Community church events fill Bennington area schedule
Bennington Unitarian Fellowship hosts a family holiday program at the Bennington Free Library with a 10 30 a m service and a following coffee hour. North Bennington Old Stone Church and other congregations list multiple Christmas and worship events. Boston report notes no drunkenness cases in Boston Municipal Court for the first time in 38 years.
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Unitarian - Universalist
Bennington Unitarian Fellowship
David Kantrowitz
Bennington Free Library
OLD Stone Church
Independent Baptist
North Bennington
Greater Bennington Area
Kenneth Schwebel
Boston
UPI
Elijah Adlows
Christmas Service Skit Remembered By Shaftsbury WSCS
At the December meeting of Shaftsbury First Methodist Church Woman's Society of Christian Service Mrs Louise McDonald presented the Christmas Service of Worship For This Little Time with a skit by Beverly Chain about Mary the mother of Jesus discussing her son with Sarah and Mary Magdalene The cast included Edna Prouty Fran Stacy and Eleanor Laurance The narrator opened with a rededication prayer and music followed by a brief business session and seasonal decor oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaftsbury
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church
Louise McDonald
Beverly Chain
National Council of Churches
Mary
Jesus
Sarah
Mary Magdalene
Bethlehem
Edna Prouty
Fran Stacy
Eleanor Laurance
Virginia Dooley
Ardella Morin
Hazel MacDonald
Elizabeth Mattison
Clergy and Laymen Study Consultation on Church Union
Local churches whose national bodies join the Consultation on Church Union meet at First Methodist Church Monday evening. Leaders from Second Congregational North Bennington United Church of Christ host, with Shaftsbury Methodist and St Peter’s Episcopal participating. The event opens with a pot luck supper then discussions in interest groups followed by a worship service.
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First Methodist Church
Second Congregational Church
North Bennington Congregational Church
United Church of Christ
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Eugene Carson Blake
Presbyterian Church U
Yale Pageant Planned Sunday At St. Peter's
The First Methodist Church church school will present a Christmas pageant Holy Night on Sunday at 7 p.m. Co directors are Mrs. Eugene Kosche and Mrs. Harry Sanders Jr. A dress rehearsal is today at 4 30 p.m. Participants urged to attend. Miss Sharon Brittingham will sing solos and older youths will sing in the choir. A host of pupils will recite verses. Each pupil brings a white-wrapped present for the Caverly Child Care Center. Gifts for ages four to 12 include books toys and other items. After the pageant a Christmas tree will be in the social room with candy gifts and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Kosche
Shirley Sanders
Sharon Brittingham
First Methodist
Bennington
MYF
WSCS
Bonnie McDonald
Ann Jillson
Victor Jillson
Barbara Sanders
Joey Crawford
Elaine Green
Bob Prouty
David Kosche
Julie Montgomery
Stephen Kosche
David Greenslet
Melissa Stratton
Melvin Lawrence
Ann Faris
Mark Harwood
Donna Harwood
Caverly
Pittsford
Holy Night To Be Presented At Shaftsbury
The annual Christmas pageant by St. Peter's Episcopal Church will be Sunday at 4 p.m. in the church. Junior and senior choirs sing with a large cast including Bergquist Finnegan Crawford carrier acolytes Geannelis Frantz Marshall and others led by Mrs Hemenway with Stanley Pike Jr as organist and choir director.
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Shaftsbury
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Jeff Bergquist
Crucifer
David Finnegan
Ted Crawford
David Carrier
Dale Wilson
Arlene Gallett
Mary
Peter Frantz
Joseph
Veronica Geannelis
Elizabeth
Martha Marshall
Angel
Gabriel
Charles Judge Jr
Star
John Duval
Henry Reynolds
Sterling Wilson
Kings
Dawn Carrier
Kerry Bergquist
Janet Frantz
Pamela Geannelis
Peter Geannelis
Candace Murphy
Wills Pike
Pages
Betsy Jolivette
David Linton
Rebecca Sanderson
Candleboys
Arthur Eastman
George Crisp
Charles Knapp
Tarrant Sibley
David
John
Richard Wilkinson
Edward Ransom
Chester Wadsworth
Douglas Gavin
Charles L. Wood Jr
Charles L. Wood III
John Hurley
Shepherds
Donald Hemenway
Stanley H. Pike Jr
Kenneth E. Porter Sr
Boston Notes Anniversary reenacts Boston Tea Party
A Friday reenactment marked the Boston Tea Party with sixty Massachusetts veterans and minutes men dumping tea donated by a London firm that had supplied the original ship. The event included a tea presentation of 50 pounds and a separate Marshfield tea burning ritual with descendants of Colonials attending.
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Boston
UPI
London
South Shore
Marshfield
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