Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse

We have weekly, Sunday Services at 10am - 11am starting the 2nd week of September until mid-June.

We also do 2 services in July and August.

Each week that we have a service, the topic and description will be posted to the home page of this website and also in the weekly email invite. If you would like to receive our invites, please fill out the form at the bottom of our Home page

For over 200 years, we have been preaching love and the free and responsible search for truth and meaning.  Here, we don’t expect to think alike but to love alike.  We are a Welcoming Congregation, and we honor many spiritual paths and traditions. We invite you to join us in seeking truth and sharing love with our neighbors.

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 needs 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

We affirm the seven UU principles as strong values and moral guides:

1. The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
2. Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
3. Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
4. A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
5. The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
6. The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
7. Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Here are the six sources UU congregations affirm and promote:

• Direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder, affirmed in all cultures, which moves us to a renewal of the spirit and an openness to the forces which create and uphold life;
• Words and deeds of prophetic people which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love;
• Wisdom from the world's religions which inspires us in our ethical and spiritual life;
• Jewish and Christian teachings which call us to respond to God's love by loving our neighbors as ourselves;
• Humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science, and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit;
• Spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.

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