[Worship] Worship & Music Comm -- Agenda for April 3 meeting 5:00 p.m. Parlor

[Martha McGovern]

Agenda for April 3,  2019  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

  1.. Minutes of March meeting to be approved.   
  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: 
    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  
  4.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds:  Maggie 
  5.. Expenditures:  Donation to Multicultural Festival
Request for $250 for Melissa Jeter (reflection scheduled for April 28) was approved.

  6.. Budget Proposal - Revised Proposed Budget for 2019-2020 was submitted to Finance and Board.  
  7.. Annual Report for 2018-2019 --  Revised document was sent to Chris. 
  8.. Assessment of Service:  
What went well:  

What to refine:  

Thematic:  

Spirituality/Faith Traditions: 

Life Span:  

  9.. New Theme for 2019-2020:  How do we address the paradox of "We"? 
  10.. Services for  April - August:  
·        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?), Partisanship (exclusion/inclusion)   Not available for May 5, but can do June 23 or July 7  Check for other dates in July or August

·        Consolidation reflection for services related to theme for 2018-19

 

  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.

 2019

March

            3          [No Kat]  Jann Adams                                                 WL:   Suzyn Mills

            10        Kat -  Women Leaders: Then and Now                        WA:  Dawn Hewitt

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

            24        [no Kat]  R. Phillips - World Water Day                      WA:  Andrew Clovis

March 30 - Empty Bowls - Williamstown Methodist Church

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

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  guest speaker - Melissa Jeter "Building Community"          WA: Gene Barry             Annual Meeting

 

May

            5          [no Kat]

            12        Mothers Day

            19        Farmer Tantoh of SYFA   

            26        Memorial Day

 

June

June 1 & 2 - Yard Sale           

            2          Flower Communion

            9                                                                                  Plant Sale

            16        FUUSM Picnic & Fathers Day

            23        watch tape of Richard Blanco (Henry Ware Lecturer) ?

30        play taped service from General Assembly?

 

July

            7

            14

            21

            28

 

August

            4

            11

            18

            25

 



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)

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

 

                                                    

 

    

 

 

 
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