[Worship] Virtual, email meeting of Worship & Music Committee Minutes of Worship & Music Comm meeting Dec. 5 2018
Martha McGovern
marthamcg at suddenlink.net
Fri Jan 4 15:33:37 CST 2019
Thank you, Adeline, for following through.
Here's some additional information:
1. I sent thank-you notes to LeeAnn and Peg for their service.
2. Worship Associates for January -- Jan. 6 - Shari Ballantyne; Jan. 13 - Peg Clifford; Jan. 20 - still open; Jan. 27 - Martha McG [I'll make an appeal for February's WAs soon.]
3. Melissa Jeter is penciled in for March 17.
4. February 24 will be a presentation of the People's State of the Union story circles, which will have been held on January 27 in the afternoon.
5. Kat and I have talked a bit and plans are moving forward for the February 3 Charter Sunday service and honoring of Nancy Novak.
See you all on Wednesday, February 6, for our regular 5:00 p.m. meeting in the Parlor!
Martha
From: Adeline Bailey via Worship
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2019 4:09 PM
To: worship at fuusm.org
Cc: Adeline Bailey
Subject: Re: [Worship] Minutes of Worship & Music Comm meeting Dec. 5 2018
Hello, W&M committee,
I'm calling our email meeting to order. Minutes from December would indicate the following items for discussion:
1. Minutes of December meeting.
I approve them. You?
2. Correspondence.
Not aware of any.
3. Report from Special Task Teams.
Aesthetics Team:
a. I hear there is progress on shelving and bins, as well as a start on putting things away. Deco will stay up until after Jan. 6, as already stated. Outside decor taken down last Sunday.
b. Someone located more descriptions for the Sanctuary displays. (Not I! Never found any old copies)
Special Music:
a. Consort will play a small set in addition to prelude, meditation, offertory, and will involve choir members and congregation in singing the "Gloucester Wassail" as a postlude. Randy will play hymns. Hoping Kat will cover Epiphany. Cynthia Ting will share info about the 12th Night tradition and the VRC's history and involvement with 12th Night.
b. I believe Suzyn is trying to schedule Tria/Quadra for end of January or sometime in February. Suzyn?
c. New: We should try to schedule the young cellist for a service soon.
Worship Associates:
List for January Confluence was incomplete. Suggestions for more WAs?
Piano Task Force:
Electronic piano moved to opposite side of Sanctuary - for Christmas tree?
Technology Task Force:
a. New TV has been delivered and will be available for Jan. 27 service (Rob McManus, guest speaker)
b. Storage cabinet/box - ongoing discussion. Storage Committee and B&G involvement??
c. New: Secure holder (box) for laptop downstairs. Old computer will be removed.
Time for All Ages:
4. Coordination with Buildings and Grounds.
Maggie?
5. Expenditures
Martha? Kat?
6. Assessment of service
Most recent is the Fire Communion, November 30th.
Except for the new song the congregation couldn't sing without the words, went well, IMHO.
Meaningful way to close out the year, good participation, smooth enough process, and lighting a candle of hope was very positive. But burning paper is not really a pleasant odor. Loved the dragon story and the dragon - I liked having it in the back, although not as dramatic as rising from the choir box. Having the kids interact with it "for luck" was great.
7. Campaign for purchase of teal hymnals
?? Need to discuss.
8. Services for December- March:
Kat will contact Jann Adams about being speaker on March 10.
Martha will contact Melissa Jeter about service on February 24 or date in March.
9. 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 with Valley Renaissance Consort
WA: Shari Miller
13 Kat - A New Day - A New World How Do You Keep Going? WA:
20 Kat - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday Moral Leadership: More on the Poor People’s Campaign (and Dr. William J. Barber) WA:
27 [no Kat] Rob McManus “Followership” WL: Martha McGovern
February
3 Kat Charter Sunday – Honor Nancy Novak
10 Kat
17 Kat
24 [no Kat]
March – March 24 - Farmer Tantoh of SYFA in conjunction with reveal of children’s book
3 [no Kat] Maggie Haines – Hospice
10
17
24 Farmer Tantoh of SYFA [Plan B: R. Phillips – World Water Day]
31
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
10. Other business?
OK, open for email discussion. Just add your comments in a different color text, and indicate what may need further discussion face to face.
Adeline
Here are the minutes from December, plus Maggie's Storage Committee report:
On 12/6/2018 10:15 PM, Martha McGovern via Worship wrote:
Minutes for December 5, 2018 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee
In Attendance: Adeline Bailey, Kat Hawbaker, Martha McGovern, Maggie Meyer, Suzyn Mills, Rebecca Phillips
1.. Minutes of the November meeting were approved.
2.. Correspondence: Martha has sent most thank you notes and requested input for a service she missed.
3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:
1.. Aesthetics Team: Kat reported that holiday decorations will remain up until after the January 6 service. Dismantling and storing will probably be on Tuesday, January 8. The team is arranging for shelving and clear bins in the storage closets.
For the informational handout, Adeline and Martha will send descriptions of the various Sanctuary displays to Chris.
2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn reported that the Valley Renaissance Consort will play for the January 6 service.
