[Worship] Agenda for October 4 2017 meeting of Worship & Music Comm 5:00 p.m. Parlor

[Martha McGovern]

Agenda for October 4, 2017  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

 5:00 p.m., Parlor

  1.. Minutes of the September meeting to be approved.     
  2.. Correspondence:  
  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 
  5.. Board policy concerning special collections: Shari 
  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 and to meet in the Parlor on Wed., Nov. 29 and to dismantle and meet on Wed., Dec. 27.

Men's Group has agreed to decorate the outside of the building.  

  7.. 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.  
    2.. Committee members expressed confusion about the presence of two FUUSM Facebook pages.  . 
    3.. 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.

  8.. Other Matters Arising:
 

Theme for Year 2017-2018 will be "How do we create a world of our values?"

  9.. 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

            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

            Bill McNeely - "New Insights into Consciousness"   (April)

 

October

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

Afternoon:  Blessing of Animals

            8          Kat with Cory Sampson & Ezra Carpenter - Bystander Training  WA: Chris Jacobs

            15        Karen Binkley - Services for Mental Illness and Addiction  WA:  Rebecca Phillips

            22        Kat with Andrew Clovis - National Parks                                 WA: Dawn Hewitt

            29        Kat -- Day of the Dead with Jane Tumas-Serna                        WA:  Peg Clifford

 

November 

            5          Interfaith Planning Group

            12        Kat

            19        Kat - All Ages Thanksgiving

            26        Kat

December

            3          [Advent begins]  Lay Service - Ribbon Ceremony

            10        Kat

            17        Kat - ALL AGES Holiday Celebration

            24        Kat - Christmas Brunch

                                    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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