[Worship] UU Carnival: Can you tell me more?
Martha McGovern
marthamcg at suddenlink.net
Tue Aug 7 11:17:59 CDT 2018
Hi, Peg --
Kat wants to have a "fun" service for the end of the summer. She envisions sort of a carnival of activities to involve the congregation. We can brainstorm ideas at the meeting. I proposed stations around the Social Hall and a timed rotation of groups -- though it might be better to have the activity rotate to seated groups of people. The content would be UU-related and education-lite.
Martha
From: Peg Clifford via Worship
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2018 12:02 PM
To: Worship & Music Committee members
Cc: Peg Clifford
Subject: [Worship] UU Carnival: Can you tell me more?
"But if thought corrupts language, language can
also corrupt thought." George Orwell
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Martha McGovern via Worship <worship at fuusm.org> wrote:
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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