[Worship] Minutes of W & M Comm meeting on February 6, 2019

[Martha McGovern]

Minutes for February 6,  2019  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

In Attendance:  Adeline Bailey, Kat Hawbaker, Martha McGovern, Suzyn Mills

Next Meeting: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 5:00 p.m., Parlor  

  1.. Minutes of the December/January approved.  Thanks to Adeline for coordinating the email-meeting for January 2019. 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha will send a thank you to the Novaks for their gift to the music department, let John Maddox and Andrew Clovis know of gratitude expressed for cards received as part of the Community Card Project, notify Rob McManus that his honorarium has been donated to the Community Food Bank.     
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:  
    1.. Aesthetics Team:   Kat expressed gratitude for the efforts of Nancy Lee and Jane Tumas-Serna and the support they provide to preparation for the worship services..  
    2.. Special Music Team:   Suzyn will contact congregation members (e.g., Kevin Morey, young cellist).  Katy McDaniel is willing to play hymns when Randy is not available. 
    3.. Worship Associates Team:   
    4.. Piano Task Force:  
    5.. Technology Task Force: Kat noted the efforts to create a slide show of congregation memories.  At the Annual Meeting, Kat will remind members and friends that they can opt out of having their photographs included in that and other projects (e.g., website). 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:   
  5.. Expenditures:  Martha has submitted a request for payment of Peggy Gish for $75 for reflection on December 9, 2018, a request for $50 to cover Martha Webster's preparation of one Choir piece for November 4, 2018.  
Martha's request for reimbursement for pendant and necklace gift to Nancy Novak was approved.  

Next meeting: Request for $250 for Melissa Jeter - reflection on April 28

Kat reported that Ralph Olander has been reimbursed for purchase of the television.  

  6.. Budget Proposal - Please see separate document of revised Proposed Budget for 2019-2020.  
  7.. Feedback from Community Card Project - The church has received several expressions of gratitude for cards sent out in December.  Martha will let John Maddox know. 
  8.. Assessment of Service:  
Christmas Potluck Brunch --  All went well.  50 attended.  

Charter Sunday, February 3, 2019

What went well:  LeeAnn Gallucci's Welcome Song "The Circle Expands"

Choice of hymns, special music "Hope Lingers On," Reflection on church history

What to refine:  

Thematic:  Free Mind Chalice Lighting connected 

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: Buddhist Tradition - Thich Nhat Hanh meditation

Life Span:  story about Emerson included his key beliefs and his visit to FUUSM

  9.. Folder:  The experiment is closed.  Putting the affirmation in the hymnals removed some of its need.  The Committee proposes that a) the Inclusion Statement be posted in Social Hall just as the Principles and Affirmation are; b) one of the remaining folders be displayed on the Membership bulletin board. 
  10.. Campaign for purchase of teal hymnals  (donate - acknowledgement in hymnal - combine with service that features hymns from the book) - For future discussion 
  11.. Services for  March - May:  
Kat will contact Jann Adams about being speaker on March 10 ??  

  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

January 

            6          Kat - Epiphany, Feast of Three Kings, 12th Night   WA: Shari Ballantyne

            13        Kat - A New Day, A New World                    WA: Peg Clifford

Canceled - snow 20     Kat - Moral Leadership  MLK  -- William Barber        WA: Jim Rapp

            27        [no Kat]  Rob McManus  "Followership"          WL: Martha McGovern

February 

3          Kat    Honoring Music & Arts in the Life of FUUSM  (Nancy Novak) WA: Suzyn Mills

10        Kat    Interfaith Harmony & Understanding                   WA: Chris Jacobs

17        Kat    Loving Gifts        (Forgiveness - George Lisk)                 WA:  Gene Barry

24        [no Kat]  People's State of the Union  WL: Martha McGovern  WA: Andrew Clovis

[Kat on vacation in Key West, Feb. 25-March 2]

March

            3          [No Kat]  Maggie Haines - Hospice                 WL:   Suzyn Mills

            10        Kat -  guest - Beth Casebolt                                         WA:

            17        Kat - Moral Leadership  MLK  -- William Barber                    WA:

            24        Kat - R. Phillips - World Water Day               WA:

March 30 - Empty Bowls - Williamstown Methodist Church

            31        Kat - R-E-S-P-E-C-T                                     WA:  Peg Clifford??

April   

            7          Kat?                                                     WA:

            14        Kat - Palm Sunday                               WA:

            21        Kat - Easter                                         WA:

            28        Kat  guest speaker - Melissa Jeter        WA:              Annual Meeting

Suggested topic for April service:  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?

 

May

            5          [no Kat]

            12

            19        Farmer Tantoh of SYFA   

            26



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)

            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 

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

 

Hospice - Maggie Haines, LPN    Marietta Home Health and Hospice, 740-651-7038

Leadership - Rob McManus, rmm002 at marietta.edu

 

                                                    

 

    

 

 

 
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