[Worship] Worship & Music -- Minutes of March 22 meeting

[Martha McGovern]

Minutes of Worship & Music Committee Meeting    March 22, 2020    11:00 - noon    Nursery  face-to-face and with Zoom
In Attendance:  Kat Hawbaker, Martha McGovern, Suzyn Mills, Ralph Olander, Maggie Meyer     [via Zoom]: Rebecca Phillips, Adeline Bailey, Nancy Luthy, Peg Cifford, Jane Tumas-Serna, Randy Kidder

NEXT MEETING:  March 29, 11:00 a.m., Social Hall at FUUSM and on Zoom

Responses to First Question:  What are we trying to do with what we provide or link to?  (What needs are we meeting?  What results are we hoping for?)

1.  maintain our sense of community
2.  provide support to the congregation
3.  offer inspiration
4.  increase awareness of opportunities for applying our principles in the current circumstances
5.  increase our sense of personal well-being
6.  keep congregation informed
7.  decentralize sharing, communication
8.  be strategic, coordinated
9.  meet the needs of the most vulnerable
10.  plan for redundancy of leadership so FUUSM maintains consistent operation

Responses to Second Question:  What options are available for achieving those aims?

1.  Maintain our sense of community
        Revive the Call Tree                                                                     Board apparently established one for emergency closings, etc.    It needs to be revived.
        Schedule small group gatherings, such as Chalice Circles, that abide by public health guidelines
        Schedule Zoom gatherings  
      Use FUUSMchat for Joys & Sorrows, discussion of shared readings/viewings/news reports
       Use Women's Group and Men's Group lists for email sharing, check-ins
      Hold established sessions, such as Meditation, in combined face-to-face and Zoom form 
      Use Facebook Live to broadcast short services
       Draw upon the UUA's Church of the Larger Fellowship -- View identified service or talk show (current or archived) and discuss (email, Zoom, face-to-face)
        Access FUUSM website for archives of Reflections  -- Listen to identified reflection and discuss (email, Zoom, face-to-face)

2.  Provide support to the congregation, especially the most vulnerable
        Caring Committee has already organized to be in touch consistently with those most in need.
       Make extra effort to stay in contact with those not technologically connected by distributing information in targeted ways and by providing specific training. 

        How do we define "support"?                                                      Board, Finance Committee need to address absence of Sunday offering collection, etc. 
      ???  Kat provides emotional/spiritual support, but if she is unable to do so, are there others we can call upon?

 3.  Inspire, Increase sense of personal well-being 
        Share quotations, poetry, visuals, and music via links, email, Facebook

4.  Reach out to the larger community
        Caring Committee is organizing a pen pal program with a local nursing home.
        Run a monthly column or do periodic press releases in the local newspapers to inform the public of liberal religious resources and opportunities available to them 
            (e.g., Church of Larger Fellowship, materials on FUUSM website, initiatives related to our principles).

IN SUM
We have a variety of means for achieving these goals/objectives, and we can combine them to increase effectiveness.
    face-to-face interaction
    telephone
    email 
    snail mail
    newsletters, newspapers
    Facebook -- usual postings, live-streaming
    Zoom conferencing, broadcasting
    Church of the Larger Fellowship website
    FUUSM website



        
        
        
        
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