[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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