[Worship] Agenda for October 2 2019 meeting of Worship & Music Committee 5:00 p.m., Parlor

Sat Sep 28 21:59:22 CDT 2019

Agenda for October 2,  2019  Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

  1.. Minutes of  September 4 meeting to be approved 
  2.. Correspondence:  Thank you notes to Robin Bozian, Stephen Peck, Mike Bailey and Ralph Olander. 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams: 
    1.. Aesthetics Team:  One element is a large WE to highlight the theme for the year.  
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn will follow up on information about the upcoming performance by the Columbus Gay Men's Chorus and cooperation with the hosting church.  
Other plans:  "Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie," a song by Shari Ballantyne, a song by the trio.

    3.. Worship Associates Team:  Kat and Jim Rapp will plan a refresher for WAs in the fall.  Martha will update the checklists and scripts (including a statement about the Native American of this area), 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 - Joe Baker is building a stand that is higher.   It is suggested that the stand have wheels and that a ramp be constructed to the front stage for both easier transfer of AV equipment and for individuals who have mobility issues.

                                                             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.  A display for Blessing of the Animals is a first project that will involve the members of the congregation.

                                                            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 but other speakers need to be 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 for $393.  Mike Bailey and Ralph Olander will submit a reimbursement form.

                                                           iv.      Tim Finkle stabilized the altar table.

  4.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  Ralph created a list.  Use tfaa at fuusm.org in the "to" line. 
  5.. The Storage Committee will reactivate in the fall. 
  6.. Communication:   Ralph has added Nancy Luthy, Board liaison, to the worship list and removed Katy McDaniel. 
  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 
  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.. August 3 Leadership Training with Beth Casebolt - Kat will report in October. 
  11.. New Theme for 2019-2020:  How do we address the paradox of "We"?   
  12.. Assessment of Service:
What went well:

What to refine:

Thematic/coherent:

Spirituality/Faith Tradition:

Life Span:

  13.. Services for  September - December:  
·        The nature of prayer - Rain Dance was envisioning, 4 types - supplication, thanksgiving, contrition, praise    

(paraphrase)  Abraham Lincoln: If you want to raise the likelihood of the future you have predicted, get involved in creating it.

Barbara Kingsolver:  "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.  And the most you can do is live inside that hope.  Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

·        Kindness 

·        ??  Forgiveness as recurring service - connected with Yom Kippur "We forgive ourselves and each other.  We begin again in Love."

·        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?

·        Possible speakers:  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

·        Susan Sheppard  -- Native American experience, poem from Riverside Artists event

·        Appalachian Woman - Virginia Killian painting, poem by Athens project leader

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  (recycling activity?)

Pig Roast 9/21

22        Kat - Robin Bozian "Growing Up UU"              WA: Dawn Hewitt

            29        Stephen Peck - Catholic Universalism:  God Is Love     WA:  Rebecca Phillips

October

            6          Kat -- Biodiversity and Endangered Species     WA: Suzyn Mills

Blessing of Animals - 4:00 p.m. in Courtyard

            13        Annie Warmke  "12 Steps to Thriving"  WA:Rebecca Phillips    Brad Bond - 90th B'day

            20        Kat - To Each Their Own But What of Us?      WA:

            27        Kat - Origins of Halloween (Samhain - Pagan New Year)

November        [National Hispanic Cultural Heritage month; Native American Heritage month]

            3          Kat -- Day of the Dead                                    WA: Jane Tumas-Serna

Service Auction 11/9

            10        Kat and Martha   Kindness                               WA:  N/A

Best Climate Change Coffee House  11/16

            17        Kat - Kinds of Prayers & ALL AGES Thanksgiving                 WA:

            24        Katy McDaniel  "Dark Tourism"                       WL: Suzyn Mills

December

            1          Kat -- ALL AGES Community Card Project  Martha - ask John Maddox, Diane Michaels

            8          

            15        Kat - Ribbon Ceremony  Marietta Merry & Bright -Afternoon cookies & cocoa in Muskingham Park

            22        Kat - Many Candles, One Light OR Fleeting Merriment, Lasting Joy

Christmas Eve Service  12/24 (Tuesday)  The Story of Christmas in Music ??

            29        Kat - Fire Communion

January 

            5          Twelfth Night

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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