Weekly Services
We have in-person and Zoom services each Sunday at 10am - 11am
Please join us at
21 Fairground Rd
Springfield, Vermont
Or on Zoom
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Meeting ID: 613 077 9853
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Feb. 5, 2023
2/12/23: "Regenerating the Inner and Outer Landscape"
Guest Speakers: Karen Ganey of Regeneration Corps and Permaculture Solutions and Earl Hatley of Lead Agency and the Ottauquechee Waters Protectors Association.
Karen and Earl will each talk about their work in environmental protection, Earl as a Water Keeper and President of Local Environmental Action Demanded and Karen as a permaculture designer and educator on climate justice. They are working on Food Forest Projects and Abenaki Gardens to grow traditional foods in traditional ways that are ecologically and nutritionally diverse and resilient. They will speak to the need to work towards food and land sovereignty as well as ways that contaminated soils can be regenerated using biochar.
Karen and Earl will also share how working with and for the Earth is both challenging and restorative and how to hold the sacredness in the process of confronting climate justice
2/19/23: Worship Committee
2/26/23: Rev. Dr. Nancy Jay Crumbine
2023 Winter season
Weather related Zoom only services
In case of bad weather, we will not meet in-person and will have a Zoom only service. (unless we lose power/internet)
A notice will be posted by 8:30am on Sunday morning if we are changing to Zoom only. An email notice will go out and updates will be posted to this website as well as Facebook page. If weather appears to be bad, please check to see if we made an announcement regarding any changes
If you would like to be put on our email list or if you would like to receive a text message to your phone regarding weather related cancellations, please contact our office administrator at uuspringfieldvt@gmail.com
A Little Springfield UU History
Some of you may have heard it referred to as the Harvest Table – that lovely long table in the meetinghouse entry way with all the papers on it. Well, there’s a story there, involving church members of the past. If you look closely there is a little bronze plaque on the base of the harvest table that reads: “Presented to the U.U. Church in loving memory of Dorothy P. Metcalf by Donald and Richard Metcalf 1902 - 1969. “
Dorothy Metcalf died in November 1969, so Donald, her husband, and Richard, their only child would have given it to the Main Street church that year or next. The Harvest Table is one of the very few things that were kept after the Main Street building was razed. Our current building was built around 1973 and the newer sanctuary in 1990.
Dorothy Maxine (Perry) Metcalf was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Springfield, known in past years as Church of the Good Shepherd. Former minister, and current member Jeff Taft-Dick’s father, Robert T. Dick officiated at Dorothy’s funeral. Her son Richard was in my 1956 class at Springfield High School, and he was one of the group of teenagers that went to Washington DC on Spring vacation in 1954 or so with Doris and Phil Stapleton (later Doris Whitcomb), high school assistant principal Mr. Russell Heath, and a few other adults.
Major Richard A. Metcalf married, joined the Army, and was stationed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma when his mother died. Dorothy was survived by three grandchildren.
Rebecca Woodbury Tucker
January 3, 2022
If you are interested in volunteering for any of the following activities, please contact the office for more info
Greeters: This needs a little bit of training as there are several things the greeter does including greeting guests, ringing the bell and lighting the chalice
Cleaners: Basic cleaning of the sanctuary, bathrooms and activities room which includes vacuuming
Refreshments: Provide light refreshments for our "coffee hour"
Sorry for any inconvenience
~June Brink
Members, friends and visitors who have found meaning in our services and programs are invited to make a one-time or recurring donation to the Meetinghouse.
Please send checks to:
UU Church
PO Box 944
Springfield, VT 05156
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“Share the Plate” is a program where each month we take a collection for an organization that is alignment with our principles. Please consider giving to our monthly program recipients
February Share The Plate
Because winter in VT means cold weather, our donations for Share the Plate for February will go to the Upper Valley Haven. They provide food, temporary shelter, supported housing and children’s programs to those in need. Please send contributions to:
Upper Valley Haven
713 Hartford Avenue
White River Junction, VT 05001
Thank you
Art Adventures
2nd & 4th Thursdays
10:30 am -12:00 pm
On Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6130779853
A Zoom group for folks who like to play with color, drawing, reinventing objects, & general creating. There might be laughter, daring & surprises. Have paper, colored pencils or crayons or your favorite medium ready. Interest & questions? Contact; Toni Streeter, Ann Marie &/or Ti Knoepfel. Or email uuspringfieldvt@gmail.com
The Meetinghouse Virtual Choir
The Meetinghouse Virtual Choir is open to all who would like to participate. Singers need not live in the Springfield area – we even have singers from out of state! Sing one song, or sing many – its up to you!
Rehearsals (optional) are on Tuesday mornings at 10am on zoom. If you like to sing and would like to participate, please contact Julane. (802) 463-9719.
Or drop in to a Tuesday morning rehearsal:
Sunday Services on YouTube
We now have some of our more recent Sunday Service videos posted to our YouTube channel, Please click the YouTube icon above. You can also find the videos under the "Sunday Services" tab at the top of the website
STAFF
June Brink - Office Administrator
Julane Deener - Choir Director
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2022-2023
COLLECTOR - Ellen Allman
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Bob Allman - President
Pam Kilberg - Vice President
Dick Andrews - Treasurer
Pat Callahan and Pam Kilberg - Co-Clerks
At large:
Bill Brink, Tina Feindel, Toni Streeter
Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse
21 Fairground Rd
Springfield, VT 05156
Mailing address: P.O.Box 944 Springfield, VT 05156
Email: uuspringfieldvt@gmail.com