[Worship] Worship & Music Committee - minutes of October 4 2017 meeting
Joe Baker
jbaker0509 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 09:27:45 CDT 2017
Hi Martha,
I guess the Clutter Committee (love the name) is no longer active, but I
have an interest in following up on what they were attempting to achieve.
Is that something that you and/or Worship & Music would be interested in
pursuing with me and B&G?
Thanks,
Joe
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Martha McGovern via Worship <
worship at fuusm.org> wrote:
> *Minutes for October 4, 2017 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee *
>
> * In Attendance: *Adeline Bailey, Peg Clifford, Kat Hawbaker, Randall
> Kidder, Martha McGovern, Shari Miller
>
> *Next Meeting*: Wednesday, *November 1, 2017, 5:00 p.m., Parlor*
>
> 1. Minutes of the September meeting were approved.
> 2. Correspondence: Martha – all thank you notes sent.
> 3. Reports from Specific Task Teams:
> 1. Aesthetics Team: will prepare the Sanctuary for the Day of the
> Dead and November
> 2. Special Music Team: The quartet will sing on October 22.
> 3. Worship Associates Team:
> 4. Piano Task Force*: *
> 5. Technology Task Force:
> 6. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
> 4. Re-Usable Folder: Adeline and Kat led the discussion to identify
> needed changes: photographs, Philosophy of Inclusion, information for
> regular year and summer, addition of Affirmation.
> 5. Board policy concerning special collections: Shari reported that
> the issue has been tabled. Decisions will be made on a case-by-case
> basis.
> 6. *Holiday Decoration*
>
> Martha, Jane Tumas-Serna, and the Aesthetics Team sorted through current
> supplies on September 14, during the Great Holiday Decoration Purge.
>
> Women’s Group has agreed to decorate (starting at 2:00 p.m.) and to meet
> in the Parlor (starting at 6:00 p.m.) on Wed., Nov. 29 and to dismantle and
> meet (same times) on Wed., Dec. 27.
>
> Men’s Group has agreed to decorate the outside of the building on December
> 2.
>
> 1. Social Justice and Communication
> 1. Peg expressed the need to have contact names and numbers for
> often requested community services. The Committee agreed that it
> would be good to provide members of the congregation with a card for quick
> reference. – *Kat will speak to the Caring Committee.*
> 2. Committee members expressed confusion about the presence of two
> FUUSM Facebook pages. Peg Clifford recommended that an “event”
> notice should be posted on Facebook for the Adult RE course, “Understanding
> and Appreciating Islam.” *Martha* has conveyed the concerns to
> Michelle Wilson.
> 2. Other Matters Arising: Randy asked for clarification of the term
> “innovative music.” The Committee assured Randy that his choices to
> date have been very effective. In terms of a decision-making
> framework, the group identified appropriateness to the service message,
> time issues, location (Sanctuary or Social Hall), and complexity of needed
> equipment & musicians.
>
>
>
> *Theme for Year 2017-2018* will be “How do we create a world of our
> values?”
>
> 1. Possible Topics and speakers for future services: *Sustainability*:
> *Annie Warmke, annie at bluerockstation.com <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, Jim
> Couts on Jubilee Gardens, 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.
>
> Mark Sibicky on mindset/habits of mind needed for democracy – *Martha* -- *contact
> again in Summer or September 2017*
>
> Hal Walker – *Suzyn *Michael Dowd
> – *Adeline* -- perhaps in 2018
>
> 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
>
> Protest – contrast burning cross & burning flag (Barb Kidd)
>
> Diversity: awareness of brain injury – (Beverly Bradley)
>
> Services based on songs: “We Would Be One”
>
> Summer Institute: Encouraging attendance, using resources e.g.,
> Non-Violent Communication
>
> *(Jeff Danner, Rebecca Phillips)*
>
> *Bill McNeely – “New Insights into Consciousness” (April)*
>
> * For Pledge Drive: *Kerry Blair singing “If I Were a Rich
> Man”
>
>
>
> October
>
> 1 Kat – Animals (Social Justice)
> WA: Suzyn Mills
>
> Afternoon: Blessing of Animals
>
> 8 Kat with Cory Sampson – Bystander Intervention
> Training WA: Chris Jacobs
>
> 15 Karen Binkley – “Stop the Stigma” Services for
> Mental Illness & Addiction
>
> WA: Rebecca Phillips
>
> 22 Kat with Andrew Clovis – National Parks “These
> Lands Are Our Lands”
>
> WA: Dawn Hewitt (*Shari* – mentor)
>
> 29 Kat -- Day of the Dead with Jane Tumas-Serna
> WA: Peg Clifford
>
>
>
> November
>
> 5 Lay Service: Interfaith Planning Group (George
> Banziger, MJ Ebenhack)
>
> WA: __________
>
> 12 Kat – Reflection on 25 years in ministry “Religious
> Leadership in Po Po Mo”
>
> WA: __________
>
> 19 Kat – ALL AGES Thanksgiving WA: Peg
> Clifford
>
> 26 Kat – Community Card Project [John Maddox, Diane
> McMichael] Tabatha?
>
> WA: _________
>
> December
>
> 3 [Advent begins] Lay Service – Ribbon Ceremony Worship
> Leader: Martha McGovern
>
> 10 [Randy – day off] Kat – TBA WA: Suzyn Mills
>
> 17 Kat – ALL AGES Holiday Celebration Peg – *Jackie’s
> Gift:* *The Year the Jewish Family *
>
> * Had a Christmas Tree *by Sharon Robinson WA: Peg
> Clifford
>
> 24 Kat – Cozy Holiday Brunch Potluck WA: __________
>
> Questions: Why do you observe
> Christmas? What greeting do you use in the
>
> holiday season and why? What’s your
> favorite holiday song? What is your most
>
> memorable/powerful memory of the
> holiday season?
>
> *Evening: 7:00 p.m. Candlelight Service*
>
> 31 Kat with Jim Rapp - Fire Communion
>
> January
>
> 7 Kat with Peg – “Knapsack of White Privilege”
>
>
>
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