[Worship] Agenda for Worship & Music Comm Meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 4
Martha McGovern
marthamcg at suddenlink.net
Sun Sep 1 20:03:50 CDT 2019
Agenda for September 4, 2019 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee
1.. Minutes of August 7 to be approved.
2.. Correspondence: Thank you to Becky Wright, Beth Casebolt with input from Suzyn. bcasebolt at uua.org
3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams:
1.. Aesthetics Team: Kat
2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn
3.. Worship Associates Team: Kat and Jim Rapp will plan a refresher for WAs in the fall. Martha will update the checklists and scripts, send them to all WAs, and be sure they are accessible for use on Sundays in the Sanctuary/Social Hall.
4.. Piano Task Force: Suzyn and Randy will set a date for a fund-raiser recital, perhaps connected with Twelfth Night.
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. Cindy Burton, Jimmy and Lyndsey Bennett have agreed to coordinate or produce AV presentations.
iii. Repairing/replacing sound equipment in Sanctuary and Social Hall - Mike Bailey reported that, in the Sanctuary, the left and center speakers are now operational and other speakers have been re-aimed. The repairman projected that a new sound board and loop hearing assistance system would cost $2000. Mike recommended testing the adjusted arrangement before purchasing a replacement.
A replacement system for the Social Hall has been purchased. Mike Bailey and Ralph Olander will submit a reimbursement form.
4.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages: Ralph has created a list.
5.. Coordination with Buildings & Grounds: The group will reactivate in the fall.
6.. Communication: Martha Webster is included in Worship list.
7.. 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 will report on action at the September meeting.
8.. 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 -Roger Kalter, the Safety Team, and Buildings & Grounds recommend that the cover NOT be used for the lift. Training sessions for Worship Associates will be scheduled. Maggie will report on conversations B & G about a ramp and the lift.
11.. August 3 Leadership Training - Kat will report in September.
12.. Assessment of Service:
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:
· The nature of prayer - Rain Dance was envisioning, 4 types - supplication, thanksgiving, contrition, praise
· Kindness
· 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?
· Consolidation reflection for services related to theme for 2018-19 - Kat end of August
· 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
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
August
August 3 - UUA Leadership Training Workshop
4 Beth Casebolt - "Covenants, Interdependence, and UUism" Kat - WL 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 WA: Jim Rapp
15 Kat - Sustainable Eating WA: Andrew Clovis
Pig Roast 9/21
22 Robin Bozian "Growing Up UU" WA: Dawn Hewitt
29 Stephen Peck - Catholic Universalism: God Is Love WA: Rebecca Phillips
October
6 Annie Warmke "12 Steps to Thriving"
13
20
27
November [National Native American Heritage month]
3 Day of the Dead
Service Auction 11/9
10
Best Climate Change Coffee House 11/16
17
24 Katy McDaniel "Dark Tourism"
December
1
8
15
22
Christmas Eve Service 12/24
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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