[Worship] Worship & Music Comm -- Agenda for Meeting on September 6, 2017 5:00 p.m. Parlor

[Martha McGovern]

Agenda for September 6, 2017  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

 Parlor, 5:00 p.m.

 

  1.. Minutes of the August meeting to approve     
  2.. Correspondence:  
  3.. Issue of Choir Director as paid position:  W & M needs to make recommendation at Congregational meeting on 9/24.
The Committee is in favor of making Choir Director a paid position.  We defer to the Personnel Committee to determine pay.   Update from Kat and Personnel Committee?

  4..  Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:  Kat on preparation of Sanctuary 
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn 
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  
Clarification of Summer Duties:  

Hymnals: Bookcase has been positioned so that attendees can pick up their own hymnals.  

Greeters: Follow-up on folders, order of service, basket for re-collection of the folders  

    4.. Piano Task Force:  
    5.. Technology Task Force:   
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  
  4.. Transformative worship:  Kat, Peg, and Randy - reflection on Wonder-Full Worship session after the service on August 13. 
  5.. Re-Usable Folder:  Adeline - Reassessment of the contents and construction of the folder.  
  6.. Board policy concerning special collections: The Board will present policy options to the congregation at the September 24 meeting.    
  7.. Buildings & Grounds:  Martha - feedback from Kevin and Buildings & Grounds.  
  8.. Upcoming Services:  
Kat - October 22 -- Andrew Clovis for attention to National Parks ??

Kat - October 1 - Blessing of the Animals in the afternoon

  10.. Transition Back to Sanctuary: 
  11.. Holiday Decoration
Martha will meet with Jane Tumas-Serna and the Aesthetics Team to sort through current supplies.  She will also coordinate with Men's Group and Women's Group about responsibility for the actual decoration.  Considering the renewed windows and the projected Sanctuary painting, this may be a year for simple decoration.  The Committee observes that a tree decorated with ribbons is appropriate to the UU perspective.  

  12.. Theme for Year 2017-2018 will be "How do we create a world of our values?" 
  13.. Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  Touchstone REACH Packet, Hungry Town, multiple intelligences, 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 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

            Kat:  Protect Environment - John Muir, public park system (Andrew Clovis) - Summer 2017

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

            Diversity: awareness of brain injury - (Beverly Bradley)

            Services based on songs:  "Hallelujah," "We Would Be One"

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

August

6          Roger Kalter  "How do we create a world of our values?"  Worship Leader: Suzyn Mills

13        Kat & Katy McDaniel - "Our Founding Documents"   WA: Chris Jacobs

20        Kat --  "Creating Covenanted Communities"  WA: Rebecca Phillips

27        Kat - "Bring Your Broken Hallelujahs"  WA:  Martha McGovern

September

3          (no Kat) Peg & Martha  "This Land Is Your Land"       (with Chase Brady)       (Labor Day)

10        Kat -- Water Ingathering  WA:  Karen Binkley

17        Kat - Stand on the Side of Love           WA: Martha McGovern

24        Kat - Congregational Meeting - Philosophy of Inclusion  WA: Suzyn Mills

 

October

            1          Kat - Animals (Social Justice) WA: Suzyn Mills            Afternoon:  Blessing of Animals

            8          Kat - Cory Sampson & Ezra Carpenter - Bystander Training  

            15        (no Kat) Karen Binkley - Services for Mental Illness and Addiction  WA:  _____

            22        Kat                                                                  WA: Dawn Hewitt

            29        Kat -- Day of the Dead

 

November 

            5          Martha will check with Interfaith Planning Group

            12

            19        Kat - All Ages Thanksgiving

            26

December

            3          [Advent begins]

            10

            17

            24

            31        Fire Communion

 
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