[Worship] FUUSM Worship Committee - Agenda for Wednesday, Dec. 5 meeting -- 5:00 p.m., Parlor

[Martha McGovern]

Agenda for December 5,  2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

  1.. Minutes of the November to approve   
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:   Kat - holiday decoration of Sanctuary, arrangement for deconstruction 
    2.. Special Music Team:   Suzyn   
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  
    4.. Piano Task Force:  
    5.. Technology Task Force: Ralph Olander has purchased a television with larger screen for use in the Sanctuary.  
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie - Please see attached report. 
  5.. Expenditures:  Reimbursement of Ralph for TV purchase, request to cover Martha Webster's pay for preparation of Choir pieces so far this current fiscal year. 
  6.. Assessment of Service:  
What went well:  

What to refine:  

Thematic:  

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: 

Life Span:  

  7.. Campaign for purchase of teal hymnals  (donate - acknowledgement in hymnal - combine with service that features hymns from the book) 
  8.. Services for  December - March:  
  9.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  [Try inductive approach and re-cap]
The Committee agreed to use #592 The Free Mind by William Ellery Channing as the guiding reading for the thematic year.

      

November

            4          Kat + Jane T-S  Day of the Dead         WA: Jim Rapp              Choir

            11        Kat  Feast & Famine                            WA: Rebecca Phillips

            18        Kat  All-Ages Thanksgiving                  WA: Martha McGovern

    22 Thanksgiving

            25        [No Kat or Randy]  From Giving Thanks to Giving Love   Worship Leader:  Suzyn Mills

Community Card Project AND Decoration of Sanctuary/Fence 

                        Suzyn & Martha - arrange for more elaborate snacks 

 

December

            2          Kat - Ribbon Ceremony                       WA:  Suzyn Mills  [Caring Committee project]

            9          [No Kat]  Peggy Gish "Seeking Peace in a Broken Land"         

Worship Leader:  Rebecca Phillips                                Forum, Book Signing

            16        Kat - Festivus  ALL AGES                 WA: Martha McGovern

            23        Kat - Singing the Light Home   WA: Dawn Hewitt, Chris Jacobs

Christmas Potluck Brunch  

            Monday 24 - Christmas Eve Service                WA: _______________

    25 Christmas Day

            30        Kat - Fire Communion                          WA: Jim Rapp

2019

January 

            6          Kat - Epiphany, Feast of Three Kings, 12th Night 

            13

            20        MLK

            27        [no Kat]  Rob McManus  "Followship"   WA: __________________    [AV need]

February 

3  Charter Sunday - Honor Nancy Novak

10

17

24

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

            3          [no Kat]  Maggie Haines - Hospice

            10

            17

            24

            31

 

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?

 

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, 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

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

Hospice - Maggie Haines, LPN    Marietta Home Health and Hospice, 740-651-7038

Leadership - Rob McManus, rmm002 at marietta.edu

 

                                                    

 

 

 
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