3.. Worship Associates Team:
4.. Piano Task Force:
5.. Technology Task Force: Ralph Olander has located and purchased a television with a larger screen for use in the Sanctuary. He will consult with the Storage Committee about options for storage and placement for visibility.
6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
3.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds: Maggie – Please see attached report.
4.. Expenditures: Martha has submitted a request a request for $50 to cover Martha Webster’s preparation of one Choir piece (November 4, 2018) so far this current fiscal year.
The Committee also approved 1) reimbursement of Ralph Olander for purchase of the television and 2) payment for the repair of the pedal on the home-practice electronic piano.
6.. Assessment of Service: Ribbon Ceremony, December 2
What went well: Choir piece was appropriate and moving.
Kat’s prompt elicited thoughtful responses by the congregation as they brought their
ribbons to hang on the tree.
What to refine:
Adjust procedures for coming forward to changing circumstances and give clear directions.
Effective use of new/unfamiliar songs (e.g., involvement, confidence, message, number)
Ask Dave Ballantyne to be an official helper with hanging ribbons?
Thematic: The service was coherent – “We are all connected.”
Spirituality/Faith Traditions: Indigenous peoples were honored. Displays featured multiple faith traditions. We sang “Peace, Salaam, Shalom.”
Life Span: All ages were involved in the ribbon ceremony.
7.. Campaign for purchase of teal hymnals (donate – acknowledgement in hymnal – combine with service that features hymns from the book) – For future discussion
8.. Services for December- March:
Kat will contact Jann Adams about being speaker on March 10.
Martha will contact Melissa Jeter about service on February 24 or date in March.
9.. 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.
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
22 Thanksgiving
25 [No Kat or Randy] From Giving Thanks to Giving Love Worship Leader: Suzyn Mills
Community Card Project AND Decoration of Sanctuary/Fence
Suzyn & Martha – arrange for more elaborate snacks
December
2 Kat - Ribbon Ceremony WA: Suzyn Mills [Caring Committee project]
9 [No Kat] Peggy Gish “Seeking Peace in a Broken Land” WL: Rebecca Phillips Forum, Book Signing
16 Kat – Festivus for the Rest of Us ALL AGES WA: Martha McGovern
23 Kat - Christmas Potluck Brunch “Singing the Light Home”
Coordinator: Dawn Hewitt WA: Chris Jacobs
Monday 24 – Christmas Eve Service WA: Rebecca Phillips
25 Christmas Day
30 Fire Communion WA: Jim Rapp
2019
January
6 Kat – Epiphany, Feast of Three Kings, 12th Night WA:
13 Kat WA:
20 Kat MLK -- William Barber WA:
27 [no Kat] Rob McManus “Followship” WL: Martha McGovern
February
3 Kat Charter Sunday – Honor Nancy Novak
10 Kat
17 Kat
24 [no Kat]
March – March 24 - Farmer Tantoh of SYFA in conjunction with reveal of children’s book
3 [no Kat] Maggie Haines – Hospice
10
17
24 Farmer Tantoh of SYFA [Plan B: R. Phillips – World Water Day]
31
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
Storage Committee Report
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
From: Maggie Meyer, Storage Committee
To: Worship and Music Committee
· Joe Baker reported that the chair storage units have been completed. With the restoration of one chair dolly, approximately 15 chairs left without storage. The remaining dolly will be donated or discarded
· Joe Baker reported progress is being made in organizing the Bell Tower and decluttering the choir loft. Rev Kat, Nancy Lee, and Joe have gone through stored items in the Bell Tower and choir loft. The Tower has now been cleaned. Now a “more orderly” assessment of items to be stored can be done. Joe concluded that “we are definitely making progress.” The Committee’s original guiding principle for determining what to do with items is being followed: items that were not used last year, or not used this year, or not to be used next year will go to the yard sale, or donated to Goodwill or discarded. Joe’s assessment was that “progress is definitely being made.”
· Nancy Lee’s Report for the Aesthetics Team: We didn’t do a lot of purging during the decorating process because we weren’t sure what we’d be using or discarding. We agreed to take inventory of what we didn’t use when we do the takedown of decorating in early January and get rid of superfluous stuff. Also, we were hoping to update the storage area in the sanctuary and make it more user friendly prior to putting things away this year. This past Sunday I happened to speak with Ralph Olander and Mike Bailey about our hopes for some shelving, lighting and storage bins. Ralph immediately rigged a hanging light in that area, and Mike said he has shelving that would work and also storage bins recently donated by someone. So we are hoping to get all that in place prior to takedown and make things much easier for next year. We think there will be room for at least Xmas and day of the dead decorations. I believe we are un-decorating sometime before January 8 or right around then.
· The Committee’s next meeting will be after the holidays.
Music and Worship Meeting:
· Chair Storage: It was suggested that two chair dollies be restored so all chairs can be stored. It was suggested that the Committee should examine the area between the Fellowship Hall and the restroom as a possible chair storage area.
· Storage Committee should facilitate the placement and storage of the new 65” flat screen TV with a depth of 10”. The TV need to be mounted and stored in such a way that it can 1) be easily moved and 2) located where it can be seen by congregation. Ralph Olander and Mike Bailey need to be included in this process. Maggie Meyer suggested that the Committee should explore if Darryl Ting is willing to build a storage cabinet that fits both these criteria.
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