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

[Martha McGovern]

Hi, Joe --

We didn't feel forced into the Nursery; we just wanted to use the hour-window of time to its fullest.  That setting was fine for our meeting.

I think we made good strides forward.

There is an exhilarating pace of change and an exhausting pace of change.  I'm thinking we are into the exhausting range; I'm taking a LOT of naps . . .

Martha


From: Joe Baker via Worship 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 11:15 AM
To: Worship & Music Committee members 
Cc: Joe Baker 
Subject: Re: [Worship] Worship & Music -- Minutes of March 22 meeting


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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