[Worship] Worship & Music Committee meeting 5:30 p.m. Wed.October 7
Martha McGovern
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Fri Oct 9 08:01:02 CDT 2020
Thanks, Annie. This is very helpful as a start!
Martha
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I have some ideas - I think better in the morning. Some thoughts to get it all started. I'm making no definitive statement here - just offering some ideas. Annie
Starting with Robin's reflection service it would be good to include an action we could practice to confront disrespect in public (or with others we know) and relate that one to what if we see or know someone is being abused. Do we approach the situation, access the danger for ourselves & others, or call the law? Good to know what to do ahead of time so we can react in a way that doesn't make us feel bad about our response.
How can we be mindful and authentic in cherishing all life? Offering a thread of how to learn tools for being mindful and authentic in cherishing all life?
Oct. 25th we could offer an insight on what to do on voting day if someone is disrespectful or causing trouble.
Nov. 1 Use the example Martha just sent about responding to someone if they spout untruthful facts Kat, Jane T-S, Martha McG - Day of the Dead & All Souls
Nov. 8 How to respond to someone who seems heartless in their approach to others? Spiritual Sustenance (possible election fall out issues to be addressed)
15 Words that women find offensive and how to respond to others who use those words? Women’s Group on 2020-2021 theme ??
22 Words to explain how we cherish all life - animal life, insects, the soil, the earth environment...thinking through our own personal mission statement of one sentence as a tool for talking to others Thanksgiving
29 Words to explain/describe our spiritual beliefs? Advent begins
December
6 Words to describe a random act of kindness that exemplifies cherishing all life? St. Nicholas Day (host at Muskingum Park so other members of faith community can participate)
13 More random acts of kindness - One of the committees will do the reflection?
20 Random Acts of being authentic for January, February and March with a way to wrap it all up in early spring with something outdoors at the park
27 ?? Random acts of stepping out to share our FUUSM principles - Fire communion
On 10/4/2020 10:17 PM, Martha McGovern via Worship wrote:
Please note the change in starting time – 5:30 p.m. (Adeline and Martha will be attending another Zoom meeting about holiday options.)
Please bring (or email) readings that can serve as resources for thematic services.
Agenda for October 7, 2020 Meeting of the Worship & Music Committee
5:30 p.m. because of other workshop on Zoom right before W & M Meeting
Chalice Lighting: Related to Simone Weill’s doctrine of attention: “Each conversation the narrator has is an exercise in attention: an occasion for her to shed her sense of self and to wait to receive the being she is looking at, just as she is, in all her truth.” [Aging Ungracefully in The New Yorker, 9/14/2020, Merve Emre] Weill: “The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing. The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: ‘What are you going through?’ It is a recognition that the sufferer exists, not only as a unit in a collection, or a specimen from the social category labeled ‘unfortunate,’ but as a man, exactly like us, who was one day stamped with a special mark by affliction.”
1. Minutes of September meeting to be approved.
2. Theme for 2020- 2021: How can we be mindful and authentic in cherishing all life?
3. Sharing: Committee members will bring “anchor readings” for the theme as resources for development of worship services.
482 – Jacob Trapp “half of language is to listen”
576 – A Litany of Restoration – Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley “It will not matter.”
437 – Let Us Worship (and let us learn to love) – Kenneth L. Patton
484 – “To live content with small means;” – William Henry Channing
679 – Buddhism “Be ye lamps unto yourselves”
505 – Thich Nhat Hanh “Let us be a peace”
4. Moving Forward with Virtual Worship and Return to In-Church Services: What are next steps??
• Kat will share additional information about a service called Worshipcast that deals with copyright issues for music.
• Update from Kat, others
5. Reflection on Service –
What went well:
What to refine:
Thematic/coherent:
Spirituality/Faith Tradition:
Life Span:
6. Financial Matters:
7. Martha Webster is asking for guidance as she plans music for services. The Committee brainstormed some ideas: aim for special music once per month, feature family groups, talk with Jay Warmke and WOUB about coordinating multiple singers on Zoom, be a guest speaker on the healing power of music. Further update???
8. The Committee decided to ask committees/groups to reflect on how they are, or intend to be, mindful and authentic in cherishing all life and then to be a part of, or to take responsibility for, a worship service on that 2020-2021 theme. The Committee hopes that this approach will deepen insight into the purpose of the committee/group, will increase involvement of members/friends, and will inform the congregation of the activities of the committees/groups. Adeline included information about this initiative in The Confluence for October. Martha will report on contacts with the Board, Board of Trust Governors, Green Sanctuary, Caring Committee, Men’s Group, Women’s Group, Building & Grounds, Membership, BRIDGES, Finance, and W & M Committee.
September - December:
Possible Topics and Speakers:
Committees reflect on being mindful/authentic toward cherishing all life in time of pandemic
Swap/Share with Charleston UU, Athens UU – Kat
UU Vote
>From Interfaith Power & Light – Democracy Values & the 2020 Election: A Reflection Guide for Faith Communities – Martha
Women & Vote Empowerment – Annie
History of Voting – Jann Adams ??
Black Lives Matter (Panel -- Moni, Geroge B, Darryl T, Ted G) – Kat ??
Gospel Music and/or Blues -- Sadie Johnson
BLM and Sumner School in Parkersburg [Peg – contact Peshka Calloway for October 18, 25???]
September ?? When Launch theme??
6 Kat - The Inherent Worth & Dignity of Essential Workers WA - Peg Clifford
13 Kat - Positivity in Pandemic (Kristen – artist)
20 Kat with Annie Warmke Water Ceremony + Autumn Equinox
27 Kat - Congregational Meeting “Mindful About Money”
October
4 Annie Warmke & Suzyn Mills – Experiences of Voting
{Blessing of Animals in Courtyard}
11 Kat - Indigenous People’s Day
18 Kat - Robin Bozian & colleagues – Ending Violence for Everyone – EVE,
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
25 Kat – Gather the Spirit, Harvest the Power video-UUA’s UU the Vote
November
1 Kat, Jane T-S, Martha McG - Day of the Dead & All Souls
8 Spiritual Sustenance
15 Women’s Group on 2020-2021 theme ??
22 Thanksgiving
29 Advent begins
December
6
13
20
24 Christmas Eve
27
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.
• 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
• 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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