[Council] W & M Committee -- minutes of December 4, 2019 meeting
Martha McGovern
marthamcg at suddenlink.net
Mon Jan 6 13:20:24 CST 2020
Yes, as usual, our W & M Committee meeting will be at 5:00 p.m. I'll send out an agenda closer to the meeting date.
Martha
From: Maggie & Steve Meyer via Council
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2020 12:08 PM
To: FUUSM Leadership
Cc: Maggie & Steve Meyer
Subject: Re: [Council] W & M Committee -- minutes of December 4, 2019 meeting
Martha,
2 items
1. I am having a senior moment -the meeting will be at 5:00?
2. Will we see your dear self at the Wednesday Sustenance Lunch. Did you get my e-mail?
Maggie
On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 9:31 PM Martha McGovern via Council <council at fuusm.org> wrote:
Minutes for December 4, 2019 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee
** Next Meeting: January 15, 2020
In Attendance: Adeline Bailey, Kat Hawbaker, Martha McGovern, Maggie Meyer, Suzyn Mills
1.. Minutes of November 6 were approved.
2.. Correspondence: Martha will send a thank you to Katy McDaniel, Jane Tumas-Serna, Nancy Lee, Andrew Clovis, Gary Hamilton & Men’s Group.
3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:
1.. Aesthetics Team: Jane, Nancy, and Andrew have organized the decoration materials and developed a plan for the Sanctuary and outside of the church. Gary Hamilton will coordinate decoration of the outside of the church.
2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn reported on future music: “Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie,” a song by Shari Ballantyne, a song by the trio. Choir: Dec. 22 – “Hanukkah Hayom” Dec. 24 – “Calypso Lullaby” & “Night of Silence” January 5 -- Owen & Elsie Cejka duet
3.. Worship Associates Team: Kat and Jim Rapp will plan a refresher for WAs in the spring. Approved statement about the Native Americans of this area: We acknowledge that our building occupies the traditional land of various Native American tribes, and we try to walk respectfully and lightly upon that land.
Martha will update the checklists and scripts, send them to all WAs, and have a copy accessible for use on Sundays in the Sanctuary/Social Hall.
4.. Piano Task Force:
5.. Technology Task Force:
Establish a process for preparation for incorporating technology.
Involve Mike Bailey.
Arrange practices well in advance of service/program.
Include Kelli McDermott.
Use visual displays in Opening and Closing of service.
For books, show only illustrations.
6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages: Ralph created a list. Use tfaa at fuusm.org in the “to” line.
7.. The Storage Committee: Maggie will set the first meeting for early in 2020. Storage of the clavimover and clearance of the office closet for installation of a safe are two issues needing immediate action.
3.. Expenditures:
4.. New Theme for 2019-2020: How do we address the paradox of “We”?
5.. Assessment of Service:
What went well:
What to refine:
Thematic/coherent:
Spirituality/Faith Tradition:
Life Span:
7.. Services for September - January:
December
1 Kat – Advent/Interfaith Service: Many Candles, One Light WA: Gene Barry
8 Kat – ALL AGES Community Card Project John Maddox, Diane McMichael,Teens
No Randy Do Sanctuary decoration, too. WA: Chris Jacobs
15 Kat – Ribbon Ceremony Marietta Merry & Bright –Afternoon cookies & cocoa in Muskingham Park
WA: Rebecca Phillips
22 Kat – What sustains us in this season? Solstice WA: Dawn Hewitt CHOIR
Christmas Eve Service 12/24 (Tuesday) The Story of Christmas in Music ?? WA: Suzyn Mills CHOIR
29 Kat and Jim Rapp – Worship Leaders – Fire Communion
January 2020
5 Kat -- Topsy-Turvy Twelfth Night
12 Kat -- #UU the Vote Launch
19 Kat – Honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a Day of Service
26 (NO Kat) Guest speaker – Wes Clarke – Mounds of Marietta: Reminders of Others Who
Walked These Lands
Sustainability Forum – January 31-February 1
February
2 Charter Sunday
9 World Interfaith Harmony Week
16
23
March
1
8 [no Kat]
15
22
29
Possible Topics and speakers for future services:
· The nature of prayer – Rain Dance was envisioning, 4 types – supplication, thanksgiving, contrition, praise
(paraphrase) Abraham Lincoln: If you want to raise the likelihood of the future you have predicted, get involved in creating it.
Barbara Kingsolver: “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
· Forgiveness as recurring service – connected with Yom Kippur “We forgive ourselves and each other. We begin again in Love.”
· 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?
· Possible speakers: artists: Dani, Morgan/Owen
· Workshop service: prayer flags – Kat and Peg will take the lead on the service; Jane Tumas-Serna is willing to help.
· Mind maps may help the congregation identify how they are active in FUUSM efforts/activities and what additional options they would like.
· Moral leadership: Truman and Berlin Air Lift
Martha will arrange with poets, artists for future services in March or other month
· Susan Sheppard (sp?) -- “To Be Indian” Native American experience, poem from Riverside Artists event, gourd by Kathy Norosky, other art work?
“Arrow Heads” by Nellie Hufford Ruby, wall art by Betsy Cook
· Appalachian Woman – Virginia Killian painting, poem by Kari Gunter-Seymour, reader was Athens project leader
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)
Shelley Graffs – Singing in Sacred Circle, etc. graffs at cinci.rr.com
Trauma-Informed Care/ Trauma-Informed Schools
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