[Worship] Worship & Music -- agenda for April 4 meeting 5:00 p.m., Parlor

Martha McGovern marthamcg at suddenlink.net
Sat Mar 31 13:26:23 CDT 2018


Agenda for Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

  1.. Minutes of the March meeting to be approved. 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team: Kat 
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn 
Last Sunday in September:  Andrew McKnight  -- degree of involvement TBD

    3..  Worship Associates Team:  
    4.. Piano Task Force:  Suzyn 
    5.. Technology Task Force:   
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
  3.. Folder:  Adeline Bailey 
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie 
  5.. Board policy concerning special collections:  Shari - update on procedure for decisions about special collections on a case by case basis?  
  6.. Expenditures:  Updates ??  The Committee approved stipends for Jean Ambrose ($75), Samuel Prince ($150), and Meg and Todd Hoke ($150 + $50 = $200). 
  7.. Budget Proposal for 2018-19:  The Committee approved a budget request for $4315 - updates?  Issue of pay for Choir Director? 
  8.. Annual Report:  The report has been submitted to Chris for the April meeting.  Spokesperson for April 29?  
  9.. Reflection on March services, assessment of suggested categories in grid 
  10.. Purchase of multiple copies of Singing the Journey (Teal Supplement) 
  11.. Services for May:  follow-up on Story Circles, Bill McNeely, Art emphasis 
  12.. Theme for Year 2018-2019: After lively discussion, the Committee settled on "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  (PossibleVariation:  Are we the leaders we have been waiting for?) 
  13.. 2017-18 "How do we create a world of our values?"  
Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  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 singing "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"

*Possible Services for April and May and beyond

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

People's State of the Union - readers theatre from story circles

Visual Arts (social justice, spirituality)

Clearing Clutter from Our Lives - coordinated with Garage Sale

SICom service - Melissa Jeter  "Building Community in Times of Turmoil"

Shelley Graffs - Singing in Sacred Circle, etc.  graffs at cinci.rr.com

 

January  2018

            7          Kat with Peg - "Baggage Handlers"                  WA: Shari Miller

            14        [MLK Day]  Kat - "Lift Every Voice"  WA: Peg Clifford

            21        Dr. Mark Sibicky "The Wisest One in the Room"          WLeader: Chris Jacobs            (no Kat)

                                                                                                            WA:  Martha McGovern

            28        "People's State of the Union" - Story Circles    WLeader: Jane Tumas-Serna  (no Kat)

                                                                                                            WA:  Tabatha Hubbard

February     

            4          Kat - Charter Sunday  Ministers & Ministry  WA:  Suzyn Mills

            11        MOV Interfaith Dialogue  "World Interfaith Harmony Week"  WA:  Dawn Hewitt

            18        Cancelled -- FLOOD

            25        Toward a More Golden Rule - Rev. Charlotte Lehmann           WA:  Andrew Clovis

 

March

            4          Kat - Answering the Call of Love                     WA: Tabatha Hubbard

            11        Kat - Money Matters                                       WA: Martha McGovern           

            18        (no Kat)  Climate Change and Conscience - Jean Ambrose MOV Friends Meeting 

[Green Sanctuary Committee  Earth Day]          WA:  Dawn Hewitt

            25        Samuel Prince  "What's Your Best Life Now?"     WA: Kat  [B & G spot on windows]

 

April                             

1                    Kat - "Nurture Your Spirit; Help Heal World" Easter  WA: Martha McGovern

            8          Dawn Michelle Wilson "Do Your Values . . . Wallet?"    WA:  Shari Miller

            15        Kat - "Clutter, Clutter, Toil and Struggle"         WA: Chris Jacobs

            22        Kat -  "Cherish the Universe"  [Earth Day spot]  WA:  Tabatha Hubbard

            29        Kat - "We Are All Connected" [Annual Congregational Meeting]         WA:  Jim Rapp

 

May

            6

            13

            20

            27

 

June

3          Flower Communion 

            10        *Meg and Todd Hoke  "5 Happy Things"

            17        Father's Day Picnic

            24        UUA Live-Streaming

                        [Plant Sale]

 
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