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

[Joe Baker]

Hi Martha,
It looks like you had a very good response to your meeting yesterday,
including a number of Zoom participants. I hope you did not feel forced
into the nursery to start your meeting. We were intending to vacate the
tables in Fellowship Hall and went past the 11am time frame when we
realized that you were setting up in the nursery. Hope your meeting went
well; the corona virus is forcing us to be flexible in ways that we had not
envisioned....maybe that's a good thing?
Thanks,
Joe

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 7:49 AM Martha McGovern via Worship <
worship at fuusm.org> wrote:

> 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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