[Council] Worship & Music Committee -- minutes of meeting on March 6, 2019

[Martha McGovern]

Minutes for March 6,  2019  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

Attendance:  Adeline Bailey, Kat Hawbaker, Martha McGovern, Suzyn Mills, Rebecca Phillips

  1.. Minutes of the February meeting were approved.   
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha sent a thank you to the Novaks for their gift to the music department, let John Maddox and Andrew Clovis know of gratitude expressed for cards received as part of the Community Card Project, notified Rob McManus that his honorarium has been donated to the Community Food Bank.     
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:   Kat reported that she and Jane Tumas-Serna will decorate for Women's History Month and then transition into a spring motif. 
    2.. Special Music Team:    
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  
    4.. Piano Task Force: Kat will familiarize Suzyn with the process for filling the humidifier in the piano.  The watering can and special fluid to add to water  are in the Bride's Room. 
    5.. Technology Task Force: Kat emphasized the need to use our new audio-visual equipment on a regular basis.  As we design services, we need to keep our new options in mind. 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:   
  5.. Expenditures:  Request for $250 for Melissa Jeter (reflection scheduled for April 28) was approved. 
  6.. Budget Proposal - Revised Proposed Budget for 2019-2020 was submitted to Finance and Board.  
  7.. Annual Report for 2018-2019 --  Please see revised document that will be sent to Chris. 
  8.. Assessment of Service:  Jann Adams March 3, 2019
What went well:  Her presentation on outstanding women in the history of the area and her incorporation of technology (Powerpoint) were very effective.  Musical choices - all composed by women - and use of Doxology created a coherent service.

What to refine:  Perhaps the meaning of the chalice should be explained periodically, especially for new members and visitors.

Thematic:  The service addressed the annual theme of leadership development.

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: There were many connections to the history and principles of Unitarianism and Universalism.

Life Span:  The story about Eleanor Roosevelt's life was consistent with the topic.

  9.. New Theme for 2019-2020:  How do we address the paradox of "We"? 
  10.. Services for  March - June:  
  11.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  [Try inductive approach and re-cap]
The Committee agreed to use #592 The Free Mind by William Ellery Channing as the guiding reading for the thematic year.

 2019

February 

3          Kat    Honoring Music & Arts in the Life of FUUSM  (Nancy Novak) WA: Suzyn Mills

10        Kat    Interfaith Harmony & Understanding                   WA: Chris Jacobs

17        Kat    Loving Gifts        (Forgiveness - George Lisk)                 WA:  Gene Barry

24        [no Kat]  People's State of the Union  WL: Martha McGovern  WA: Andrew Clovis

[Kat on vacation in Key West, Feb. 25-March 2]

March

            3          [No Kat]  Jann Adams                                                 WL:   Suzyn Mills

            10        Kat -  Women Leaders: Then and Now                        WA:  Dawn Hewitt

            17        Kat - Moral Leadership  MLK  -- William Barber        WA:  Jim Rapp

            24        Kat - R. Phillips - World Water Day                           WA:  Andrew Clovis

March 30 - Empty Bowls - Williamstown Methodist Church

            31        Kat - R-E-S-P-E-C-T                                     WA:  Peg Clifford

April   

            7          Kat      Money and Mission*                            WA: Rebecca Phillips

            14        Kat - Palm Sunday                                           WA:

            21        Kat - Easter                                                     WA: Tabatha Hubbard

            28        Kat  guest speaker - Melissa Jeter                    WA: Gene Barry             Annual Meeting

 

*Suggested topic for April service:  clarification of various service/outreach activities of the local congregation and endeavors with UUA, UUSC, etc. and their relationship with FUUSM principles, mission

Need for tracking and regular reporting? For example in Finance Committee records and Annual Meeting  report??   Do our church finances align with our mission?

 

May

            5          [no Kat]

            12        Mothers Day

            19        Farmer Tantoh of SYFA   

            26        Memorial Day

 

June

June 1 & 2 - Yard Sale           

            2          Flower Communion

            9                                                                                  Plant Sale

            16        FUUSM Picnic & Fathers Day

            23        watch tape of Richard Blanco (Henry Ware Lecturer) ?

30        play taped service from General Assembly?

 



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?

 

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, Living Mindfully - Prepare for the Unexpected (Robin Bozian, Anita Newhart, Sue Montera, Virginia Mayle), 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)

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

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

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

 

                                                    

 

    

 

 

 
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