[Worship] Agenda for Worship & Music Committee meeting on November 7 2018 5:00 p.m., Parlor

[Martha McGovern]

Agenda for November 7,  2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

Parlor, 5:00 p.m. 

  1.. Minutes of the October meeting to be approved   
  2.. Correspondence:  Kurt Klettner - thank you has been sent. 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:   Kat  New volunteers - Sarah Barkdull, Andrea Bone, Andrew Clovis 
    2.. Special Music Team:   New volunteer - LeeAnn Gallucci 
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  Anita Newhart, new volunteer, has started. 
    4.. Piano Task Force:  Suzyn 
    5.. Technology Task Force: The committee agreed that we should ask Ralph to investigate options for a television with larger screen.  Martha has conveyed the request. 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  Ron Tepley and Cindy Burton are volunteering.
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie 
  5.. Expenditures:  Stipends for outside speakers in August?   Sherm Koons, Nkenge Friday 
  6.. Assessment of October Service:  
What went well:  

What to refine:  

Thematic:  

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: 

Life Span:  

  7.. Proposal to Board about Multicultural Festival has been sent - hard copy and email. 
  8.. Campaign for purchase of teal hymnals  (donate - acknowledgement in hymnal - combine with service that features hymns from the book) 
  9.. Services for  September-December:  
  10.. Theme for Year 2018-2019:  "How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?"  [Try inductive approach and re-cap]
??? Guiding Reading - #592 The Free Mind by William Ellery Channing

      

October

            7          Kat  "New Leaders Challenge Our Assumptions"     WA: Martha McGovern

                        Blessing of the Animals - 2:00 p.m.

            14        [NO Kat]  Kurt Klettner   "Developing Leaders for a Complex World"                         

Worship Leader:  Rebecca Phillips

    October 20 - Pig Roast

            21        Kat   "The Promise and Practice of Our Faith"    WA: MMcG and Anita Newhart

            28        Kat + Peg Clifford & Leeann Gallucci  "Good Grief and Lessons of Loss"  

WA:  Tabatha Hubbard

 

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 (need to switch?)

    22 Thanksgiving

            25        [No Kat]     From Giving Thanks to Giving Love

Community Card Project AND Decoration of Sanctuary/Fence 

                        W & M Comm - arrange for more elaborate snacks                WA:  Suzyn Mills 

 

December

            2          Kat - Ribbon Ceremony                       WA:  Suzyn Mills

            9          Kat - TBA                                           WA:  Dawn Hewitt

            16        [No Kat]                                              Worship Leader: Rebecca Phillips

            23        Christmas Potluck Brunch  (Structured Conversation?)  Coordinator: Dawn Hewitt

            Monday 24 - Christmas Eve Service                WA: _______________

    25 Christmas Day

            30        Fire Communion                                   WA: Jim Rapp

2019

January

            6

            13

            20

            27

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

 
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