[Worship] Worship & Music Committee - minutes of June 3 2020 meeting

[Martha McGovern]

Minutes June 3, 2020 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee 

In Attendance:  Adeline Bailey, Kat Hawbaker, Nancy Luthy, Martha McGovern, Maggie Meyer, Suzyn Mills, Ralph Olander, Annie Warmke

  1.. Minutes for May meeting were approved. 
  2.. Proposed Budget for 2020-2021 has been adjusted:  Cost of sheet music will be covered by Novak Special Fund for the Music Department; Worship Program allotment has been reduced to $1589.94.  Total for W & M:  $2859.94 
  3.. Payment of $200 to Andrew McKnight for Zoom worship service on July 19, 2020 was approved.
To avoid copyright issues, Suzyn will request Andrew's explicit permission to share his music over Zoom, Facebook, Youtube. 

  4.. Some funds from the Novak Special Fund for the Music Department will go toward buying sheet music for all the choir members.  Adeline has notified Martha Webster of the procedures for reimbursement. 
  5.. Annual Report was submitted and orally presented at the Annual Meeting.     
  6.. Theme for 2020- 2021:  How can we be mindful and authentic in cherishing all life? 
  7.. Goal of Maintaining Sense of Community:  Use of a Call Tree   Nancy Luthy  will follow up with Chris to see how to make contact with members/friends who do not have email.  
  8.. Moving Forward with Virtual Worship Services:  What are next steps??
Ralph reported that he and Mike Bailey are looking into purchase of a video camera and methods of including musical elements that retain high quality in transmission.  Nancy Luthy shared that the Board is supportive of our efforts and will provide necessary funds.  

She also reported that the Board is establishing a task force to establish guidelines for returning to in-church services and for use of the church buildings by outside groups.

The Committee reaffirmed our commitment to taking responsibility and/or to collaborating with Kat for one or two services per month.

  9.. The committee agreed that Ted Goertzel's suggestion to offer Current Issues - a weekly discussion group on Zoom was a good one.    Participants may be a resource for a worship service, perhaps as early as July 26.
May - August:  

May

            3          Kat & Jane T-S   Weaving Our World Anew                AMAYzing Month of May

            10        Mothers Day: Life Influences  Annie Warmke, John Kidd, Michael Chisholm    WL: 

                                    Suzyn  Mills  

            17        Kat - We All Wear Masks

            24        Martha & Kat  Memorial Day:  Accepting the Torch                                                     

            31        Kat - TBA                                                       FUUSM Congregational Meeting

June

            7          Kat & Jim Rapp - Flower Communion: What Gift Do You Bring?

            14        Kat - The Sweet June Days  (with Martha)

            21        Father's Day  Worship Leader - Suzyn Mills (Dean Banziger & family, Nancy Luthy, Cindy Brown)

            28        Kat - General Assembly: Fresh from the Fracas   (with Mike Bailey, Michelle Wilson)

July

            5          Kat - The Paradox of We: Now and In the Future

            12        GA - 24-28  show video in July? --- Martha/Adeline will inquire

            19        Andrew McKnight - Tilling Our Common Ground OR Beyond These Walls (Suzyn Mills)

            26        Keeping Sane in a Time of Insanity  (Annie Warmke)

August

            2

            9

            16

            23

            30

 

            

Possible Topics and speakers for future services:  

·        ***Wenda Sheard from Athens UU proposes collaboration, perhaps in spring 2020, in which Athens and Marietta would do a joint service, at Athens church one Sunday and Marietta church another Sunday.   Offer came via Robin at bozian.com

·        Jim Rapp - idea to connect historical events/movements to FUUSM -  "From These Pews"

·        Martha will communicate to Rev. Elizabeth Teal of the Jacksonville, Florida UU congregation that we will welcome her as a guest speaker and will coordinate dates, probably in the summer.  904-874-0047  reverendteal at gmail.com

·        Kat will open discussion with Rev. Elizabeth Maleke , Williamstown Presbyterian, about a pulpit exchange or team preaching.  

·        The nature of prayer - Rain Dance was envisioning, 4 types - supplication, thanksgiving, contrition, praise    

·        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

·        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     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 

·        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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