Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse
21 Fairground Rd
Springfield, Vermont 05156
Services 10am - 11am
In person and on Zoom
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6130779853
Meeting ID: 613 077 9853
March 8, 2026
10am - 11am
Monks Walk For Peace
with the Worship Committee
What happens when a group of Buddhist monks set out on a Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, TX to Washington, DC?
Let’s talk about it!
Order of Service
Gathering Music
Welcoming Trustee
Bell and Chalice
Opening Words
Hymn #159 This is My Song
Affirmation
Offering
Responsive reading- #598
Hymn# 1031- Filled With Loving Kindness
Reflection- Monks Walk For Peace
Reading- #661
Hymn# 168- One More Step
Chalice and Bell
Joys and Sorrows
Announcements
Transition Music
Coffee Hour
Upcoming Services:
March 15th Bill and June Brink "Peace and Love"
March 22nd Rev. Dr. Nancy Jay Crumbine
March 29th Will Hunter
News and Info
Souper Sunday March 8, 2026
Every 2nd Sunday of the month (during winter), after Services, we will be having soups, breads and drinks. $5 for members and guests eat for free!
Vendors Wanted – May Festival!
Looking for a great spot to sell your crafts, antiques, or flea market finds? Join us for our 15th Annual May Festival on Saturday, May 16, 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse (21 Fairground Rd., Springfield). Rain or shine.
This is a prime location to set up your table, with a steady flow of community members throughout the day. We’ll also have food, live music, and Tai Chi demonstrations, throughout the day.
Vendor details:
• $20 for a 10' x 10' space
• Tables available for $5 (limited supply)
• Bring your own canopy
• Set-up runs 7:30–8:45 a.m.
To participate, please request a vendor application by emailing uuspringfieldvt@gmail.com
For your protection, please only communicate through this email address and do not send payment until your application has been approved.
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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Important info from the Board of Trustees
Our doors will now be locked at 10am each Sunday.
If you arrive late, please ring the doorbell and someone will let you in.
Thanks!
Our Services are each Sunday starting the second Sunday in September until mid-June, with two services in July and two in August.
Services: 10am to 11am
Coffee Hour: 11am - Noon
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Social Action Circle has chosen Partners In Health for the March Share The Plate.
Partners In Health mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations based in settings of poverty, Partners In Health strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. In honor of Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022), an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners In Health (PIH).
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
Cristina Guiu Wood, 77, passed away on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, from cancer. She died at her home in Weathersfield, Vt., surrounded by family and friends, and was buried, as she wished, on the farm where she had lived for much of her life.
The middle of three sisters, Tina was born on Feb. 22, 1948, in Greenfield, Mass., to Rafael and Elizabeth (Bray) Guiu. She came to Weathersfield, Vt., in 1970, after graduating with a degree in music from Bennington College. As a child, she had always wanted to live on a farm, and that childhood dream became a reality when, at the height of the Vermont Back to the Land movement, she and her husband Willis took over the family farm that had been in his family since the late 1700s. Here they stayed for the next 55 years, raising two children, Joshua and Marina, continuing and expanding the farm’s cider and maple business, while also raising cows, sheep, and chickens. She was a wonderful gardener, spending countless hours raising vegetables and tending the beautiful flower gardens that surrounded her house. She reveled in the fact that, in maybe 25 years of hard work, she managed to turn a patch of Japanese knotweed into a thriving vegetable garden, but never managed to conquer the encroaching gout weed. She was a wonderful cook and entertainer, easily turning a lunch from two to 20 when friends, grandkids, or a sweaty hay crew showed up.
Tina enjoyed traveling, including trips to Cuba (her father’s birthplace) and Guatemala, where her son and daughter-in-law lived for many years. One memorable trip was walking the entire Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage trail running from France to Santiago, Spain.
Music was always central to her life. She spent many years teaching piano to both children and adults, she sang in many local choirs, and she played piano and organ at the Weathersfield Center Church for more than 40 years, as well as at other local churches. Some 20 years ago, Tina and her friend Julie Levy started and led Clear Springs, a hospice choir, where she shared her love of music with sick and dying patients at homes and assisted living centers. After years singing to others on their death beds, her choir sang to and with Tina as she became sicker, and even up to the moment of her death. She was a lifelong believer in the spiritual teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and attended every summer for almost all of her 77 years a Swedenborgian retreat at the Fryeburg New Church Assembly in Maine.
Tina is survived by Willis, her husband of 55 years; her son and daughter-in-law Josh and Gabriella Wood; her daughter and son-in-law Marina Wood-McNaughton and Nathan McNaughton; and grandchildren Zed, Myra, Ada, and Rose. She was predeceased by her sister Cecilia (Guiu) Searle, and survived by her sister Gloria (Guiu) Costello, as well as nieces and nephews. The family plans a celebration of her life in the spring.
https://vermontjournal.com/obituaries/cristina-g-wood-1948-2026
Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse
21 Fairground Rd
Springfield, VT 05156
Mailing address: P.O.Box 944 Springfield, VT 05156
Email: uuspringfieldvt@gmail.com