[Worship] Worship & Music Committee - Agenda for August 7 2019 meeting

Mon Aug 5 14:39:16 CDT 2019

Agenda for August 7,  2019  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

  1.. Minutes of  July 3 to be approved. 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:    
    2.. Special Music Team:   
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  Kat and Jim Rapp 
    4.. Piano Task Force: 
    5.. Technology Task Force:  
                                                               i.      Raising level of television -  Kat 

                                           ii.  development of AV presentations for key services throughout the year.  Cynthia Ting is willing to develop a display of her flower photographs.  Martha 
  3.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  Martha - Ralph has created a list. 
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds: 
  5.. Communication:   Martha Webster is included in Worship list. 
  6.. Expenditures:  The Committee unanimously recommends that a donation of $500 be given early to the Multicultural Festival for 2020 so that our sponsorship will be part of all promotion for that event. -- Kat 
  7.. Budget Proposal - how the proposed budget for 2019-2020 aligns with what was approved.
Issue of paid Choir Director

  9.. Recommendation regarding contract with Choir Director Martha Webster-
By means of texting with Martha, the committee formulated the following stipend recommendation:  $200 x 12 months = $2400 per year

The overall amount includes the Christmas Eve Service and covers preparation time during the summer hiatus.

  10.. Outside Greeters -Adeline will bring Roger Kalter and the Safety Team into the discussion about facilitating the use of the lift.  
  11.. August 3 Leadership Training - Peg Clifford 
  12.. Assessment of Service:  Power of Good Vibrations August 4
What went well:

What to refine:

Thematic/coherent:

Spirituality/Faith Traditions:

Life Span:

  13.. New Theme for 2019-2020:  How do we address the paradox of "We"?   
  14.. Services for  September - December:  
·        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?)  Martha is awaiting response.  Other date in October?

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

·        On the day of the Planetarium visit, the topic for the Cozy Conversation will be the theme question for 2018-19:  How can we inspire leaders for a complex world?  BRIDGES has identified August 18 for the Planetarium.

·        Possible speakers:  Robin Bozian, artists: Dani, Morgan/Owen

·        Workshop service:  prayer flags - Kat and Peg will take the lead on the service; Jane Tumas-Serna is willing to help.  

·        Mind maps may help the congregation identify how they are active in FUUSM efforts/activities and what additional options they would like.

·        Moral leadership:  Truman and Berlin Air Lift

·        Stephen Peck - willing to, need to line up date

  15.. 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

July

            7          [no Kat] Katy McDaniel "Partisanship or Partnership?"WL: Jim Rapp   [Soc Justice]

            14        Kat -  Song Circles-Community Sing                            WA: Dawn Hewitt

            21        Worship Leaders: Kat & Stassa - "India & Interfaith Insights"                                       

            28        Kat - "The Souls of Poor Folk"                        WA:

August

August 3 - UUA Leadership Training Workshop

            4          Kat - "Power of Good Vibrations" with Lawrence Greene & Drum Circle                                                                    WA:  Jane Tumas-Serna  [Soc Justice]

11        Kat - "Who Is the Leader in the Dance of 'We'?"         WA:  Martha McGovern  (C. Jacobs for announcements)

Paradox of "We" - Becky Wright is willing to teach dance that illustrates the concept.  

            (306 Fifth Street)    (740) 373-2132  oreo1506 at suddenlink.net  306 Fifth Street                     

            18        Planetarium & Cozy Conversation (Peg,Martha)  "How can we inspire leaders for FUUSM?"

            25        "Laughing All the Way to Insight" (Kat, Martha, Peg) 

September

            1          Kat -- Labor Day   [poems from Richard Blanco Ware Lecture ?? - "One Today" (Have 

                                    this as picture book) & "Declaration of Interdependence"]

            8          Kat -- Water Ingathering

            15        

Pig Roast 9/21

22        Robin Bozian

            29

October

            6

            13

            20

            27

November                                [National Native American Heritage month]

            3          Day of the Dead

            10

            17

            24

December

            1

            8

            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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