[Worship] Agenda for W & M Committee meeting June 6, 5:00 p.m., Parlor

Tue May 29 07:16:11 CDT 2018

Agenda for June 6, 2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee  

  1.. Minutes of the May to be approved. 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team: Kat 
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn 
Andrew McKnight has agreed to provide special music and the reflection for September 23.  Cost will be $200.

    3.. Worship Associates Team:  
    4.. Piano Task Force:  Suzyn 
    5.. Technology Task Force:  Purchase of another multi-directional microphone? 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
  3.. Folder:  Adeline Bailey 
The group also suggested that the Affirmation be pasted into the hymnals so that attendees will always have access to it.   Follow through report - Martha

  5.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie 
  6.. Board Update: Shari 
  7.. Expenditures:  [Meg and Todd Hoke ($150 + $50 = $200)] 
  8.. Budget Proposal for 2018-19:  As of April 8, 2018, the Finance Committee has reduced the budget to $3315.  Jessica Baldwin expresses willingness to substitute when she is in town.  She has no recommendations for others.   
Martha and Shari will communicate to the Finance Committee and the Board that the Committee suggests that, starting with the new fiscal year, when Martha Webster contracts to take full responsibility for preparation of and direction of a particular piece, she be paid $50, which is the rate for a guest musician.   

  9.. Reflection on Annual Meeting:  In the future, especially if we hold the worship service in Social Hall before the Annual Meeting, here are some suggested improvements.  
A.  Schedule the space well in advance so that Adult RE can plan accordingly.  

B.  Plan for transfer of essential supplies (e.g., nametages, collection plates, hymnals).  

C.  Identify a person whose only duty during the meeting is serving as Parliamentarian.

  10.. Assessment of May services:  
  11.. Services for June, July, August:  
June 10 - check for Meg and Todd Hoke  Who?

June 24 -Live-Streaming of  GA - Mike Bailey will coordinate.  W & M Comm - coffee & 

            snacks?   Adeline - order of service hand-out?     (BRIDGES - chalk art)

Bill McNeely - delay till fall

Dr. Nkenge Friday of Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Marietta College - new theme?

Annie and Jay Warmke - sustainability ?

  12.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  
  13.. 2017-18 "How do we create a world of our values?"  

May     Amayzing Month of May

            6          Rev. Caitlin C. Coillberg  "The Art of Tactfulness"         WA:  Suzyn Mills

            13        Kat - "When Mothers March" (Mother's Day)   WA: Rebecca Phillips

            20        Kat - "Images of the Divine"     WA: Chris Jacobs        

27        Kat - "We Remember" (Memorial Day)                                   WA: Martha McGovern

June

3          Kat - Flower Communion WA: Jim Rapp   (Jim & Nancy Novak)

            10        *Meg and Todd Hoke  "5 Happy Things"    WA:  Dawn Hewitt

            17        Father's Day Picnic      WA:  Peg Clifford

            24        UUA Live-Streaming       [Breakfast snacks provided by W & M Committee??]

                        [Plant Sale]

July 

1                    Martha McGovern & Jane Tumas-Serna - "People's State of the Union" Readers Theatre 

WA:  Martha McGovern

            8          Kat    TBA    WA:  Rebecca Phillips

            15        Kat    Summer Institute   WA:  Peg Clifford

            22        Kat    Annie & Jay Warmke - "How to Use the Economics of Happiness to Re-Organize 

                                    Your Life"

            29        Kat      TBA    WA:  Dawn Hewitt

August

            5          [no Kat]  Sherm Koons - Issues underlying March for Our Lives  WA: __________

            12        Kat      Nkenge Friday - TBA              WA:  ____________

            19        Kat      TBA                             WA:  Peg Clifford

            26        Kat      TBA                             WA:  Dawn Hewitt

September

            2          (Labor Day)

            9          Water Ceremony

            16

            23        Andrew McKnight        WA:  Suzyn Mills

            30        

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

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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