Home

Weekly Services

10am - 11am

In-person and on Zoom

Please join us in-person at 21 Fairground Rd Springfield, Vermont

Or on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6130779853 Meeting ID: 613 077 9853

Oct. 1, 2023 Connecting with the Metal element

with Jo Bregnard

Autumn is here, so let’s explore the Metal element from Chinese Energetic Medicine, and how releasing what we no longer need prepares and protects us for what’s to come

Order of Service:

Gathering Music

Welcome

Bell & Chalice

Opening Words

Song: #412 Let Hope and Sorrow Now Unite

Story for All Ages: Why the Leaves fall: A Lakota Legend with video

Affirmation

Offering

Meditation

Anthem

Sermon/Response: Connecting with the Metal Element

Song: To Everything There Is a Season

Closing Words: Rumi, On Sorrow

Chalice & Bell

Joys & Sorrows

Announcements

Transition music

Coffee Hour

Upcoming Services:
Oct. 8th: "Healing America's Polarizations: A Report from the Braver Angels Convention in Gettysburg." with Rev. Dr. Mellen Kennedy

"Braver Angels is a national movement to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic. Launched in 2016, Braver Angels is a national citizens' movement to bring liberals and conservatives together at the grassroots level — not to find centrist compromise, but to find one another as citizens. On the site of the great battle of the Civil War, Gettysburg, we met to prevent another one." http://braverangels.org Along with a few others delegates from Vermont and New Hampshire, Rev. Mellen attended to reflect, listen and learn the skills and processes that can help us heal our divides. In this service she'll share some of what she gleaned from the experience and invite us into this sacred work of listening respectfully across our differences and in so doing healing our beautiful and bruised world.

Oct. 15th: Worship Committee
Oct 22nd: Rev. Dr. Nancy Jay Crumbine
Oct. 29th Will Hunter

Our Services are each Sunday starting the second Sunday in September until mid-June, with two services in July and two in August.

Services are 10 am to 11 am

Coffee Hour 11 am - Noon

Our Affirmation:

Love is the doctrine of this church

The quest for truth is its sacrament

And service is its prayer

To dwell together in peace,

To seek knowledge in freedom,

To serve the need of all beings,

To the end that all souls shall

Grow into harmony with the Divine

Thus do we covenant with each other

And with the source of our being

Meetinghouse News

We had a wonderful time at the Equinox Lasagna Dinner. Lots of foods, great conversations and many in the community came out to support us. Thank you to everyone who cooked, helped serve the meals and all those who volunteered their time to make this an amazing event!

We will be doing more dinners soon!

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

Click below to donate online:

PayPal

95430

“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

Our Share the Plate recipient for September will be the Maui United Way, mauiunitedway.org

The island of Maui in Hawaii recently experienced the worst wildfires in the country in many years. Their financial assistance program has assisted people in communities like Lahaina, where per capital income is often just $30,000.

Please join us in supporting the people of Maui, many of whom have lost family and friends, or lost homes and businesses due to the wildfires.

October Share The Plate will be BRAT, the Black River Action Team, conducted its 24th annual River sweep on Sept. 9. As a local grassroots organization, they continue to provide education, resources and ongoing actions to protect local watersheds, among other activities. We have chosen them as our Share the Plate recipient for October. You can send donations to BRAT in care of Kelly Stettner, 101 Perley Gordon Road, Springfield, VT 05156.

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:

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/809398828