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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1969
Page
2
Nine Protestant bodies in the Consultation on Church Union advise local churches to begin grass roots Christian unity. At an Atlanta meeting, COCU adopted guidelines for interchurch action, proposing ways congregations serving the same community can pool resources and cooperate across denominations.
Pastor Rolf Lindfors will lead a five week lecture series at the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Burgess Road starting Friday at 7 15 p m with topics The Tales That Dead Men Tell and The United States in Bible Prophecy The program runs through May 31 featuring travelogues Russia and others with Bible distribution for attendees and nursery care for preschoolers
The Most Rev Robert F Joyce bishop of Brulington assigns Rev Thomas A Bransfield as assistant to St Francis de Sales Bennington and to St Stephen Parish Winooski effective April 23 Fr Lavallee moves from St Paul Barton to assist at St Francis de Sales This item notes ecumenical ideas from COCU about shared programs and unified ministries.
Mrs. Edmund Boyce state president of Church Women United outlined local state and national activities at the April 7 meeting of the CWU Board of Managers at the Methodist Church. She addressed communications issues, the local presidents' work book, Fellowship of the Least Coin and intercontinental missions, urged subscriptions to the CWU magazine, and announced the June 6 25th anniversary party in Rutland with founder Miss Mary Jean Simpson as guest. The legislature’s lack of funds for Waterbury State Hospital’s Fun and Festival Day was noted, with $10 from the local board approved for the project. The 1970 World Day of Prayer theme Take Courage and next year's World Community Day education program were announced. A May Fellowship Day luncheon is set for May 2 at the Methodist Church with the Beginnings Anew program and a talk from United Counseling Service on Putnam Memorial Hospital’s planned outpatient facility.
Local church calendar lists multiple denominations in Bennington area. Services range 9:45 a.m. Sunday Bible School and 11 a.m. worship, with additional evening activities and weekday meetings at St James Arlington Zion and neighboring parishes. emphasizes pastors, guest speakers, choir rehearsals, and youth events.
Brattleboro Music Center will feature Blanche Moyse guiding four talks with taped excerpts on Bach St Matthew Passion ahead of the full 4 p.m. June 1 performance at Marlboro College. Talks held Wednesdays April 23, 30 and May 7, 14 at 8 p.m. in Brooks Memorial Library Brattleboro.
Pittsfield Mass An award winning photographer Les Campbell headlines the Nature in Concert show at South Junior High School May 3 at 8 pm. The program blends photography nature study music and narration to audiences on the East Coast and in Canada. Tickets are available at England's Berkshire Museum or Pleasant Valley Sanctuary with Mrs Robt Sessions as Pittsfield area ticket chair. Proceeds support Pleasant Valley Sanctuary day camp.
A concert of Italian music will be offered at the First Baptist Church in Manchester on April 27 at 8 p.m. Directed by Joseph Stannard the program features Manchester Pro Musica, a quartet with Ferene Lorenz Harriet Parsons Judy Cone and Stannard, and soloists Jane Armstrong Constance Jordan Forrest Munger and Leonard Stokes. The public is invited.
The Vermont Ecumenical Council while urging unity plans observes Consultation on Church Union Sunday. Msgr Edwin Buckley Burlington and Rev John Nutting South Burlington co chair a drive encouraging pew and pulpit exchanges and a unity liturgy. Bishop Joyce of Burlington Catholic Church joins by sharing the prayer.
Representatives of area Baptist churches attend the Vermont Baptist Convention to be held in St. Albans this Friday and Saturday. The women's dinner at the first Baptist Church will feature Mrs. Ira Cross Tharpe of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bronx as guest speaker. Tharpe helped found First Avenue Baptist Church in New York City and has taught Baptist Training Union courses at Harlem Community Training School.
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