[Worship] Agenda for Worship & Music Meeting -- THIS Wednesday, 5:00 p.m., Parlor

Tue Aug 7 10:05:29 CDT 2018

Hi, W & M folks --  We'll be meeting this Wednesday, hopefully a short meeting.  Those of you needing to leave for the Women's Group gathering can leave when needed.    
Please do some pre-thinking about 
a.  the UU Carnival scheduled for August 26 and 
b.  the assessment of a service in July.

Martha

AGENDA for August 8, 2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee  

 Wednesday, August 8, 2018   5:00 p.m., Parlor

  1.. Minutes of the July meeting to be approved    
  2.. Correspondence:  up to date 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team: 
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn 
Andrew McKnight has agreed to provide special music and the reflection for September 23.  Cost will be $200.  

Dennis Warner (Beads on One String-anti-bullying) is a possibility for fall of 2019.  She 

            is coordinating with other venues.

    3.. Worship Associates Team:  Orient/re-orient so that all duties are addressed consistently. 
    4.. Piano Task Force:  Suzyn 
    5.. Technology Task Force: 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
  3.. Affirmation in hymnals:  Suzyn 
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie (Please see email with report.) 
  5.. The Committee suggested that all committees allocated a bulletin board (Membership, Social Justice, Green Sanctuary) should designate a person to keep the display up-to-date and attractive.  Nancy Lee has agreed to coordinate this oversight and the bulletin boards for Community Resources and FUUSM Events. 
  6.. Feedback on implementation of the special collection for Black Lives UU and the Going Forth pilot project:  Kat 
  7.. Expenditures:  The Committee agreed that Mike Bailey should seek reimbursement for the personal phone charges incurred when that connection was needed for live-streaming of the GA worship service. Mike will do so if/when he is charged.
Approval of Stipends for outside speakers in August --

  9.. Assessment of July services:  
What went well:  

What to refine:  Diverse Perspectives:  communicated by flowers and content of service

Thematic:  

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: communion

Life Span:  

  10.. Proposal to Board needed?  Kat observed that coverage of a booth at the Multicultural Festival was difficult to arrange and suggested, instead, that FUUSM visibility might be more effectively achieved by being a sponsor of the event for a cost of $500.  Our name and information would be on the website and other advertisements.
[Displaying the FUUSM banner at the picnic site also gives visibility.  Other idea:  UUs could wear our t-shirt on Sunday and carry information cards to pass out when people inquire.] 

  11.. Services for  August, September:  
  12.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  [Try inductive approach and re-cap] 
  13.. 2017-18 "How do we create a world of our values?"  
July 

1              [no Kat] Martha McGovern & Jane Tumas-Serna - "People's State of the Union" Readers 

      Theatre             Worship Leader:  Martha McGovern

            8          Kat - "We Circle Around"    WA:  Rebecca Phillips

            15        Kat    "Thinking Without Bannisters"   WA:  Peg Clifford

            22        Kat    Annie & Jay Warmke - "How to Use the Economics of Happiness to Re-Organize 

                                    Your Life"

            29        Kat & Suzyn Mills  "Are We Exceptional?"   WA:  Dawn Hewitt

August

            5          [no Kat]  Sherm Koons - Issues underlying March for Our Lives  

Worship Leader: Jim Rapp

            12        Kat      Nkenge Friday - TBA              WA:  Suzyn Mills

            19        Kat      Planetarium                               Cozy Conversation:  Peg Clifford

            26        Kat      UU Carnival                             WA:  Dawn Hewitt             

September

            2          [no Kat]  "The Changing World of Work"   Worship Leader: Martha McGovern

            9          Kat      Water Ceremony          WA:

            16        Kat      Take Time to Trust       WA:

            23        Andrew McKnight        WA:  Suzyn Mills

            30        Kat "Who's Your Neighbor?"  WA:

October

            7

            14

            21

            28

November

            4

            11

            18

            25

December

            2

            9

            16

            23

            24 - Christmas Eve

            30

2019

January

February

March - March 24 - Farmer Tantoh of SYFA in conjunction with reveal of children's book

Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  

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?

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 -- "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"

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

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

March for Our Lives - Sherm Koons  hypnohio at outlook.com

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