[Worship] Agenda for Worship & Music Meeting -- THIS Wednesday, 5:00 p.m., Parlor
Peg Clifford
peggyclifford at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 16:04:17 CDT 2018
See you at 530.
On Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 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.
>
> 1. Worship Associates Team: Orient/re-orient so that all duties are
> addressed consistently.
> 2. Piano Task Force*: Suzyn*
> 3. Technology Task Force:
> 4. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
> 1. Affirmation in hymnals: *Suzyn*
> 2. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds: *Maggie* (Please see email
> with report.)
> 3. 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.
> 4. Feedback on implementation of the special collection for Black
> Lives UU and the Going Forth pilot project: *Kat*
> 5. 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 --
>
> 1. *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:
>
>
>
> 1. 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.]
>
> 1. *Services for August, September*:
> 2. *Theme for Year 2018-2019*: * “How can we inspire leaders for a
> complex world?” [Try inductive approach and re-cap]*
> 3. *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
> <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
> <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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