Bennington Area Church Services and Schedules
A listing of worship times across Bennington area churches and nearby towns. Denominations include Methodist, Quaker, Federated, Latter Day Saints, Seventh Day Adventist, Congregational, Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Christ Scientist, and more with service hours, mass times, Sunday School, youth programs, and midweek meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Masonic Temple
Main St
Baptist Church
Wilmington
Faith Bible Baptist Church
Woodford Hollow
Kenneth Schwebel
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
North Bennington
Elwin M. Ellis
Birth Control Debate Persists Despite Papal Authority
Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic ban on artificial contraception, yet U S bishops and theologians face dissent. More than 400 theologians sign a statement allowing conscientious dissent from non infallible papal teachings, citing church council texts. Fr Bernard Haring calls for a special council to reassess the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul VI
Paul
Vatican
United States
Vatican Council
Karl Alter
Cincinnati
America
Bernard Haring
Germany
Fr. Haring
Quakers To Hold Annual Service At Old Meeting House
In Adams Massachusetts the Quakers will hold their annual worship service at 3 p.m. Sunday September 1 at the Old Meeting House in Maple Street Cemetery. The gathering includes a half hour of silent worship followed by a talk by Dr. Morris R. Mitchell president of Friends World College discussing the role of education in shaping tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Meeting House
Adams
Mass
Quaker Meeting
Maple Street
Quakers and Friends
Adams Society of Friends Descendants
Morris R. Mitchell
Friends World College
East Norwich
N.Y
57Th Street
Chicago
Jericho
Long Island
Mitchell
Georgetown
Peabody School For
Graduate Institute of International Studies
Geneva
North Carolina
New York State
New College
Columbia University
South
Atlantic Monthly
The
Friends Journal
New York Yearly Meeting
Society of Friends
United States
Center For Peace Studies
Mexico
Africa
Europe
Quaker Meeting House
McKinley Monument
Notre Dame Church
Bishop's Fund collections run ahead of last year
Burlington reports two Bishop's Fund for Charities and Development readings total $196,868, about $37,000 ahead of last year at the same stage. First report netted $99,286, the highest on a first night. Msgr. Bresnehan credits clergy and lay committees with strong progress and notes many parishes near or above goals as the 10th campaign presses toward surpassing last year's $320,000 record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Bishop’s Fund For Charities and Development
Paul M. Bresnehan
Bishop’s Fund
Vermont
Msgr
Bresnehan
Burgess Seeks Revisions to Mental Health Laws
Brattleboro legislator John Burgess chairing the Mental Health Study Committee calls for clarifying statutes on the mentally ill involved in crimes. He will push 1969 legislative action including repealing a life imprisonment option after fourth felony and allowing district court hearings to find insanity before hospital commitment. More detailed hospital psychiatric reports may replace simple sane or insane findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
House
Judiciary Committee
John Burgess
Brattleboro
Burgess
Legislative Council
Mental Health Study Committee
First Baptist Church School Rooms Remodel Near Completion
Remodeling at the First Baptist Church will have s distinct classrooms ready for the Sunday School opening in September. Donors and volunteers contributed funds and labor to strip plaster, remove wallpaper, replace the ceiling, and repaint the walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Center
First Baptist Church
Dr Jane Hanks Opens Mission Study Series
Church Women United announces a six week Mission Study Series at First United Methodist Church beginning Sept 10 with Dr Jane Hanks of North Bennington sharing first hand insights on Thailand. Sessions run 10 am with 9:45 am coffee. nursery care provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Women United
Southeast Asia
Jane Hanks
North Bennington
Thailand
First United Methodist Church
Bernard Whitman
Alvan Lawrence
William Cas
Church hostesses urged to greet parishioners
Rev. Christopher Newton, writing in a church magazine, suggests churches emulate night clubs and airlines by employing hostesses to greet newcomers rather than somber ushers, inviting more welcoming church atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hemel Hempstead
England
UPI
Christopher Newton
Newton
Rev Alexander to speak Sunday at Old First Church
The Rev John H Alexander associate executive secretary National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Milwaukee will preach The Transforming Gospel at 11 am Sunday in Old First Church Old Bennington He has served in Illinois Wisconsin Iowa and helped found the Missionary Society of the Congregational Christian Churches now part of the National Association He has led pilgrimages to Greece and Europe and currently oversees the missionary program and youth world Christian relations and the building and loan fund
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Bennington
John H. Alexander
William Hain
Alexander
Old First Church
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Boston
Mass
Bowdoin College
Bangor Theological Seminary
National Association
Detroit
Missionary Society of the Congregational Christian Churches
Corporation of the
International Congregational Council
Rotterdam
Holland
Alexan
Der
Greece
Jehovah's Witnesses Attend Assembly in Essex Junction
A Bennington Congregation delegation returned from a four day Bible conference at Champlain Valley Exposition Fairgrounds Essex Junction. Attendance exceeded expectations with 10 274 peak and 9 274 by evening on Opening day Aug 15. 145 newly dedicated witnesses were baptized and a new Bible study textbook The Truth that Leads to Eternal Life was released. Vermont Witnesses will hold a circuit assembly Oct 4 6 at Mt Anthony Union High School with Paul Ruggles delivering the Sunday lecture Gods Way Is Love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Champlain Valley Exposition Fairgrounds
Essex Junction
Harvey Hiatt
Vermont
Memorial Auditorium
Burlington
Watchtower Society
F. Dean Sanger
Earth
Sanger
All Nations
Hiatt
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Paul R. Ruggles
New England
Upstate New York
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Methodist Church
West Arlington
John Geer
Quakers
Federated Church East
Arlington
John E. Geer
Pownal
W. Earle Forman
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Congregational Church
North Pownal
Community Church
Pownal Center
Henry A. Peck
Our Lady Fatima
ST. Mary's IN the Mountains
Russell Gale
First Congregational Church
Manchester
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
ST. Paul's Church
First Church OF God
North Hoosick
Oswald Muller
Methodist
Eagle Bridge
Cambridge
First United Church (Presbyterian
Hoosick Falls
Union Service
First United
First Baptist Churches
Robert J. Springer
United Church
Dorset - East Rupert
Hal C. Miller
Church OF Christ
Jerry Moffitt
Sandgate
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Daniel
Hotel Putnam
Shaftsbury
Elmer E. Benn
WSCS
H. Glenn Payne
Charles Kessler
ST. James Espiscopal Church
C.G. Belcher
Second Congregational Church
Max Webster
Missionary Alliance Church
the Ideal Church
Richard Lenehan
Joseph D. Huse
Zion Episcopal Church
ST. John's Chapel
ST. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Theodore Shatigan
Alfred Scott
Stern
Louis Cassels
United Press International
Bradford
Veal Parmesan
Mon
PLAZA
Bennington, VT
Tle
Mary Keough
William Abernethy
Carl Jolivette
Robert Kellogg
Kendall Rich
Gerald Butler
Leonard Morse
Margaret Arnold
Robert Gibbs
Essex
Atkins
Jewelers
Hanson
Walbridge
National
Dean UT Mone
Drysdale’s Free Parking
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