Christmas Musicale features Middlebury Choir at Old First Church
The 1971 Candle-Light Christmas Musicale at the First Congregational Church in Old Bennington will be held at 7 30 p m next Sunday December 12 featuring the Middlebury College Choir under Professor Emory Fanning with a varied program. Also in Pownal Rev Walter P Davenport begins Sunday services at Sarkis Trailer Park with 10 a m Sunday school and 11 a m worship. he comes from St Johnsbury and is married to Charlotte Allard. The Manchester Christmas dinner hosted by United Women’s Fellowship is set for 5 30 to 7 p m Thursday with a menu including fish chowder pot roast and desserts. price 3 adults 2 children 12 and under.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Congregational Church
Old Bennington
Middlebury College
Emory Fanning
Ark
Charolotte Marie
Jonathan Lee
Georg Schumann
T. L. Vittoria
Herbert Howells
P. Tschesnakoff
Jesus Christ
Our Lord and King
Carl Halter
Hodie
Christus Natus
Healey Willan
Richard Deering
H. von Herzogenberg
Randall Thompson
Gustav Holst
E. Fanning
Professor Fanning
J. S. Bach
C. M. Widor
Arvel M. Steece
Schenectady
N.Y
New York City
New
Manchester
United Women’s Fellowship of the First Congregational Church
Boston
Don Lee
Ekwanok Club
Congregational Church
North Pownal
Jim Metcalf
First Baptist Church
Floyd I. la Bombard
Colgate Hall
Board of Missions and Stewardship
AARP
Richard Duff
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Pilgrim Singers
Wesley
Church Barn
Wesley Fellowship
Harold Cross
Park Street
WSCS
Cherub
Paul Crane
George Street
North Bennington
Parlor
Bennington-Troy
Shaftsbury
A. J. MacDonald
the Angels and the Shepherds
Clarence Dickinson
Council On Ministries
Pownal
Kenneth Schwebel
Women's Fellowship
Walter P. Davenport
Sarkis Trailer Park
Robert College seeks new role in Turkish life after handover
In Istanbul the 108-year-old Robert College, once backed by an American philanthropic foundation, now runs under Turkish control as it reshapes its mission. The college’s leadership, led by John C. Chalfant, plans to adapt to modern Turkey with a coed lycee on a smaller campus after funding gaps and government limits end the university program. The move follows Turkey’s earlier ban on foreign higher education institutions, reshaping a historic missionary era into a new civilian institution with restored local stewardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Istanbul
Turkey
Robert College
Bosporus
John C. Chalfant
Arnavutkoy
Chalfant
Ottoman Empire
American University of Beirut
Kemal Ataturk
Ataturk
Germany
Man and folly discussed by Bennington Humanist Fellowship
NORTH ADAMS Mass The Bennington area Humanist Fellowship will explore how man can save himself from folly at a Sunday meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church. A discussion on scientific humanism nature and responsibility to others follows a social hour from 7 to 7 30 and discussion 7 30 to 9 p m All interested invited to attend and participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Adams
Mass
Bennington Area
Humanist Fellowship
Unitarian Universalist Church
White racism workshop prompts Methodist minister reflections
East Greenbush United Methodist Church hosted a day long Troy Conference session on white racism. Ministers and laymen admitted subtle prejudices despite denial of overt racism and agreed the program should expand through Northeastern New York and Vermont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Greenbush
N.Y
Troy
New York
Vermont
Woody White
Martin Luther King Jr
Philadelphia
Bill Cosby
Bennington Area Churches Schedule in December Listings
A detailed church calendar lists services across Bennington, Dorset, North Pownal and surrounding towns. Denominations include United Church, Sacred Heart, Episcopal, Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Our Lady of Fatima, Lourdes, St Francis de Sales, St John the Baptist, Jehovahs Witnesses, Church of God, Old Bennington Congregational, and more with times from morning worship to evening activities and youth groups.
Gov Shapp praised for blue laws stance on worship day
The Religious Liberty Association lauds Governor Milton J. Shapp for supporting legislation to end Pennsylvania blue laws that ban Sunday business except for essential services. He backs a six day week with firms choosing which day to close for religious observance, seen as protecting religious freedom and personal choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Religious Liberty Association
Milton J. Shapp
Pennsylvania
Shapp
Marvin E. Loewen
RLA
Loewen
Methodist group lends to Vermont housing fund
The Troy Conference of the United Methodist Church announced a $10,000 loan to the Vermont Housing Investment Fund on the Vermont Ecumenical Council and Bible Society floor. The loan brings fund totals near $70,000 toward a $100,000 goal, with the fund awaiting full allocation pending the target. The loan derives from the Conference Board of Trustees and the Fund for Reconciliation, a $20 million program to ease interchurch tensions, and follows prior investments in low income housing in Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Troy Conference
The
United Methodist Church
Vermont Housing Investment Fund
General Assembly
Vermont Ecumenical Council and Bible Society
Clarence Hoch
J. Boone Wilson
United Methodist
Board of Trustees
Conference
Fund For Reconciliation
Hoch
Springfield
Christmas Songs of the 20th Century at St James Church
A 3 30 p m Sunday program at St James Episcopal Church Arlington features soprano Jane Armstrong and organist Joseph Stannard of Manchester performing holiday oriented music. Arrangements include works by Rorem Head Caldwell Williams and pieces by Thomson Warlock and Vaughn Williams. Admission is free and the hour long recital invites families and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence A. Sherwin
Jane Armstrong
Joseph Stannard
Arlington
St. James Episcopal Church
Manchester
Ned Rorem
Michael Head
Mary Caldwell
David H. Williams
Virgil Thomson
Warlock
Hohvannes
Ralph Vaughn Williams
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Middlebury
Old First Church
Trailer Park
Jersey
Delaware
Fanning
Oberlin College
University of Illinois
Boston University
Yale
Peter Grose
Times News Service
Church Council
John H. Parke
International Order of St. Luke
Christ Episcopal Church
Rochdale
Edward B. Geyer Jr
Parke
Robert F. Joyce
All Faiths
Vermont Veterans Home
Humanists
Methodist
United Counseling Service
Bennington
United Church
Dorset-East Rupert
Church
Hal C. Miller
Douglas Weiss
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
ST. Mary’s IN the Mountains
Wilmington
John C. Morris
West Arlington
John Geer
Baptist Church
Alfred Scott
Union
Second Congregational Church
UCS
Thomas Steffen
ST. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
Gerald T. Buckley
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Masonic Temple
Our Lady OF Fatima Catholic Church
Missionary Alliance Church
Franklyn J. Klein Jr
Our Lady OF Lourdes Catholic Church
North Pownat
ST. Francis DE Sales Catholic
ST. John the Baptist Catholic Church
David Hubbard
Society OF Friends
Bennington Elementary School
Church OF Christ
Kingdom Hall
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Congregation Bible Study
West Rupert
Howard B. Ford Jr
Seventh-Day Adventist Ai
George C. Mills
East Dorset
Manchester Center
Frederick Buechner
Church OF God
Leslie Wright
First United Methodist Church
Redeemer Lutheran Church
St. Joseph College
Allen Barnes
ALL Faiths Chapel
M. Everett Corbett
ST. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Edward T. Patrick
Apostolic Pentecostal Church
First Church OF Christ Scientist
God
Zoin Episcopal Church
Robert L. Clayton
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Edwin M. Ellis
Gov.Shapp
State Housing Fund
Arlington Church
Kenneth N. Taylor
National Bible Committee
Chuck Roast
Walker
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