[Worship] Agenda for Worship & Music Committee meeting, Wed., May 1, 5:00 p.m., Parlor

[Martha McGovern]

Greetings, W & M Committee members -- Looking forward to seeing you this Wednesday.  Be thinking of possible service topics for this summer!



Agenda for May 1,  2019  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

  1.. Minutes of April meeting to be approved 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:    
    2.. Special Music Team:   Suzyn 
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  
    4.. Piano Task Force: Suzyn will arrange for digital piano to be moved to Social Hall between Yard Sale and June 16. 
    5.. Technology Task Force: 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds: Maggie 
  5.. Expenditures:  
Donation to Multicultural Festival - Martha sent recommendation to Board that FUUSM donate $500 so that we are officially a sponsor and visible in promotional materials for the Festival.  

Melissa Jeter canceled so no request for stipend made. 

  6.. Budget Proposal - Budget for 2019-2020 approved by Finance and Board? 
  7.. Annual Report for 2018-2019 --  THANK YOU to Suzyn Mills for reporting at the Annual Meeting.   Feedback on actions taken at the meeting? 
  8.. Assessment of Service:  We Nurture a Diverse Community - Kat
What went well:  

What to refine:  

Thematic:  

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: 

Life Span:  

  9.. Outside Greeters - The W & M Committee recommends that Membership Committee add greeters outside in order to identify need for the lift and to facilitate its use.  Adeline will communicate the basis for the recommendation to the Membership Committee.  
  10.. New Theme for 2019-2020:  How do we address the paradox of "We"? 
  11.. Services for  April - August:  
·        Planning for farewell for Nancy and Ernie - Kat  -- Set for May 19, potluck

·        clarification of various service/outreach activities of the local congregation and endeavors with UUA, UUSC, etc. and their relationship with FUUSM principles, mission

Need for tracking and regular reporting? For example in Finance Committee records and Annual Meeting  report??   Do our church finances align with our mission?

·        Katy McDaniel - Dark Tourism (responsibility of deity or humans?)  Check for other dates in July or August

·        Consolidation reflection for services related to theme for 2018-19 - Kat end of August

·        Paradox of "We" - Becky Wright is willing to teach dance that illustrates the concept.  (306 Fifth Street)

 

  12.. 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.

 2019

April   

            7          Kat - Welcome on Sundays                              WA: Rebecca Phillips

            14        Kat - Families Find a Way                               WA: Martha McGovern

            21        Kat - ALL AGES Easter                                                          WA: Tabatha Hubbard

            28        Kat   - We Nurture a Diverse Community         WA: Gene Barry             Annual Meeting

 

May

            5  [no Kat]  That Our Lives May Be Works of Art   WL: Martha McGovern  WA:Suzyn Mills

            12        Kat  (Mothers Day)  Different Voices & Different Roles               WA: Tabatha Hubbard

            19        Kat   I Am Farmer -- Farmer Tantoh of SYFA                         WA: Gene Barry

            26        Kat   Memorial Day                                                                  WA:  Chris Jacobs?

 

June

June 1 & 2 - Yard Sale           

            2          Kat - Flower Communion                                             WA: Jim Rapp  (+Tabatha Hubbard)

            9          Kat -                                                                            WA:  Andrew Clovis                            

            16        Kat - (Fathers Day) Faith of Our Fathers             WA:                             Plant Sale

            23        Kat - FUUSM Picnic at Multicultural Festival    WA:  Andrew Clovis ?

30        Kat - play taped service from General Assembly           WA:  

 

July

            7          Kat - Katy McDaniel "Partisanship or Partnership?"     WA:

            14        Kat -                                                                            WA:

            21        Kat - 

            28        Kat -

 

August

            4

            11

            18

            25

September

            1          Labor Day

            8          Water Ingathering

            15        

            22

            29



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), 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)

            Summer Institute:  Encouraging attendance, using resources  e.g., Non-Violent Communication 

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)

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

Trauma-Informed Care/ Trauma-Informed Schools

 

                                                    

 

    

 

 

 
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