[Worship] Minutes of December 4 meeting of W & M Committee Notice date of January meeting!!!

[Martha McGovern]

Minutes for December 4, 2019 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

** Next Meeting:  January 15, 2020

In Attendance:  Adeline Bailey, Kat Hawbaker, Martha McGovern, Maggie Meyer, Suzyn Mills

  1.. Minutes of  November 6 were approved. 
  2.. Correspondence:  Martha will send a thank you to Katy McDaniel, Jane Tumas-Serna, Nancy Lee, Andrew Clovis, Gary Hamilton & Men's Group. 
  3.. Reports from Specific Task Teams: 
    1.. Aesthetics Team: Jane, Nancy, and Andrew have organized the decoration materials and developed a plan for the Sanctuary and outside of the church.  Gary Hamilton will coordinate decoration of the outside of the church. 
    2.. Special Music Team: Suzyn reported on future music:  "Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie," a song by Shari Ballantyne, a song by the trio.  Choir:  Dec. 22 - "Hanukkah Hayom"   Dec. 24 - "Calypso Lullaby" & "Night of Silence"  January 5 -- Owen & Elsie Cejka duet 
    3.. Worship Associates Team:  Kat and Jim Rapp will plan a refresher for WAs in the spring.  Approved statement about the Native Americans of this area:  We acknowledge that our building occupies the traditional land of various Native American tribes, and we try to walk respectfully and lightly upon that land. 
Martha will update the checklists and scripts, send them to all WAs, and have a copy accessible for use on Sundays in the Sanctuary/Social Hall.

    4.. Piano Task Force: 
    5.. Technology Task Force:  
Establish a process for preparation for incorporating technology.

                        Involve Mike Bailey.

Arrange practices well in advance of service/program.

Include Kelli McDermott.

Use visual displays in Opening and Closing of service.

For books, show only illustrations.  

    6.. Task Force for the Time for All Ages:  Ralph created a list.  Use tfaa at fuusm.org in the "to" line. 
    7.. The Storage Committee:  Maggie will set the first meeting for early in 2020.  Storage of the clavimover and clearance of the office closet for installation of a safe are two issues needing immediate action.
  3.. Expenditures:  
  4.. New Theme for 2019-2020:  How do we address the paradox of "We"?   
  5.. Assessment of Service: 
 What went well: 

 What to refine: 

 Thematic/coherent:  

 Spirituality/Faith Tradition:  

 Life Span:  

  7.. Services for  September - January:  
 

 

December

            1          Kat - Advent/Interfaith Service:  Many Candles, One Light  WA:  Gene Barry

            8          Kat - ALL AGES Community Card Project  John Maddox, Diane McMichael,Teens

                                    No Randy     Do Sanctuary decoration, too.  WA:  Chris Jacobs

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

                                    WA:  Rebecca Phillips

22        Kat - What sustains us in this season?  Solstice    WA:  Dawn Hewitt   CHOIR

Christmas Eve Service  12/24 (Tuesday)  The Story of Christmas in Music ?? WA:  Suzyn Mills CHOIR

            29        Kat and Jim Rapp - Worship Leaders - Fire Communion      

 

January 2020

            5          Kat -- Topsy-Turvy Twelfth Night

            12        Kat -- #UU the Vote Launch

            19        Kat - Honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a Day of Service

            26        (NO Kat)  Guest speaker - Wes Clarke - Mounds of Marietta: Reminders of Others Who 

                                                                                          Walked These Lands

Sustainability Forum - January 31-February 1

February 

            2          Charter Sunday 

            9          World Interfaith Harmony Week

            16

            23

 

March

            1

            8          [no Kat]

            15

            22

            29

            

 

 

Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  

·        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."

·        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

Martha will arrange with poets, artists for future services in March or other month

·        Susan Sheppard (sp?) -- "To Be Indian" Native American experience, poem from Riverside Artists event, gourd by Kathy Norosky, other art work? 

"Arrow Heads" by Nellie Hufford Ruby, wall art by Betsy Cook

·        Appalachian Woman - Virginia Killian painting, poem by Kari Gunter-Seymour, reader was Athens project leader

 

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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