foreigners, failure, global leadership, change, each other?

 

Sustainability: Annie Warmke, annie at bluerockstation.com,   Touchstone REACH Packet, Hungry Town, 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 Peg Clifford on suicide and kindness,  reflections of former ministers, LeeAnn Gallucci on recovering from loss, Living Mindfully - Prepare for the Unexpected (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. 

Hal Walker - Suzyn     Michael Dowd - Adeline  -- perhaps in 2018  -- See email with update.

Catherine Roma - Kat 

            Peg Clifford - What does democracy look like to whom?, We are all brothers (Day of the Dead), 

                        5 words for learning in Hebrew, immigration - world map of our origins

                        Cooperation with other churches - bus trip to African-American Museum in DC or 

                        Underground Railroad in Cincinnati

            Protest - contrast burning cross & burning flag  (Barb Kidd)

            Diversity: awareness of brain injury - (Beverly Bradley)

            Services based on songs:  Cat Stevens's "Just Can't Keep It In"  Matisyahu - "One Day"

            Summer Institute:  Encouraging attendance, using resources  e.g., Non-Violent Communication 

            For Pledge Drive:  Kerry Blair -- "If I Were a Rich Man"

            Festivus for next year                            

Attention to awareness of previous residents on land in our area and need for our light presence

Bill McNeely  "New Insights Into Consciousness"

Peg Clifford - "Where did I come from & why?" testimonials from members/friends

Visual Arts (social justice, spirituality)

SICom service - Melissa Jeter  "Building Community in Times of Turmoil"

Shelley Graffs - Singing in Sacred Circle, etc.  graffs at cinci.rr.com

Trauma-Informed Care/ Trauma-Informed Schools

March for Our Lives - Sherm Koons  hypnohio at outlook.com

MJ Ebenhack - Interfaith

 
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