[Worship] Agenda for Worship & Music Comm - February 6 2019 5:00 p.m., Parlor
Martha McGovern
marthamcg at suddenlink.net
Wed Jan 30 10:57:21 CST 2019
Agenda for February 6, 2019 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee
Parlor, shortly after 5:00 p.m.
1.. Minutes of the December/January meeting to be approved. Thanks to Adeline for coordinating the email-meeting for January 2019.
2.. Correspondence: Martha
3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:
1.. Aesthetics Team: Kat
2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn
3.. Worship Associates Team:
4.. Piano Task Force:
5.. Technology Task Force: Kat
6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:
4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds: Maggie
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: Request for $250 for Melissa Jeter - reflection on April 28
Kat: Update on 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.. Budget Proposal - Martha & Kat
7.. Feedback from Community Card Project - Martha
8.. Assessment of Service: Christmas Potluck Brunch OR Charter Sunday, February 3, 2019
What went well:
What to refine:
Thematic:
Spirituality/Faith Traditions:
Life Span:
9.. Campaign for purchase of teal hymnals (donate - acknowledgement in hymnal - combine with service that features hymns from the book) - For future discussion
10.. Services for December- March:
Kat will contact Jann Adams about being speaker on March 10 ?? Maggie Haines - March 3??
11.. 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.
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 - ALL AGES Winter Holidays Program 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: 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 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 Kat Welcome on Sunday ?? - not Maggie Haines?? WA:
10 WA:
17 WA:
24 R. Phillips - World Water Day WA:
31 WA:
April
7 Kat?
14 Kat - Palm Sunday
21 Kat - Easter
28 Kat guest speaker - Melissa Jeter WA:
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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