[Worship] Agenda for Worship & Music Comm Meeting, Wednesday, May 2, 5:00 p.m., Parlor

[Martha McGovern]

Agenda for May 2, 2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee  

  1.. Minutes of the April meeting to be approved. 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team: Kat 
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn 
Last Sunday in September:  Andrew McKnight  -- degree of involvement TBD

    3..  Worship Associates Team:  
    4.. Piano Task Force:  Suzyn 
    5.. Technology Task Force:   
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
  3.. Folder:  Adeline Bailey - card stock update 
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie 
  5.. Board Update: Shari 
  6.. Expenditures:  [Meg and Todd Hoke ($150 + $50 = $200)] 
  7.. Budget Proposal for 2018-19:  The Committee approved a budget request for $4315.  
*As of April 8, 2018, the Finance Committee has reduced the budget to $3315.  

 

Martha and Shari will communicate to the Finance Committee and the Board that the Committee suggests that, starting with the new fiscal year, when Martha Webster contracts to take full responsibility for preparation of and direction of a particular piece, she be paid $50, which is the rate for a guest musician.   

  9.. Annual Meeting:  Reflection 
  10.. Assessment of April services:  Use of adjusted grid 
  11.. Purchase of multiple copies of Singing the Journey (Teal Supplement):  Martha   We currently have about ten copies of the supplement and need at least 40 more.  The price is $20 each for 1 to 9 copies, $16 each for 10 or more copies.  Therefore, 10 copies would cost $160; 40 copies would cost $640.     
  12.. Services for May, June, July:  
July 1 or 8: Story as Social Justice Art - RT People's State of the Union  McGovern, Tumas-Serna

Bill McNeely - okay in July

Dr. Nkenge Friday of Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Marietta College - new theme?

 

  13.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  
  14.. 2017-18 "How do we create a world of our values?"  
 

April                             

1                    Kat - "Nurture Your Spirit; Help Heal World" Easter  WA: Martha McGovern

            8          Dawn Michelle Wilson "Do Your Values . . . Wallet?"    WA:  Shari Miller

            15        Kat - "Clutter, Clutter, Toil and Struggle"         WA: Chris Jacobs

            22        Kat -  "Cherish the Universe"  [Earth Day spot]  WA:  Tabatha Hubbard

            29        Kat - "We Are All Connected" [Annual Congregational Meeting]         WA:  Jim Rapp

                        Suggestion:  Meet in Social Hall

 

May     Amayzing Month of May

            6          (unveiling of painting)  guest speaker     WA:  Suzyn Mills

            13        Kat - (Mother's Day) Mothers & Social Activism  WA: Rebecca Phillips

            20        Kat - Art of Worship, Ministry WA: Chris Jacobs        

27        Kat - (Memorial Day)                           WA: Martha McGovern

 

June

3          Flower Communion 

            10        *Meg and Todd Hoke  "5 Happy Things"

            17        Father's Day Picnic

            24        UUA Live-Streaming       [Breakfast snacks provided by W & M Committee??]

                        [Plant Sale]

 

July 

            1          

            8

            15

            22

            29

 

August

            5

            12

            19

            26

 

Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  Sustainability: Annie Warmke, 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, 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. 

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)

            Services based on songs:  Cat Stevens's "Just Can't Keep It In"  Matisyahu - "One Day"

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

            For Pledge Drive:  Kerry Blair singing "If I Were a Rich Man"

            Festivus for next year                            

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

Bill McNeely  "New Insights Into Consciousness"

*Possible Services for April and May and beyond

Peg Clifford - "Where did I come from & why?" testimonials from members/friends

People's State of the Union - readers theatre from story circles

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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