Highlights of Worship Committee Meeting on February 11, 2004

The full minutes are available in a Microsoft Word file ( DOC) and in an Adobe Portable Document Format file ( PDF). In both documents, the table of contents entries are hyperlinks to the corresponding topics. In addition, you may use “bookmarks” in the Acrobat reader to reach the same material. Happy reading!

RECOGNIZING BIRTHDAYS

Despite our good intentions, this topic didn't make the February agenda. The Worship Committee will review the deliberations of the Program Council and take up recognizing birthdays at our March meeting.

CHANGE FOR THE WORLD

We reviewed a tentative list of possible charities to receive the coins collected. Whatever process is used, it will result in selecting four charities, one for each of the calendar-quarters for the next year. Leslie Clute will present the selection process for approval in March.

Good news: The treasurer has been monitoring the contributions in the offering baskets. So far, the coins for Change for the World represent new donations. There has been no decrease in the other gifts in the basket. Good work, people!

SUMMER SERVICES

We will ask Mark Slegers, Music Director at First Unitarian Church in Portland, and Judi McGavin, our UUA Trustee from the PNWD, to speak to us this summer. We also scheduled Jeremy Taylor to preach August 29^th. The Rev. Taylor's appearance will be in conjunction with a dream workshop on August 28^th.

SERVICE PROPOSALS

How should the Worship Committee evaluate proposals for services? How do we keep our pulpit open, particularly to Servetans who wish to provide worship services, and still hold true to our obligation to consistently provide quality worship experiences? We agreed that we should extablish some kind of proposal process. What that process is remains for a future meeting to define.

WORSHIP WORKSHOP

The Rev. Elizabeth Green, minister of the Boise UU Fellowship, will preach at MSUUF on October 2^nd. The preceeding day she will lead a workshop on worship. Just what the content of that workshop should be, and the audience to which it should be directed (Worship Committee? All Servetans? Any person interested in UU worship?) were topics of animated discussion. Further connsideration due in March.

POSSIBLE INTERN COMMUNITY MINISTER

Mark has been approached about the possibility of MSUUF hosting an intern Community Minister. The Worship Committee agreed that if MSUUF decided to participate, we would release Mark from two sermons to free time for supervising and mentoring the intern. In return, the intern would preach two or three times this spring and summer.